The Wanderer Reviews

game

bad

Wanderer!

Great music.

Great music

I managed to lose my first encounter, I am too bad at this.

[h1] Not a bad game, but it just didn't grabbed me hard enough [/h1] Turn-based strategy game, well that is solid. Units are cute and weird, which is fine. Atmosphere + music is strange, but that was the accomplishment of the developer. Well, I could complain about the fact that you walk around a lot, to find almost nothing. But this game is called "The Wanderer" so I will shut my face about that any further. The items you do find will be helpfull during the fights which happen in the Underground. The controls are a bit... Well I wish I could look around in a more fluid fashion, but it's okay. Eventually you end up in a more open area, but I felt that I missed some manholes (those entrances that lead to the Underground) which resulted me standing there with not enough units against a horde I could not beat. The idea is nice, you liberate, in this game; animals, so that they can aid you in future battles. Each animal with it's special attacks. But if you missed a few - the difficulty rises exponentially !! I did like, when you discover an animal in the wastelands, it will not just walk away, it shows you were an item is hidden, behind the not so lushy decor. [h1] If you walked into the wrong direction, no worries, just walk back right? Well, that will be a loooong walk! [/h1] But like I said, it's not a bad game, in fact it's a fine game. If you don't mind the walking, the odd controls and the atmosphere. For some reason, it feels like there is a 7 hz undertone within the music, but let's hope not. ;)

I was intrigued by the graphical style and surreal art choices for this game. I was unable to get through more of an hour of it due to what seems like overly simplistic, unoriginal gameplay, and poor controls. Perhaps changing the camera controls to mouselook would be a good start. Also, I don't mind the lack of a proper tutorial but maybe add a few more tips on how to play the game or what the attributes and statistics actually are. If you're really patient and need a cheap strategy game maybe you can get to the good parts of this one, but for all my love of indie gaming I could not do it with the way the game is now. Will revisit in a few months or more.

Great piece of art, no doubt about it. As a game it lacks direction and purpose. The ambient sound and music really give you the feeling of being lost in the wasteland of a post-apocalyptic world. The combat lacks information and weight. Who hit what?WHat is selected? Who does anything? Why is kitty dead? Oh those enemys are ranged??? As much as I'd LOVE to recommend the game, I can not. I really would love to, though. Maybe a sequel could improve on it cheers Fhink

This will be my final review of this game. The tutorials have been much improved, I'll give them that. The rest is still quite a mess IMHO. There's no obvious way to see what the things in your inventory are good for or how to activate them. (no pop-up text while hovering over them or by clicking on them) If you click an item in your inventory - when underground - and drag it to drop on your character it moves the camera/playing field and if you're unlucky it may disappear out of view and getting it back may take some time. (I wasted over a minute trying to find it again to no avail) I find it very confusing and unclear what I'm supposed to do and having the entire battlefield disappear and staring into total darkness due to dragging the playing field - you don't drag it per se, it's more like scrolling on a phone - made me quit the game, I will now uninstall it and move on and never look back. The art style and music's still good but there are way too many games in my library (and I've also got South Park, Atom RPG, Identity RPG and Party Hard 2 already payed for), so I wish the dev's the best, hope they get a ton of fans who love the game, I can however not give it a thumbs up unfortunately. (the amount of updates show the devs care and that's always a good thing though)