Hex Gambit: Respawned
“Hex Gambit: Respawned is like chess meets Into The Breach meets American football.”
-Rock Paper Shotgun
Command your squad of robotic minions in the enthralling battle sport of Hex Gambit! Whether you’re tackling Campaign mode alone or after some multiplayer board game action, this is an easy-to-learn tactics game that’s hard to put down. Matches take about 20 minutes.
Bounce across the strangely-elastic heads of your opponents. Swat characters clear across the map. Inspire your teammates with an operatic blast from a guy with a giant speaker for a head. Your minions are teeming with useful tricks to master!
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Match wits with the undefeated Mastermind in Campaign mode.
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3 difficulties to tackle as you learn the ins and outs of the sport.
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Local multiplayer for 1-4 players, 0-4 controllers
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Free for All & 2v2 Modes
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Spice things up with any number of Easy or Smarter AI opponents.
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Steam Remote Play supported!
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10 Captains to choose from
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7 map themes with 21 different layouts!
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Make your own House Rules with tons of match options.
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Player handicaps help inexperienced players go toe-to-toe with veterans.
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Synth War Tactics
very fun game, reminds me of Fallout: Tactics. The different build combinations are insane, really lets you build your team and play how you want.
– Real player with 13.9 hrs in game
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If you like turn-based tactic games you should check this out! The melee is really fun and I really like the music.
– Real player with 2.2 hrs in game
X Wars Deluxe
Good game, but still mad it has no +1.
– Real player with 203.6 hrs in game
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This game has that Advance Wars nostalgia feel. The matches aren’t drawn out too long which is nice. However there are a few bugs. I was able to contact the developer and he was willing to hear all feedback and assured he would be making necessary adjustments to this game to improve it.
– Real player with 1.8 hrs in game
Abridged
My new favorite virtual board game!
Played locally with friends and we all had a blast!
– Real player with 24.9 hrs in game
There is no doubt in my mind that this will be the future of strategy board games.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1646660
– Real player with 2.3 hrs in game
Archons of Doom
This can be a fast paced game, but if you are very crafty you can slow it down and make it yours, but you will have to have worked on your skill with your spells and any objects you may find.
You can think you are winning and then BAM you are lost! Very good challenging game play by the enemy Archons, they’ll trick you and surprise you with their antics!
A very very addictive game. You lose so you want to try again, you win so you want to better your score. Very repeat playable. I Beta tested this but there were times I loaded this up just to play it anyway as it is that good!
– Real player with 306.7 hrs in game
This is in the top 10 games of any turn-based game on the market. I is in my top 20 of all turn-based game I’ve played, ever. It takes a while to hone one’s skills, but that is the fun of the game. I was fortunate to beta-test the game and subsequently I learned a bunch about the mechanics. However, the finished and polished game is even more challenging, despite me knowing several of the maps.
We can also create our own Archons! Having played around 175 hours when this specific feature was added, I thought, “oh, I’ll mop up with my hand-designed Archon along with a hand-picked team. Nah. Wrong. This game is challenging. There is always another Archon with minions that counter your advantages.
– Real player with 187.1 hrs in game
Bongo Arena
Full play through here once it uploads I’ll show each build I use pause if you need to copy it: https://youtu.be/Z4e-eJHih1M
This is actually insanely difficult at parts and takes a lot of thought to prioritize abilities or even figure out the game at the start since there’s no tutorial. MAJOR DRAW BACK though I’m not sure if this is attended but the achievement numbers don’t match up to the levels so even if you beat them all you won’t get the achievements. Really neat though gets wild when you get to the silver area and the knights are smacking your people to narnia.
– Real player with 1.1 hrs in game
City Of Brave
this game is terribly translate. horribly made. and the drop rates for items are ridiculously low even to use as an item farm.
when you hover over an inventory item it flashes very quickly.
it defaults to some kind of kanji language. second option in the main menu can change it to broken english
once you start the game the only way to quit is by using alt +f4
you cannot do anything and most things never work.
when you unlock the last area the enemies will stop spawning effectively fucking up your save forever forcing you to delete it and start over.
– Real player with 210.1 hrs in game
EDIT 2: I noticed Heyzeus made a bigger video about this. Sweet. (around 15:15 for the City of Brave part)
EDIT: I noticed Heyzeus made a short video about this as well. Cool.
There’s not much depth or interactivity in this game. Maybe I’m playing it wrong, but as an excuse, the game is still part Chinese despite setting it to Engrish.
This game basically plays by itself. Just recruit some people, give them some equipment (once you can craft some) and send them to a journey. Once this is done, you can level them up to beat higher levels. I guess, you can do some other stuff while your people fight, like crafting new weapons or so… There is no sense of progression, no challenge, no clear goal. Just clearing levels, upgrade your warriors, rinse and repeat. You sometimes get items in your Steam inventory after clearing levels, which can be used in-game to upgrade your gear.
