Lumencraft

A real time strategy game that will make you get a good stress. Enemy waves attracted by the energy of your base, are very well directed by the artificial intelligence. The tension felt at the time of an attack to know if your defenses will hold or if you will be overwhelmed is the moment you are waiting for, and once the bugs are eliminated you are eager to develop new research to build new weapons and defenses. This game is really addictive, friends of strategy games you will not see the time pass. Early access I bought Lumencraft in development on the first day it was released on GOG, and I have been following its evolution. The updates have been very numerous since the release, we can say that the GOG users who represent few sales got all the attention of the unique developer of Lumencraft, the effort is rare enough to be underlined. He has been attentive to the suggestions, he has integrated every relevant request, and balanced the resources, attacks, weapons, creatures, etc... Linux I played Lumencraft on Linux Mint with an AMD GPU and open source drivers. Unsurprisingly, the quality of the development with the Godot engine proves to be a good and smooth playing experience. An original and good quality Linux Native strategy game, you should definitely get it in my opinion.

That game is fun but the core elements get repetitive quickly. You drill, upgrade and defend. Enemy types do have variety, which is good. I’ve played 10 hours and think I’ve experienced everything the game has to offer.

The campaign is a series of theoretical tutorials but they don't actually tell you anything about how to play the game. In each tutorial map, you play to achieve some arbitrary "story objective" which is only loosly tied together by a story that proclaims that your sole efforts are all that can save mankind (after man destroyed earth.) But there's no up-front explanation for why there are sub-surface manufactured structures buried... Leaving aside the contrived and convoluted story... The load screen blithly proclaims that you do not need all upgrades to finish the game, which means that without guidance you just might be spending points on things that do not actually help you complete the campaign. Also, no guidance. Just trial and error. Also, no way to reset how you spent your lumen points unless you restart the campaign... see where this is going? Then, as you get several missions in, you get a very loosely defined objective... the kind you might give to an AI bot, and then are left to puzzle out the actual steps needed to complete the objective(s) through the same techniques... trial and error. Except: Trial and error is not a genre of gaming. And frankly, I'm tired of games that under tutorialize their main gameplay loop as a way of extending gameplay. If you do not have an enjoyable enough gameplay loop to teach it to me and trust that I will be hooked, then by my measure you have a terrible game premise. Maps with constantly spawning insects that overwhelm your base while you pursue the map objective, maps with lumen beam turrets with limited duration power sources, but no tutorials to warn you that if you activate the power sources before the final wave, the power will run out before the final wave arrives. I just don't know what I'm doing, and the devs apparently didn't think I deserved to know. Each tutorial map takes between 5-7 minutes to complete... so no tutorial because... you guessed it... the game play isn't enjoyable enough to tutorialize