Picked this one up a few weeks ago when it was half off and enjoyed my first run through immensely.
It combines a bit of the xcom style combat with a meta game that comes down to breeding strong bloodlines over the course of 300 years leading up to the final battle. If you manage that piece of it well, you'll have heroes capable to handling it, if you manged it the way I did you'll be lucky to survive 300 years much less field a 5 man team capable of winning the day (which I didn't).
Despite suffering through entire team wipes on a few occasions (the sort of thing that would drive me batty in xcom to the point of just stopping) it doesn't play as a show stopper in this game because death is just part of the game design, either your heroes die in battle or they die of old age, somehow that takes a bit of the sting out of it, or at least it did for me.
I really liked this one, tough choices all the way through, not overly complicated mind you, but still desperate battles and hard choices abound.
And yes, I know there's a certain crowd carrying a hate on for DF over past project failures, simply put, means nothing to me, I'm just talking about this specific game they made and for me, it was a good time. Good enough I'm heading back in to give it another go and this time, hopefully with a bit of luck and better bloodline planning, we'll win the day in the end.
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