Grissallia<p>October 10, 2023 - Day 283 - NewPlay Review<br>Total NewPlays: 302</p><p>Game: We Are The Dwarves</p><p>Platform: Steam<br>Release Date: Feb 26, 2016<br>Installation Date: Sep 11, 2020<br>Unplayed: 1124d (3y29d)<br>Playtime: 20m</p><p>We Are The Dwarves is, apparently, a real-time tactics strategy game, about space-faring dwarves.</p><p>The game provides an intro, which is... confusing. It seems that this particular universe is made of stone instead of dark matter.</p><p>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.</p><p>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 &gt;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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>We Are The Dwarves is a:</p><p>1: Nope</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/WeAreTheDwarves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WeAreTheDwarves</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Tactics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tactics</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Strategy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Strategy</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaming</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365ONG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project365ONG</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project365</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NewPlay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewPlay</span></a></p>