Alienum: The Strategy War Game 9+

Seems great

Seems like a very cool game! Familiar enough that I recognize basically what is going on, but still fresh and different. Unfortunately, and it’s probably because I typically play TBS and not RTS, I cannot for the life of me figure the game out. Where can you build what? What do all the icons mean? How many of what resources do I have or need or are missing? The little icons just don’t mean anything to me even though the tutorial is helpful I just can’t seem to get it with text on the icons and done kind of help/explanation. I mean I can move dudes around and buy stuff (sometimes) ... but what ARE all those different troop types? Why would you want some versus others? Can you put them on alert to guard or do you have to initiate every battle? Where can you fight? Only at towns?

Anyway, those are all just examples of questions and it’s probably more me than the game. I play Civ VI all the time and it seems intuitive but I know many who are just as confused as I am about this game. I love and the art style, it’s seems well-programmed and polished, and plenty of players would probably have no trouble - I give it five stars and recommend you download it!

Developer Response ,

Hey there, thanks for taking so much time for a detailed review, really appreciate it! To be honest, I think your right in how I need to have a better tutorial in place. It’s a fine line between trying not to bore people with an overly long tutorial and getting on with playing the game. 😛 Once you select a zone that you control, it does show all the info to do with the resources and buildings in the boxes on the right. If you don’t have enough resources to build, the option won’t be available to be able to build new buildings. The amount of resources required for each building are also in those boxes. In terms of the troops, some are more powerful than others as they have better shields for more health or bows that do more damage for example. I only really show the troops visually so maybe I should think about adding the stats of each warrior. Overall, thanks for the review and great feedback.

Game

Hey to anyone that sees this this game is really fun to play and is like a mini Warhammer if you know what I mean. I would like to say that even though the game I wanted to put some ideas out for future updates. 1. Resource sites should be unlimited but with time gain the trees or mine minerals back in return the enemy players or ai difficulty should increase due to the fact that you are able to make more troops faster. 2. Converge and what I mean by that is say if you have two different armies and you want to make them into one army if your singular army can hold both there should be a button where you can converge them. Love the game hope someone reads this also if someone does reads this and find it useful if I get comeback I will write more stuff out

Developer Response ,

Hey there, thanks so much for the review and suggestions. Sorry it’s taken me a little while to respond. I certainly read all reviews and all feedback and suggestions for future updates so I really appreciate you taking time to share your thoughts. The more feedback I can get can only help on where I concentrate efforts to create new ideas and a greater game. So thanks again! 😀

The best ever

We often see fake adds of awesome up close war but we don’t actually get that and the gameplays are all the same. But this game, has strategic and economic gameplay yet it’s not confusing. Furthermore the game is easy to grasp and provides the awesome massive army battles and make your own base that’s fast pace with no build times 👍. My only problem is there should be a tutorial you can go back to to review some stuff but otherwise it’s a solid game