Desert Ashes

Desert Ashes is a strategy/turn based tactical game in a JRPG style where you control a bunch of weird bird units and fight off "landians". I'm sure the artwork and lore makes sense to someone, but it's not at all engaging. The game feels like it's been lifted from console/tablet and doesn't look and feel like a PC game. Gameplay and controls are simplistic and the interface feels like a childs toy from Fischer-Price. The graphics aren't retro-pixel but the game is presented in a retro pixel JRPG style. Resolution is fixed so get used to dialogue a mile high if you have a larger monitor. The gameplay isn't great or engaging, the mobile/console heritage of the game is painful and ugly, this doesn't sit well on PC. Gamers who want tactical strategy games would do better with PC natives like Heroes of Might & Magic or X-Com.

Gra jest beznadziejna. Gdy się włańcza zpowiada się ok a potem lipa.

It's far too short and far too easy, but if you love Advance Wars as much as I do, it's well worth a few quid.

что же можно сказать о этой игре?в этой игре неплохо нарисованы модельки персонажей и...наверно это все.ну и за карточки спасибо.

fajna gra tylko nudna troszke

0/10

So bad

5/10

How is this game not being sued by the makers of advanced war for GBA? it legit has the same mapping and battle scenes xD

Rolled the random wheel of backlog games for Steam last night and got this. TL;DR - mixed is a good rating. I would rate it neutral. I was a little worried to see it was mixed review, but honestly it was a lot better than I expected. There were some serious UI issues and bugged music (where if I pulled up steam overlay or the menu [can’t remember which] it would get stuck on repeating the same couple notes, until it fixed itself). I thought I completed the campaign in about 15 minutes and it was only the training section, but the UI is stupid in how you pick your episodes or some crap. The UI is also stupid in that if you miss the (admittedly giant) button it resets what move you’ve done. And some other little ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Mouse doesn’t always work, need to use arrows in menus, etc. Gameplay wise, it was ok. a pretty simplified grid turn based strategy. Has some semblance of a story, but it’s just generally weird creatures vs. weird creatures. On that note, the art is very bizarre, but actually pretty good. The animations are stiff, but they still look ok. Creatures remind me of something out of Zeno Clash (very weird game if you’ve tried that). The fighting has 3 major unit types, air, infantry, and heavy. I think water units are considered heavy. Infantry > air > heavy > infantry. Standard triangle of force. You have different levels amongst each, and they have different ranges to attack from. Though oddly, if I attack with a long range, their short range can still counter. There is a small environment change. Each turn is considered an hour and in the middle of the night in the cycle, the water freezes over so you can move land units across it. The color of environment changes each hour too. For how far I am into the game, that's the only environment changes that I've seen. I did not attempt multiplayer. I'd be pretty surprised if there were enough people playing to find a game. Another reviewer said the mp was completely broken and inaccessible. Overall review, love the weird art, the gameplay is kind of mediocre.