Victory Road

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Victory Road is a turn-based strategy game that takes you on a journey across a vast, procedurally generated world. Build and manage your party of heroes, encountering strange creatures and making difficult decisions that impact your fate. With ever-changing landscapes and permadeath, each playthrough offers a new challenge in this nostalgic yet innovative indie game.

Play Modes

Single-Player Play through the game's story or campaign solo

Reviews

89%

Audience ScoreBased on 141 reviews

gameplay12 positive mentions

grinding7 negative mentions

The game offers a fun and engaging boxing management experience with a surprising amount of depth and customization options.
Visually appealing with great pixel art and animations, the game successfully captures the excitement of boxing matches.
The developer is responsive to community feedback, showing potential for future updates and improvements.

The game has been abandoned by the developer, with no updates or new content for over two years, leading to concerns about its future.
Gameplay can become repetitive and grindy, especially in the late game, with limited variety in training and fight mechanics.
Some mechanics, such as the nutrition system and item usage during fights, can feel frustrating and detract from the overall experience.

gameplay
22 mentions
55 % positive mentions
32 % neutral mentions
14 % negative mentions
The gameplay is described as surprisingly deep and engaging, featuring a straightforward yet compelling loop that keeps players invested for hours. While some users noted initial frustration with repetitiveness and unclear mechanics, the overall experience is enhanced by fun fighting and training systems, polished graphics, and a clean UI. Despite minor criticisms regarding variety and certain mechanics, the game is praised for its addictive nature and potential for growth, making it a worthwhile purchase.
- “Surprisingly deep and engaging gameplay, with a retro casual feel.”
- “The gameplay loop is straightforward, but the journey through it can be exciting.”
- “The polished graphics and engaging gameplay are definitely enough to make this game worth the purchase, and it's only going to get better with time.”
- “I was frustrated at first by some of the game's repetitiveness and by my own lack of understanding around how the game mechanics were meant to be used.”
- “In my humble opinion, this game is still partly counterintuitive or the mechanics are not well explained.”
- “I think the only negative I have for the game is that it lacks variety in the gameplay loop, and not being able to create a name for my own fighter!”
graphics
16 mentions
44 % positive mentions
38 % neutral mentions
19 % negative mentions
The graphics of the game are widely praised for their vibrant pixel art style, featuring bright and beautiful visuals that enhance the overall experience. Players appreciate the clean UI and smooth animations during combat, which contribute to an engaging and addictive gameplay loop. While some may find the graphics too simplistic, the aesthetic appeal and polished design are considered standout features that elevate the game.
- “The game is visually nice if you like that pixel art style (which I'm always a fan of), really bright and beautiful artwork that works really well with this type of game.”
- “Aesthetically, this game is 100% the best in pixel art I've seen in a while.”
- “The graphics are very bare, which could be a turn off to some.”
- “Smooth simple graphics.”
- “The graphics sport clean pixel art showing every action, whether it be fast-paced knockdowns, eating food, or selling hotdogs.”
grinding
7 mentions
0 % positive mentions
0 % neutral mentions
100 % negative mentions
Players generally find the grinding aspect of the game to be a significant drawback, particularly in the mid to late stages, where repetitive tasks and resource management can become tedious. While the game is engaging and fun initially, many reviewers express a desire for more varied events to alleviate the monotony of grinding for upgrades and resources. Overall, the grind can detract from the enjoyment, especially for those looking for a more dynamic experience.
- “It can get tedious after a while since you're basically repeating the same things over and over again.”
- “It's a bit grindy; I feel it could do better with some other events to break up the monotony.”
- “Regarding the things I disliked about this game, I would say the mid-game gets pretty grindy when it comes to getting money for upgrading your gym.”
music
5 mentions
60 % positive mentions
-20 % neutral mentions
60 % negative mentions
The music in the game features a high-quality, catchy soundtrack that effectively sets the mood and evokes nostalgia for the 90s arcade era. However, some users noted a lack of variety in the tracks.
- “It's enhanced by a great soundtrack that sets the mood perfectly.”
- “The music is pretty catchy, not gonna lie.”
- “The soundtrack is full of nostalgic moments and oozes the essence of the 90s arcade scene.”
- “- Lack of variety in the soundtrack”
- “The music is repetitive and quickly becomes annoying.”
- “The soundtrack feels outdated and doesn't match the game's theme.”
replayability
4 mentions
75 % positive mentions
-50 % neutral mentions
75 % negative mentions
Overall, the game's replayability is mixed; while some players appreciate the depth and variety of character builds that encourage multiple playthroughs, others find the repetitive micromanagement aspects lead to boredom over time, limiting the overall replay value.
- “There's some replay value, but it's not immense... just trying other builds.”
- “+high replayability”
- “Fantastic game with lots of depth, a good progression path, and plenty of replayability.”
- “The repetitive micromanagement of keeping up your energy, water, protein, fatigue, mood, and money just to train your character becomes tedious; you'll get bored after a while, as there's no true replay value.”
- “There's some replay value, but it's not immense; it's mostly just trying out other builds.”
- “The lack of meaningful content and variety makes it hard to stay engaged for multiple playthroughs.”
humor
2 mentions
100 % positive mentions
0 % neutral mentions
0 % negative mentions
The humor in the game is consistently praised as hilarious, with players expressing a desire for more content while maintaining the comedic elements and unique visual style. Overall, the humor significantly enhances the gaming experience, contributing to high ratings.
- “But still hilarious.”
- “Add more things to do, keep the humor, and stay true to the cool unique visual style, and you've got a game I would give a 10/10.”
stability
1 mentions
0 % positive mentions
-200 % neutral mentions
300 % negative mentions
The game experiences some stability issues, with certain elements displaying bugs and a lack of clarity in conveying information to players.
- “Some issues persist, with certain elements being somewhat buggy in their display, and the game isn't always clear in conveying specific informational elements.”
- “The game frequently crashes, making it frustrating to progress.”
- “I encountered numerous glitches that disrupted my gameplay experience.”
story
1 mentions
100 % positive mentions
-300 % neutral mentions
300 % negative mentions
Users appreciate the multiple choice "story prompts" for adding variety to gameplay, but express disappointment over their infrequency and the occurrence of repeated prompts early in the game, suggesting a limited selection.
- “The multiple choice story prompts add a refreshing break from the monotony of eating, fighting, and training, but I wish they appeared more frequently. I encountered a repeated prompt on just my fourth one, which makes me wonder if there aren't many options available.”
- “I wish the multiple choice story prompts would appear more often, as they break up the monotony of eating, fighting, and training. However, I encountered a repeated prompt on just my fourth one, which makes me wonder if there aren't many options available.”
- “The story feels disjointed and lacks depth, making it hard to stay engaged with the characters and their motivations.”
- “Despite the interesting premise, the narrative fails to deliver a compelling experience, leaving many plot points unresolved and characters underdeveloped.”