DR4X
The Game
DR4X is a fast paced dark fantasy turn based strategy game with horror elements In a world with many…dimensions to uncover!
The game has simple, fun, fast paced, dynamic gameplay where each type of faction uses different resources and completely unique playstyles.
Play in an evolving world, filling up with horrors and monsters if you don’t try to stop their spread, unique events and so on.
It also has a very reactive world map and an in depth skirmish creator. With multiple possible win conditions to choose from based on your skirmish choices.
Research powerful stacking technologies to dominate your enemies, or let the other factions and even the nearby gremlin horde learn how to cause more trouble for you with their own technologies.
Do you want to fight other empires? Or perhaps just defeat the monsters infesting the realm. Or maybe even be the monsters infesting the realm! It is your choice!
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The Battle of Polytopia
I would like to begin with the disclaimer that I received Polytopia for free as I had the privilege of beta-testing it before its Steam release. However, I do not believe that this influences my view of the game in any major way that would impact my review. I also had prior experience with the game in its mobile form prior to its release on Steam.
Polytopia is simply a brilliant game. Midjiwan created a masterpiece that is continually refreshing and new, yet challenging to master. The AI is just punishing enough on higher difficulties to encourage thoughtful and deliberate gameplay, yet lenient enough to reward clever strategic moves. At no point have I felt like the game was too arbitrarily challenging or easy, instead it has consistently maintained a delicate balance in terms of difficulty (unless you happen to be stranded on a 1x1 island with no resources in sight, which although rare, is quite tragic). The game is also super approachable for beginners without much experience in this type of strategy/resource management genre. I think that honestly anyone from any skill level can thoroughly enjoy Polytopia.
– Real player with 52.9 hrs in game
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I really do recommend this game after playing for about 11 hours. It’s the first time I play a game like this, but to my understanding it’s quite a lot like Civilisation but much simpler (and cheaper). Like all games, there are both good and bad things to this game. Let’s discuss it.
Firstly, I’d like to adress the negatives. Multiplayer mode is not that fun, in my opinion. Pass & Play works if there are two of you, but even then it’s a little tiresome to wait for your turn. I tried playing with 2 friends and it just took way too long. I haven’t tried online multiplayer because I don’t know anyone who owns this game. You can play with strangers as well, but the waiting time to fill a server is too much. That’s not really the game’s fault though, that’s just because not enough people have bought this game yet since it’s new.
– Real player with 28.7 hrs in game
Conquest: Medieval Kingdoms
“Conquest: Medieval Kingdoms” is a turn-based 4X grand strategy game, played on a procedurally-generated strategic world map and you get to decide at the start of your game if it is made of a one large continent, few continents, large, islands, or small islands. Tactical battles are fought on tactical battlefields and are real-time, like Total War. Every world-map and battlefield is generated, so entirely unique, so this game will always have something new to throw at you.
I am extremely impressed by this game, especially since it is a one-man dev team. The dev uses Unity. I am playing on easy ( with only a few religions to start off with) to get a feel for the game. I restarted a few times in the first few minutes to get a reasonable starting position (with my back to an ocean and mountains), I am playing on the strategic map and I haven’t even bothered to dive down into the tactical battles YET as you can auto-resolve them (larger armies don’t always beat smaller ones on auto-resolve, even on Easy)! The game is a sandbox where you can do pretty much what you want to expand your kingdom into an empire. It has a principality, vassal, kingdom, empire and allies system. It has an economy of power, gold, food, wood and iron, as well as controlling trade routes. There are monthly turns, 12 months to a year, as well as seasons and weather (snow ground cover causes attrition). It is like a simplified version of Crusader Kings. If you like Medieval type games, you will like this. It literally just came out today, so there are a few bugs, but it is surprisingly bug free.
– Real player with 10.9 hrs in game
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Took a while to get used to the game and battle system, but if you read the tutorial properly and get used to it, it is a great exciting game. one of those games you can easily lose track of.
Do love how you have to try make sure parts you take over to assymulate or they will come back to bite you
If you love stratagy games you will love this
– Real player with 2.6 hrs in game
Askara
Askara is a rogue-like turn-based tactics game, you choose how long each run takes, from a half an hour, to a few days if you want to! Multiple layers of mechanics mesh together to ensure that every run will be unique. It is easy to pick up, but will take years to master.
Game features
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Procedurally generated worlds, every playthrough will have a unique map
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Death is not the end, part of your experience carries over to the next run, you will unlock perks as you play enabling new strategies
Line War
Line War is a multiplayer Real-Time Strategy (RTS) game heavily influenced by other strategy genres including 4X, War Game, Auto Battler, and Real-Time Tactics.
