The "What are you playing?" topic.

[Xiahou]

I got Endless Legend on a Steam sale- fantastic game. My first playthru was as the Broken Lords, who are a race of humanoids who have over time become little more than spirits bound to their magical armor. As such, they have no use for the food resource and use "Dust" to grow their cities and heal their armies.
It's fascinating how almost every race bends the basic economic rules of the game to fit their characteristics.

My main rival for dominance ended up, appropriately, being the Necrophages- a race of insects intent on extinguishing all other life on the planet. There were some epic back and forth wars- including one particular memorable war when my main army was fighting their forces overseas and they went all Scipio Africanus on me and attacked me on my mainland with a large army. They laid siege to a city and tried several assaults to try to wrest it from me while I frantically scraped together relief forces.

By end game, I won by constructing a wonder, but it's safe to say we were also militarily dominant...


To me, this game seems like what Elemental tried to be, but fell short.