Orc Assault
- May 10, 2016
- Ghost Machine
Get on Steam"Orc Assault" is a tower defense game set in the fantasy kingdom of Camalon, where you must defend against Orc and Goblin invasions using an array of weapons and research towers. The game features multiple waves and stages, as well as room-scale VR gameplay with the HTC Vive for a fully immersive experience. Upgrade your tower system and strategically plan your defenses to protect the innocent people of Camalon.
PC
Windows
Reviews
- The graphics are beautiful and well-polished, creating an appealing visual experience.
- The game has potential with a fun concept of combining tower defense with first-person action.
- Recent updates have improved gameplay, making it more enjoyable for some players.
- The game feels unpolished and lacks essential features like a tutorial, making it difficult to understand gameplay mechanics.
- There is a significant imbalance in difficulty, with enemies being too strong and towers too weak, leading to frustrating gameplay.
- Many players feel the game is more of a tech demo than a finished product, lacking sufficient content and depth.
- graphics20 mentions
- 60 % positive mentions
- 25 % neutral mentions
- 15 % negative mentions
Overall, the graphics of the game are praised for their beauty and polish, with many users appreciating the medieval cartoon style. However, there are notable issues with the user interface, including buggy text placement, which detracts from the overall experience. While the visuals are solid, some players feel the game is not yet ready for release due to these graphical inconsistencies.
“The graphics are beautiful & well polished; keep up the good work, guys.”
“I really liked the graphics on this game and hope the developers are able to make it work.”
“Nice medieval cartoon graphics.”
“Tech demos are fun with bad graphics.”
“It's too bad as the graphics are rather nice and the idea is sound.”
“The graphics are solid and the gameplay looks like traditional tower defense, but without clear instruction on how to play the game, this is mostly useless.”
- gameplay8 mentions
- 38 % positive mentions
- 25 % neutral mentions
- 38 % negative mentions
The gameplay features traditional tower defense mechanics but suffers from a lack of a difficulty curve, overwhelming players with enemies before they can adapt. Users report issues with gameplay coding, user interface, and overall user experience, compounded by insufficient instructions on how to play. While the graphics are solid, the execution leaves much to be desired, making the gameplay feel frustrating and ineffective.
“Basic but solid tower defense mechanics.”
“The graphics are solid and the gameplay resembles traditional tower defense.”
“The gameplay looks like traditional tower defense but lacks clear instructions on how to play the game.”
“There is no difficulty curve that lets you get used to the gameplay; it just throws a ton of orcs at you where most of the time your sci-fi towers won't be able to kill even one of them.”
“They seem to have problems with writing the gameplay code, with the GUI, and with the user experience (controllers, commands).”
“The graphics are solid and the gameplay looks like traditional tower defense, but without clear instructions on how to play the game, this is mostly useless.”
- story6 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 50 % neutral mentions
- 50 % negative mentions
The story mode is criticized for its lack of narrative and progression, with players noting that it consists of only 15 waves and fails to engage with any meaningful storyline. Additionally, there are complaints about user interface issues and technical problems that detract from the overall experience.
“The story mode lacks any story, level progression, or anything.”
“Sadly, because of my 'where will this lead' experiment, I could not refund the game. There is no FPS mode (or did anybody find it yet?), only 15 waves (not 20) in the story, and there are still a lot of issues with the UI. In the end, it even stuttered for one hour before it didn't let me do anything at all.”
“Towers should be introduced slowly over the first few story levels.”
- music4 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 50 % neutral mentions
- 50 % negative mentions
The music in the game is generally described as pleasant, but it quickly becomes repetitive and fails to adapt to the gameplay, remaining unchanged regardless of the player's success or failure.
“The music is pleasant, but you could be dying or winning: it never changes.”
“The music gets odd very quickly.”
- stability2 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
While the graphics are praised for their quality, users report significant issues with the GUI, noting that text placement is often incorrect in relation to images, leading to a buggy experience.
“The graphics look very good, however the GUI is very buggy: the text is in the wrong position in comparison to the images.”
