SteamCity Chronicles - Rise Of The Rose

Gorgeous turd. It starts with a dump. An exposition dump with beautiful pictures. Then a map loads, and the models and colours are superb. Then you start playing (the tutorial) and everything falls apart. The UI is a who's who of bad designs and insuperable bugs: - Worst of all, the units don't respond. That's hopefully a bug. They get stuck, show nonsensical paths through and around buildings, and new commands don't affect them. - Group movement isn't functional. Individuals will choose ridiculous paths you couldn't see coming, apparently because of obstacles. This can lead to stuck units as described above. - Scratch that: Individual orders lead to the same problems anyway. - The command system is a mess. It lacks info and feedback, but it's hard to say if it's unresponsive or buggy. At the very least, it requires to get uses to it. - Big absentee: The UNDO command. Can't find one. A TBS without an Undo command, that doesn't make any sense. What is the point of the "End Turn" ...

This game is quite simply not very good. You're outnumbered, have weaker pieces, and the story mode is entirely linear. Pretty much every claim made on the store page is false, you never get to control more than eight models at a time.

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