Ravenmark: Scourge of Estellion

Just boring and crooked in terms of TBS

6/10 - I love this genre and kept an eye on this game for a long time before giving it a go Unfortunately the gameplay mechanics do not produce a satisfying experience and I could not get into it + Indie + Tactical genre Will likely return to give this another go

This is a mobile ported point based fantasy strategy game where you control armies of medieval soldiers against various enemies in a large campaign. Mobile ports don't belong on Steam and this is a classic example. Everything is massively dumbed down to cater to mobile peasants. On a technical basis, resolution and controls are fixed, there's no real settings to customise at all. This is unacceptable for a PC game. Once more we see greedy mobile devs trying to screw over PC gamers. On Steam, this is $15 USD, on app stores, it's $10. Mobile devs must learn PC gamers are not here to be gouged, and can't be expected to pay a premium for a mobile game just because it's been lazily dumped on Steam.

So I've recommended this a few times to people, but I've finally actually fully finished the campaigns. It's a good turn based tactics game with some unique mechanics where turns are resolved all at once so you need to carefully plan your moves factoring in both your own units action speed and enemy movements, otherwise you'll get in your own way. You also have a very limited number of orders you can give per turn, requiring you to rely on building proper battle formations that don't require extensive micromanagement and give smart standing orders so your units can go about a set mission without you directing their every move. In that regard, it's a very different experience to most. The storytelling throughout most of the game is solid. I don't want to give away anything here, but its a dark and dirty war and as the campaign progresses things get progressively darker due to politics and human emotions. The ending, however, can go and suck a fat one. Rather than have a proper ending, they handball it on to their mobile title Ravenmark Mercenaries, which (if it even still exists?) from what I could see doesn't actually have story. But until that very final moment the storytelling is fine, it just lacks a proper resolution and that is gonna irk me as much with this as it did with Animorphs and Startrek Voyager. I found parts of the game really hard to binge play, not because the game was too hard or annoying itself, but just because of how bleakly depressing it often was. All in all, it's fairly cheap and well worth the investment.

馬的~難玩的要死，隊列轉向還要看地型~部隊順序也很難掌控~一個不小心~預計的陣型因為同部隊的無法移動，就崩了~!!真搞不懂這種目的的設計到底有什麼優點~

很不错的游戏

I completed Ravenmark: Scourge of Estellion and continue to feel it was well worth playing as a story-rich tactical RPG. However, it appears to have a sequel that is mobile-only. All ad copy I can find focuses on the multiplayer element and it is, most regrettably, F2P. This makes the fundamental organizing principle of the game utterly at odds with the story-driven mission structure of the first game. Although I'm fully aware that an engaging story can be told even in a F2P mobile game, the F2P nature would likely make it impossible to play through whatever campaign exists in the same manner as the first game. I don't think the F2P monetization architecture works with how I like to experience a tactical game like this - frankly, the complexity and time investment of a mission is not justified by any 'reward' other than 'next storyline segment' and F2P makes that impossible. I guess this is where the Ravenmark saga ends for me and I can't help but find that very disappointing.

好评献给白月光。 steam补票，手机通汉化。 伟大无需多言。