Abalone
I bought this so I could play online, but after quite a few matches I’m not even sure anymore whether I’m playing real human beings or some AI made to pretend there are actual people playing this half-hearted abomination of a port.
There really is no way to tell, because the game offers no chat functionality or any way to make contact at all. In addition to that nicknames seem to be masked or something - every search for player’s profiles I made on Steam turned out empty. Why?
Well, if there are people playing, matchmaking almost always gives you ridiculously weak opponents: they walk into the most obvious traps and let their forces be split incredibly easy. Out of my 50 games I had like 2-3 really good ones.
– Real player with 22.7 hrs in game
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I’ve always loved this board game! It’s sort of an abstract sumo wrestler strategy thing where you’re trying to lure opponents to the edge and use their momentum against them. The weight of the pieces as they clack along the track and against each other was just perfect.
This adaptation does a great job of capturing the physical feeling and the controls are just right. It’s also nice that you can try out moves and undo them without the opponent seeing, rather than having to imagine the outcome and poker-face.
– Real player with 15.9 hrs in game
Café International
I really like the game. It is perfect for a few quick rounds. Very interesting to find the right strategy. As it is with card games there is an element of luck of course but that’s just the nature of the beast, I guess.
– Real player with 198.4 hrs in game
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Unfortunately very disappointing
I was really looking forward to this but it is not the classic game from 1989. It is either a later version or the card game. It constantly creates the situation that your hand is full of nations without the corresponding tables being available. Then you have to put these cards on the bar & then, when the tables come up, you don’t have the cards anymore - stupid.
In the original game you knew the tables upfront & if they were full you know that you can put the corresponding cards to the bar because you don’t need them anymore.
– Real player with 3.3 hrs in game
Carcassonne - Tiles & Tactics
edit : changed my review to NEGATIVE. The reason being that there has been a bug in the game for many, many months now where players don’t get to see their final scores in the game on most occassions. There’s not much point playing a multiplayer game if you don’t know who won!!!
I bought the physical version of Carcassonne two weeks ago on a Saturday morning. After a couple of games with a friend and working out how to play it I decided to invest in this digital version. It seemed like a good game and playing the digital version was going to ensure I’d understood the rules properly.
– Real player with 80.7 hrs in game
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The game is true to the original, playable and quite pretty, but for this price, the user experience is very poor.
Sounds:
The background ambient sounds are as loud and clear as the interface sounds, so it often feels like the game is trying to tell you something, but it’s just a background noise. Making this effect worse, the sounds play totally at random, which means the same sound will often play over and over again, which can only mean it’s signalling something, but it’s nothing. There’s no option to turn off just the ambient sounds.
– Real player with 64.6 hrs in game
THE GAME OF LIFE
I get why this has mixed reviews but at the price point it’s worth it. This is basically just a digital recreation of your favorite childhood game. Not much more and not much less.
There are a couple small interface issues, like for example sometime a card pops up for a few seconds and before you’ve figured out what the card even says you are being asked to select another player to apply the card to…. now I don’t know if this card is going to take money away from them or pay them money becasue I can’t actually see the card when slecting another player. So the two obvious solutions are to either make you select the card to continue so at least you have a chance to read it or acknowledge it before selecting another player or leave the card visible when selecting another player. But neither is an option here.
– Real player with 9.1 hrs in game
cute little game thats nice to play it has a great soundtrack and nice visuals. theres not much in terms of variety for the actual gameplay but the game itself lasts awhile so theres lots to do. Theres not many players so playing online is kind of depressing and playing with the CPU just doesnt feel that fun but the pass and play feature for people irl is actually a great way to play if you want to play with real people. I assume in the future where there are more players that own the game online will improve. The game can get glitchy, sometimes in really bad spots, like the spinner froze for me right at the very end of the game which felt really frustrating but its not frequent enough to be a real issue. The game is nice to play if you can’t decide what else to play or you’re really bored. Also its worth noting that the acheivements are really easy to complete and you can probably get them all perfect in like 6-7 hrs of gameplay so its good if you like getting perfect games or something. Overall a good game and my expectations were definitely exceeded.
– Real player with 7.5 hrs in game
Ticket to Ride
Ticket To Ride has been my favourite board game for about ten years now, and this addaptation is totally worth getting!
For those unfamiliar with the board game; the game has a perfect mix of luck and strategy, making each game challenging yet fun. Your goal is to finish destination tickets (e.g. New York to Los Angeles) by claiming routes on the board that eventually let you have a path going from one city to the other city on your ticket. To claim routes you need to collect train cards in the colours needed, picking your choice from the face up cards or the face down deck if no colours are available you could use. It’s pretty straight forward and you get the hang of it very fast.
– Real player with 386.8 hrs in game
The PC adaption (and iPad/iPhone versions too, for that matter) of Ticket to Ride is a very faithful recreation of the classic board game, where the only gameplay differences between it and the physical version are fast and accurate scoring and the fact that enraged board-flipping is no longer a possibility. (Not to mention the bonus of the game + DLC being cheaper than their physical counterparts, and is significantly easier to play with people on the other side of the world!) So, for people who have played the board game before, I think this should be a no-brainer.
– Real player with 142.6 hrs in game
Faerie Solitaire
Disclaimer: I purchased this game using my own funds, and I do not write a review on a game that I have not paid for myself, because I believe they should be fair and unbiased. I don’t believe you can get that unless you invest your own funds and support developers, and provide a personal sense of “value”.
