Children of Orc

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Showing a lot of promise, bit buggy atm (think alpha or beta so expect bugs) but the developer is quite active and listens to feedback and responds and is very helpful. The game itself is simple enough to play, with a nice look & feel to the game that is somewhat relaxing (although the orcs are a little ugly and that scream as your player orc makes as it drops is both creepy and funny at the same time). Gameplay is very easy, you control an Orc ("player orc" as such) and at first you get dropped on a planet and need to rescue your fellow orcs from prisons then you can ask them to do tasks such as retrieving lumber or stone/etc, and get them to build bridges to other islands or other constructions. With the goal being to collect some gems that are scattered about the place inside crates you can smash. All in all, a simple enough task you'd think but depending on the size of the planet and the resource node locations/etc it could take a while. A good little casual time waster which I look forward to its development.

Too little content: 1. Goal's are not really stated. I think you probably have to smith a crown and collect all gems (which are in crates lying around). You are supposed to do this as fast as possible because doing it at all is generally easy. 2. This means the only buildings you really need are a sawmill and bridges. The smelter and smithy are only required once for the crown. Technical problems: 1. Hex tiling: The hex tiling of the sphere is a cool idea. It is also mathematically impossible. Which means there are a bunch of pentagons among those hexagons which will massively derail your bridges if the get too close. 2. Planet view: The entire point of the game is to set up a way for your orcs to get around quickly so you can build bridges fast and get all the crates. However because you can only view a part of the world at once this gets somewhat annoying. 3. To order your orcs around you have to walk to each of them individually which becomes quite annoying and you completely lose track of them pretty fast. To me this game seems to scratch the same itch as Banished with the latter one being much better but also not free.

I hope this game gets lots of support and attention - it has a lot of unique ideas going for it. I hope there is more coming with this game. Right now you start as a funny looking orc. You find a few of your brethren orcs trapped and start to free them. This begins building your tribe and, hopefully, your entire civilization. Right now the game is very simple - point, click, do. It's pretty novel in that you have to command each tribemember by actually walking to them. I thought that would be tough, but it works out well. Good job, Dev! There aren't a lot of options to build and at least one building I'm still unsure of what it does. However, I think there is a ton of potential with this game. Add some technology research, maybe throw a rival tribe in, and I think we'd have ourselves a fun game. Otherwise, nice job on the game and I hope to see more!

not very polished game and the required item to get 100% achievements is a price point that I can't understand.

Thumbs down! I don’t like pay-to-win games. This is pay-to-win because you need to buy the Jumbo Globe item in order to get all the achievements.

If you like to be cildren of the orc's this is game for you!