Othercide is a horror themed tactical turn-based game set in an esoteric world beyond our reality. The game will place the player in control of female warriors, in a desperate struggle to push back nightmarish creatures and prevent reality from shattering. Using only black, white and touch of red, the game will drag players into a whole new universe for the genre, to experience a journey through a strange and unknown world, a world that lays behind the mirror of their own minds.
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Othercide is a crazy good Tactics RPG that not enough people have heard of
Othercide combines a roguelite structure (If all of your units, called Daughters, die, you get a game over and have to restart but get new boni that increase with every run)
with TRPG combat that is hard as nails for one reason: healing and reviving units is so expensive as to be impossible, and the amount of daughters you can recruit and level up realistically is very limited.
What that leads to is that every point of health counts, every move has to be optimized, every trash mob is a potential disaster, and every small mistake stacks up. Because health, and daughters, are a finite resource you will run out off. Which translates to constant engagement, constant strategizing, in a way that no TRPG before has achieved.
That gets supported by a really cool timecost system - hundred "time points" per daughter's turn you get hundred "time points", different abilities have different costs, if you use more than 50 points in one turn, your next turn is delayed, leaving you stationary and at risk, but firing from all cylinders and taking that risk can let you unleash huge combos. The risk and reward of that, especially in such a tense game where getting it wrong could spell disaster for the whole run., is addicting.
Monochrome + Red asthetics are unique and enjoyable, narrative wrapper seems a bit edgy at first, but is actually quite harmless and forgettable in a good way? It does not get in the way of the exceptional turn based combat. Othercide is really just a few more classes or character building options away from being an all time classic
Othercide combines a roguelite structure (If all of your units, called Daughters, die, you get a game over and have to restart but get new boni that increase with every run)
with TRPG combat that is hard as nails for one reason: healing and reviving units is so expensive as to be impossible, and the amount of daughters you can recruit and level up realistically is very limited.
What that leads to is that every point of health counts, every move has to be optimized, every trash mob is a potential disaster, and every small mistake stacks up. Because health, and daughters, are a finite resource you will run out off. Which translates to constant engagement, constant strategizing, in a way that no TRPG before has achieved.
That gets supported by a really cool timecost system - hundred "time points" per daughter's turn you get hundred "time points", different abilities have different costs, if you use more than 50 points in one turn, your next turn is delayed, leaving you stationary and at risk, but firing from all cylinders and taking that risk can let you unleash huge combos. The risk and reward of that, especially in such a tense game where getting it wrong could spell disaster for the whole run., is addicting.
Monochrome + Red asthetics are unique and enjoyable, narrative wrapper seems a bit edgy at first, but is actually quite harmless and forgettable in a good way? It does not get in the way of the exceptional turn based combat. Othercide is really just a few more classes or character building options away from being an all time classic
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Visuals and art style on this game were honestly great but the difficulty spikes feel random at times and the overall rogue like style just made me annoyed every time I had to redo a run rather than being excited.
5 stars for the visuals, everything else is unfortunately not that good
The last level of Othercide is a difficulty cliff. Going to have to come back to this one.
The progression system feels somewhat lacking and uninspired - more akin to the type of progress you'd see in an idle mobile game. The combat itself is interesting and has a lot more depth than what it initially looked like, and the visual style is absolutely gorgeous. However, that style makes every map appear almost identical, making the already dull progression system feel even more lifeless. If you're not a stickler for engaging progression and are a big fan of deceptively deep combat systems, this could be an excellent pick for you, but otherwise, it's pretty meh.