Indie · July 27, 2020

Othercide (2020)

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Descend into Humanity’s last hope. The Daughters, echoes of the greatest warrior to ever live, are all who stand before Suffering and death. Lead your army of Daughters to battle with all the skill you can muster. Your prowess in combat will decide their fate, shape their abilities and personality. Make the toughest decision and sacrifice one to heal another - survivors will get stronger, ready to fight the next battle. Combat is an intricate dance of spectacular actions and counters: plan ahead of time and set up impressive chains of abilities to outsmart the enemy. Fight in epic boss battles against the sources of Suffering - dread creatures pulled from the worst of Humanity’s crimes against itself. You will fight. You will fail. You will rise again. Lead, evolve and sacrifice your army of Daughters Outsmart nightmarish creatures in a spectacular Tactical RPG Endless combat possibilities with the Dynamic Timeline System A deep and complex narrative Failure is not the end. Return with lost powers to face a new nightmare

Indie releases from 2020

25 Indie titles launched in 2020 — top 6 by review volume.

Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Strategy · 129
  • Indie · 90
  • Turn-Based Tactics · 85
  • Female Protagonist · 82
  • Turn-Based Combat · 81
  • Rogue-lite · 74
  • Dark Fantasy · 73
  • Turn-Based · 62
  • Dark · 61
  • Tactical · 53
  • Horror · 48
  • Turn-Based Strategy · 44
  • Gothic · 43
  • Rogue-like · 43
  • Difficult · 42

Peer Indie titles

Comparable titles in the same genre and review-volume band — ranked by Steam positive percentage.

Position in Indie

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume4.8k Steam reviewsTop 51% in Indie
Positive rating82% positiveGenre average: 87% — this title sits in top 76%
Metacritic78/100Genre average 77 — top 48% of Indie titles
Engagement hours12 h averageTop 52% for session depth among Indie

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (12)

  • English volume_up
  • French
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Traditional Chinese
  • German
  • Korean
  • Russian
  • Italian
  • Spanish - Spain
  • Japanese
  • Polish
  • Portuguese - Brazil volume_up

Full audio (2)

  • English
  • Portuguese - Brazil

Reception Metrics

Steam community

82%Mostly Positive · 4.8k reviews

4.0k positive · 867 negative

Metacritic

78/100 critic aggregate

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Metacritic user score

6.7/10

Curator recommendations

4.2k

Press Quotes

“The best turn-based tactics game of the year so far.” 9/10 – IGN “Brutally rewarding gameplay, intriguing story delivery, and epic boss battles.” 8/10 – Windows Central “Far more than just a striking art style. One of the most unique games of the year.” 8.5/10 – PlayStation Universe

Features & Capabilities

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Trading Cards
  • Steam Cloud

Input & Comfort

  • Full controller support

Other

  • Single-player
  • Family Sharing

Release & Availability

Release dateJul 27, 2020
DeveloperLightbulb Crew
PublisherFocus Entertainment
Base price$2.99
DLC / Add-ons3 released
PlatformsWindows
Estimated owners100k–1M
External linksOfficial site · Metacritic page · Support · [email protected]

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

12h

short (5–15 hours)

Median

5h

Typical completion time

Achievements

26

Steam unlocks available

Editions & Packages

  • Buy Othercide