ORX

Conceptually it started strong, as the years churn on it becomes worse. The factions beyond the main one are completely unplayable because of balance issues. Completely irritating lack of agency in gameplay.

Took a 2 year break, just played now on 6/14/26 and idk what they did but the game kind of sucks now. You have absolutely no starting cards at all.

It's Tower Defense where you play tiles like the popular board game Carcassonne to create towers via completing structures across multiple tiles. Different factions create different structures via their tiles usually with roads and castles providing money and military needs. Not much more needs to be said. The premise is simple but it lands with a fun gameplay loop. The game itself can be a bit buggy, especially if you get a run with a set of multipliers that can cause a number somewhere to overflow and crash the game. The game is rougelite, but a run only ends when you end it meaning even the game crashing will only lose you a little bit of progress.

Game has many many critical bugs which make it unplayable. It's in early access since August 2022 and will probably never reach a stable/full release

Id highly recommend at least trying out the game, though its a must play for every Carcassonne enjoyer. Incredibly fun game with a boatload of bugs. Receiving regular updates and bug fixes, fingers crossed the game will be perfect one day.

EDITED REVIEW: you can read below the line for my original review, but around 2 months after it was posted the devs came out with a massive overhauling update for the game. It's not perfect, I think it moved game balance in a somewhat awkward and more difficult direction and some of the new features like forest Orx need some tweaks, but it seems to have fixed a lot of bugs. Most importantly it shows that the devs are still hard at work so I anticipate more improvements. ------ I will say that I really, really want to recommend this. The graphics are sweet, the music rules, the mechanics are unique and interesting...but. But but but. The game is bugged to ♥♥♥♥. Multiple and frequent game-breaking bugs. I guess it's still in early access but I'm writing this in October of 2025 and there hasn't been a patch since March, with (as far as I can tell) 0 word from the devs. If they pick it up with the updates again then I'll eat my words and change my rec, but otherwise don't bother.

Это шутка какая то? игра в раннем доступе уже 3 года, я думал за это время можно сделать что то играбильное... Вот я купил игру, мне доступна только легкий сложность, я прохожу типа 3 миссии, открывается лока с боссом (как я понял), на 2 волне у меня багается все, орки идут но не атакуют, башни не стреляют, деньги не капают, карт не дают, но время идет, игра продолжается, не плохой баг для первых 30 минут игры. Итак, рестарт миссии, начинаем сначала, 3 волна той же миссии, у меня захвачены все деревни, квесты выполнены, 2 галочки висят, я могу строить все работает, но Босс просто ходит по карте и атакует меня, ночь не кончается, а хп босса не отнимаются даже спустя 10 минут непрерывных атак по нему. Крч выглядит игра хорошо, интересно, но какой смысл если баги не дают в это поиграть...мб через лет 5-10 что то пофиксят, но пока это кусок мусора

Well worth the price especially at a sale. The Developers are actively working and rethinking even deeply implemented systems when people give feedback on it. The game itself is fun, interesting, unique and looks cool. Im not saying its perfect, or perfectly balanced, but its going a good direction and balance will become better. They just have reworked core elements and some disbalance is to be expected, especially with it becoming harder.

Очень хорошая стратежка. Я играла в подобные игры совсем немного, потому что обычно стратегия выглядит для меня скучно и уныло... Но здесь все совсем иначе. Мне понравилась рисовка очень-очень! Отдельный респект за красные бумажные самолетики в белую крапинку :) Мне хочется возвращаться в игру и пробовать проходить её за разные фракции

Ta abandonado