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Is Urtuk: The Desolation worth it for you?

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Play it if you…

Good fit

Turn-based tactics fans who want large battle maps and environmental hazards
RPG players who enjoy building a band by recruiting followers and adapting character abilities
Dark fantasy fans who prefer a setting without familiar creatures such as elves, dwarves or dragons

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Players who want fast, real-time combat may hit a wall at the turn-based battle system.
Players seeking a lighthearted fantasy tone may find the survival setting and worsening mutation storyline too bleak.
Players looking for a story centered on familiar fantasy creatures may not find that here.

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Our take on Urtuk: The Desolation

The likely sticking point is the combat loop: players who do not want to weigh positioning, counters, ranged support and environmental hazards turn by turn may bounce off once battles begin. The story also keeps the stakes bleak, with Urtuk's mutation worsening as he searches for a cure.

What is Urtuk: The Desolation?

Urtuk: The Desolation is a turn-based tactical RPG set in a low-fantasy world of ruins and hardship.

Lead a band of adventurers, recruit followers, explore an open world and fight on large battle maps shaped by environmental hazards. Combat includes ranged support, melee attacks, counters, shields and combo attacks; enemies can be pushed into spikes or off cliffs. The campaign is procedurally generated.

Characters can gain skills and traits taken from fallen foes, changing their combat roles, and can learn skills by performing particular actions in battle. The story follows Urtuk, who escapes from a facility after a dangerous experiment and searches for a cure as his mutation worsens. The setting includes limited magic and avoids familiar fantasy creatures such as elves, dwarves and dragons.

How Urtuk: The Desolation plays

01Hazard-based combat: Large battle maps include environmental dangers that can be used to push enemies onto spikes or over cliffs.
02Enemy-derived abilities: Skills and traits taken from defeated foes can alter a character's combat role.
03Action-earned skills: Characters can learn skills by carrying out specific actions during battles.
04Procedural campaign: Each survival campaign is generated procedurally.

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Is Urtuk: The Desolation worth it?

It is worth it if: turn-based tactics fans who want large battle maps and environmental hazards. Skip it if: players who want fast, real-time combat may hit a wall at the turn-based battle system.