Urtuk The Desolation
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This tactical open-world turn-based fantasy RPG will definitely appeal to fans of the genre. Send your adventurers to explore the ancient ruins. Hire new explorers, examine the corpses of a fallen enemy, and try to survive in harsh conditions.
Steam User 20
Review: Urtuk
TL;DR: A very well executed turn by turn strategic RPG that feels pretty sandboxy. I am going to petition for a Kickstarter for Urtuk 2 !
Pros:
A ton of player agency to create and customize the most formidable rag tag gang roaming the wastelands. Weapons, mutators, skills to discover and level... Urtuk has them all
Everything you encounter has a chance to be recruited. Werewolf fighting alongside an Elder Vampire under the cover of a human sniper ? It is called a Tuesday around here
No RNG, fights are games of chess. You can blame only yourself when you lose
Difficulty for all tastes
Theoretical replay value (see below)
Cons:
We need MOOOAARRR, Urtuk is a never ending sandbox with a stat check for final boss. The dev did flesh out the lore, but... not in the game. There should be so much more to do, rather than playing the same 10ish missions
The above prevented me and I guess others to replay the game with another faction in another difficulty. Over 45h was enough for me. That is a real shame because there are many factions and some unlocks
Clunky inventory and team management, seriously
Steam User 6
Awesome Game it's like Battle Brothers a little only very dark and not as hard. Very good game . Just started no real story just killing .
Steam User 4
Urtuk is a turn based tactical game with some very light RPG addons. It is purely focused on battles and the lore itself plays less than secondary role. Very developement of our characters is simplified and allows some limited choices - it is more about upgrading than really doing builds. Having said that I must admit that I dont remember any other game that delivered so much fun just from doing battles over and over. It is our choice whether we speedrun the game and focus on most critical targets, or rather roam around and annihilate enemies in never ending encounters. In latter case there is no time limit needed to actually end the game.
Best things in the game?
- how it looks -artstyle is one of the best I've ever seen, though this might be a subjective matter
- mechanics in battles - very simplified, yet interesting and allowing some tactical thinking, with some special attention to enviroment, for example superb killing holes ;-P
- almost no fillers - battles are frequent and we dont need to spend much time between each fights, sometimes it is like 15-30 seconds, in most cases around 1 minute (didnt I mention that game is focused on battles?)
Worst things in the game?
- short progress curve - we can easily get most of it in first stage
- other stages dont bring anything unique, maybe outside some enemies - there are no extra weapons to be find, no new traits ect, just same thing, with slightly progressed quality of weapons (moving graduately from "iron" stuff to "mithrill")
- almost no fillers... yeah... at some point we dont remember what are we fighting for ;-P
Steam User 5
Love this game! Doesn't look too complicated at first but if you want to thrive you'll need to understand the game, the combat system and all the characters strengths and weaknesses. Love the fact that you can play different species, they all have their own taste. Item customisation and mutators are simple but again you need to know where you are going because there s no infinite resources to upgrade them. A bit on the grindy side but it s not too bad unless your playing at the higher difficulties (which are challenging)
Steam User 3
Absolutely brilliant little game - really could do with some DLC
Steam User 9
better then battle brothers. could do a long review but its just so good
Steam User 5
I love this game. You have tons of options to play around with builds, the art style is unique, and the randomly generated maps keep it from feeling too same-y. Fair warning, there is basically no plot, so don't pick it up looking for storyline.