PC version reviewed.
Orcs Must Die! Unchained is a tower defence game published and developed by Robot Entertainment for the Playstation 4 and PC.
GAMEPLAY
The game did formally have an unskippable tutorial that took around 45 minutes to complete. I can't really understand that from a design perspective as if you wanted to get a friend into the game they'd have to finish the tutorial that you couldn't even help them out with. The developers have since added the option to skip though, so it isn't really a big deal anymore though.
The game for the most part seems to keep a nice balance to keep things challenging enough whilst punishing players for silly mistakes. Most failures would usually be down to bad planning, rather than unfair game design.
The game is fun both solo and with friends. If anything I'd say it was at its weakest when playing with random other players. It's more challenging solo whilst playing with friends was generally much more fun when trying to set things up or get things right, rather than playing with randoms.
GRAPHICS
The game did crash for me a few times and every time it happened and I tried to log back in the game would always ask for me to check my emails because it didn't recognise me. This begun happening to my friends too and made it much more frustrating to play, knowing if one of us crashed we'd be waiting a while to be able to get a proper game going again.
SOUND
VALUE FOR MONEY
As far as free-to-play games go it doesn't really force you into using micro-transactions, obviously things will be easier to obtain with them but it seemed nothing was really off limits to anyone who really wanted to get something.
OVERALL
