Aurora Dusk: Steam Age Reviews

It was a great idea, and it's not a bad game, but I'm going to go with not recommended. Please note however, this comes with a caveat that I have not tried a lot of custom or multiplayer, so my review is basically just for the campaign. So I like the variety of things you can build and do, and it could potentially be a pretty fun city builder/rpg/strategy, however said campaign seems to rush you with its objectives and therefore I feel like I wasn't really encouraged to get into the intricacies of it. Other issues I had with it, for its simple 2D graphics, it sometimes lagged when I played, or the animation wasn't very smooth. Also all the dialogue is text, yet in the campaign it's pretty short and pretty bad; would have expected more from a game not limited by voice acting or elaborate graphics. The game itself is kind of cool, but late game I found the best strategy to be just spawning lots of resources, starting high level buildings, and then just letting the AI villagers finish the projects. Gollems, and some of the defense towers are pretty over powered, and unfortunately they seem to be the key to victory. I kind of wish the game had focused more on smaller units and leading troops rather than just building OP gollems and defenses. So yeah, I wanted to like it, but I didn't think the campaign was great. However you might like the multiplayer, and there may be users who have a blast with custom maps. I just personally found the default game to be lacking.

Quite a unique game. I had the most fun playing cooperative. Simple enough for low skill players. Deep enough for high skill players. Single player is interesting. The game transitions from a tower defense into a bullet hell as difficulty increases. Fun, if you don't mind a challenge.