Maybe my only criticism-and it's not a small one-is that it's almost too tight, making it feel more like a proof-of-concept than a full-blooded game in some ways. It's tightly-designed, with layers of mechanics that tie in nicely to its mixture of genres. In a year rich with excellent strategy games like Gear Tactics, Othercide stands out thanks to its wide array of clever systems, smartly-considered roguelite format, and general atmosphere. The emphasis is much more on the tactics, which manage to rise above even the overwrought, but still charming, art. The story of a mysterious plague-conveyed mainly through ambient dialogue and moody narration-is sparse. In Othercide, you control an army of women who are created, fully-formed, from a birthing pool, assigned one of four classes, and marched out onto an isometric battlefield to battle an army of evil doctors. This is a tactics game that revels in wearing Corpse Bride T-shirts and writing very long LiveJournal posts. The villains bear a strong resemblance to the villains of The Dark Crystal, renowned for being perhaps the darkest story in the Jim Henson oeuvre.
It's colored mainly in black and white, the only accents being the occasional flecks of red from blood. Othercide, a new tactics game launching today on PS4, Steam, and Xbox One, captures that feeling well, and not just because of its goth-pop soundtrack, which is straight out of a mid-2000s Hot Topic. Songs like "My Immortal" soundtracked a steamy summer spent working security and subsisting on ramen noodles, nodding along to lyrics like "These wounds won't seem to heal / this pain is just too real / there's just too much that time cannot erase." I was an embarrassingly big fan of Evanescence when they made their debut back in 2003. Some content, such as this article, has been migrated to VG247 for posterity after USgamer's closure - but it has not been edited or further vetted by the VG247 team. This article first appeared on USgamer, a partner publication of VG247. Also available onPlayStation 4, Xbox One.
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