Dice Legacy

This might be the most solidly 4 game I have played. The gameplay is engaging, there is a story though a little light, the dice randomizing and customizing are fun to play with, there is an amazing amount of variety in gameplay and replayability, and it's a pleasant amazingly well stylized game. Someone on this team really, REALLY liked dice. Which is great, that's not only the focus of the game, but essentially all that is there. But those dice LOOK real, like, I can FEEL those dice. The art here, all around, is really top notch... Which is why the short comings drag it down so much, which is really sad because a few small changes could make a huge difference. The locations look amazing. Every place on the board is lovingly crafted to look just how it should for a classic middle ages game. But the problem is they look so real, that it's genuinely tough to tell what the buildings actually DO at a glance. There's nothing distinctive about most of the locations, which makes it tough at a quick glance to know where you're supposed to put your dice to get what effect to happen. The icons of what dice need to be put where are tiny, mostly indistinct, white images on top of sand or snow, and are usually blocked by your other buildings. I can't find my dice. They just disappear on the map. There is a nifty map slider on the side that shows you where your dedicated districts are, and where enemies and fires are. Great? Could we maybe add buildings being built and placed dice? Also, damage to dice is a great idea, but wounded dice are real difficult to see what face they're actually on, but worse, constructed dice look damaged half the time. But the number 1 problem: When the seasons change, the council convenes to give you three options for bonuses. Great. Except they can be selected before you can see them, and they appear exactly where you're about to try to put your freshly thawed dice to work. It's good, really, but it needed 1 more UX person on the team.

This game looks really nice for a city builder. That's all it's got. The game tries to force mechanics together that don't work as a game just because. "But it's different!" Yes it is, but it's also not fun to play at all. Ultimately, you'll have to ask yourself why you're even doing this and then realize that there is no good answer to that question.

This is a city builder-strategy game with a management side and the goal is to defeat the ennemy. The gameplay is unique. People are dices, each face allowing to do something different : collecting food, build building, attacking, exploring, etc. So to have the face you want, you need to roll all the dice in your hand until you have it. Obviously, you can't roll your dice indefinitely, but only 15 times. If you do it more they die. In order to restaure their endurance you need food to feed them with a specific building. And their you have all the difficulty of the game and it's main mechanics : juggle between ressources you collect, the endurance of your dices, the expansion of your city and the various element like attacks, of the enemy faction and winter. You have different class of dice, each one with her own specificities : warrior to fight, peasants to collect food and build, scholar to do research, etc.. One of the biggest barrier is the winter. You can't grow food and your dice froze (making them useless) if you use them without a heat generator nearby. So you need to prepare yourself, have enough wood to power the heat generator, think about the placement position of your buiding to make sure that they are in the range of the generator etc... In addition to that you can upgrade your dice making them stronger and with special abilities. You can also save them with a specific building. Doing so you can use this dice in another game. This is a very complex game with a lot of things to know, remember and test before you can win. So don't be afraid to die at the begining. You have various leader to play with, challenge and every map is randomly generated making the game less repetitive than expected. If you like strategy/managment game with a challenge, go for it.

Unexpected

It's really fustrating to juggle with the dice so you don't reach the 12 idle limit