– Real player with 21.4 hrs in game
Mind Over Mushroom
This is a very fun turn-based strategy game. The battles have enough difficulty to be frustratingly fun, but not so difficult that I want to quit the game forever. There is a lot of strategy involved. The character variety adds to the mechanics, as a well as the terrain. The style of the game is also aesthetically pleasing. After having it on my wishlist for several months, I’m glad I actually bought it.
– Real player with 26.6 hrs in game
Liking it so far. Fun tactics game with a good amount of challenge. Graphics are simple but nice.
– Real player with 23.5 hrs in game
Mythic Legions Tactics
Discover the world of Mythoss and build your “Mythic Legion” in this innovative, customizable, non-Pay-to-win TACTICS game featuring Fully 3D Realistic Environments, Hundreds of Class options, and Skill Based Battles! Build your Legion! Change your faction! Fight in the WAR OF THE AETHERBLADE!
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Free-To-Play Multiplayer game that that comes with a purchasable Single Player story that includes more than 150 fully 3D Battles, Hundreds of Weapons and Armor, and nearly a Dozen Races.
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The game will be available on PC and mobile platforms initially (iOS, Android) and is being designed with strategic, satisfying gameplay in-mind…
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Fully Customizable Characters!
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Cinematic cut scenes with high-paced action!
GAMEPLAY
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Single-player or Multi-player where you can battle against your friends in Hot Seat or Tactics With Friends, or anyone in Tactics With Friends or Auto-Battler Modes.
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Not a “pay-to-win” game. Players can only enhance their power in the game by building up their skills and completing challenges during actual gameplay.
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Players can purchase different character skins and graphical enhancements to accessories or weapons (like adding flame effect to a sword.
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Turn-based strategy & tactics players will embrace the familiar joy of a classic genre with innovative features, such as movement across fully 3D realistic environments that include different elevations and landscapes such as hills, stairways and even in water. On top of those there are special moves, full 3D camera rotation, and Auto-battling options.
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Combat matters! Besides normal combat mode, players can choose to attack certain limbs and making special targeted attacks.
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Customization is king - like the Mythic Legions toy line, players can customize their characters at a very high level and add details to their characters body, armor, weapons, clothing, accessories – no 2 characters will be the same
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Players will build a “special ops” team within the faction they choose and will follow the storyline getting into battles, side missions and boss battles to advance in the game and unlock levels and rewards.
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One of the coolest features is that players will be able to play the storyline of a certain faction, and then go back and play the storyline as a different one. For example, play as the good guys chasing the stolen Aetherblade, or as the bad guys trying the outrun your pursuers and return the sword to its master.
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When players do switch storylines, they will be playing against the faction team they’ve previously created which is now run by the games AI.
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Character Skins & Power Level – Players will be building their characters using a “slot” system. Which will allow them to build up their characters skills and powers. Players can decide to change their character skins during the game (say from Knight to Barbarian) and the skill/power they’ve already built up will automatically transfer over. This also includes when players decide to switch storylines to a different faction. For example, if you build up a character to a 20 during one storyline, you will start the other storyline with a 20 so you are not starting over. The games AI will scale automatically.
STORYLINES
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War of the Aetherblade is the 1st season of the Mythic Legions Tactics game and is set in the high-fantasy world of Mythic Legions with Humans, Elves, Knights, Orcs, Trolls, Undead Skeletons and Vampires, and more
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The game’s story starts with the coronation of the Elven Queen Artemyss Silverchord at Castle Silverhorn. During the ceremony, the castle is attacked by the Legion of Arethyr and the mystical Aetherblade sword is stolen. Queen Artemyss’s legion, along with other factions and splinter cells, are now racing to win back control of the Aetherblade before it falls into the hands of its master Arethyr and he lays waste to the realm of Mythoss.
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Play the storyline as different factions – Mythic Legions has a deep storyline and there will be 5 factions included in the Single Player game.
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When a player does decide to switch factions, the skill and power levels that they’ve already built up will be transferred to their new storyline. So players don’t have to start from scratch.
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Boss Battles – every Faction will feature a boss battle featuring one of the core characters from the Mythic Legions universe
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Side Missions – Each storyline will have side missions (like a jail break out) and challenges that will either advance the story or unlock bonuses.
WHAT MAKES MYTHIC LEGIONS TACTICS UNIQUE?
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3D Realistic Levels - Most Tactics games are 2D and won’t let you rotate the camera around to see different angles. The few 3D Tactics games that exist are made where the environment itself is made of just a bunch of textured 3D squares of Hexes instead of more realistic environments. Instead we place the Hex grid over the environment instead of making it using them.
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Visual Customization - Lots of games allow for visual customizations, but we believe we have taken it much further. Not only are we customizing the standard things like skin color, face, hair, tattoos, but every piece of armor and weapon can be recolored to any color, mix and matched between different types, and effects can be added to each such as flames or frost. The customizer in this game will literally let anyone create a digital action figure and pose them in a display environment as well as shared with anyone to see your collection.
