Conquest of Elysium 5

This game is great. My favorite part is when you get like 8 turns in (past the hardest part in the game) and a tatsu flies out of the fog of war and snipes your citadels and you lose. No wait my favorite part is when you survive the first 8 turns (the hardest part of the game) and then you look at how many of your enemies survived and your 8 man ffa is a 3 man ffa. Actually if I think about it my favorite part is when I finally figure out the faction mechanic and I hit the "summon god" button, then read the gods description and its like "this is the weakest of all gods", then he runs around the map and solos literally everything without taking any damage. After a while I kept some stats on the games I've played so far, so here they are Games played: 48 Games made it past turn 8: 9 Games I won: 4 Games everyone lost: 1 God entities summoned: 2 Avg Difficulty: Butler Score: 10/10, I like to be abused

Mechanically deep, approachably fast. It may not be balanced, it may not be pretty, but it's always interesting.

cant wait to drop a review 200 hours in when ive actually won

I'm bad at structuring reviews so I'll just put everything in a list What I like: - Rewards clever thinking, but punishes carelessness. Overextended too early and left your citadel without a guarding army? Stolen by bandits and you're wiped off the board, forces you to think tactically - Lots of variety in armies, no two will play the same and almost all of them are fun, the 2 gnome(?) factions being the exception. Some standouts for me are the High Cultist, Voice of El and Necromancer - No two games will feel the same ever, you can play the same faction 5 games in a row and it'll still feel fresh because of factors like terrain, nearby resources and neighbouring factions - Gameplay is simple and easy to learn but still rewards a strong knowledge of the game, I recommend you try to play each faction at least once, so you know which enemy does which, who needs what and how long it takes for them to become a real threat - Multiple planes of existence is always a fun mechanic What I don't Like: - Very RNG heavy, some factions are borderline unplayable if you can't find a resource deposit or unlock a ritual soon enough - Factions have a tendency to snowball which often leads to games where one becomes a dominant superpower and the others are just barely surviving by holing up in impenetrable citadels, which leads to dull late games that last hundreds of turns as while one side has obviously won it just can't physically be declared winner, I usually resign or go on suicidal last stands when this happens - Dwarves are just really annoying Overall: 8.5/10 very addicting but makes me want to smash my PC, would sacrifice thousands of people again

First of all, I love this game, it is my favorite strategy game by far. But saving and loading for some reason takes really long time, I can click the load button, go take a piss, wash my hand and come back and the game is still loading. I never saw anyone else have this problem so take it what you will. But if the dev can fix this problem and add some sort of auto save this game would immediately become 10/10 perfect strategy game for me.

Pretty fun auto battler, the descriptions always give me a chuckle. It does reward creative thinking but can be quite punishing if you aren't paying attention. E.g. I was very excited to try out my new "curse of pigs" spell. Confidently turned a horde of a thousand geckos with pointy sticks into a horde of rampaging wild boar. Lesson learned. Next game as said geckos burning every forest i came across to flush out a druid. He was on the other side of the map, being quiet inside my territory. Hours until i bothered to check.

Play Guildmaster, get mercenary/sage/thieves guilds, turn my brain off. 10/10