Thea: The Awakening

 PlayStation 4
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  • Summary: This turn-based strategy survival game, steeped in Slavic myth, puts you up against a monstrosity known only as The Darkness that engulfed the world. There are Strigas and Baba Yagas aplenty, but there are no heroes, no monster slayers, and no great armies capable of banishing them. You haveThis turn-based strategy survival game, steeped in Slavic myth, puts you up against a monstrosity known only as The Darkness that engulfed the world. There are Strigas and Baba Yagas aplenty, but there are no heroes, no monster slayers, and no great armies capable of banishing them. You have only a few hopeless and starving survivors who are desperately trying to stay alive. You are their last hope.… Expand

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  1. Digitally Downloaded
    Jun 15, 2017
    90
    It might look like Civilization on the surface, but once you realise it’s actually a hybrid of card game, gamebook, RPG, and strategy game you’ll be hard pressed to think of anything that you’ve played this year that’s more fundamentally fascinating than this one.

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  1. NemoG
    Aug 10, 2017
    8
    Gets a while to get used to but very in-depth game. It includes resource management, crafting, town building, RPG style character growth andGets a while to get used to but very in-depth game. It includes resource management, crafting, town building, RPG style character growth and mini card game for battles.
    Despite having a huge amount of actions you can do inside the game you have very easy and clean interface and controls.
    Also, the questions lines and events are very neat! Text is all spoken/voiced, there are hundreds of events which can happen, the way you’ve built your characters have impact on your options on how to handle each event. Which again give different results.
    The game is awesome but not perfect, the card game takes a long time and can drag the game out for ages. Thankfully you can simulate fights skipping the mini game, sadly even easy fights which you would flawlessly win can get you badly injured when simulated.
    Also the music can became annoying as it repeats over and over, you can turn it off in the settings and run Spotify in the background which solves that!

    Overall, awesome indie game! If you like city builders, and resource management games, get this one! Great price for quality.    … Expand
  2. AyHy
    Oct 24, 2017
    5
    I love this game. I love this game so much I bought it twice - once on the PS4 and then again on Steam - because the PC version is infinitelyI love this game. I love this game so much I bought it twice - once on the PS4 and then again on Steam - because the PC version is infinitely better.

    The PS4 version suffers from a ridiculous, easily correctable interface problem: it's a resource management game with a slider bar *that moves at a maximum rate of about 10 items per second*. There's no "move the bar 20%" trigger button, or "move the bar all the way to the left or all the way to the right" button. Just an agonizingly slow sliiiiide.

    For example, let's say you've played the game for a while and you have 600 wood. And you want to give your expedition 20 wood. So you click on "Move wood to expedition" and it defaults to splitting the wood into two equal stacks: 300 for the expedition, 300 for the city.

    Well you don't want to give your expedition 300 wood - they'd collapse under the weight. So you start moving the slider bar to the left. And it ticks down... 290, 280, 270, 260, and you spend THIRTY SECONDS giving wood to your expedition.

    Oh, and now they need food. They need ten different types of food so they can move at the maximum speed. Okay, let's start by giving them some fruit and OH CRAP, I HAVE 700 FRUIT. So now let's take 35 seconds... sitting and watching a number decrease from 350 to 30.

    Thea is a really cool roguelike resource management strategy game. It's got fun quests, it's got a nice sense of progression, it's well made.

    But on PS4 it may as well be called Thea: The Slider Bar.    … Expand