July 29, 2023 - Day 210 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 229

Game: Othercide

Platform: Steam
Release Date: Jul 8, 2020
Library Date: Apr 30, 2023
Unplayed: 90d (2m29d)
Playtime: 29m

What's black and white and red all over? Tankies on social media. Also, Othercide.

Othercide is a roguelike tactics strategy game with an extremely limited palette. The entire game is in black and white, with shades of red.

The game initially starts out in a instructional level set in a gothic-almost-Victorian-London-by-way-of-Lovecraft 1897 where you play as "Mother", the "protector of the veil" -a warrior with Barbie feet (more on that later)- in a tactics battle with a number of supernatural monsters.

Towards the end of the battle, Mother sacrifices herself, for reasons that are not entirely clear, other than to set up the rest of the game, but she appears to be trying to stop some greater supernatural evil, called "the other" and represented by "the child"; as the child is obviously not Grogu, I have the assumption that it may, in fact, be her child? In any case, kiddo is a bad seed, and he wants to destroy... everything. Destroying the city in the first battle wasn't quite enough.

Then Mother is... kind of... resurrected. Not exactly alive, but... alive-ish? She reforms among innumerable dead bodies piled everywhere, like a naked red Barbie with just as much physical definition, but alarmingly lifelike bare buttocks, and inexplicably, "Barbie" feet that are positioned as if our shoeless Mother is wearing high heels. It's definitely a choice.

From here, you find out that through Mother's sacrifice, you are now in some kind on aethereal interstitial plane where you can spawn "daughters", in one of three roles - ranged, melee, or tank.

The thing is, in the original version of the game, there was only "Nightmare" mode. There is no healing class, because there is no healing... except for sacrificing another daughter after the battle. The game has since introduced a second mode called "Dream", where as each day passes, each daughter regains 50% of her HP back.

Maybe I won't have to sacrifice any daughters. Based on what the game told me, though, that's unlikely. It tells you upfront that dying is part of the game, and you should expect to die. A lot.

Red-Barbie-Mother aside, it's quite an interesting game. It doesn't grab me quite as much as some of the other tactics-style games I've played this year, but I can definitely see myself spending some more time with the game when I'm in the mood for something dark and angry.

Othercide is pretty:

4: Good

#Othercide #Tactics #Strategy #Roguelike #FemaleProtagonist #MastodonGaming #Gaming #Project365ONG #Project365 #NewPlay

Also might be getting #Othercide. That game's graphical design is something else.

Und noch ein bisschen #Othercide ausprobiert: Sehr coole Ästhetik und einige spannende Mechaniken. Mal schauen, ob ich dabei bleibe...

Humble Choice:
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, Fallout 76 (+ Fallout 1), Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales ed altri 5 giochi da scegliere su http://bit.ly/HumbMonthly (Refer. Link)

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Here is my #PlayStation 2022 round up! #Gaming #VideoGames

#Othercide
#ResidentEvil
#DyingLight2
#Bloodborne
#GranTurismo

(Hat tip to: @RedFurBall)

#Othercide #XboxShare

#Othercide #XboxShare

So. Semesterferien. Mal ein bisschen runter kommen und sich aus der Welt ausklinken.
Gibt ja #othercide.

@lecygnenoirgame@miaou.drycat.fr du coup, on a des nouvelles des sœurs? #othercide