Unfortunately, even with its provisions for variety in the nature of the battles you’ll engage in and the opportunity to discover over 180 different skills, it all ultimately feels about the same so the core loop really needs to be appealing to you to keep grinding through. I give credit to the developer for finding a new way to utilize the base alchemy...
Alchemic Jousts2016
Alchemic Jousts
2016 Eastasiasoft72Good
Playable on
Available on
- $8.99
- $8.99
- $9.99
Game modes
- 2 players
- 2 players
Details
- Launch
- November 22, 2016
- Developer
- Lunatic Pixels
- Publisher
- Eastasiasoft
Overview
- Single and Multiplayer gameplay. Play vs AI and advance through the game's campaign, discovering new Skills and new game modes or challenge a friend with either local or on-line multiplayer. - Strategic combat, where your actions and skill of execution matter as much as your choices before the match starts! - Over 180 skills and upgrades to discover. Combine your known skills to discover new ones and expand your arsenal. - Multiple game modes with different objectives that will make you change the way you play as much as the skills you choose. Those include Combat, Endless, King of the Hill, Attack, Capture... - Random Global Effects, which change the general rules of each match in subtle or radical ways. The varying rules will keep the game play fresh and require you to consider the Skills you use to approach them!
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Reception
Press70
Players80
GoodGreat- OpenCritic70from 3 reviews
An entertaining game that offers many hours of play thanks to the number of missions and management possibilities. Perhaps it falls a little way between simplicity and depth and although it is true that there are many possible combinations of skills, the mechanics are simple and easily assimilable. It can be repetitive in the long run, but it does not...
Alchemic Jousts presents a pretty fun logic puzzle in its element combinations. However, it fails at using that as a stepping stone to a full strategy experience, leaving the two systems to fizzle out separately.
I had a lot of fun with Alchemic Jousts, and I definitely recommend it to those of you looking for a fast-paced and entertaining strategy/defense release on PS4. There's a ton of units, boosts and skills to unlock, plenty of battle types to engage in and a ton of trophies to obtain, so you'll definitely spend dozens of hours playing this one.
A fun game that is hidden behing an awful beginning that may bore to death to some players.