Riot is a sort of reverse Tower Defence or a simplistic reduction of an early Total War game, where you play as the attackers and you get given hundreds of them to throw into the breach. But I’m thinking I’d probably include Riot. I haven’t seen that many medieval games in 2021, and I would be hard pushed to list the best medieval games for PC. It’s slightly comedic and sends the message….we’re here to have fun. I’m not sure why these little fellas explode but there we are.
Riot !! by Mechanical Beer, Jayloran, Deimort, Larsen, Istalri It opens with a pirate sea shanty and a bunch of faceless characters being hurled by trebuchets (a catapult to you non-historians) into the wall of a fort and exploding. This off-hand, jaunty attitude runs all the way through Riot. Riot was made during the Brackeys Game Jame 2021, and received a fair amount of praise upon submission. I don’t think I’ve ever been abused so early on in a game. These are the first lines in the Readme.txt that accompanies the download of Riot from Itch.io. Riot: If one peasant like you can’t do anything, perhaps a hundred peasants can
