Twilight Wars

Item: Twilight Wars
Rating: 78
Author: VaporLens

Last updated: 2025-05-26

Summary

Enjoyable experience with interesting characters and agents
Engaging plot within an appealing cyberpunk setting
Tactical combat, base management, and exploration elements
Great for Darkest Dungeon and genre fans
Punishing difficulty and frustrating combat
Poor skill balance and limited upgrades

Categories

Dungeon CrawlerTurn-based CombatTactical CombatStrategyBase BuildingSquad ManagementCharacter ManagementSingle-player StoryMultiple EndingsMoral Decision-Making

Reviews (sample size): 120
Helpful reviews: 88%
Unhelpful reviews: 12%
Protest reviews: 0%

78%
Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
22%
Helpful reviews with negative sentiment

Positive points: 259
Negative points: 219
Gameplay points: 68
Perf. points: 3
Rec. points: 77
Misc points: 18

Point	Description	Importance
High-quality, enjoyable experience Description The game excels in multiple areas, including its art style, music, story, and engaging gameplay mechanics. Reviewers appreciate the well-designed world, UI, and the depth of content that encourages multiple playthroughs. The game offers a satisfying and enjoyable experience overall. Importance 93%	The game excels in multiple areas, including its art style, music, story, and engaging gameplay mechanics. Reviewers appreciate the well-designed world, UI, and the depth of content that encourages multiple playthroughs. The game offers a satisfying and enjoyable experience overall.	93%
Interesting, unique characters/agents Description The game features unique and well-developed agents/characters with distinct backstories, personalities, and interactions. Players enjoy managing these characters, observing their relationships, and making moral choices that affect the plot. The characters enhance the overall experience and add to the game's charm. Importance 37%	The game features unique and well-developed agents/characters with distinct backstories, personalities, and interactions. Players enjoy managing these characters, observing their relationships, and making moral choices that affect the plot. The characters enhance the overall experience and add to the game's charm.	37%
Engaging plot, immersive world Description The game features an engaging plot with interesting dialogues, jokes, and references, creating an immersive experience. The story is well-developed, and the game world is richly detailed, drawing players into the narrative. Multiple endings and well-designed tasks add to the game's depth and replayability. Importance 26%	The game features an engaging plot with interesting dialogues, jokes, and references, creating an immersive experience. The story is well-developed, and the game world is richly detailed, drawing players into the narrative. Multiple endings and well-designed tasks add to the game's depth and replayability.	26%
Appealing cyberpunk setting/atmosphere Description The game's cyberpunk setting and atmosphere are well-received, creating a cool and immersive experience. The combination of cyberpunk themes with humor and engaging plot elements allows the game to stand out in its genre. Some reviewers draw comparisons to other titles like Darkest Dungeon and Metro. Importance 25%	The game's cyberpunk setting and atmosphere are well-received, creating a cool and immersive experience. The combination of cyberpunk themes with humor and engaging plot elements allows the game to stand out in its genre. Some reviewers draw comparisons to other titles like Darkest Dungeon and Metro.	25%
Responsive developer, improving mechanics Description The developers are responsive to player feedback, quickly releasing updates to address issues such as difficulty balance and localization. This responsiveness improves the overall player experience and demonstrates a commitment to refining the game based on community input. The game mechanics are intuitive and introduced gradually. Importance 21%	The developers are responsive to player feedback, quickly releasing updates to address issues such as difficulty balance and localization. This responsiveness improves the overall player experience and demonstrates a commitment to refining the game based on community input. The game mechanics are intuitive and introduced gradually.	21%
Enjoyable humor and dialogue Description The game incorporates humor through witty dialogues, character interactions, and references, making the text enjoyable to read. Some side quests have outstanding humorous elements, and the story unfolds subtly through these quests. The musical accompaniment also enhances the overall experience. Importance 17%	The game incorporates humor through witty dialogues, character interactions, and references, making the text enjoyable to read. Some side quests have outstanding humorous elements, and the story unfolds subtly through these quests. The musical accompaniment also enhances the overall experience.	17%
Decent localization and audio Description The game features decent audio quality and localized text, with some good Russian voice acting. Small details, like characters referencing specific cultural elements, make the game feel alive. The localization is mostly well done, and the voice acting is artistic where present. Importance 13%	The game features decent audio quality and localized text, with some good Russian voice acting. Small details, like characters referencing specific cultural elements, make the game feel alive. The localization is mostly well done, and the voice acting is artistic where present.	13%