Condors Vs Ocelots

Condors Vs Ocelots has nothing to do with condors or ocelots. It's an early access "freemium" isometric retro pixel turn based tactical strategy game. Gameplay consists of building your army, choosing your fight on the world map, then going down into the turn based tactical combat interface, commanding each unit to move/attack/defend/use abilities, etc. It's been done a million times. This is currently free but the developers have indicated they want to have an in game store when the game is finished. With some relief, it's worth noting the vast majority of Steam Early Access games never reach completion. The technical implementation here is frankly a nightmare that makes Russian asset flips look accessible and enjoyable. Retro pixel "art" was used as a substitute for professional, contemporary graphics. While this is usually enough reason to throw any game onto the burning pile of retro pixel garbage infesting Steam, special mention should be made of just how bad the pixel "art" here is. It's mismatched, some things have pixels a mile high, other stuff is more into the 16 bit era of pixel art. We all know how bad it looks when the pixels in a game are different sizes! What were they thinking? The disaster continues with the hamfisted and unintuitive UI. There's no feedback, so while you might attack a dog or something you have to look around to try work out what the result of that attack is, likewise, it's not clear what happened to your unit if the enemies attack unless you go look at your hitpoints and try reverse engineer it. UI elements are all over the place... I think there's little point in going on and on about just how bad this is. While this is free, and that would be noble except for the developers overt intent to monetise this junk through in-app purchases, it's not worth the time taken to download it. My prediction is this will be abandoned very shortly, if it hasn't been already (last update was 7 months ago, around the time it was dumped onto Steam Early Access).