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Slot Based Characters - This is slightly more difficult to explain. The basic concept is that all of the character data is stored in a specific slot. Since Mythic Legions Tactics lets you play 5 Single Player Faction storylines as well as Multiplayer battles, we didn’t want the player to always have to start back off at level 1 every time they choose a different story or played Multiplayer. So to accomplish this you can create a different playable Character for each Faction storyline and even different ones for Multiplayer all within the same slot allowing the slot to level up. This slot continues to grow the more the player plays the game, so no matter if you are playing Single Player stories or Multiplayer battles, the Slot keeps its experience, Skills, and unlocked Classes.
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No Pay To Win (Everything is Skill Based) - Well when we set out to make this game, one of the most important elements was to make sure it wasn’t something people could just come in, buy a bunch of overpowered equipment, items, etc… and just destroy other people. So instead we removed ALL stat boosts, specials, and other enhancements from equipment. We made the game more about how skillful your characters are with each weapon, armor, or item. So by unlocking a skill, that skill then levels up as the character uses it more there by increasing the stats, attack, defense, etc… of the character. So the more you play the more your character improves instead of buying that improvement!
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Melded Classes - This is probably one of the most unique features for Mythic Legions Tactics. This allows players to essentially merge two different classes into a new one. As an example, if you leveled your character up to unlock the classes for Priest and Mage. You could Meld the two into a new hybrid class called a Blue Mage which gives the player access to most of the same Skills and Spells for both classes as well as a few new unique ones to the new hybrid class called Blue Mage. A more extreme example would be melding a Barbarian with a Necromancer. Honestly I don’t know what the new hybrid class would be called just yet, but they are on opposite sides of the Classes hierarchy with very different Stat requirements. But at the same time it is absolutely something you could do and allows for people to have a lot more fun trying out the various options for potentially hundreds of unique classes!
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Turn-Based Strategy with Auto-Battle - Most tactics game battles take a long time to complete even a single one. Some people love this. It means you can get 50+ hours of gameplay in a single game. However, others don’t like the tedium of having to choose every action for their characters to attack the enemy. While it is far more efficient to do so, it also isn’t always necessary if you are grinding to level up, or just want to play to see the story. To make the game more enjoyable for everyone, we have added what are called Battle Templates. The game will come with a few pre-made ones, but essentially a Battle Template allows you to select a set of predefined rules and action for your characters to follow instead of you having to decide each and every action. This will let you be able to just Auto-Battle levels by having your team just go through those actions automatically so you can enjoy leveling up, the customization, and the amazing story. Also, just so everyone knows, Battle-Templates work on both Single Player story levels and Multiplayer!
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Win Conditions - Normally win conditions in a tactics game are just to defeat everyone. We are definitely going to have that win condition, but sometimes the win condition might be to sneak past guards and unlock something, get all of your players to a specific area on the map without losing anyone, or incapacitate the enemy instead of kill them. These different types will offer a variety of gameplay options not seen in strategy tactics games.
Primeval
Despite the game being early access it’s fully functional and certainly enjoyable, lots of potential to be a great game.
– Real player with 24.0 hrs in game
I really love turn-based games and stumbled upon Primeval on the turn-based lovers website, which then lead me to Steam.
Primeval has a lot of potential, the Developer is cool and a nice guy. He is working hard to make this game a very unique experience. I have played turn-based games for years and I haven’t come across anything like this before, which is what I love about it. You enter the game in ‘God Mode’ where you create your domain with terrain hexes, various fantasy/monster units, and spells. There is an ever-growing selection of these and I know the Developer has lots more in store! You spend essence to create the land, units, spells and buildings. You build your castle on one of the terrain hexes, this must be protected at all costs or you lose the game. When you are happy with your domain set-up you then enter a live turn-based match (3 minutes per move) against another person(s) and the domains created by each player will then join together, with a few random hexes added in, these random hexes will have neutral owners. Randomly each turn three hexes then produce resources according to their colour values (green for Forest, red for Volcano etc) which can then be used to deploy your units onto the domain or cast spells. There are buildings that increase resource yield, help defence and more. It’s a typical hex game where each type of terrain incurs a movement cost for a unit, dependant on the units move value. Each unit has unique actions and some abilities to attack enemy units and damage buildings. Once your castle is lost you are returned to God Mode and your domain is amended accordingly, where upon it can be amended ready for the next match. Spend those essences wisely! It would make a really good table top board game (worth a think for the Developer) The Developer is working on single player mode, more achievements, more units, more actions, improving the UI and is clearly very passionate about it. I am excited to see how this game continues to grow, as I find it charming, addictive and a bit of a brain burner! If you like turn-based hex games, based on fantasy, that feel like a board game, or just fancy something completely different then I highly recommend it!
– Real player with 9.2 hrs in game