Разработчик: Han Zhiyu
Описание
Wishlist CHAOS FRONT, the latest game of Chaos Galaxy series
About the Game
Chaos Sector is a retro style game that pays homage to many strategic games on the game console platform in 1995-2005.Game Mechanism:
◎ Managing your planetary worlds: Improving productivity to Increase weekly Income, or building Star Forts to resist aggression.
◎ Research on technology: acquiring new equipment to strengthen different kinds of troops.
◎ Training commanders: With political or military operations, commanders' attributes will be freely promoted. It will also unlocks a number of new skills.
◎ Build troops: Each faction has many dedicated units, and each unit can be upgraded to become stronger after fighting.
◎ War: When you built a powerful fleet, you can attack the nearby enemy planet. Before that, you also can destroy the enemy's fortress through sabotage action.
◎ A variety of events: the new commander joining, the new route founding, and each faction have 2 different endings.
◎ Obtaining Collection: All of 16 commanders and 20 units can be collected in various ways.
◎ Battlefield fog: everything is unknown in the vast space and you may suddenly encounter an enemy raid at any time.
◎ Various unit abilities: stealth, radar, beam field, corrosion, supply, heal, repair, launching nuclear bombs, and even capture enemy units to join us.
◎ commander's tactical skills: as accumulate spirit points on the battlefield, each commander can display different and identical super tactical skills: Second shooting, second action, poisonous fog, mind control and even the creation of black holes to transfer away enemy units.
Now, use your wisdom, command your fleet and burn out the whole universe!
Поддерживаемые языки: english, simplified chinese, spanish - spain, traditional chinese
Системные требования
Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows XP, Windos Vista, or Windows 7 / 8 / 10
- Processor: Intel i5
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia 450 GTS / Radeon HD 5750
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 200 MB available space
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Mac
Linux
Отзывы пользователей
Indie games are labours of love. This is quite apparent within Chaos Sector, which homages the classic turn based strategy genre in beautiful pixel art style. The game is light on story, but rich in setting and mechanically solid. As the first in a series and basically a solo job by its developer, the game runs fine with a few flaws but has a brutal difficulty curve and no formal tutorial. Once you get the hang on what you're doing though, (battle tool tips and taking manual command via "make my own decisions" during the council phases 80% of the time) it becomes a gritty tactical matchup that's surprisingly well balanced.
I'll list flaws first as to end on a positive:
1 - limited battle maps. I struggled to tell exactly how many were in the game, because you play the same map(s?) in different positions rather than having smaller/dedicated maps per planet/node. This is generally not a glaring problem, other than how a lot of early turns can very much be "find the enemy" which can be quite frustrating combined with my second critique.
2 - the game homages classic fog of war TOO well in that the enemy knows where you are, you just have to find them. Surprisingly, this isn't an issue for the most part. As defensive missions will have them come to you and offensive ones only have them move to attack once you can see them/enter their range. Combined with the large map sizes however, it can make some missions very tedious.
3 - lets be honest, translating is hard. English is a horrible language to learn as a second because it has inconsistent rules and exceptions; Chinese, on the other hand, is complex and can struggle to convey exact meanings from its native state into another language. Don't get me wrong, the game is perfectly playable and intelligible, but there are a lot of little blips and oddities of wording (one example is the Imperial Crusade leaders having literal-ish translated names). It goes along with a handful of issues where sprites are partially missing (at least at my resolution) from certain angles. The game is a solo project and none of them crush gameplay, so leeway should be given on account of it working well despite these issues!
4 - the steal mechanic is great fun when it works, but an absolute nightmare to pull off most of the time. The pirate leader has a flat boost to the percentage which helps, but given how squishy most infantry are, capturing ships that are trying to kill you constantly can be a real pain. Especially in the endgame of the Pirate scenario where capturing the new ship type is critical to... not dying horrifically or losing tons of ships constantly.
5 - commander skills charge very slowly most of the time and some battles actually prevent you using yours if you're winning without losing ships or the enemy has no battle stations to charge it off. This is frustrating when trying to add the alien units to your collection because the skill that does that often means you're gambling as to what the final unit is on offence and few defence missions have enough enemies to use it at all.
Now, to end on a good note:
1 - while not an easy game, this is a solid one. Both scenarios are beatable, fleet compositions are allowed to vary (excepting nuclear ships are best countered by other nuclear ships due to sheer insanity), and different commanders genuinely affect how the maps play out.
2 - while there isn't a lot of story, the setting details and lore that are given are well crafted and interesting; the creator has clearly put time into the art style and you can see the difference between factions, characters, and weapon systems.
3 - Both sides have different units, but they're all balanced enough to compete with clever thinking. Plus, the pirates are better at stealing ships so can field both pretty reliably.
4 - this is a solid standalone game, but also in effect a proof of concept for its sequels. Despite its first instalment issues (and a lot of classic series have this), I felt engaged and determined to complete it all the way through. There is enough content and variation to make both campaigns worthwhile and interesting, though part of me wishes I could play any commander on a skirmish-style map (will have to look for the sequels).
Overall, I recommend this for those with patience who enjoy classic Nintendo-hard turn based strategy and/or who want to see a less traditional space-opera setting and style.
Definitely recommended for fans of turn-based tactics, space, sci-fi, and strategy. Feels similar to a space XCOM.
+Art style
+Music
+Battle animations, character portraits
+Manual and auto-saving
+Positioning matters
+Characters/commanders
+Upgrades/levels for units and commanders
+Turn-based tactical space battles
+Variety of different ships
+3 factions
+Weekly report decisions, commander suggestions
+Strategy layer, planet development
-Barebones options
-No key shortcuts; mouse only
-No rebinding
-No voice
-Only 1 faction at start
-Low res/ pixelated
-Lacking tutorial
-Some unclear info, lacking tooltips
-Edge pan camera only
-Awkward dialogue/translation
-No auto-end turn
-Clunky UI
-Only 1 action per week
-Explorations are often a waste
-Some balance issues
-No choices on level up
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Han Zhiyu |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 17.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 75% положительных (32) |