![]() The only way to heal a daughter is to sacrifice another one of equal or higher level. On top of taking damage, most of the more powerful special attacks cost health to use. Notably, Daughters do not heal between missions, and you won’t find any healing abilities or items. ![]() Luckily, the other resources at my command did require me to make those difficult calls. I could activate all of the bonuses I’d unlocked at once. While there is a satisfying sense of progression, I usually earned so many shards per run that I didn’t have to make interesting decisions about how to spend them. Shards are used to activate unlocked bonuses on a per-run basis like increased health and damage, and even the ability to skip bosses you’ve already defeated. Once I realized that death was never really the end, it could sometimes feel a bit too forgiving, though. Failure is an expected and essential part of progression. Each successive “Remembrance” allows you to carry over a currency called Shards from your previous run, so I never felt like I was having to start from square one. Similar to 2018’s Into the Breach, this will require failing and going back in time over and over until you manage to get it right. With the help of a mysterious figure called the Red Mother, Othercide puts you in charge of a darkly ethereal realm called the Inner Void from which you summon Daughters – echoes of whatever the Mother used to be – to stop the coming of an eldritch entity known as Suffering. ![]() ![]() Othercide is also the best turn-based tactics game of the year so far. But this is more than an outlet for such dreams of blood-drenched parenthood, though. Othercide offers a different kind of parental pride as you command a small army of warrior Daughters armed with giant swords and sleek revolvers they can use to slice, bash, and blast through a menagerie of Lovecraftian horrors. Some parents are really invested in their kids’ report cards or success in extracurricular activities. ![]()
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