This game answers the question "what if Banner Saga was bad?" World-building that inspires curiosity and awe? Replaced by badly-translated edgelord-y, sprinkled with some of the most generic fantasy kingdoms ever put to pixel. Fun, distinct characters? Also not found in this game - but what you get is a collection of dinguses who flipflop over their views whenever they have free time from not understanding what's happening. Moral ambiguity? Just like in any other game that claims to have it - the antagonists are stabbing babies left and right, the protagonists are mysteriously angry at random people, and every third random encounter involves a wounded woman protecting her child.

At this point, you may hope for combat mechanics to be fun, but no, it's Banner Saga without fun classes, combos, or non-human enemies, but with plenty of attacks that drain your own HP and a system of magical cards that harm you more than the enemy.

The real tragedy of Ash of Gods is that it wastes the excellent art, music, and Lo Pheng (and his crew) to deliver a game from devs so insecure, they included an encounter where people comparing Ash to Banner Saga are represented by a drunk getting thrown out of an inn.

If you want to know what happens in the game, read TheGreatEvilKing's LP - he's funny and summarizes the awful dialogue while also providing smart criticism on the many, many, many failings of Ash of Gods.

Age of Decadence delivers everything this game promises but better (if uglier) while Tahira: Echoes of the Astral Empire is, at least, not as badly translated or edgy.