Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles Review (PC)

Hevelius, known as The Ancient Warden, goes into battle accompanied by two powerful sentinels, which can quickly tilt a battle in his favor by rolling their own dice and launching purification strikes. It gives players more options on this chance-driven battlefield and can lead to complex strategies and combos. It can also become a problem because I need to spend actions repairing them when enemies assault them.

This particular oracle is oriented toward defensive play, able to apply shields each turn. It creates space to absorb enemy strikes and re-roll dice to get more favorable results. And the game constantly asks me to choose between keeping my hero's health up and taking enough corruption to activate my more powerful virtues.

A combination of solid offensive dice and bad opponent rolls makes it easy to win the fight without losing a full-health heart. Back on the overland map, I choose to pick up more shards because I want to try and craft a little later on. A...