Recent reviews by CVizzle

A must-play in the open world survival genre. Beware the depths!

What is it?

Tharsis is a space-themed strategy game where the outcome is heavily based on rolls of the dice and your ability to manage the results. It combines strategy from old school dice games, like Yahtzee and Farkle, with space themed crew survival ala FTL.

What's good?

• The game is very easy to get the hang of. It only takes a couple runs to understand the features and abilities. There's also an easy mode now for beginners.
  
  
• There are many different ways to prioritize your dice rolls leading to separate strategies each run.
  
  
• The game itself looks and runs great! I haven't encountered any bugs or glitches yet.
  
  
• Games are pretty short (20-30 minutes each). While some may not appreciate this, for a luck based game, it suits it well and doesn't drag on.

What's not so good?

• While you live by the dice, so do you die by the dice. Sometimes you can manage your best and still come out defeated. Such is the way of an ultimately luck-based game.
  
  
• The story is very short and the same for every game.

Who is this game for?

This game would be best served primarily to people who can enjoy a quick strategy sim but don't get upset when they lose. You will not win every game no matter how good you get. This game is also great for those with not a lot of time to play other, larger strategy games like Civilization.

Concluding Statement

Despite the mixed reviews, this is a very fun game! I feel like the developers did a very good job of spicing up the dice genre while keeping it simple. I'm guessing most of the bad reviews come from people who did not research enough about what they were getting or didn't quite understand what kind of gamer they were. If you're in it to win it, don't get this game. But if you can appreciate the randomness and then try to work with the consequences, I think you can enjoy this game.

One of the best platformers I've ever played and a beautiful soundtrack to go along. I recommend multiple playthroughs.

I played this back when it was a free flash game. When I saw a full version was on Steam, I picked it up immediately. It's an extremely addicting game coupled with some pretty awesome music I might add. Easy to pick-up, tough to master (though you can get lucky at times). You will be spending most of your time in this game playing online, however, as there are few single player modes. It's a great down-time game, though, as an individual match is only between 2 and 5 minutes each.

9/10, very addicting, easy to play, awesome music, wish there were a few more single player modes.