ChessLocke
does what it says on the tin. fun puzzle experience.
I could do with like…. 20% more(?) XP early on, but not a deal big deal.
– Real player with 29.3 hrs in game
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rly cool but a bit easy. guess it’s meant for people that are about 1200 rated in chess max (for the hard mode). which is cool with me. very accessible.
– Real player with 13.8 hrs in game
Descent: Road to Legend
Disclaimer – This is a companion app for a board game, not a standalone computer game.
Only way I play descent. This version I like better than Android. Pretty effective tool to get you to buy expansions. Not sure how much replay value there will be to the main campaigns unless you buy more expansions to descent.
Although, this app makes the game playable for my crowd that vastly prefers co-op. I can’t imagine that ladygrill would play against me as overlord. My cousins would get sick of getting stomped on. No one else would volunteer to play OL except maybe the lady’s brother. This game would be collecting dust if not for this app.
– Real player with 135.1 hrs in game
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It introduces a lot of reading and turns out the game pace slow since you have to read and do the Overlord actions. You have to be honest and make the best decisions to the Overlord.
The monsters are overpowered, every single monster groups has changes to its powers and are difficult to kill.
The monster respawn is very fast.
To enjoy the best with this app you have to rush to the quest objective, ALWAYS. Most of the time if you decide to go after the search tokens, many monsters appears back to the table.
– Real player with 68.4 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
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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
Vulgord’s Tower
I was a tester for this game, and let me tell you I would pay every penny and more to play this game. It is totally worth the purchase and it is a favorite pastime for me with my friends!
– Real player with 47.8 hrs in game
This game is so much fun to play with friends. It plays like a real board game - the random events, the challenge of racing your opponents around the board, and the joy of wickedly sabotaging your opponents via spells cast from the wizard tower leads to a lot of chaos and fun. It’s really nostalgic. I think anyone who has played Dark Tower or other vintage fantasy board games would definitely get a kick out of playing this, especially in multiplayer.
– Real player with 44.1 hrs in game
WARTILE
Edit: I’ve won the game and it is pretty fun. The key factor to realize is that the archer is the most important character using the volley card. Once you get used to the game I really like the concept but it was challenging to mentally adjust to the different style of game (cool down vs turn based) coming from the turn based world. Using the slow down feature is essential until you get up to speed. On the higher levels it is absolutely critical to use the slow down feature to dodge tough opponents as them attack.
– Real player with 322.1 hrs in game
Tabletop quest for the Sagas
Wartile is a strategy game allowing the player to take command of a Norse warband on a quest to save their land from a mysterious plague. Developed by a very aptly named danish studio PlaywoodProject, the game plays as a miniature wargame. Each character in Wartile is represented by a wooden figurine, battling their way across adorably detailed dioramas. While the game had visibly limited resources to work with, the developers have fully committed what they had towards an idea of tabletop game brought to life. An idea, in my book, they firmly delivered upon.
– Real player with 17.5 hrs in game
Destinies
Great board game companion app, I found no difficulties with the base functionality and I definitely recommend playing it over steam on a laptop with a bigger screen.
My 2 main points of feedback regarding the game in general are:
1. There’s hardly any need or use for the board and the minis of the actual physical board game. We found ourselves looking only at the screen, which had the most up do date information about the locations and map, and forgot to move our minis around in the physical version. The biggest use for the physical map and minis, is to note down the location where items are dropped.
– Real player with 18.9 hrs in game
Software used alongside the boardgame.
Fantastic game, really enjoyed.
– Real player with 11.2 hrs in game
Galactic Keep
Not a bad little game for a cell phone port. Plays like Rezrog (one character goes out, when he dies another from your roster goes out to save him) but lacks the polish of that game. Character icon art isn’t very good but the map art is well done.The first module is a little short, but acts as a good prelude to a bigger story. Unfortunely there are currently no more modules. It would have been nice if they had released the tools for users to build their own modules to share.
In spite of the flaws, I still played it all the way through and enjoyed it. I picked it up on a steam sale of $6, so it was worth it. I wouldn’t pay much more though.
– Real player with 14.6 hrs in game
Finished the Modul included.
