Get the latest tech news
Songs of Conquest review - fantasy tactics that favours breadth over depth
Eurogamer's review of Songs of Conquest, a turn-based strategy with some occasionally over-punishing battles but still plenty of nostalgic fun to be had.
Watch on YouTube It's the kind of anthological storytelling that, in its best moments, calls to mind the engrossing dual campaigns of Fire Emblem Fates, as well as the trio of opposing, Sliding Doors-style routes to follow in its Switch-based successor Three Houses. Each of its four campaigns may only be four missions long, but as these surprisingly lengthy tales unfold, Lavapotion manage that rare thing of making you care and root for whichever faction happens to be in your current possession - even when they're facing off against a clan who, hours earlier, you may have been fighting tooth and nail for to propel them to victory. For the most part, you'll be roaming the map in top-down fashion and hopping between its plentiful supply of glinting curios, snaffling up loose bundles of resources and laying claim to mines, farms and EXP or stat-boosting monuments like a battle-ready magpie.
Or read this on Eurogamer
