MahJong - Medieval Fantasy
For me, it is a nice and casual game, almost feeling like a stress-reliever game. The goal is simple to achieve, and there’s nothing too risky about matching two identical tiles- unless you’re pressured to do it quickly when you have less time. The “Medieval Fantasy” style kinda adds in more detail to the game, especially if someone is an RPG fan or an anime fan. All in to say, it is a simple/casual game anyone who would want to relieve their stress.
– Real player with 3.6 hrs in game
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Alot of the levels feels very repetitive. The game was fun for the first 2 times i played it but does get boring very fast. should get achievements added to the game.
– Real player with 1.6 hrs in game
Faerie Solitaire Remastered
I’ve given this remaster 10 hours now and made notes on the differences, and I feel like I can do a decent review now. Disclaimer: I love the original Faerie Solitaire. I got it on sale for 99 cents, and I love it enough that twice now I’ve deleted the game file that keeps track of the in-game feats (not the Steam achievements) so that I could have a more legitimate reason to play it more. I’m not nearly as enamored with this version, so I’ll start with the cons.
Cons
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– Real player with 71.3 hrs in game
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7.5/10
I finally decided to give this solitaire game a try after seeing it mentioned as a favorite by users in their reviews of various other solitaire games. I waited for a while to see if it would go on sale, but this apparently has never happened.
Initially, I can see the appeal. In Faerie Solitaire, you collect “eggs” while playing levels, which you can then “hatch.” A creature is then revealed which will grow as you continue to play. Once the creature is “grown,” you can spend a combination of three different resources (also found within the levels) to “evolve” the creature. As far as I can tell, these creatures have no impact at all on completing the game’s solitaire levels – however, they provide an additional progress bar and goal to pursue for players.
– Real player with 57.9 hrs in game
To Battle!: Hell’s Crusade
I thoroughly enjoyed this game - and yes, the humor is sophomoric and the voice acting is tongue-in-cheek, but it just works for me. It’s an old-school general’s type game from the SSI era and as everyone else has already said, in line with the modern Fantasy General.
More importantly, I think the strategic design is really well thought out - the units each have their niche but aren’t hobbled by hyper-specialization. And while the maps are static, and prior map-knowledge is extremely advantageous, it also opens up the pursuit of battle perfection.
– Real player with 32.1 hrs in game
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Disclaimer: I’ve been a beta tester and I know the developers personally. But….
Here’s my review:
I’ve played HC now for probably several hundred hours (most of that was in beta). The campaigns aren’t suuuuper long, but somehow I just enjoy playing them over and over because it always goes a little different each time I do. Like I can beat all of the missions now, but I cant ever do it as well as I want to. So I just keep trying! lol
The tactical campaign is more kind of old school in that you’ll probably have to restart missions. I do anyway. It’s kind of like chess cause you really have to plan ahead. The adventure campaign starts out easier so it may be better for your first playthrough, but about half way through it starts getting pretty challenging.
– Real player with 16.3 hrs in game
Alice in Wonderland - a jigsaw puzzle tale
is a non gamer, this is definitely a recommendation. its nice to come home from work and bash out a puzzle without having to spend a lot of money and have big puzzles sitting in the house. good value game!
– Real player with 51.9 hrs in game
Cute puzzle game. Many puzzles with different colour scheme. 100% achievements done after completing all puzzles. Fair pricing.
I strongly recommend getting their bundle with maaaaaany hours of gameplay!
– Real player with 34.2 hrs in game
Color by Number - Pixel Draw
This has been a blast playing, like paint by numbers when I was a kid. And with the DLC’s they go from very simple to more complicated with much detail.
– Real player with 218.0 hrs in game
So since the dev has fixed the executable file, I’m going to re-review this.
Pixel Draw is an okay game. It’s not good, but it suffers from various flaws that make it’s competitor the much better product. Many of these flaws come from the UI, which in my original review said was clunky and had no reason to be as large as it should be. I stand by that. It’s obtrusive and gives you less screen to work with.
The only thing worse than the UI is the lack of tools. There is no erase function, so should you accidentally misclick, you’re stuck with that color on the screen. Which leads to another problem - obstruction. Sometimes the misclicked colors can make it hard to identify which block is lit up with the color you’ve chosen. (Especially when you are zoomed out.)