I enjoyed it very much, it can be quite challenging i guess, though i took the class with roundhouse kick special, which is very strong. The Story is nice and I’ve never seen Races and Classes like that, it’s very unique.
If you like turnbased roguelikes in Space I can recommed you!
– Real player with 13.8 hrs in game
GATE
I had been looking for a good program to help me play remote D&D for a while. G.A.T.E. is the perfect solution. I can keep in touch with my gaming buddies that don’t live near me anymore, and our adventures can continue. There is also a Discord available where the developer is active and talks to users. All in all I highly recommend G.A.T.E. to anyone who needs a way to play any grid based adventure games remotely with friends.
– Real player with 31.1 hrs in game
Picture it: it’s Friday night, and the party is all here to start the new DnD session. Only this time you’re online, trying to use Roll20.
You’re the DM, and it’s your first time using the website. You realize you don’t have a “picture” required to launch the campaign, so you open the only jpg on your desktop–a photo of a plate of lasagna you made, for some reason–and click launch the game. Finally, you think to yourself. We can play online now, cool!
Only it’s not cool. You get into the open game. Three of your players aren’t here, because they don’t know how to create an account, because they’ve never used the internet before–especially that one guy, Larry, who’s 58 years old. You realize after launching the game for the first time that your Firefox browser which you haven’t updated in the last 3 years is unsupported. So you pause for another ten minutes as you update, or load Edge (it’s actually a good browser now guys I promise,) and launch the game again.
– Real player with 27.7 hrs in game
Pathfinder Adventures
Summary: Fun, not-too-simple card game version of Pathfinder RPG. Unfortunately, it’s single-player only.
Overview:
Pathfinder Adventures is a digital version of the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game, a deck-building game based on the Pathfinder RPG Adventure Paths.
Like in Pathfinder, you have a party of customized adventurers going on quests, but unlike a tabletop RPG, rather than a character sheet, each character has a personalized deck. As you play, you will find new cards, and possibly lose (banish) ones that you have, and after each quest you have to decide which cards you want to keep, or switch between party members. The more you play, the more useful cards you can find, which gives you a better character.
– Real player with 126.0 hrs in game
So you’re gana read a lot of reviews talking about how you can get this game for free on mobile. Those reviews are old and outdated and now much of the content, even on mobile, can only be bought with real money. What little content is still avaliable for gold is incredibly grindy to obtain, so the purchase here (which you can link to your phone to get all the content unlocked there too) is a REALLY good value proposition now.
Beyond that, the questiion becomes, “Is the game worth it?” And the answer is…maybe. Depends on you. But I certainly think so.
– Real player with 114.9 hrs in game
Star Wars: Imperial Assault - Legends of the Alliance
Great companion app for the board game, I have thoroughly enjoyed it and find it pretty easy to use. Be kind of nice to have an undo button though, I have accidentally defeated groups and had to try and remember how the app sets them to work. I have run the app on a smart phone, laptop and tablet and found it worked most consistently on the tablet. The Laptop version for me black screens from time to time while loading and requires a full restart to work.
I struggled to find people to play the proper game with so this companion app has been brilliant for playing the game and I have had so many epic moments, including one that felt straight out of Rogue One.
– Real player with 65.6 hrs in game
Years after the launch of the core box (it’s now 2020), I’m still amazed at the value I continue to get from my investment in Imperial Assault. Right out of the core box, you get campaign mode, one-off missions, 1v1 skirmish mode and the awesome app mode — Legends of the Alliance — where solo gaming is not only possible, but handled beautifully. The rule set is efficient and tightly integrated across all modes making it an easy transition from mode to mode.
For those tabletop gamers who are wary about app-driven games, let me assure you that Legends of the Alliance doesn’t drive the game at all. This is no video game version of the tabletop game you love. You are firmly in the driver’s seat. You still need to set up your table with all your puzzle-piece map tiles, tokens, components and minis. You still roll dice and track all of your damage and conditions. The app is there primarily to provide you with narrative, instructions for which map tiles you’ll need, and choices for mission sequence. But you, the player, control the pace and outcome of the game. The physical game still dominates. You will move your heroes, attack enemies and then tell the app the outcome. The app will then adjust the story and tell you what to do next to continue your campaign.
– Real player with 58.6 hrs in game