BIG NOUN ENERGY

You will fight, you will fail, you will rise again.” This is Othercide’s motto, and it deserves credit for sticking to the bit. It doesn’t just say it’s about a hopeless war against encroaching darkness, it commits to the theme. Othercide mixes turn-based tactical combat with the repetition and incremental progress of roguelikes. It takes the threat of losing your best soldier from XCOM and makes that threat a certainty. You will lose, and then you will try again. And again.

You are very well, it doesn’t really need to define its terms. What matters is atmosphere, and this game is dripping with it.