October 10, 2023 - Day 283 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 302

Game: We Are The Dwarves

Platform: Steam
Release Date: Feb 26, 2016
Installation Date: Sep 11, 2020
Unplayed: 1124d (3y29d)
Playtime: 20m

We Are The Dwarves is, apparently, a real-time tactics strategy game, about space-faring dwarves.

The game provides an intro, which is... confusing. It seems that this particular universe is made of stone instead of dark matter.

Our trio of stonefaring dwarves get into an accident, and then you have to... I don't know, and I don't really care to be honest.

Firstly, this is another game that uses a version of Unreal Engine 4 that uses a known buggy implementation of OpenSSL; the bug is only triggered on >10th Gen Intel CPUs. There's a workaround for it, but without the workaround, it will crash right after starting. It's the third game I've encountered with this bug since upgrading my PC, but it's a bad start to a game experience.

The game gives you a Steam achievement called "We all hate tutorials", and I don't, particularly when your odd game is so frustrating to try and play. I'm not even going to get into the voice acting.

I finally worked out where I was going wrong after wandering around a level over and over for ten minutes, but that pretty much meant that I'm just not interested in fighting with the game further.

We Are The Dwarves is a:

1: Nope

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