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Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 55.7 hrs on record
Posted: 5 Jul, 2023 @ 12:25pm

The game is janky and won't be finished - it shouldn't have left EA without any kind of story, dialogue or bug fixes.

It has a pretty fun loop of stealthily wiping out settler camps and burning them to the ground, but it's marred by some strange AI behaviour including detection. It has an interesting and ambitious strategy layer that if micromanaged properly is still missing information or context to allow the player to make proper decisions and not be baffled by the outcome, like sending a band of warriors to take out a settler gathering ends up losing a battle and it's unclear whether the numbers didn't work in the players' favour.

Beyond enacting a revenge power fantasy, there's not much to garner out of this game. Connecting with the community is a split between the weirdest and most bigoted people on the internet, with a small fraction actually being people who are or care about Indigenous resistance to colonialism. Thankfully the former don't stick around after making a few ♥♥♥♥♥♥ comments, but it really did a number to push the latter out of the community, which was probably harboured by the development team and community managers.

Solidarity with the Indigenous resisters, land defenders and water protectors as they fight back against neo-colonialist governments on Turtle Island and around the world.
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