Songs of Silence

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4.3

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Posted on: September 7, 2024

Early Access review

MischiefMaker

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Games: 819 Reviews: 66

Breezy, beautiful strategy madness!

(Based on 0.7.0) Songs of Conquest is a turn-based strategy conquest game in a high fantasy world currently going through a Neverending Story-esque apocalypse. Lets get the obvious out of the way: this is one of the most beautiful strategy games ever made. The music and voice talent match the quality of the visuals. The gameplay most resembles Warlords 3: Darklords Rising. You are conquering a map with a large amount of nodes (strongholds, hamlets, temples, etc), each of which has its own unique units you can recruit, and all of which can be upgraded to level 3 and house a defensive garrison. You don't build colonizers and found cities from scratch, you can only rebuild ruins. Other than your heroes, units don't gain XP. To facilitate conquering so many nodes without becoming exhausting, the battles are intentionally breezy affairs that are over in a few short minutes. The most important part is arranging your army's formation beforehand so archers are covered by infantry, slow troops are at the front, etc. Once the battle starts, your troops fight automatically, but you can pause at any time to play spell and tactic cards. The cards are just fancy buttons in this game. That there isn't any deckbuilder gameplay. Instead of watching a fireball icon fill up then clicking it, you drag a card. Same with recruiting infantry and upgrading nodes. Just pretty buttons. Heroes function like in Heroes of Might and Magic. Each army must have a hero leading it, heroes level up and gain random skills that can be upgraded to level 3. By necessity some heroes are the main fighters while others get put in charge of transporting fresh troops. Heroes don't get equipment, but they can find artifact caravans that give their armies passive bonuses when held in their reserve. There is currently a 5 mission fully voice-acted campaign with more missions to come. You can also generate random skirmish maps. The base game has 3 unique factions plus wildlife. This game is a delight!

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Posted on: April 26, 2025

Aurrye

Verified owner

Games: 147 Reviews: 14

Nicely crafted but a bit bland

This game reminds me a bit of the old "Heroes of Might and Magic" in a rough draft while trying very hard to appear like it's own thing. First thing : the "card game" aspect is fake. You don't build a "deck" of card, it's just the special abilities of your heroes that appear as card, and display when they're available. So if card games aren't your thing, don't worry it's not a real part of the game. The game also changes from the usual tactical aspect of battles by having the units move by themselves, and you can only influence the result of the battle with the ability cards available to your army. It makes it a bit more of an "autobattler" than a real strategy game, but it blends in very well with the ability system. HOWEVER, and it pains me to say this, it all comes out as bland to me. Maybe it's because I've played tons of strategy games, but nothing the game does makes it feel either unique or special. It looks like a HMM, plays like an autobattler and makes you drag cards for ability uses. It blends multiple genera on their basic level but never goes deep into any of them. Plus, the balancing between factions is bad, really bad and it clearly shows which one was the dev's favorite (spoiler alert : it's the one with knights riding cows). So playing the campaign ends up feeling like a chore, and multiplayer isn't very interesting either as playing 2 of the 3 factions makes you lose practically by default. In the end, it's neither a bad game nor a very good one it's just... Ordinary to me, thus a 3 star score fits perfectly in my opinion.

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Posted on: September 25, 2024

Early Access review

BacklogMike

Verified owner

Games: 1806 Reviews: 4

Great polish so far/ Bon début

Hello, everyone. I had a crush on the potential of this game, so I did bought it quite fast. It has Homm vibe. But not only, it also have it's own soul. So far, with third update on the early access, I'm quite please, with the polish on the lore and help the game can provide. I'm french, so I am pleased to have access to it in my native language. Some things worth noting : Just at the start of the game you can see it : Title screen, have solo, multiplayer, and also a manual of the game, wich is great to read. Of course it's an early access, so some things are to be expected : I had a game I didn't finished, could not load it, cause they made change on it. Can't wait to see those. The small joys of getting early access games. Bonjour tout le monde, j'ai eu un coup de cœur sur le potentiel de ce jeu, et donc je me le suis pris assez rapidement. Il y a des airs de homm, mais pas seulement, il à sa propre âme. Au moment ou j'écris ces lignes, le jeu en est à sa troisième mise à jour. Mais je suis satisfait, de l'état du jeu. Le jeu est traduit en français, c'est toujours sympa. Quelques autres détails sympathique : à l’écran titre, on voit plusieurs choses déjà : Solo, multijoueur et manuel. Le jeu est développement, il faut donc s'attendre à quelques problème. Comme le fait que je ne puisse plus charger mes parties du début du "jeu en développement". Ils ont apparemment changer cette carte. Quelles plaisirs de voir moi même ces changements en jeu. Les petits plaisirs d'acheter des jeux en développement. Have a nice day / Je souhaite au développeur le meilleur.

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Posted on: September 27, 2024

Early Access review

CrispyWingsRule

Games: 109 Reviews: 50

Well, well...

I thought I was content with Songs of Conquest, now comes another contender? Where on earth is all this inspiration coming from... I like it! I'll keep my eye on it!

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Posted on: November 28, 2024

Mr.Sun35

Verified owner

Games: 239 Reviews: 4

Fun, somewhat challenging & short

Definitely a game for a players that like a mix of Total War & Heroes of Might and Magic. If you enjoy those games, you might like what you get in this game. I certainly enjoyed my time with it. The story is avarage but I will remember it, as the lore of the game has some depth & the game is not very long. Graphics are wonderful, the gameplay is a solid 7/10, you will lose a couple of times, but once you understand the mechanics and dynamics of the game, you'll be all set . Music is also fantastic & ultimately a great game for the $10 price tag

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