

Check this one out if you’re looking for a change from XCOM.With a vast library of games available and more to come in the next months, let’s take a look at some of the best Tactics Turn-Based RPGs you should play in 2022 on Nintendo Switch. The great writing and characters will appeal to any player, but I think you’d need to be a Warhammer fan to love the dull, grim visuals. I just wish their were more variety to gameplay and enemies, and I was disappointed that exploration seemed to almost be discouraged by the unfair RNG-generated outcomes of choices. The upgrades to your Priests also help a lot in the middle to late game, so although it starts out tough things get better over time. Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus is a good game, once you take some time to learn strategy and tactics. I found myself simply avoiding any passages but the ones that offered a direct route to the tomb’s main objective, and I don’t think that is ideal.

But I found in practice that the results of almost all my choices brought negative outcomes. In theory, tombs have many passages that you can explore, and in many rooms you can make choices that can bring either benefits, like more hit points, or they can hurt you by, say, making the Necrons stronger.

There were likely a lot of Warhammer references and details that were lost on me but still, even if you are not a longtime Warhammer fan I think you’ll find the writing and the story in Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus to be enjoyable, and something that makes you want to keep playing.Īside from the combat, I was also a bit disappointed in Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus’s exploration elements. Their whole running narrative sadly unfolds in dialogue-text only, but if you have the patience to read it you’ll be glad you did. There’s the hilariously-pompous Prime Hermeticon Caprix, and also Sub-Domina Khepra, the voice who fights for the common grunts who have to do the fighting, and dying. Lector-Dogmatix Videx is the polar opposite he’s a True Believer in the Adeptus Mechanicus religion, and as expected he clashes with Tech-Acquisitor Scaevola often. Tech-Acquisitor Scaevola is the quintessential technocrat, cold and calculating, even in her speech which resembles a computer spitting out code. Writer Ben Counter creates a cast of characters that will entertain you with their idiosyncratic personalities. Further enriching this engaging combat is the superb writing.
