Prismata (2018)

Lunarch Studios

Mac · PC (Microsoft Windows)

3.00 from 10 ratings

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Prismata is a turn-based strategy game made by Lunarch Studios. It borrows familiar elements from RTS games, CCGs, tabletop strategy games, and combines them in a simple but innovative way.
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Release dates

  • Mar 08, 2018 (North_America) Mac
  • Mar 08, 2018 (Worldwide) PC (Microsoft Windows)

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8BitHero

Review 8BitHero 2/5 · Jul 31, 2018

Not Very Good

For the price of free it's not too terrible but has lots of negatives:

1). Not sure why my heavy hitter dudes can't soak up some damage. Pretty lame how it defaults to the engineers after the walls are taken out of.

2). Story and dialogue are lame. Not funny or interesting.

3). Has some clicker elements to it which …

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For the price of free it's not too terrible but has lots of negatives:

1). Not sure why my heavy hitter dudes can't soak up some damage. Pretty lame how it defaults to the engineers after the walls are taken out of.

2). Story and dialogue are lame. Not funny or interesting.

3). Has some clicker elements to it which is sort of fun but mostly just boring.

4). It's basically a race to build as many walls as you can. In terms of keeping interest or just how cool a unit is, a wall is dumb. It doesn't attack, doesn't move, doesn't look very interesting.

5). Graphics have a certain cheap look to them.

6). Music isn't very good.

Are there any positives?

Not really. Mildly fun in the beginning but overall lacks a lot. If they wanted a strategy game then have some more options instead of having units stuck to one thing or order of actions. If they wanted a card game maybe have a deck or some action cards. Doesn't seem very well fleshed out.

I'm still hung up on my attackers not being able to defend. The engineers should be the last ones attacked, not the next in line after walls. Wouldn't it make sense to protect the builders?

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anarchistica

Review anarchistica 2/5 · Jul 2, 2018

About as interesting as checkers

Prismata is a simplistic strategy game that is basically "Build Order: The Game". There's no real deck-building, you can select some buildings/units to use in a menu that doesn't show you any information about them. You don't have spells, abilities or whatever. All you do is build stuff that increases numbers and you have to match those numbers to things …

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Prismata is a simplistic strategy game that is basically "Build Order: The Game". There's no real deck-building, you can select some buildings/units to use in a menu that doesn't show you any information about them. You don't have spells, abilities or whatever. All you do is build stuff that increases numbers and you have to match those numbers to things to build/attack. It's reminiscent of Infinity Wars, but without the cleverness (and the deck-building).

There's a campaign that serves as a tutorial. It's overlong, the story doesn't get interesting in the first chapter and mostly you're just building stuff hoping you do it in the right order. If you fail you have to skip through all the dialogue again for some reason (i.e. developer's incompetence).

Basically, they managed to combine the repetitive, tedious harvesting resources part of RTS games with the most basic combat that you might find in a CCG. Wow, what a "radical" achievement. ಠ_ಠ

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