Children of Zodiarcs

A story-driven, tactical RPG set in the fantasy realm of Lumus; a world divided by affluence and poverty. Take control of Nahmi and her fellow outcasts, utilising a brand new deck and dice based combat system to strike a blow to the noble Lords’ and Ladies’ unquenchable thirst for profit.

Children of Zodiarcs is a strategy, rpg and indie game developed by Cardboard Utopia and published by Square Enix.
Released on July 18th 2017 is available on Windows and MacOS in 5 languages: English, French, Italian, German and Spanish - Spain.

It has received 517 reviews of which 367 were positive and 150 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.8 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 17.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Children of Zodiarcs into these genres:

Strategy RPG Indie Card Battler Deckbuilding Tactical RPG Card Game Turn-Based Turn-Based Strategy Female Protagonist Board Game Story Rich Singleplayer JRPG Trading Card Game Great Soundtrack Character Customization Dice

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Windows 7/8.1/10 (32-bit or above)
Processor: Pentium G4400 /AMD Phenom II X2-550
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GT 630 /AMD HD R7 250
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Storage: 3 GB available space

MacOS

OS: OS X Yosemite version 10.10.5
Processor: 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB
Storage: 3 GB available space

Reviews

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July 2024

This is a story about a girl seeking freedom. It does not delve into the nature of the Zodiarc weaponry. The battle mechanics is innovative and I delight in having a new concept to consider. There are pretty strong boundaries to the kind of sandboxing I usually like, though. Having the choice to listen to the story as you progress is really nice, though.

July 2024

yes with some caveats. The core game is very fun but after 20 missions the game gets very repetitive. You end up facing the same 3 factions over and over again and while the maps are fun, overall the enemies just move too damn fast for any real worry about positioning.. By the end all the enemies are moving faster then you, have a wide variety of melee and ranged attacks and are stacking so many bonuses I just stopped caring about what they were doing and sped through their turns. The combos are good, the use of dice-building and deck-building was very fun and if you play through it fast you might not even notice the repetitive nature but I liked to grind for better dice and to level up before boss fights and that is where I started to really notice how ever fight felt "the same" even when given optional objectives likes "get to X" or "survive for Y turns". Also while the general narrative of the story is fine the writers decided to go for a "Warriors" style where everything happens in 24 hours and the issue with that is that they try to squeeze too many twists and character arcs which by the end ended up breaking the narrative. The Warriors worked because the characters individually didn't go through a story arc, but the group dynamic did. As different members were killed or arrested the group dynamic would change but basically every character individually was the same start to finish. Instead you have characters go from "we're all one family, i'd do anything for my family" to "i'm going to murder everyone" in the span of a few hours which is a tonal shift that would make GoT Season 6 blush. In conclusion, it's a great mechanic and a solid game that hits a sharp decline right at the end but luckily by that point it's easy enough to just power through and finish the game.

July 2024

good srpg with cards mechanic

April 2024

SRPG + Cards + Dice Building = insanely fun and deep combat system. I don't understand why there is no sequel or spiritual successor. This formula needs to be recreated in a new game

Feb. 2024

finally remembered to review this game, several years after playing it! This was a good time, there's some _very_ rough edges but it's _memorable_. Fairly unique dice/card/tactics gameplay. Late game encourages you to try and go infinite every turn, which does get kind of tedious to play out. I'd love to see a sequel someday, though I've approximately given up hope.

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