Forge your Kingdom amidst the Ruins of Rome in this turn-based 4X strategy game! As the world crumbles, rebuild civilization and shape your people’s destiny. Unleash your strategic prowess, conquer provinces, and crush all who stand in your way.
Fair point. I apologize for the glib comment. Rogue Hex is a passion project by a solo dev w/ minimal experience, and the ill-fated Daedalic Entertainment published this Civ knock-off, to be clear. (“reboot” or “spiritual successor” would imply an improvement on the original —of which there is no sign in either release)
The low-effort mimicry at the core of both titles is so thin that even La Croix would be embarrassed to claim a “flavor”. While the AI-gen art is far more obvious in the former (distractingly so, down to the UI), the prepackaged, barely viable slop seems to be a gap-filling trash paste for both —if only to keep either from getting punted down to “mobile game” status, among the other gaming-experience-as-soggy-cardboard-fascade titles like them.
Publishing shite titles just to provide a sign of life to the target market is no way to assuage fears in one’s fanbase, much less the unfamiliar public. Maybe they’re just hanging on until some Chinese corp buys the name to obfuscate scammy phone apps with. I have no idea what they’re thinking.
Fair point. I apologize for the glib comment. Rogue Hex is a passion project by a solo dev w/ minimal experience, and the ill-fated Daedalic Entertainment published this Civ knock-off, to be clear. (“reboot” or “spiritual successor” would imply an improvement on the original —of which there is no sign in either release)
The low-effort mimicry at the core of both titles is so thin that even La Croix would be embarrassed to claim a “flavor”. While the AI-gen art is far more obvious in the former (distractingly so, down to the UI), the prepackaged, barely viable slop seems to be a gap-filling trash paste for both —if only to keep either from getting punted down to “mobile game” status, among the other gaming-experience-as-soggy-cardboard-fascade titles like them.
Publishing shite titles just to provide a sign of life to the target market is no way to assuage fears in one’s fanbase, much less the unfamiliar public. Maybe they’re just hanging on until some Chinese corp buys the name to obfuscate scammy phone apps with. I have no idea what they’re thinking.
Whatever their next steps are, I hope it’s not this.
Have you seen the latest Civ? 🤷🏼♂️