Waves of Fate is a nice game, the isometric view and pixel art is beautiful, you have a lot of story campaigns to play through, you can upgrade your units, get new units, there is no hardcore mode. Unit death is not permanent. Difficulty is moderate. You can make your life easier through grinding.

A nice game, very good game for the price.

The developers are active in the forum and implementing suggestions super fast.

If you like old school turnbased strategy games like Final fantasy tactics, or tactics ogre, you will definetely like this game

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I'm conflicted about this review. It's a nifty indy game with an interesting story line. As it stands now though the game is closer to an EA state than something I'd expect in a release.

Missing Features/Bugs:
Mouse support - Control is keyboard only (arrow key style), no mouse even in menus.
Mutiple resolution support - Windowed mode at a small resolution only. Cannot modify resolution or play full screen.
Display bug - When playing sometimes assets, like an enemy will not be displayed. Once this happens additional assets seem to go black. Currently I'm fighting a battle with only my party on a black screen.

It's also a bit pointelessly grindy, you can replay any mission you want as many times as you want to earn points. Those points can be used to increase the stats of any character. You end up grinding the same levels over and over to pump stats to keep getting 3-stars on missions. Go overboard and gameplay is pretty much broken.

I'd hope the developer addresses at least the glaring bugs. The story line is nifty enough to make me ignore the grindy bits.

- Good story, good artwork.
- Mechanics were a little rough when I played, which was before mouse support but the developer is active in fixing things and adding new features.
- Gameplay is easy to pick up and offers a good mixture of story and grinding for 100% completion.
TL:DR; Buy game, good game, have fun.

This one is a hard sell, It has good enough graphics, good music and a nice story (I LOVE those characters and references), I totally enjoyed my time with this game but I can ONLY recommend it during a sale (or in a bundle) AND IF you are willing to look past its mistakes:

-Shallow combat, eventually battles devolve into a turn based attack competition without any strategy (No buffs, almost no crowd control, most spells are elemental damage spells and there isnt even a deep elemental weakness system to back those up)
-Broken progression system, you can become totally OP extremely easy BUT since characters are limited to certain stages you can also waste all your skill points on worthless characters and become unable to finish the story (maybe some grinding of optional missions can help you, but I doubt it)
-Broken economy, you can only gain gold in optional missions and those are RNG (the units you can control, the enemy units and all of their positions is random) so there is no reason to go for the "easy" or "medium" ones since the "hard" ones give you enough gold to buy every skill in the game early
-BAD UI (selecting "move" to move instead of clicking WHERE to move is bad)
-Needs more hotkeys (almost everything is controlled with the mouse or the arrows)
-Mediocre (but working) camera controls (2D game, no rotation either)
-Extremely short (almost 2 hours with grinding included, but it DOES have a NG+ option and some optional scenarios that can extend its playtime to I guess 4 hours at most)

IF you decide to buy it be sure to upgrade Cain, you could probably pass the whole game multiple times with no grinding if you focus all your skill points in him, and maybe upgrade Medea a little since she has the only Crowd Control Spell worth using.

Very short (took 2 hours to beat without much difficulty), but thoroughly competent, Weaves of Fate is a tentative recommendation from me.

The graphics and story are excellent. The game play mechanics are strong if not stunning. Upgrades scale satisfyingly and add some small depth to the game.

The bones of a great game are here, but as one plays it, he notices the developer's illusions and shortcuts.

There are many interesting playable characters, but you soon realize that, despite their customization potential, they are ancillary. Only two characters are ultimately worth upgrading. And the final stage completely comes down to how high you've grinded a particular character. Flaws like these keep the game from excellence but if the developer fleshes out these ideas Weaves of Fate would be tremendous.

I recommend this on sale. It's worth the time it takes to beat it.

It seems worthy but unfortunatelly it crashes almost in every cutscene (i can skip it with esc key, but then i wont get the story, wich for me its an important part of a game)
please, fix that or at least give me some advices (i ve already tested compatibility mode etc etc)

Note that happened with spanish language, english works fine (others not tested yet)

NOTE 2, developer got out an update for this issue! so this comment its pending of testing everything!

It's a decent little tactical RPG - for its price. Were it any more expensive than it is, I wouldn't be able to recommend it, because of how short the game is. It barely took me one and a half hours to play through the game and gain all achievements, so keep the short length in mind if you consider purchasing this.

That said, it's a good game following the gameplay style of Japanese SRPG titles such as Tactics Ogre or Final Fantasy Tactics. You control a small group of pre-generated characters and fight out turn-based battles in tightly designed, hand-made encounters. The story is completely linear, there are no branching paths or even dialogue choices. The meat of the game is fighting through the battles and witnessing the story unfold after you beat each encounter.

As for the development of your characters, you get some leeway there. You can invest points into any stat of any character, increasing the health and attack of your sorceress instead of investing into her magic skills, if you want to go for unorthodox character builds. Every character has a handful of unlockable special abilities that add more tactical variety to the battles (heals, damage spells, etc).

