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Game
Game2016
Last Days of Old Earth
Developer Auroch Digital
Last Days of Old Earth is a rich strategy game set in our far, far future where the sun is dying. Can you command the last noble tribes of humanity as they attempt to survive among the machines and marauding clans? From the Steam store page
37 reactions from 1 source (Steam reviews) · newest Dec 24, 2025 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
62
Fresh
23 positive · 14 negative
95% range 46–76%
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Steam's own rating
Mixed
34 of 57 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
37 of 37 · most liked firstThis is a turn based strategy game that works at two levels. Most of your time will be driven on the world map where cards determine the units you can put in play. There is a little mechanic where you decide whether to spend resources you need to bring cards to try and get more action points to use them (but if your AI opponent spends more you lose them). This strategy layer is well designed but unfortunately suffers from increasingly long wait times for the AI on larger maps. The second layer…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I will just start right off by saying i recommend this title. It has an interesting art style, it has a nice mix of turn based strategy rules along with card drawing to pick your hero and warrior units. It is easy to learn and fun to play. I personally have not run into any bugs as of the time of writing this short review. The only down side at this point in the games development is that there are not any difficulty levels to pick from. I do suggest to the devs that the game would benefit to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Writing a review for an EA title is always tricky. The devs announced many major updates for the game in the future. Most of the time that's a good thing, but I saw EA titles change so much on their way to release that it was not the same game I played in EA anymore. This review is based on my own experience in the game how it's now on EA release date. I do not take future plans into account or features which did not excist yet. I'm original a board game player and changed some years (20…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Last Days of Old Earth is an extremely fun game. It has a great tempo--turns are fairly quick even into late game.There are small decisions (whether to spend your action points on moving a unit/card on the map or bring a new unit/card onto the map, how much resources to gamble at the start of each turn for more action points, when and where to create armies) and big decisions (when and where to build outposts to extend your supply lines and when and where to commit your army to battle). The art…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Buggy. 1) Sometimes fonts become mangled and unreadable 2) Had enemy phantom units that you could not attack, could move onto the same space as them, then they disappear. When you move off the space again the unit is there again The game is very similar to Armageddon Empires, that I liked, but it feels simpler and less polished. Things that you can forgive to a year 2007 title are much harder to forgive to a year 2016 title. The game has less factions, less cards, less options. Of course,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Decisions, decisions, decisions. That is what is in store while playing Slitherine’s (and Auroch Digital’s) Early Access, turn-based “Last Days of Old Earth”. Action Points are the soul of the procedurally generated main map. AP are used to recruit units, move units, create armies, and to draw new hero and fighter cards for your expanding deck. Need additional resources (Materials, Population, Energy)? Leftover AP. Resources are also needed for unit purchase and for trying to improve your…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played the tutorial and i am hooked already; the tutorial explains the basics pretty well although reading the manual never hurts either. The game is an interesting mix of different genres; it is a bit of Civ and the combat reminds me of HOMM and it is also partially a card game, i really like the mix. I definitely recommend this 4X game, a 4X game with punch.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Last Days of Old Earth is probably the most polished and finished Early Access game I've played. Also, I just found out that it is based on Armageddon Empires. Well I tried Armageddon Empires demo ages ago and while I could see that it is a great game, I just could not get into it at that time because the game was quite complicated and the manual very dense. I put it aside and intended to give it another try sometime in the future when I was ready to invest the time that was required to learn…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is certainly the most polished EA game I've played or indeed seen. Blending the card management systems of Magic the Gathering with the thrilling combat dice rolling of Warhammer and Ogre, LDoOE is a beautiful blend of what makes the turn based genre great. Personally I like the slower pace of the game. Meaning that unlike Starcraft I don't have to worry about getting units out as fast as possible. In LDoOE I can concentrate more on strategy and developing over time rather than spamming…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is a mish-mash of a couple different genres that just works so well. You've got cards (soon deck-building), turn-based tactical battles (that is a combination of chess and HOMM) with a simplified 4x empire building system and you've got Last Days of Old Earth. It should be mentioned that this game is a "spiritual" successor to a game called Armageddon Empires (never actually played it). In the game, you take control of one of two factions and by attempt to defeat the opponent using a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Last Days of Old Earth has some very clever mechanics. Combat and resource gathering are intuitive. The UI is clean and easy to navigate, and the artisitic style is visually pleasing. WARNING: This game is very thin on content! There is a lot going for LDOOE, but you'll exhaust most of it within 20 hours, if that long. Its brilliant design is so hamstrung by its lack of units, abilities, random events, etc. etc. etc. that the game will leave you wondering if there's something you missed.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I applied for the beta program, and for some reason my invite went to junk. I noticed the invite in my junk folder the day the game went into Early Access. I played through the tutorial and found it very compelling. I like the look and feel (favorably reminds me of Massive Chalice), I like the card mechanism and I like the tactical and operational layer. I haven't really had a chance to dig into the strategy, but I like the game, I'm going to try to spend some more time on it and then…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game has amazing potential, so far it has a Tutorial and a Skirmish, with a decent enough level of options for a game that just entered Early Access. I have seen many early access games offering less than this. Whats even more important is they are releasing what looks like a solid roadmap for the game, which looks like a strict Early Access period unlike so many other Early Access games. Gameplay is very very solid and addictive, and it is reminiscent of its inspiration: Armageddon…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Review for version 0.2.6 The game has bugs, not the can't even start the game kind, more like I've been playing for 20 minutes and now A dialog won't close and I can't save, so all my progress is gone kind. Besides the bugs which come as part of EA the game doesn't seem like nothing special, it's ok. You move units around during a skirmish and fight some battles. There is a deck but you can't build one yourself. It seems like all the dice rolling is put in just to make it a board game but…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very polished for a EA title. Appears (except for lack of campaign) to be pretty much feature complete. One thing it really could use is a manual (it will have one upon completion). Without a manual or tooltips there are some things that I have no idea what they do. I really think that one thing that the game is going to need down the road to hold a player's interest is a third faction (maybe as DLC or expansion), Overall it gets a big "thumbs up" and it can be enjoyed in its current EA state.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pros: I love the game concept. It bridges a lot of aspects I like: CCG's, RPG elements, strategy, ect. Combat (when it works correctly) is an enjoyable experience. Visuals and sound meet what I expect from a game in this category. Cons: Bugs. A lot of them. What did it in for me was several game freezes in a row. Add in my auto-save not working well, and I'm out a few hours. I'm currently locked into only the second campaign mission because of the game locking and issues with saving. I'm…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There's another review that goes into more detail than mine by andrewsav, so please read their review. I found all the same issues and I had an additional bug where enemies would take double turns on movement, completely broke the game when playing skirmish. Basically the enemy would take two movement turns, always capturing your outposts and supply spots. Then if you tried to attack them, they'd retreat from battle (in my limited experience they got away 100% of the time) and then take…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Much to simple. Especially for $29.99. I was falling asleep while playing, literally.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An extremely simplistic game with almost no content. This is not a 4X strategy game, just a crude card game. I experienced a critical error that meant I couldn't continue the session on my first playthrough. Spend your time and money elsewhere.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Awesome combination of Endless Legend type turn-based strategy and a CCG. This early access title is already very well put together and it can only get better.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the devs thought my Twitch name was so cool that he named one ofe the heroes in a similar manner (for that particular match that they streamed).
