Death Crown is a real time strategy game with a really unique art style. While most games these days seem to be either heading towards hyper realistic graphics or an over-the-top colorful cartoon style, Death Crown has instead simplified things with a very minimalist 1-bit look. The default colors are black and white but you can switch between lots of different color palettes in the settings. It?s a really distinctive look that will definitely catch your eye.
There are a number of different gameplay modes. The Campaign mode will see you getting to wage war as Death herself. There is a story but it can be a little hard to work out what’s going on as there are no voice overs or text in the brief cutscenes. The main gist of it seems to be that a King has tricked Death and stolen her crown. As you can imagine this has made her a tad pissed off and so she brings her armies of the dead to wipe him and his kingdom out. At the beginning of each battle you?ll start off on the opposite side of the map to your enemy. The aim is to protect your citadel while sending out your armies to attack the opposition. You can only build on the hexagonal tiles that are next to your territory, this means that you?ll have to slowly expand your way across the map and try to stop the enemy from doing the same. There are three different types of buildings that you can make, mines that produce gold, defense towers to throw projectiles at any nearby enemies, and a graveyard where your army of the d...