This has got to be one of the more enjoyable solitaire card games on the market. I have put over 52 hours into this addicting game. It has a fun background story (which does not interfere with the game play, but merely keeps you involved to continue on your journey), relaxing music, and simple mechanics with fun powerups to assist you along the way. A good value at its current asking price of $10, but I think as a casual game, I would wait for it to be on sale for around $5. It has achievements, trading cards, and is guaranteed to waste a LOT of your time if you are a fan of Faeries whatsoever.
– Real player with 74.4 hrs in game
An entertaining Solitaire game, with quite simple, but engaging gameplay; and a nice story about faeries. This game is good for some relaxing during an afternoon; even though it’s simple, there’s still some challenge to it. The aesthethic is really nice, featuring some nice backgrounds for each of the different levels, all following a fantasy theme.
The game offers several modes; an adventure mode, in which you play through 40 levels, following the story of a kid who encountered faeries, and all the dangers he encountered during his journey to save them which, although might sound unnecessary for a solitaire game, adds a nice backstory. There’s also a quickplay mode, in which you can replay any previously finished level, and a challenge mode, with some more difficult levels. Each level consists of 9 hands, and, while it’s not necessary to collect all cards in each hand, there’s still different objectives to complete in order to beat a level.
– Real player with 56.3 hrs in game
Radiis
If you’re a fan of strategy games like Risk or Sid Meier’s Civilization series then you’ll probably enjoy this, since it somewhat falls in between the two–more complex than Risk, but much less micro-managing than the Civ games. I think Radiis is a little overpriced, but “overpriced” largely depends on how many hours of enjoyment you’ll get from it. I bought it on sale and have played more than 100hrs, so for me it was a great deal.
The missions are mostly challenging, but the AI could benefit from some tweaks. For example, the computer (NPC) players tend to focus on spamming buildings for added population growth, even when it would make more sense to expand their borders. Also NPCs never save money/tokens; if there’s enough finances to place buildings, it will place them whether they need to or not. And the NPCs boat placements are laughably inefficient.
– Real player with 317.8 hrs in game
I’ve always been into strategy games, but I don’t think I’ve ever found one that I’ve felt so compelled to write a review for.
This game is simply amazing for anyone who likes strategy games! Such a unique and different design. Gotta make sure to go through the campaign maps to learn and understand the different things available to you. There is always a viable strategy to victory in these maps, no matter how unlikely it may seem. Especially that final campaign map, you go into it thinking there’s no way this could be possible… but play it right and play smart, and it’s surprising how it really is doable!
– Real player with 92.9 hrs in game
The Horus Heresy: Legions
This here, it is their cash milking machine, mind you as long as the gros is getting to GW i rly dont mind.
Just wish there was something you could invest money in without being a whale. a sub that didnt suck for instance , a better matchmaking system ? in fact id prolly buy single player cmpaigns if those gave me good cards instead of the RNG.
The gem system is 5:1 a card being drawn as double only gives me 1 5th of its cost in the gem shop.
Trouble is new factions cost gold primarily to get and at first only 200 coin crates are available not the more reasonable ones.
– Real player with 1215.3 hrs in game
The game throws you into some pretty cool fights when you first start the game.
They have cool enemies and you are getting rewards and you think maybe there is a cool story and hope this continues to develop and allow you to adjust your deck as you go through an amazing campaign story mode.
But no…It just ends abruptly out of nowhere and the game is pretty much a grindfest or pay wall from that point onwards. You try to play a friendly match, you get in a game with ai or players. Players have better decks than you because you are a noob who hasn’t paid any money to buy all the cards and build better decks or grind for hundreds of hours, so you get pummelled because the matchmaker is trash like most card games.
– Real player with 597.3 hrs in game
Zen Blocks - Relaxing Puzzle Board Game
I liked this game. Made simply and efficiently. I will note the advantages:
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Simple but interesting idea. Extremely comfortable to play using keyboard or gamepad
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Nice and pleasant soundtrack
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Optimization. The game is suitable for weak PCs
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Low price. The game is very affordable for almost everyone
Among the shortcomings, I note the lack of Steam achievements.
– Real player with 4.6 hrs in game
The game’s core concept is very simple, yet very enjoyable. It’s easy to pickup and drop. It’s the type of game that people would play when they’re on very short breaks. I believe that fits the name of the game very well, and adheres to what the product page tells you. It may have its flaws but those flaws didn’t ruin my Zen experience. If you’re on the lookout for a game to relax or spend a few extra minutes on, this is definitely a good pickup.
– Real player with 2.1 hrs in game
Fantasy Quest Solitaire
Fantasy Quest Solitaire is an excellent solitaire game. It is refreshing to play a solitaire game that isn’t a grind fest. There are 100 levels, which is much more pleasurable than playing 200 or even 300 levels! All the achievements are possible without being an agony of playing the game over and over again like Fairie Solitaire.
It was a pleasant surprise to find Match 3, Hidden Object, and Jigsaw puzzle levels in the mix. I estimate about 20 of the 100 levels are of this variety. None of the levels are timed, which is a plus for me. A fun addition was collecting stickers for gold points throughout the game. The sticker drops were random but you will get them all.
– Real player with 12.4 hrs in game
Fantasy Quest Solitaire
An enjoyable, if rather easy, version of solitaire with a mixture of mini games and with just 100 levels proves to be shorter than most of the genre.
Pros:
👍 Relaxing
👍 Nice sounds and visuals
👍Meaningful achievements
👍I liked the fact it was shorter – It didn’t outstay its welcome.
Cons:
👎 Too easy for seasoned veterans of the genre
First Impressions
Fantasy Quest solitaire proves to be a polished and professional effort with great tunes, visuals and a variety of mini games to keep you busy for 8 hours.
– Real player with 7.9 hrs in game