Vultures - Scavengers of Death

Voltures is a brilliant mashup of genres. It understands survival horror down to a tee, and knows how to translate it into a tactical, turn-based format. The zombies, the music, the run-down locations: this might as well be a PSX-era Resident Evil game on a grid. I have some issues with the game design and challenge, though. After playing for a while, you realize that a lot of encounters are easily solved in the sense that they don’t really require much strategic forethought. For example, being equipped with only a knife and having to fight a couple of zombies is mostly busywork, devoid of tension or interesting challenge. In fact, from a purely strategic standpoint, the developers seem to run out of ideas pretty quickly, imposing difficulty by simply throwing overwhelming numbers of powerful monsters at you. Either you have the molotovs and shotgun shells to deal with them, or you simply don’t. That feels somewhat at odds with the game’s tactical, turn-based nature. It’s at its best in the opening moments of each stage, when you’re exploring the map, finding keys, and trying to figure out how A leads to B -- deciding which battles to pick and which routes to take. There’s a great tension in knowing that you can shoot everything you see, but doing so means you’ll burn through your ammo and potentially soft-lock yourself. That level of jankiness actually works as part of the throwback it’s going for. At the same time, it can devolve into frustration. You can find yourself completely overpowered and hanging on by a thread for pretty much the entire level, only to be faced with a final encounter that’s simply out of your league. I do like that a string of bad decisions can put you at a disadvantage; it’s a natural extension of the survival-horror formula. But it also highlights how often the game substitutes brute force for a truly tactical challenge. I might be in the wrong expecting that, but it is one of the big reasons why Voltures doesn’t score higher for me as a game. Still, easily recommended though.

Turn based resident evil

В данный момент игра имеет критические баги, которые не дают спокойно играть. Тем больше вызывает недоумения недавно добавленный режим "выживания", который увеличивает сложность в сломанной игре. Лично я считаю, что перво-наперво необходимо исправить игру и в частности устранить критические баги (вроде бага с вечно уезжающей в угол камерой или просто адский урон от кровотечения), довести "обычный" режим до приемлемого состояния, а уж потом уже добавлять в игру что-то новое. Пока что очень сыро и пытаться играть в это - только портить себе нервы и настроение. В текущем состоянии крайне не рекомендую даже по скидке.

This game is dope, buy it.

游戏风格确实有90年代那味了； 回合制玩法也有不俗的游戏性

Не тратьте время, ребят, это скучное глючное забагованное говно, хоть сначала и привлекает концепцией "пошаговый резик". Я дотошнил просто из принципа. Не повторяйте моей ошибки.

Not bad at all. Its got a few flaws but its a nice game. The final costume for Amber is a great nod to a random legend. The story was decent and I am fully looking forward to the sequel.

Excellente ambiance et très chouettes mécaniques ! Parfait sur SteamDeck