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Lost Technology is a simulation game in which more than 100 characters belonging to 12 different factions battle to conquer each other’s territories. The faction you choose at the beginning will determine the conversations and events that unfold throughout the game between you and other factions.
Lost Technology is a anime, simulation and indie game
developed by Studio 4D
and published by PLAYISM.
Released on August 09th 2017 is available only on Windows
in 3 languages: English, Japanese and Simplified Chinese.
It has received 559 reviews of which 482 were positive and 77 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.1 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 1.99€ on Steam with a 50% discount, but you can find it for less on Gamivo.
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Windows
- OS *: Windows Xp Vista 7
- Processor: Pentium4
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX 9.0c
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Undeniably one of the most scuffed UI in any game I've played. Controls are scuffed, story is scuffed (especially trying to get Diethard's story, and half of it doesn't work? whats going on?). Bad translation, broken ass heroes, bullshit galore, retarded dungeon mode that mogs the rest of the game somehow. Cinema, genuinely was like 7-8/10 lol, but holy shit it needs some ironing out. It's like total war but if the controls were so bad you felt like you were playing dominions 6 (which is a game where you can't control your units mid battle...) Cinema.
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This game, while incomplete (translations still ongoing), is a nice little game that shows what ingenuity can be achieved with tiny moving png's fighting each other on a 2.5D isometric map. Features: 1. Real Time Strategy (RTS) battles WITHOUT having to micro unit generation inside battles. Just focus on the fight. Very nice for people who like the fights of RTS but don't like having to worry about surrounding elements. 2. Monarch Mode and Mercenary Mode: You can play as either the leader of a nation or mercenary. These 2 playstyles vary wildly as I will describe below. 2.1. Monarch mode sees you take control of a faction, which includes all the micro management you'd come to expect. Form armies, recruit mercenaries, take key points, and complete your world conquest. This mode is also the one with the most Story content. 2.2 You give up control of an army to instead Dynasty Warrior it up as an OP squad. If you choose a unit that already belongs to a faction, you have more control right form the start, allowing you to move and attack key points with your small OP squad (And if you are high ranked in the faction, you can drag other squads from your attack point to follow you.). If you start as a free agent, you are playing on hard mode mercenary. You can join almost any faction provided you meet the faction requirements (Elves will only hire elves or friends of elves as an example.) Once you join a faction, you are pretty much going to have to End Turn repeatedly till the AI Monarch has sent you into enough battles where you desimate the enemy army and you are promoted to Vassal, where you can now do what you could do as the units that were already part of that faction (You can now move your own army and attack points you think would help your faction). 3. There are many hidden story mode elements, such as if your nation should fall with specific triggers ticked; you start a cool mercenary mode story branch (Reginald Empire, hint hint. https://steamcommunity.com/app/420520/discussions/0/1694919808741036098/) 4. Whenever possible, ALWAYS try to recruit any and every mercenary you can, as they are the Dynasty Warrior hero's that will let you dominate fights. In mercenary mode, you can release one of your non-hero units to add a hero to your tiny squad. You can imagine how powerful a full tiny squad of ONLY hero units are. Melt through their ranks like a moist cloth to a full white board. 5. Auto mode. With one nice button called auto: you can relinquish for 1 turn yourself to your AI advisors control, where they will spend as much of your money as possible to buy units and strengthen borders (sometimes). This is a good button to use if you don't like micromanaging massive armies, but still want to have Monarch levels of control as a faction leader. 6. You can choose your battles. Literally. In the options menu, you can choose the option "Choose your battles". Turn that option on, and you will be prompted if you would like to auto resolve battles at the start of every clash. This is useful for the next notable faction. 6. The frog faction is unfairly busted. The only way you can beat them with reasonable effort is to auto resolve with your allies join-attacking them as well. 7. Divide and conquer. If you manage to get the enemy factions hero's cut off from the rest of their faction and then defeat them, they are removed from that faction. If that enemy happens to include the enemy MONARCH, then that faction can be destroyed in one go, all their territories becoming neutral. A good tactic for the lizards and frogs. I could keep going, but you can see how deep this games mechanics go. I love it, and sometimes just play mercenary mode just to have some nice RTS gameplay and Dynasty Warriors feels. For the price tag, its a good deal. Just make sure to play on full screen, and note that the camera controls are super old school (mouse on edge of screen to move camera. Remember to use spacebar to pause battles if you need to re-adjust.)
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Anime war game with magic, guns, and a 90's aesthetic. Cool characters, cool stories, and fun RTS battles between armies. UI is not very intuitive or customizeable, but if you can figure it out and/or look past that then this is a neat hidden gem. It is wonderfully unbalanced in a good way; unique characters can have game-changing characteristics in battles like wiping armies with tidal waves, hurricanes, explosions, etc. Despite this, every faction can win with mostly their own units if you use them and your environment correctly.
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Game is really fun, a lot of peaople decribed it as a 2D pixel art Total War Warhammer and it's true, both the good things and the bad ones as well like terrible maps, terrible seiges, corner camping meta, AI cheats, etc. But all around it's a good time and it offers a lot of content for $3
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This is great. It feels like some lost game from the Saturn/PSX era in all the best ways. Some of the UI is hard to get used to, the translation is a bit goofy sounding, but honestly, that's part of the charm. I will say if you've played ANY Japanese PC game from the late 90s/early 2000s, you probably won't even notice any weird UI stuff. I got used to it real quick. I think the closest things I could compare it to are the Dragon Force games on the Sega Saturn and a somewhat simplified Total War game. Very fun sprite work too. The art is super dope as well. It has this distinctly Saturn/PSX era look to all the character portraits that I can't get enough of. It really does feel like this game time traveled to be here.
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Lost Technology is currently priced at 1.99€ on Steam.
Lost Technology is currently available at a 50% discount. You can purchase it for 1.99€ on Steam.
Lost Technology received 482 positive votes out of a total of 559 achieving a rating of 8.08.
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Lost Technology was developed by Studio 4D and published by PLAYISM.
Lost Technology is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Lost Technology is not playable on MacOS.
Lost Technology is not playable on Linux.
Lost Technology is a single-player game.
There is a DLC available for Lost Technology. Explore additional content available for Lost Technology on Steam.
Lost Technology does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Lost Technology does not support Steam Remote Play.
Lost Technology 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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09 Aug 2017
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