ORX
ORX is a new take on the well-known tower defense genre, blending mechanics of popular deck building and tabletop games to create a truly unique experience. Grow your castle, expand your domain, and take a stand against hordes of green-skinned attackers!
ORX is a roguelike deckbuilder, tower defense and building game
developed by johnbell
and published by CRITICAL REFLEX.
Released on August 30th 2022 is available only on Windows
in 14 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America, Japanese, Polish, Korean and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 604 reviews of which 438 were positive and 166 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.9 out of 10. 😐
The game is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam.
The Steam community has classified ORX into these genres:
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Windows
- OS: Windows 10 or later
- Processor: Intel Core i5 4670 or AMD FX-6350
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVidia GTX 670 or AMD Radeon HD 6570
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 3 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Requires a discrete graphics card. Performance on Intel UHD graphics not guarantied.
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This would be another great candidate for a neutral recommendation. The concept is great, I like the artwork and music and the 3 factions are each unique and very different from each other. That said, the game is plagued with bugs (item and event description missing, events giving castle specific tiles that are useless to races that don't use those, frequent crashes, fps drops). The balance is also absolutely messed up: the third faction has heroes that wipe the map clean on their own, while the second faction can be insta-killed in the final act by invisible enemies because they have no walls nor detection to stop them. All in all I'd still recommend to pick this up during a sale since the devs are still actively working on it, but they still have a long way to go.
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I was very excited to play this game, I've held off on my review for quite a while. I enjoyed playing the demo years ago when it was all we had to experience the game play, I was so eager and hopeful that this game would be refined further and further, for the last couple of years I've wondered where the content deluge was, why wasn't my news feed filling with updates for the game still? Did it fully release while I had taken a break from it? No, the developers simply gave up. Make no mistake this is not a full indictment of the developers for abandoning their game, upon a quick glance at the Steam Charts website you can see the reason why they've completely abandoned this project. The simple fact is, this game died and was entirely pointless to work on within one solitary month of the game being released with the Steam Charts showing the player base go from a spindly 900 to a minuscule 100 in less than 30 days. If anything I want to briefly commend the developers for taking it upon themselves to support the game for as long as they did but I will also admonish them for being cowardly and not simply stating that this is indeed the final product. It is not bold to assume they (the developers) believe themselves to not even need to make mention the project is dead when the consistent player base as of the time of this review being posted is a measly <4> people. If you purchase this game, understand it is very unlikely the game will ever truly reach a finished state, as it stands now mechanics are implemented and progress was made far in the right direction from the demo version which released years ago but if you ever expected the "Early Access" tag to be removed, don't hold your breath and if things aren't to your liking or certain elements feel clunky (I have always found the card selection system to be a bit sticky and clunky) , then abandon this game like the devs have, I would never recommend a dead project still being sold to people regardless of any progress made over the years from an initial test or release build. Edit: January 1st 2025 - It looks as though last month the developers have gone and pushed out a fairly hefty update complete with a promise of future content to come, this is a bright spot of news that came just in time for the new year. Frankly I had almost abandoned all hope of Orx receiving any future updates, let alone improvements to existing features but it seems as though as time goes on the developers may in fact improve the game soon, for that reason I am in fact adjusting my previous rating from not recommending this game to recommending this game (for the time being) as long as they stick to their plan of future updates and content.
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Nearly a perfect recipe for a game that I been looking for, you can sit down chill or even get tense and focus on building your insane castles to secure your position, At start it was bad lot of dependence was only in castles and soldiers, now I feel the need to read everything and understand that what effects I am using and combo them to make sure that I don't mess up and messing up right now after updates is really possible if you're not effiecently using your cards and effects.! To the devs thanks for such game and please keep your updates up ! As it really makes big impact to game ! Only disadvantage of game : when village gets captured lot of orx spawning and it really hits bad to FPS. I guess it's just because too much particles in one small place, however it should be also solved to make game more nicer !
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This game is so good!. The first four hours I had no idea what was going on... later to find out this is exactly the kind of games I love to play!!! Good strategy and a lot of fun! :)
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Well, this is hard AF to say if I would recommend this game or not... On the good side: I've been playing this game (at least a few hours every major patch) since the pre-release demo and I am really loving the idea of deck-building-towerlike-darkfantasy-carcassonny crazy mix. Game mechanics are awesome - big replayability (in theory), some rouglite elements, castle building/map painting fantasy in a quirky pixel orcpocalypse setting. 3 very different factions to play, randomised maps, randomised rewards, some story-arcs to follow in the campaign. It's all a big PLUS. ============ But please beware this is really-really-REALLY-UNPOLISHED diamond. ============ On the bad side: I'am afraid this is another example of an early access game that didn't really hit the sales mark and has been mostly left behind the publisher and the developer doesn't have resources for finish this to the point it can ever reach a "releaseable" state. There is a ton of things that really need fixing: - really bad performance issues caused by the spammy mechanics in a game (since forever); - some clear lack of internal beta-testing the patches before they go live; - really tidious gameplay-loop that you fall into if you want optimize your deck for every campaign - and many more to come; I the end I do recommend this game and I hope that some day some of the issues will be fixed be the developers so this will leave the early access and finally be a really unique diamond in the market <3
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