Othercide - Review @ Games Xtreme

A Gothic Anime Nightmare

Othercide is a disturbing game in many ways, and on many levels. It challenges you in a fundamental way, to battle hideous monsters and fight revulsion of the evil that it portrays on screen. The aesthetic of this game is brilliant in that way. It is starkly grey scale, black and white, with splashes of colour and brings to mind the stylings of certain anime shows.

You are going to be playing a long, hard, and tactical game with this one.

The creation of Lightbulb Crew, and published by Focus Home Interactive, Othercide is nightmarish in both world and difficulty. Fortunately, it's also a rogue-like game, which means you will fail, you will lose your Daughters of the Red Mother and you will need to rise again - and again - and again.

Each time you fail you will get stronger, it's the nature of the beast. From defeat comes victory, and the reward for winning one of the many turn-based tactical battles that lie before you in the game is all the sweeter for it.

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Must Buy
Othercide is a wonderful game, addictive, and with that rogue-like quality of: just one more run, this time I will BEAT the enemy. It never feels unfair, and it always feels as though you're one step closer to ultimate victory. Get this is you love X-Com style games, and fancy something a little different!