
You can resurrect fallen daughter however to get the points to do this is very hard and you only really ever get enough to bring back one or two at best. You can heal your daughters but you have to sacrifice another daughter who is the same level as the one you’re trying to heal and has enough health to fully recover it, can you see why this game quickly becomes frustrating because it’s hard enough trying to level up one party of three daughters let alone six or maybe nine. The damage your daughters take from one day goes into the next day, which is super irritating because if you manage to get to day seven but most of your daughter’s health has gone you might as well wave the white flag because you’re probably going to die. There are different ability that creatures and the daughters have that can push back turns and change the timeline, so make sure you are using these to your advantage and not getting outplayed.

Make sure to compose yourself around this, if you make a mistake it can cost you heavily and trust me it is so easy to do. When fighting you need to take into consideration the dynamic timeline system that shows when each character will take their turn. You can customise your team any way you want but I found it best to take one of each class into a fight because it opens up your playstyle and possibilities. The Shield-bearer is the defensive class that have crowd control skills and also wants to be the one taking most of the hits because they can take it and finally you have the soul slinger class which is your long-distance fighter who has a mix of powerful and supportive abilities that can pull you out of difficult situations. The Blademaster is your powerful close-range attacker who deals all the heavy blows but has little armour so be careful not to go in sword swinging or you might just regret it. You fight with three daughters, there are three classes these being a blade master, shield-bearer and finally a soul slinger. I have only managed to do this a few times but every time I have I have lost like two of my three daughters. You have to try and get her through hordes of monsters without taking any damage, which is extremely hard. The one that I find myself always avoiding is the one where you have to save a bright soul, you have to escort this character from one side of the map to the other so that they can escape but they are pretty much a one-hit kill. There are object-based ones but I find these to challenging and sometimes the winning conditions just fell impossible and that makes me mad. The synapse that I enjoy the most are the Hunt ones where you have to kill every creature on the map, it’s simple and properly the easiest to get your head around. The others are there to give you the chance to level up all your daughters as well as getting more rewards. You are offered different synapses that you must complete to be able to move on to the next day, certain days you can get multiple synapses but you only need to complete one to be able to move forward. You use your Daughters to fight the creatures to try and progress through the days. So the game is broken down into Days and on the seventh day, you will encounter a boss, pretty simple. You take control of your daughters who fight on your behalf against the nightmarish creatures that plague the world, these creatures all come from another dimension and you must harness everything you have (which isn’t a lot) to fight against these foes. Its lore and gameplay mechanics are dark and challenging, offering gamers a brilliant yet frustrating gameplay experience that almost puts Dark Souls to shame. It’s a horror-themed turn-based strategy game with a dynamic timeline system that is similar to that of Child of Light.


Othercide is developed by an indie company called Lightbulb Crew.

Dark, Gritty and a unique art style Othercide looked like my cup of tea and I made it my mission to get my gaming hands on a PlayStation 4 version of the game. Not only did it have my curiosity after watching the trailer it now had my attention. It’s not often that a YouTube ad grabs my curiosity long enough for me to not skip it but the Othercide trailer pulled me in and kept me watching right to the very end. After seeing a trailer pop up on YouTube, I couldn’t help but watch.
