Hey there! :)

I just realized I actually played Anachronium right at the very beginning of the jam, but I wanted to take my sweet time before dropping a proper review!

First off, huge respect for the presentation! The character art and that scifi theme looks awesome (props on doing all those vectors in Figma and art in Krita, that’s dedication! :P).

The tbs loop combined with that aiming mechanic is such a neat twist. Combining stuff is super satistying! A few small things I noticed while playing:

movement: the ship controls and movement energy can feel a bit tricky to fine tune at times. Being able to position ships before combat starts or having a bit smoother rotation controls would make setting up plays feel so much slicker!

ui: The card art and tactical options are awesome, though zooming/reading small text on cards mid-fight took a little getting used to (glad the long tap enlarge is there though!).

You’ve put so much work into polishing this over time and it really shows. Hope to see a Steam page for this eventually! Keep up the amazing work! :D

I liked the art, music and sound in the game, and although I personally consider myself a bad strategy player and don't really like strategies, I liked the game personally. For me, it's certainly a bit big for a game jam, so for me, it's more like a game for the evening or day, but not for a Game jam, so I'll finish it later, because even though my English is bad, I was a little hooked by the plot (if, of course, I understood it correctly) and I'm interested how the story end. I can't say anything about the controls and all that because I don't understand strategy games (I play only 3D where or controls been other or you don't even have it), forgive me, but after all I can wish you good luck in creating the game because, as I understand it, you want to finish it, so good luck to you and great job.

nice game really fun to play

A well polished game, also polished several times already but that's not a bad thing! Visually, the game is really a beauty. The graphics, the visual effects, just awesome, and I like the glowing line art kind of thing.

Turn-based strategy is not an easy genre. In most cases, the complexity gets nuts and leaves the players with hard decisions. I have the feeling that this is well ballance. Maybe, the game could start of with much less card options and enter the player more into thinking of who shoots, who supports, who does what. Talking about this, I have 2 issues:

1. The movement seems unnecessarily complicated. Instead of having a radius and a max. amount of rotation change, you have to fiddle around and often end up miss-using the movement energy and strand there with not enough rotation energy. Also, the movement is sometimes buggy: selecting move and stop below the ship is not always working (even though not overlapping with another ship), then move left of "end turn" does work BUT there is no stop there, so I had to scratch back and forth to end movement.

2. When starting a fight, it would be cool if I could reposition the ships - e.g. put the supporter in the middle of both, so it can support both without having to move from the bottom way upward the the most far ship. Also, while the "nearby" constraint for supporting is nice, maybe there could also be some other way to support the not-near ship.

Another thing I noticed: After victory in the light-speed flight home, I read "select other ship" but I could not get it "to work" and/or don't know what that means or does.

Anyway, this is a really cool, well polished game. It seems near-to-ready to be published and commercialized, right? Thumbs up! :-)