Oasis
Oasis is a strategy/puzzle game depicting the journey of an Egyptian prince to unite the fragmented kingdoms of his father's domain. Players explore the sorcerous fog that has descended on these kingdoms…
Oasis is a turn-based strategy (tbs) developed by Mind Control Software, released 12 April 2005 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Oasis is
Oasis is a turn-based strategy (tbs) game developed by Mind Control Software and released in 2005. It was published by PlayFirst. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Oasis is a strategy/puzzle game depicting the journey of an Egyptian prince to unite the fragmented kingdoms of his father's domain. Players explore the sorcerous fog that has descended on these kingdoms, uniting lost cities to fend off barbarian hordes. Searching the kingdom uses a mechanic similar to Minesweeper, but with the difference that there are no harmful clicks. Each click removes fog from one space and reveals some information about what may be found in nearby spaces. Alternatively, once the player has removed enough fog to reveal useful terrain features, they may use a turn to instead build roads between cities, search them for hidden treasures, or take other actions to prepare…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Oasis holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 23% of the 743 rated turn-based strategy (tbs) games in our database, which average 76. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 3 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Oasis launched on 12 April 2005, within three weeks of God of War, God of War I, Psychonauts and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: God of War, God of War I, Psychonauts, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory.
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