– Real player with 138.5 hrs in game
D&D Lords of Waterdeep
I’ve never played the board game, but I thought I would give this game a shot since I’m a long time D&D player and have been craving a bit of solo fun. Most people have already outlined the pro’s and con’s regarding it, so I will not go through them. I will tell you:
-The game is worth $10 easily. Even $15 is acceptable if you like computerized board games.
-You must play the tutorial to understand what’s going on. I played it twice, and after that was a pro at playing.
-Ignore all the naysaying about the animation speeds. Once you know what is going on, you will appreciate the speed of the animations. Could they be slower? Sure. However, a couple games through and you know exactly what the cards are doing. There is also a review icon that you can click called the “Discard Pile” to read and look at the cards that have been played. In addition, you can click on the individual players cards and review those that they have drawn which may have moved too fast to read initially. IN FACT, it is a good strategy to review the other players cards to make decisions in the game.
– Real player with 61.4 hrs in game
My “hours played” stat is a little misleading, because I played the iOS version of Playdek’s adaptation on the iPad for years.
This version is virtually identical to the iOS version, with a few exceptions. The most obvious is the fact that the game is horizontally oriented, instead of vertically. This is an unfortunate necessity, since monitors can’t be oriented vertically. As such, the expansions –- and I strongly recommend getting that DLC – have to be awkwardly crunched into the board, instead of elegantly just placed below the board. One has to scroll as well, and non-obvious tabs implemented to save space.
– Real player with 43.1 hrs in game
Heretic Operative
Updated review after the most recent patch. Most issues I had with the game have now been fixed, and I have changed back to a “recommended” review as promised. This is the longest review I’ve ever written, and the only one I’ve edited more than once. These facts alone should tell you something about the depth and investment this game offers! Most of the text below this line is no longer relevant, but I’m leaving it up as a history of sorts and a memory of what kind of long-winded criticisms the patient devs have dealt with! :D
– Real player with 39.0 hrs in game
Digital Boardgames are a bit of an odd genre. As a fan of both physical board games and digital strategy games I’ve struggled to grasp the hybrid. Why represent a complex strategy game with cards and dice rolls when you don’t have to, especially if your game doesn’t have a physical equivalency.
Enter Heretic Operative. The description reads “Inspired by games like Pandemic, Arkham Horror, and Talisman” and that was a big selling point for me. Having recently become an obssessive for the Arkham Horror card game, I knew what this meant for the game in general - action-point, narrative driven “built to probably kill you” by design. Great.
– Real player with 34.1 hrs in game
Knockout Checkers Chamber
Cute! Nice little game. Not really checkers per se. The pieces have different special powers. Other than that it’s a physics-based knock-em-out-of-the arena type game. Well worth the price (under two bucks in the Summer Sale).
– Real player with 2.5 hrs in game
First off, this is carrom on a checkers board, not checkers the turn-based board game. That isn’t necessarily a bad thing, of course, but unfortunately this is essentially a game demo rather than a full game. Expect to complete the game in maybe half an hour.
Incidentally, the achievements are very buggy and you will fail to unlock them quite often.
– Real player with 1.1 hrs in game
Coloring Pixel - Fantasy Characters
Coloring Pixel - Fantasy Characters is an addictive anti-stress pixel art game. Choose from a variety of fun pixel images and follow the numbers to bring them to life. Coloring Pixel has never been this easy!
Features:
• Lots of amazing artworks
• Easy coloring: Enjoy intuitive design and smooth performance of coloring book
• Long press to color continuously which makes coloring and drawing more easily.
• Easily color any image you want!
Coloring has never been easier! Just relax and color by Coloring Pixel - Fantasy Characters!
Defendion
This a is great Table Top Tower Defense VR game…the best I have ever played! The Developers are very helpful as well, so we will look for more games from Dilly Frame in the future. I got hung up on 21 Wave, but the developers showed me the reason, and I was able to complete the game afterward. They still fix bugs in the game when you reveal them to the Developers. This game appears to be bug-free now, so it can be completed without issues.
Also, there is a lot of depth to this game, and it is well worth the full asking price. You can expect several hours of enjoyment before actually completing the game. Replay is also fantastic, because you have several achievements that you can go back to unlock. Superb game, guys! Keep them coming.
– Real player with 7.1 hrs in game
Great game idea, but very poor execution..
– Real player with 1.8 hrs in game