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A story-driven, tactical RPG set in the fantasy realm of Lumus; a world divided by affluence and poverty. Take control of Nahmi and her fellow outcasts, utilising a brand new deck and dice based combat system to strike a blow to the noble Lords’ and Ladies’ unquenchable thirst for profit.

Children of Zodiarcs is a strategy, rpg and indie game developed by Cardboard Utopia and published by Square Enix.
Released on July 18th 2017 is available on Windows and MacOS in 5 languages: English, French, Italian, German and Spanish - Spain.

It has received 523 reviews of which 371 were positive and 152 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.8 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 17.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 2.10€ on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified Children of Zodiarcs into these genres:

Strategy RPG Indie Card Battler Deckbuilding Tactical RPG Card Game Turn-Based Turn-Based Strategy Female Protagonist Board Game Story Rich Singleplayer JRPG Trading Card Game Great Soundtrack Character Customization Dice

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System requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows 7/8.1/10 (32-bit or above)
Processor: Pentium G4400 /AMD Phenom II X2-550
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GT 630 /AMD HD R7 250
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Storage: 3 GB available space

MacOS

OS: OS X Yosemite version 10.10.5
Processor: 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB
Storage: 3 GB available space

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April 2025

I'll start by saying I like tactics and deck building games but if you don't I can't recommend this. Its a new take on tactics by incorporating a few different elements which makes the core gameplay feel like you have to adapt a lot which can be fun sometimes and wildy dissapointing at others. The dice play a role in how effective your actions are and the deck determines said abilities. You can edit the dice a little individually but abilities are how you build your deck and the cards involved are mostly level gated in terms of effectiveness and options. This mean some early levels are a tad bit simpler but harder because there are litterally less abilites to build with and less dice custimization to work with. You never have more than 3 people in a party at a time and the units are pre determined but that doesnt meant there aren't a lot of decisions to make during actual combat. As far as the rpg element goes it pretty linear with side missions mostly to expand on the story more than add choice to the narrative. The story begins by feeling somewhat like a generic adventure tale but takes a pretty dark turn with its themes and going thru the sidequests and the dialogue moments emphasize this. Without spoiling to much, this is a pretty tragic and dark story that is mostly on rails and straightforward. Not a bad story per say but not for everyone if you are in it for the plot. I enjoyed movements was overall kinda bummed by the story but got my enjoyment from the game. It feels like it needs a little more fleshing out, it already has a lot going on mechanically but it also is just a stage select sort of gameplay loop anyway out of combat. I kinda wish the narrative had more player agency or the non combat portion had a bit more player input but in the end the game is about the tactical expierence. If you'd like to try a novel way of playing tactics with stylish look this game can entertain you.

Feb. 2025

its pretty cool

Feb. 2025

Fun system. Wish party was more customisable

July 2024

This is a story about a girl seeking freedom. It does not delve into the nature of the Zodiarc weaponry. The battle mechanics is innovative and I delight in having a new concept to consider. There are pretty strong boundaries to the kind of sandboxing I usually like, though. Having the choice to listen to the story as you progress is really nice, though.

July 2024

yes with some caveats. The core game is very fun but after 20 missions the game gets very repetitive. You end up facing the same 3 factions over and over again and while the maps are fun, overall the enemies just move too damn fast for any real worry about positioning.. By the end all the enemies are moving faster then you, have a wide variety of melee and ranged attacks and are stacking so many bonuses I just stopped caring about what they were doing and sped through their turns. The combos are good, the use of dice-building and deck-building was very fun and if you play through it fast you might not even notice the repetitive nature but I liked to grind for better dice and to level up before boss fights and that is where I started to really notice how ever fight felt "the same" even when given optional objectives likes "get to X" or "survive for Y turns". Also while the general narrative of the story is fine the writers decided to go for a "Warriors" style where everything happens in 24 hours and the issue with that is that they try to squeeze too many twists and character arcs which by the end ended up breaking the narrative. The Warriors worked because the characters individually didn't go through a story arc, but the group dynamic did. As different members were killed or arrested the group dynamic would change but basically every character individually was the same start to finish. Instead you have characters go from "we're all one family, i'd do anything for my family" to "i'm going to murder everyone" in the span of a few hours which is a tonal shift that would make GoT Season 6 blush. In conclusion, it's a great mechanic and a solid game that hits a sharp decline right at the end but luckily by that point it's easy enough to just power through and finish the game.

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Children of Zodiarcs is currently priced at 17.99€ on Steam.

Children of Zodiarcs is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 17.99€ on Steam.

Children of Zodiarcs received 371 positive votes out of a total of 523 achieving a rating of 6.78.

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Children of Zodiarcs was developed by Cardboard Utopia and published by Square Enix.

Children of Zodiarcs is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Children of Zodiarcs is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Children of Zodiarcs is not playable on Linux.

Children of Zodiarcs is a single-player game.

Children of Zodiarcs does not currently offer any DLC.

Children of Zodiarcs does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

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Children of Zodiarcs is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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