Conquest of Elysium 3 is an old school fantasy strategy game. You explore your surroundings conquer locations that provides the resources you need. Resources needed vary much depending on what character you are, e.g. the high priestess need places where she can gather human sacrifices, the baron needs places where tax can be collected and where iron can be mined. These resources can then be used for magic rituals and troop recruitments. The main differentiator for this game is the amount of features and special abilities that can be used. The game can be played on Windows, Linux (x86 and raspberry pi) and Mac OSX (intel and powerpc).
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I will try to do a review for those who are unaware of previous games from Illwinter, especially the previuous iteration, CoE 2.
It's a quite unique game, the best description I can give is a fantasy TBS with a roguelike soul. It's simple yet deep, fast paced and challenging. Even unfair sometimes, but that's, at least for me, part of the fun.
Your objective is to conquer a random map filled with various creatures, locations and structures. And you're not the only "conqueror".All the leaders/factions found in the game, 17 for the moment, are unique and play differently.
I didn't play enough to judge the AI (maybe in a month...), but from what I have seen ingame, and based on opinions from betatesters, it seems good enough, and challenging.
Final words : it's a great game, go watch some "let's play" at youtube, then come back here.