You can also play through a bunch of random encounters if you want to squeeze more playtime out of the game than the main campaign offers. These random fights set you up with a random assortment of troops, facing off against a random assortment of enemy troops, rather than letting you play with your leveled up characters. They add some variety, but become repetitive quick.

There's also a New Game + mode where you re-play the main campaign at a higher level.

Other than that, there isn't much more to the game. A decent little turn based SRPG romp that takes you about 2 hours at the max. Since the game costs about 3 bucks, and even less when there's a sale, it's decent value for the money. But don't expect anything more from it.

I think I'm in love. The thing is – I totally didn't expect anything good here. But guess what? I ended up loving this game. That's right, not just liking, loving it. Maybe it's just because I'm old. I mean, the visuals remind me a lot of Ultima VIII and Halls of the Dead, gameplay feels a lot like a very basic version of HeroQuest, etc. But the thing is - Weaves of Fate doesn't feel like one of those games that try to make money from nostalgia. It doesn't have that cheap “Hey, look! It's almost like real 8-bit!” aftertaste. It is what it is. A cute little RPG.

The “little” part is a bit of a problem, though. Quite big, to be honest. See, Weaves of Fate is another one of those “one man projects” (BC Kings, USC: Ultimate Space Commando, etc). Aside from soundtrack, it was fully made by only one person. And, unfortunately, it shows. Don't get me wrong, though, the main gameplay feels great. Too great, actually. Those basic but charming turn-based battles are the exact reason why I love this game so much. Those are so cute that you'll want to waste a lot of time doing them. Unfortunately, Mr. Kingston (that's the name of our guy, Thomas Kingston) didn't have enough time and resources to make anything else. As the result, the entire game is just that - a short (very, very short) series of battles. There's nothing else. No world to explore, no dungeons to rob, no loot to collect, no quests to do, nothing. Zero. Zilch.

So, how do you at least level up in this game? Well, first of all, you go back to the level selection screen (you're free to re-play any previous mission any time you want). Then you select “random encounter” option. You finish one of those - you get some experience to increase your stats (no level cap here, as far as I know, so, you can become laughably overpowered as long as you're ready to invest enough time) and gold to unlock spells. That's pretty much it. There's nothing else in this game. You can beat the entire thing with every single achievement in about an hour and the story is also pretty basic. It has some twists and the atmosphere is sure there, but... it's basic. Very basic.

So, if you're expecting a proper RPG experience here... just keep looking. This game is a hour long series of basic old school battles and that's it. But the thing is – those cute little battles are so charming that it's almost impossible not to love this game. And since Mr. Kingston asks only $ 3.99 / £ 2.89 for it... I'd say, it's totally worth it. You weren't born yesterday, you have an hour of free time and some change from your last meal? Check this game out. It's one of those cute little gems that, despite being way too basic, make you feel better. Like a cup of hot chocolate.

This is basically a very straightforward tactics game. The game is a series of battles connected by a pretty good, if short story. The battles themselves are very straightforward with the only options being attacking in melee, casting offensive spells (all but one are just single target damage spells the are almost identical) or cast a heal spell. That's it. Your characters have stats that you can upgrade after winning campaign battles. You can also earn gold from random battles where you use monsters from the campaign.

This is a weird game where you need to repeat campaign battles to earn enough upgrade points to win the later battles. The same goes for the random monster battles so you earn enough gold to unlock the important spells for your important characters. Through the campaign you unlock maybe 8 characters or so, but weirdly you mainly just use two of them in the campaign. The rest just show up in 1 or 2 battles. The game doesn't tell you this though so you end up boosting characters you never end up using. Very strange.

I can't recommend this game. The battles are very simple with the only real thought being how to avoid exposing your back and attacking the enemies in the back. Since that is the main part of the game I can't see how anyone is recommending this. The story is decent but is not enough for a purchase. The game just feels like a prototype for a better game coming later, unfortunately.

From how far I played till yet, the storyline looks very interesting.
Since I awaited something like the old heroquest, I am a little bit disappointed about the lag of play depth. Nothing to loot? Maybe I didn't play so far, simply. But instead there is the upgrade-option, which I like.

You can happily forget about the german translation (google translated?). Its a bit confusing, that the font changes with the language. But I don't care much. Its such an basic english, its totally understandable.
The stats could be a bit more obvious. You cant really compare, which enemy has how much power. You see how much HP and MP they have, but you have no idea if hitting them make them laugh or if one hit of them can crack your bones to dust.

But what I am missing the most is a support for higher or at least wider resolutions / aspect correction. Would be nice to see the whole map if you have "enough" res.

Beside that I enjoyed the few minutes playing so far and am looking forward to continue.

Edit: sorry, but at all love I have for this little game, the system is too messed up for a thumb up. The Turn-counter does what it wants, but counting... the moves? ...the turns? ...the actions? ...the enemies actions? So it seems impossible to reach 3 stars. Why should one make such an efford anyway?
Alltogether its so many little bugs, its frustrating. The game is playable and nice and everything, but you can forget about serious refinement.
I am really sorry, but I have to change the thumb downwards if I look to the price of the game. :(

Edit 2: The Dev is solicitous, what I really appreciate!
So there was an update. As soon as I find the time, I will give it happily another try. :) ...