Nightside Reviews

Clever lighting effects and the game looks good, but lacks content. Not even worth the five dollars or the time to install, on the other hand it could be a fine gift for a much younger player. There's really nothing more to say.

This game was recommended as a "personal favourite," but I found it slow and devoid of personality. It pains me to play it. The game is also hard, and the first tutorial mission has beaten me thrice on easy-mode. The only thing that this game has going for it is a clever lighting effect when moving units. I am not sure what the developer was trying to do here, and I am not sticking around to figure it out. I busted out of here on ubuntu linux with radeon mesa graphic drivers. This game uses the Unity Game Engine, and it takes a shocking 3 GB of disk space. Why? I wish I could have a few more good things to say about this title, because I appreciate their support of linux gamers. Better luck on your next title devs, but make this a free to play on your website, so we can see the roots of your future great games.

Meh... clunky, run of the mill, RTS. Very limited hud, no tooltips for units, very little in way of story. No scripted events (that I have noticed). Fog of war is meant to be an interesting dynamic, but with how slow units move combined with VERY limited range of light cast by said units, makes for a boring back and forth sweep of the map to find objectives. (Also, no quit option in menu, only surrender or restart, so ALT+F4 is often the easiest way to bail on this VERY average game.)

No save game functionality. Imho an absolute no-go for a RTS.

This has turned out to be a truely amazing rts. It's good to see indie developers create such a good quality rts game, which is hard to find these days. I couldn't believe that there are only two people that made this game, they have done an amazing job... They're incredibly supportive of their game, they take the time to read feedback and the discussions in the community hub. Most importantly they actually listen to what players have to say and they respond! The developers are incredibly active with the community and with updates for the game, which is always good to see. The game has an amazing price tag for the content, and the developers have also stated they will be releasing more content even after release! I love the art style and theme of this game. They did such a great job on creating a sci-fi atmosphere, full of sound effects, incredible graphics (the lighting in this game is amazing), animations, and such a cool art style. The whole darkness aspect of the game is what really got me hooked, the way the units light up the darkness as you explore to find you're enemy or more resources. It looks so awsome seeing the lights from you're units, base, and animations lighting the dark areas of the map. The scouting abilities make it even more amazing. The scouts have really neat and unique abilities that are incredibly satisfying to use... I don't know how many times i've just sat there watching the skill light up the darkness. There are three races in the game, each with their own unique scout. The Nova race is my favorite scout by far. It sends out these little probes that light up a circle around them, Creating three giant circles that move around and collide into each other. It gives you a far superior vision over the map. It's fun to use, and so cool to watch. The other scouts also have really cool abilities, i don't want to give away too much, so some of it's still a surprise to people. The combat is really fun, it can get intense looking around in the dark, suddenly colliding into the enemy... or fighting over resources trying to find some new ice to collect to build and upgrade. I love that you don't have to constantly be spamming keys and units, it's more about the strategy and tactics. Each race is very unique and fun to play and to learn. The look and feel for the them is great, they feel very different from one another and have their own personality. There's a great amount of units that are unique, ranging from ground units, to air units, transports and repair. There is also a good amount of cool and unique abilities across the three races. The U.I fits in great with the art style of the game... It's nice to look at, sleek, and it's not confusing or obstructive. Overall im really glad that i bought this game, and i definitely recommend this game to people looking for a good new rts, or a good game in general. I would even recommend it to people who are new to the rts genre, it's a great place to start. This game has been a great experience, and will provide great entertainment for a very long time.

This game makes me both incredibly happy and incredibly sad. Happy because there are full scale AAA RTS games that aren't as clean or mechanically flawless as Nightside! Happy because the four factions are visually and mechanically distinct, but are all very intuitive to use! Happy because the foreboding atmosphere from the visuals, sound, and UI is perfect! Happy because the idea to make the RTS Fog of War system part of the setting having the game take place a dark planet where the only light comes from units and structures was pure genius! And sad because at this point we will probably never see Nightside 2. Developers at OMNIDREAM, both of you have my complete respect for this game.

