Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind

$19.99

Release Date:: Oct 17, 2019
Metacritic:: 87
Developer:: A Sharp
Publisher:: Kitfox Games
Platforms:: Windows Mac

Strategy Simulation RPG Steam Achievements Steam Trading Cards Family Sharing Single-player Steam Cloud

About This Game

Life between myths. Lead your clan into legend or obscurity. Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind is a storybook strategy game, immersing you in a land of old gods and magic, the same world as King of Dragon Pass.

Hundreds of small encounters build into an epic, multi-generational tale of survival and inter-clan alliances. Six Ages is the spiritual successor to acclaimed King of Dragon Pass, taking place thousands of years earlier in the same shared world of Glorantha. Part role-playing, part resource management, you'll always be making decisions with long-term consequences, for you and your clan.

Please note the minimum system requirements for Windows is Windows 10!

Design your own clan, visit the gods, become respected, raid your neighbors' cows
Over 400 interactive story scenes, with deep simulation systems driving their appearance and outcomes
Multiple difficulty levels, and the option for Iron Willed players to limit reloading
Gorgeous hand-painted high-resolution illustrations
Same world as King of Dragon Pass, but a new clan: the Riders, with their own myths, and 4x more world to explore
Discover, appease, and make deals with spirits in your territory

Glorantha is a highly detailed Bronze Age world, similar in many ways to our own. But it exists in a magical universe where the laws of physics are subordinate to the whims of the gods and spirits. To understand Glorantha, leave our mundane world and enter the world of myth. The Sun is a living god, not a nearby star. Countless gods exist, some even more powerful than the Sun, and all have the power to directly affect humanity.

In Six Ages, you play specifically as a Riders clan, who revere various gods in their particular mythology, including Gamari the Horse Mother, and your culture hero, Hyalor... but you would be foolish to forget Raven the Trickster. He has not forgotten you.

Glorantha is also the setting of other rich narrative games/experiences, including King of Dragon Pass, HeroQuest, RuneQuest, God Wars, and others.

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User Reviews

Overwhelmingly Negative

1 user reviews

Positive

User #020881 english

40 min at review

Not Recommended

The difficulty scaling for combat is laughably bad. If you literally invest every ounce of your resources and limited choices into fortifying yourself military -- e.g., more soldiers, every fortifications, every military blessing -- all that happens is the number of raiders drastically increases. It seems the developers' idea of "good combat" is the RNG rock-paper-scissors game of choosing battle tactics (which, side note, have literally 0 explanation in the game), with absolutely no regard whatsoever for all of the preparatory work prior to the battle. Ergo: infinite focus on and preparation for battle literally only hurts you, as you might as well have put that energy towards something where you could actually get an advantage