Conquest of Elysium 5

Great game. I went to heaven and found that god was a turkey.

Hello and welcome to a review of conquest of elysium 5 . If you can't be bothered to read tldr 7.5/10 . - the good - 1) Lots of classes to play that play very differently from one another . 2) Lots and lots of map floors . 3) Very moddable . 4) No match the same all maps are random . 5) badass music . - the bad - 1) PIxelart has (mostly) fallen out of style nowdays so most people will say the graphics are ugly . 2) Very small community so its pretty hard to actually find people to play with if you don't have already . 3) In terms of actual 4x mechanics this game doesn't really have .... really any of them . For example the closest thing to a building you get in this game is maybe a graveyard tile that when you capture it would have a chance of spawning a free unit every other turn if you are playing a specific class . 4) Pretty bad AI . - the ugly - 1) this is a sort of result of the last point but because the game doesn't really have any deep 4x aspects this ...

too often no matter what you do late game will just throw bullshit at you endlessly so unless you are speedrunning killing every other faction you will get flooded by gods, demons and dragons that only seem interested in screwing your faction specifically. dont think that you are safe because you killed 8 gods of the elves there's another 50 coming next turn

The worldbuilding and just flavor of the game is impeccably good, the best flavor I have EVER seen. If there was a movie or indie animation or SOMETHING set in this universe I would instantly watch it. There is so much creative potential and everything is so fleshed out. The world is chaotic with a lot of stuff that normally would be the singular "magic system" of a world. The only thing I can compare it to is dandadan with its multiple crazy power systems. This is absolute cinema. Now for gameplay its pretty simple with a twist for each faction, but its really fun. Go out, fight battle, capture resources, make strong guys and repeat with some crazy shit in the middle sometimes. This is better than most games in my library.

I feel like the concept is fun but like...it's just really, really tedious. For example, the UI. If you want to change the difficulty for UI, you have to do it to ever single one...one by one...at different difficulties, to add variance. Tedious. The lack of an undo button also makes learning the game incredibly exhausting as, given how complex the game is, you're prone to make a shitload of mistakes early on, especially if you're learning a faction. So you have to restart from scratch and do the same difficulty change again...Tedious. I could go on longer, but I'm already mentally drained from playing so, yeah, I'll just leave it at that, it's kinda tedious.

It might look like a strategy game from 1996... ...but it also plays like a strategy game from 1996, so I'm happy with it. There are some really interesting and creative factions with distinct strategies that keep gameplay interesting for a long time, and the mod support is great if you want to add more or tweak the mechanics. There's a bit of a steep learning curve, but after a game or two you should be able to figure things out.

I am conquesting it

Be birthed into the equivalent of all of the circles of hell and then some simultaneously, die to a moose.

one of the hardest to get into games I've every played. Honestly, learning this game is like what people think learning how to play Hearts of Iron 4 is like. Overall it is graphically unimpressive and that does affect the gameplay as the visuals make it difficult to know 100% of what is happening in an intuitive manner. The two best parts about this game is A. The classes and B. The world/setpieces in the world. Starting with the classes, each feels extremely fleshed out and integrated into the world, none of them feel out of place and you understand the role they play in the world. From a gameplay perspective each class fills not only a niche but also completely different styles of gameplay. I feel like if this were most other studios, each race would feel like the same base but with different flavors, instead each class feels like you're actually playing a different type of person with different goals, motives, and sources of power. The world only complements this, from the vari...