This is a really fun game, actually. It's relatively intuitive despite some minor control interface things taht you can quickly get used to. There's no in-mission save either, which would really help with a lot of the problem's I've seen so far. There's no unit cap, so you can go back to the days of "SWARM ALL THE THINGS" of the hayday of RTS. However there is one SEVERLY CRIPPLING FLAW: Every now and then, the UI just desides to go "HERP DERP DERP I'M A MORON" and completely rob you of your ability to interact with anything. For instance, you'll select a structure and then tell it to go and deploy at a certain location. Only it doesn't. And the deploy interface won't go away. SO you try and select another unit, and it lets you. But the deploy interface is still there, so you can't actually tell it to do anything. And it gets more and more convoluted, and then you lose because you can't deploy units, or build new ones, or place defensive structures, or select your "DON'T LET THESE DIE" units get obliterated.

This game feels like the good old Stuff from Westwood Studios back in the 90tes. This game looks really nice. And its an awesome Idea with a dark planet where you need the light to see something. Meanwhile it work online and does have a solid multiplayer. By the way all 4 factions do have different gameplay. Its the first RTS where you do have a real mobile base and Transformers. The human faction can move buildings everywhere and the YX are Transformers, you buy as YX mobile units, you can combine them to make a battle unit or a building out of them. if you want something else just let them separate and combine to something else. The new Faction Noxx do have really interesting game play with mobile base too. And each unit can be upgraded in stronger ones. This game does have a really good AI, the human faction AI can be a challenge. Its just feels like a true RTS again, with have Base build , research and lot of different units with some unique ideas.

Is there such a thing as a mellow RTS? Well there is now. * The music is great and also quite relaxing. * I love the dark and glowy art style. * I normally like lots of pew pew and splosions in an RTS- in this game they have been dialed down a bit - which is also relaxing * The controls are fairly simple * The terrain is only visible where you have lit it up with units/buildings, but what you can see is quite attractive. * While there are a few Oh Sh*t moments, quite often the battles are fairly chill as well * The hardest part is when you play for the first time as a different race there are different unit types to learn as well as a different play style. This is not a frantic apm rts. This is a really nice atmospheric rts to relax with after a hard day. Note i have only played for a few hours / a couple of races, so maybe it gets busier later on. Its a shame that the steam rating system is so lacking in nuance. Many of the complaints about this game are the very things that make it stand apart. Startcraft exists, Planetary Annihilation exists, but until now i dont think there were many RTSs like this one.

In a world starved for RTS, finding an two-developer team make such a game warms my heart. This is but a flawed gem, a great idea with moderately well made execution. Nightisde doesn't do tremendous things, both good or bad, however it's definitely solid and really fun. Pros: -Fantastic atmosphere: the game is completely dark outside of units' lights which gives a huge sense of outlandish isolation. -Factions are original on their own, I really enjoy the YX cell-based base and unit building which requires constant creation of Cells. -AI does pose a challenge, even at lower difficulties, but doesn't seem unfair at all. -Map expansion is handled nicely and can be a focus point since very early stages of the game, as factions have independent building methods from their gatherers. -Music is incredible, all tracks are catchy and fitting to the atmosphere. -No tiny pop limit: huge armies are bound to happen. -No bugs so far Neutral: -Very simple mechanically: units don't have crazy abilities or require too much understanding to be played well and researches are straightforward. This reminds me a lot of old-school RTS, which for me is a plus. -While graphically interesting, with great designs here and there for units and a solid indentity for all factions, units themselves are quite difficult to tell apart, specially air units. -Resources are infinite, another plus for me as a player but does remove a layer of strategy from the overall experience. -Haven't tested the multiplayer yey, can't comment on that. Cons: -Optimization isn't really there: when huge armies fight framerate drops constantly, however my PC is rather crappy. -Lacks a few quality-of-life go-to functions most RTS past the 00s have, such as queueing actions, formations, minimap filters and a few unit-selection elements. -Sound itself is really bland: no unit responses loses them a lot of personality and boring combat sounds, lack of audio warnings and overall nonexistant sounds for UI might be annoying. -Campaign story had potential but lack of any sort of depth on Adam's monologues made it shallow. I'd rate it 7.5/10