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Only my second review, but I own a lot of different games, many from Matrix, HPS, others. What I like about this game is it has a little bit of everything - old-school hex based strategy, TBS tactical combat with interesting units, deck building, random card drawing, and now a campaign. My main wish is a DLC loaded with more (larger) maps. It could add to bottom line and keep game in the limelight. Later at night, when I just can't deal with a monster game, this one relaxes me while offering…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is frustrating and boring. They tried to make a modern Armageddon Empires, which is a great idea, but failed miserably. The devs removed the good things (unique units, scarcity, hand-drawn artwork). The hand drawn art feel of AE was replaced by bland and sad looking 3D graphics. Each unit looks the same. I see their goal was to make the game more "accessible" by adding a campaing mode. But the downside to "accessible" is there is not a lot you can do. Th first campaign map takes…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So many of the mechanics revolve around dice rolls - and there is no way it is actually RNG. Three straight hours of nothing but bad rolls. When you get 1 out of 7 or 1 out of 9 SIX TIMES in a row after THREE hours of getting 0s and 1s (out of 4-6 dice usually) for 90% of your rolls its fairly obvious the difficulty is being artificially inflated somewhere in the programming. Its one thing to add elements of random chance to a strategy game - its another thing to take all the strategy out of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm still early in the SP campaign, but it's interesting enough I'll give it a thumbs up. The action point system is quite good, making sure that even if you've got a substantial lead (or deficit) you're fairly limited on how much you can activate. The battles are quite good. The balance of forces and special unit powers definitely reward planning. However, it has some major flaws. Even on Hard, the AI does ridiculously stupid things. Not "oh, bad strategy", but "Oh my god" things. For…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is a lot of fun, especially since I am into collectible card games Learning curve takes a while and I am still trying to figure things out but I am charging ahead. Any negative reviews of this game are probably people that just can't figure out what is going on Gameplay has been seamless which is not always the case for early access games. I think it is worth the money and would recommend to anyone.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wanted to recommend it - it's a nice little puzzly strategy game, lacking only in polish: it's incredibly slow. For example, even if there's no damage done in an attack, you still have to watch the little "I'm attacking" animation and listen to the "pew pew" sound. But when it crashes during the middle of an AI turn and loses data from a scenario not ironically named a "Grind", I sadly have to give it the big frowny face.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The games systems are well done and the cards/units are interesting enough but the campaign is poorly written and missions not very interesting. The AI is also poor so skirmish mode is not fun.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As with most of these bad codded slitherine games, the turns can take forever the longer you play. However the game itself is quite fun,. Slitherine and their pet devs are notoorious for unpolished , half finished games that you have to find the joy in "despiute" where ti comes from and the poor unoptimized coding. Turns length extension is normal for games like this...however, bad coding exaggerates that a LOT. Still, on sale it's a nice game to play and as with most of their catalog, could be…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game has some potential, I know have only just started, but it was very easy to get into. Played through the tutorial which maybe should be expanded a bit more, that or they need to get a cut of the manual out there as some of the features I am not totally sure of at this point. The campaign I stareted was pretty easy to get into, with the cards and random dice roll I get a sense of the old style games I loved from SPI and Avalon Hill back in the day. Will have to see how it goes over…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the edge panning seems to be inverted. i have never seen something rediculous like this
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't know if you have ever heard of a game called Armageddon Empires? Well anyway this is a knockoff of that game plus or minus a few good ideas. But this one does have a campaign and an army deck that is practically tailor made for an AI.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really like this game, it reminds me of an old card-based one called Scrolls. I really like that you can engage in battles individually, in additon to all the regular turn-based strategy. It's a great combination, and the tutorial gives you a great start. Love the setting, look n feel, and music too!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A great strategic turn based game with tactical battles. The UI is clean is easy and all the information you need is easily accessible. Loving it so far, 5 hours in.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ugly ans simple graphics,but a nice game overall I finished it in one night ,I bought it for 10 dollars and refunded it
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very slow AI turns --- minutes on my machine, so games take forever. But otherwise like the game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The tutorial bugged out and would not let me continue.
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