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Author Topic: What's the deal with Heretic Operative?  (Read 1091 times)

ZeroGravitas

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What's the deal with Heretic Operative?
« on: March 22, 2019, 01:40:03 pm »
Heretic Operative is a $20 board-game-looking thing on Steam.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/958740/Heretic_Operative/

The thing is, it looks a lot like the mock-ups for the vaporware game, That Which Sleeps. The reviews for HO are decent. The scope seems to be smaller than TWS; it's not a giant empire game.

Is HO any good? Has anyone played?
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Re: What's the deal with Heretic Operative?
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2019, 01:46:43 pm »
Nookrium played it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaD7wTMtxuc).
It looks okay. Nothing special. Wouldn't buy it myself, but might be interesting to some.
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Re: What's the deal with Heretic Operative?
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2019, 02:28:33 pm »
https://cpromptgames.com/home/about/

They dont seem to be related to kingdinosaurgames
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Re: What's the deal with Heretic Operative?
« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2019, 03:14:44 pm »
It only superficially looks like TWS. The game world map alone is far more detailed.
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Re: What's the deal with Heretic Operative?
« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2019, 04:13:00 pm »
Quote from: nenjin on March 22, 2019, 03:14:44 pm
It only superficially looks like TWS. The game world map alone is far more detailed.
Well TBH any game that actually exists will be more detailed than TWS :p
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Re: What's the deal with Heretic Operative?
« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2019, 10:21:48 am »
The similarities are purely thematic.  Mechanically, it's a heavily dice/card draw influenced boardgame.  There's no real simulation occurring here, and it doesn't pretend otherwise.
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