Review: Build Up and Kick Down Towers And Gods In SONS OF RA
Multiplayer games need one essential thing, replay-ability. If it’s playing with your friends online or match-made games with random people on the internet, a multiplayer game is only as good as its ability to be played again and again. Sons Of Ra doesn’t create anything terribly new, but it does combine well aspects of tower defense games and games like Clash Royale to make an enjoyable multiplayer experience that can at least entertain long enough to get your money’s worth.
Like I mentioned above, this is a combination game. Players will each have a base with two or three lanes leading between their base and the enemy base. Players will then spend money on sending minions to attack or towers to defend. They can also spend money on various upgrades, special powers, and base enhancements. I was genuinely surprised with the variety in the game. For being a smaller company and smaller game, there is a lot of interesting choices. Players can choose a specific god, which towers to focus on, and where, what, and when to send units. While the game can come to a stalemate for long stretches of time, it still feels pretty good to balance spending money or waiting and defending for a time to make a big attack later when the opponent is weak.
Even though I mentioned only multiplayer, there is a minimalist single player. Players will choose a character and fight basically all the other gods like any other arcade fighting game, moving to hard and hard AI. It’s a good way to learn the game and unlock new gods, but there isn’t much to go back to after playing through it once or twice with every character (or less). Most of the time will be finding matches online and playing against real people. While the pool of people is small, I was happy to say that I never had to wait terribly long to find a match.
If you enjoy tower defense games and stuff like Clash Royale or RWBY: Amity Arena, this is a pretty awesome blend of the two. Sons Of Ra doesn’t offer much else outside of a basic match-made multiplayer, but fans of the genres can still enjoy the balanced gameplay, shifting strategies, and ancient aesthetic.
