Five Elements
Five Elements is a real time strategy game about managing energies of five Taoist elements (fire, earth, metal, water and wood). The hero is a monk in quest for Enlightenment.
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March 24, 2017
9 years and 133 days ago
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Mostly Positive41 reviews70.7%
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10 itemsAbout the Game
Five Elements is a real time strategy game about managing energies of five Taoist elements (fire, earth, metal, water and wood). The hero is a monk in quest for Enlightenment.
The battlefield is the hero’s own mind, an energy-information structure composed of nodes of the five element energies and channels between them. The enemies are their sins, negative qualities, and negative energies.
Key Features:
Meditate:
Embrace Tao:
And then…
Become Immortal
The battlefield is the hero’s own mind, an energy-information structure composed of nodes of the five element energies and channels between them. The enemies are their sins, negative qualities, and negative energies.
Key Features:
- Unique and fresh gameplay.
- Carefully honed and balanced rules providing strategic variety.
- Procedural and hand-crafted maps.
Meditate:
- Dive deeply into your mind!
- Face increasingly powerful enemies!
- Learn to use the elements’ strengths and weaknesses!
- Defeat your own vices!
Embrace Tao:
- Obtain 40 levels of power!
- Learn 8 spells able to turn the tide of even the most hopeless battle!
- Transform your imperfect physical body into a body made of pure energy!
- Unleash power of elements onto the Darkness of your mind!
And then…
Become Immortal
