Thea: The Awakening

 PlayStation 4
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  1. 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 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,    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 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

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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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