Solium Infernum

Solid strategy game with a clever core idea, but the pricing holds it back. $40 is a big ask for a game that only works when you can get a full table of friends to buy in and commit to a match that can run for weeks. That price tag makes getting a group together harder than it needs to be, the exact thing the game depends on.

I want to like this, but I just can't. The pacing is glacial. Tokens (currency) have to be manually selected from a pool, and there's usually no contest on which ones you want. So it just ends up being an annoying 8~10 second distraction to the start of every turn where you just pick the tokens with the biggest values. Having to manually pay upkeep for rituals and titans (mega units) also adds to the "dead time", when all I'm going to do is select "autopay" anyways. Which really adds up if you have three rituals and two titans that you need to pay each. And. Every. Turn. Also, the RNG heavy events sometimes say "♥♥♥♥ you specifically", and there's nothing you can do about it but watch as your best unit, with all your stuff equipped to it, immediately drops dead with nothing you can do to stop it. All because it picked the short straw on the random event.

Solium Infernum is so underrated. It has deep, replayable systems where every choice feels meaningful and every betrayal lands hard. A really cool hellish aesthetic with asymmetric factions that play very differently to each other and most importantly it rewards devious strategy through long term scheming and political mind games. There really isn't anything like it. Its a shame the asynchronous game mode that the majority play gives a false reading of player count on steam, it gives a false idea of how players are out there, its a damn shame. The devs just released a huge update that came out of their own pocket to make. It shows how dedicated they are to the game and I really hope more people decide to give it a go and discover just how much fun it is.

Generally a great game... But it has a crippling bug I've run into multiple times that ruins a game irrecoverably: There's a "can't submit turn" bug that the devs have failed to fix even after many reports. If it occurs (and it has happened to me multiple times), your game is just toast -- there is nothing you can do but abandon it. This can happen in single or multi player games. It tells me that the devs probably have some terrible race-condition plagued mess around their end-turn logic, and either can't sort it out or can't be bothered to. It pains me, but this otherwise great game is essentially unplayable because you can't know, when starting a game, if you'll end up having to abandon it. I'm uninstalling and I will not be buying anything from this developer ever again.

Possibly the best multiplayer strategy game I have ever played and wonderful devs. Please buy and support the game!

Not fun. I don't play many board games, but I sure wouldn't play this more often than once. You take 10 turns trying to build a nice legion and--bam!--the heavenly crusade wipes it out, randomly. That's all this game is: random crap happening. And it all takes so long. You have 2 order slots, 3 on higher ranks, and everything takes an order to do: moving a legion, buying an item, equipping the item, even getting resources to be able to buy anything in the first place! I'm sure the developers put a lot of effort into this, but it's just not for me.

The only 4X game in my eyes that gets diplomacy and turn order right. The skill floor is kinda high, the skill ceiling even higher but damn it's fun.

I dont know what game these reviewers are playing but this is not it. You spend more than half your time doing nothing except wating for your legion to respawn and gather enough tribute to do anything.

This game is excellent, especially for asynchronous multiplayer.