AutoChess of Gensokyo Reviews

love all tohou franchise

i wish it had english translation so i could at the very least understand what's going on

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Cannot read, but good for calm sit back and relax calm gaming.

i was waiting for this game to be translated updated but its still chinese for the love of god.

While I love the game, I can't say it's very much played now. I could only really host tournaments, and even then that may be difficult! But the gameplay is really fun, but I wish making 2 star characters was explained in the tutorial

Game balance is very broken , i cant recommend this game untill they fix it Internet connection and reconnection broken too Too much bugs. EDIT* Game became better with rebalance and new characters and mechanics, and it will be even better if it have english language.

[h1]Touhou TFT/Autochess that's excellent when it works, but needs more polish.[/h1] I really want this game to succeed and I think it can, but in its current state I'd hold off on buying it. You can really feel that it's an Early Access title. There are simply too many issues at the moment for me to recommend it and it needs a lot more work to reach its full potential. Here's a list of things that need to be improved before the game's release: [list] [*]Game-breaking bugs; Being unable to purchase units, Being kicked out to the main menu, Infinite loading screens etc. [*]Translation; Currently only supports Chinese language. English, Japanese are coming according to devs. [*]Performance issues; The game needs optimization work, it maxes out my 3060 Laptop GPU even at 720P 60FPS. [*]Balance; Some traits/Units are simply too strong/weak or niche compared to others. [/list] If these issues are dealt with, and I believe the devs are working hard to do so, I will gladly recommend AutoChess of Gensokyo! It makes good use of the license and character abilities are usually fitting and interesting. The artstyle is cute and there's a variety of stages, skins and music to spice things up. Everything in the shop can be bought with in-game currency and doesn't require too much grinding. There's an option to play against bots if your connection is unstable or you don't have internet. And to wrap it up Byakuren is in the game, so how could I not like it?

For the time being the game only supports Chinese but [b]I already ran the entire game through machine translation[/b]. It's perfectly playable even if the translation is very bad so if you want to play it anyway please join their official discord server here https://discord.com/invite/XqHPc3z I posted the text file with every item/ability translated in #general-discussion (If you can't find it just add or ping HospitalWaitingRoom#4001 in the server). The basics of this game is exactly like Autochess so you only have to read the wiki for that game if you can't read Chinese. [h1]Anyway, onto the review.[/h1] TLDR: The game is fun. The art is nice. Characters are cute. No pay to win. Skins are bought with in-game currency. There doesn't seem to be any bug. Nobody is playing it and that's very bad for a multiplayer game. I would still recommend it, even in its current state (dead) but only as long as it's on sale for as low as it is being marketed at currently (about $2). This game is based on Autochess from DotA which I played a fair bit when it came out only with Touhou characters. Since it's using Touhou characters, all of their abilities are what you would imagine the character would be able to do. Youmu does her ghost half thing, Aya dashes around, Reisen spawns illusions etc. (Yukari doesn't have the train though - boo). Some of these spells you would be familiar with if you have played Touhou big big battle (The game before this). That said, it plays nothing like THBBB, some characters have seen their roles changed like Remilia going from a mid range damage dealer to being a melee tank with high sustain. One thing I have to mention is that since it's been a while since the game was released and it's still in Chinese is that the player base is small to none existence. If you want to play the game with *other people* you'll have to find other players yourself through discord or something like that. You can play with bots but they are not very good. They get stuck after a while and can't upgrade their units once they run out of space even if they have infinite money. They throw items on units randomly so if you want to play against bots for a long time, it might be too easy but you'll have fun for around 10 or something hours before wondering why you're always first. I think if they just fix that I could see myself recommending the game at full price. Personally, I wish this game was successful since I really enjoy the gameplay.

It looks like the game is already dying, mainly due to the lack of support it was once given. The game hasn’t received an update in over 4 months as of right now and it looks like it may never get one again. Not only that but the in-game store hasn’t been changed for quite some time which means once you buy everything there then you’ll have a pile of in-game money to spend it on absolutely nothing! I was really excited to see this game be taken care of and grow exponentially but it looks like the opposite has happened. Basically the game no longer gets updates (including the in-game shop that's suppose to change weekly) and matches are not only taking longer to get into but the servers could use some work.