Разработчик: Turnopia
Описание
If you have come here it is because you wish to manage your own chariot racing team. Train your drivers and give them the finest equipment and horses. If you do this well, your chariots will provide you with both wealth and fame. but beware! Chariot races are dangerous. Accidents may occur and rival teams might try to harm your charioteers during the race. Make sure you do not grow too attached to your charioteers and always have a replacement available. Good luck!
Qvadriga is a tactical game of chariot racing in ancient Roman circuses, where you take control of a four horse chariot team. Choose your preferred upgrade combinations and prove your skills at the arena. Select the most cunning actions which your team could perform against the best drivers of the old world: shake reins, whip horses, choose lanes, hold tight while negotiating curves, avoid incoming attacks, block enemies path, lacerate and whip them until achieving victory.
Start an epic campaign from the most modest tracks of the empire corners, assemble a mighty team and build your fame through the provinces until reaching enough wealth to finally open the gates of Rome's greatest competition at the Circus Maximus, where you will be able to enter history and reach favour of gods.
Features
- Historically modeled circuses with all their styles and particularities. Variable sizes, lengths and shapes, from the classic Greek oval hippodrome to the standard Roman circus.
- Variable number of rivals: Participate in tactical four-team races, dive into mayhem with sixteen opponents.
- Expert AI able to recognize their situation and maximize their strengths.
- Dual game system: paused turn-based gameplay (static) or continuous real time action (dynamic). Play which you like.
- One-click decision making interface triggers a sheer variety of engaging consequences.
- Upgradable team components: charioteers' skill and constitution can be improved, also chariot’s quality and size and horses' speed and endurance. Any combination is useful, provided you take advantage of its strengths.
- Six historic factions to belong, which grants particular upgrades to your team.
- Huge campaign system with seven regions to travel, starting in any of them, from the exotic arenas of the far East to the Northern barbarian borders.
- 43 circuses to run, seven starting circus available from the beginning, unlock higher category circuses by building your fame.
- Unique bonus at every city that could affect all competition aspects.
- Race events enrich campaign altering race conditions. Your faction will try to help in the darkest hours, if you are successful your rivals will make things harder.
- Buy, sell, heal and repair teams. Find the best components by gaining access to higher category circuses, hire medic, craftsmen and veterinary services to increase performance and configure the most competitive team.
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS: Vista/7/8/10
- Processor: 1.6 GHz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX 9.0c compatible video card
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- Sound Card: Compatible sound card
Отзывы пользователей
challenging yet easy to play
Fun, simple, and kind of challenging in a laid back sort of way.
+ Very unique subject. I don't see any other "chariot race sim" video game out there other than some VR garbage,
+ Ingenuous deconstruction of chariot races into WEGO turn-based mechanics.
- Sadly all that is marred due to extreme reliance on dice rolls. More often than not it feels like my tactical choices are irrelevant in front of the whims of mighty Fortuna.
- The turn lengths do not match the decision making points in the race. I.e. your next turn can be 80% "green" and 20% "red". Ideally you would only decelerate at the end of that 80%. But here, you only have the option to decelerate from the beginning thus letting your opponents over take you, or not decelerate thus assuming a huge risk of being crashed out of the race during the last 20%. The turn lengths should have been much shorter, or new turns should have been triggered based on track length instead of time duration. The "dynamic turns" option may sound like it would address this issue, but it only removes the pause between turns.
- The campaign mode is extremely barebones. The charioteers should have been fleshed out individuals with names, faces, and additional factors like popularity (that could have affected betting), personality (affecting what actions they do during races) etc. Generally there should have been more depth and detail.
I don't know what this developer is doing now. His last game seems to have been a pointless riff on chess. He should revisit this game with more resources and improved game development tools available now, to create a more fleshed-out, in-depth, high fidelity sequel, more reliant on tactics and less reliant on luck. Apparently there was a game like that in production, but of course Slitherine has shelved it to spend more money on copy-pasta games and big-name licenses.
Normally this would be a negative review. But given there are no better alternatives, I hope another positive review contributes even a little bit to sales and get Slitherine to open its wallets to the sequel of this game.
Gem of a game!
This is clearly based heavily upon a board game called Circus Minimus published by The Gamers. That game was also inspired by the old Avalon Hill classic Circus Maximus. So be warned, this is quite literally a video board game. The game also shares lots of mechanics with the old Steve Jackson's Car Wars game, just with Chariots instead of cars. You face RNG and have to play the odds to succeed and maximise your chances. Success is never assured, even with the best of everything. With that said, this is a fun game if you like those old board game that this is inspired by.
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Turnopia |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 18.01.2025 |
| Metacritic | 72 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 85% положительных (191) |