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Endless number of asymmetric procedural worlds
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Players select their starting territories in an innovative and fair “picking phase”
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You draw commands that units will follow
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Reduced micro-management, Actions per Minute (APM) is not important
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No control of individual units, they all follow commands and directives
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Traditional, recognizable, and well balanced militaristic units
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Conquer territories, build towns, cities, industries, ports, and trade routes to earn capital
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Produce energy with refineries and powerplants for sustained mobility of tanks, air force, and navy
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Visual commands
This game has a never-before-seen approach that lets you focus on drawing commands and executing a strategy rather than managing individual units. Chain commands and execute orchestrated operations for coordinated attacks against your opponent. This command system sets Line War apart from other strategy games.
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Familiar Units
Line War dares to break the trend and has only one race with familiar units to widen the audience and ease the learning curve. Each unit has a distinct and carefully balanced role.
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Strategy
Line War focuses on strategy. We’ve designed the game around the typical RTS-problems to remove the steep learning curve and need for ultra-fast micro-management so you can focus on planning and executing a strategy.
During Early Access; Line War is a multiplayer-only game! We will add single-player campaigns for the full release in 2023. As an Early Access customer, you will receive the single-player campaigns for free once the game is fully released.
Sakura Stars
The game is very hard but have boobs.
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game
It is a good game, however this game should come with a manual but for future reference, z to play x to shoot. you can’t use mouse to move but rather the up down left and right keys. It is not a must buy but if you are a pro mover then it’s a must buy game. It is hard to defeat but not impossible. This game doesn’t have any sexual content or nudity. A game just for fun.
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
Empire Takeover
This is a fun & amazing tower crush game! Crush enemy’s towers, take over the empire!
● Fight: Connect all your buildings together to grow them taller and then takeover the enemy’s buildings.
● Control: Simple drag controls from one building to another.
● Build: Build your empire, occupy more territory, crush your opponents.
● Heroes: Recruit legendary heroes.
● Special art style: Lowpoly Style Game.
● 3 Special Mode:
#1 Stage Maker Mode: design levels by yourself and share it to your family, your friends or all the worldwide players.
Isle of the Crown
Right now you need a controller to play the game and a friend to play it with. Those are things that will be addressed in future though.
I think it’s a fun strategy game and would recommend it if you’re a fan of the genre with the above caveats in mind :)
– Real player with 2.1 hrs in game
Cave Quest
Cave Quest (Match-3)
Steam copy provided for Curator review
One of my most-played match-3’s of all time!
Options include separate sliders for SFX, Music and Ambients, Full-screen, Custom Cursor and choice of Timed (bonus cash~! Ka-ching!) or Untimed (can be changed between M3 levels).
Story
Your family has disappeared in the mountains, and thanks to rumors of dangerous evil spirits, the locals are too afraid to help you search for them.
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– Real player with 100.0 hrs in game
It’s so hard to find a good match-3 game. This is one of them. Thanks for the nice experience! This game has it all. Including beautifully designed gems which are hard to spot! Story that glues the experience together, smoothness, good professional design, even translation to my language which I didn’t need but it’s ok. Finally a game that I couldn’t take my hands off and felt urge to play on. Good product! Now I pity it’s over.
Criticism: sure to perfection it lacks more compelling story, less artificial or less cliche story, better art - one that would not be so kitchy and which would be less amateurish and a better translation. Thanks to these imperfections the game stays as just no-name game in game history, as it doesn’t bring any cultural contribution. But it’s professionally and well made product anyway. Relaxing and fun enough.
– Real player with 23.0 hrs in game
Castle Battles
Cool riff on the amoeba style RTS where you conquer nodes, gain troops at a steady pace, and the only unit is basically a one-for-one trade. The main parts that make it cool are:
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Troops don’t automatically beat an enemy troop and die–it seems to be a coin flip, so fights are 100% obvious in outcome
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The speed at which you expand is dependent on a couple special kinds of terrain. This means where you expand matters, and how you expand matters–you get to try to calculate the time it would take to build a new node vs how long it will take to expand.
– Real player with 42.1 hrs in game
I was very disapointed by this game, however it does deliver a few things.
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has an actual story that you can fallow
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has verring difficulty that becomes very difficult in some stages
some really bad things is
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the 4 factions have 0 uniqueness its just reskins
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game can be won in just a few hours of gameplay
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has MP potential yet has no MP mode
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0 replayability outside difficulty even the fee game mode is boring as fuck
in the end it could be worth a few bucks but outside 5 I would stay away from it.
– Real player with 26.8 hrs in game