Militia 2
BrainGoodGames make excellent strategy games, with a minimalist aesthetic and a clever system where the difficulty grows progressively when you win. This is a great sequel to Militia, with a nice variety of units and enemies, and two different worlds (one where you use mirrors and lasers). The randomized boards, with all the possible combinations of units, give interesting puzzles. This is very satisfying to find an efficient way to use your three units (not always the same) in a dangerous situation. The weekly challenge mode is a lot of fun: you have one week to reach the highest floor you can with a given set of pieces and try to beat the score of other players. A game you can play for 10 minutes or some hours with this addictive “just one more turn” feeling.
– Real player with 97.7 hrs in game
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An excellent turn-based tactics game that improves upon the original militia in every way. Quite possibly the best brain good game yet. It’s a shame so few people have played it. I would highly recommend this game to anyone who enjoys Into The Breach.
The game is very simple but also has plenty of depth. You begin on a randomized board of enemies with three units. Your goal is to kill all of the enemies with stars on them. It’s a constant struggle of keeping your own units alive while also trying to finish off the enemies with stars before time runs out. The game pushes you to make the most of every turn.
– Real player with 75.4 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
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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
Solar Settlers
I got into the beta test for this game after enjoying so many other BGG games in the past. Playing Solar Settlers gives you that trademark BGG feel that there’s always more to discover. The mechanics are simple at first glance. Move your space explorers around an unknown galaxy, collect cards and increasing your population and production, build up enough habitats, and settle enough people before the game ends in the sixth round. Succeed, and your rank goes up. Fail, and all your colonists perish in the abyss of space. More importantly, your rank goes down.
– Real player with 158.9 hrs in game
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Compared to the previous games of BGG this is in my opinion the greatest of all. Axes and Acres has always been my no.1 but I think it finally has to step aside for this one. We’ll see what will get the most hours of play time. Only time will tell.
The game is surprisingly simple to grasp but has enormous depth. The tutorial is short and you immediately know how to play the game. This is very different to the previous games where the tutorials were quite hard to grasp (although this has been improved in updates).
– Real player with 97.8 hrs in game
Axes and Acres
I think this game is fantastic. It takes a while to fully understand it (watch the tutorial video’s but certainly Tom Chick’s video for more info) because the game lacks a good tutorial or manual and the user interface is a bit too minimalistic, but once you get it, you’ll love it!
Update: the tutorial has been completely redone. I have not tried it but others say it is much better now. The developer is really active around this and his other games, he talks to his players and listens.
The game has a leveling system, when you win, your level rises and the next challenge will be harder. I have seen this in more games before, but I have never seen it work so perfectly as in this game. This game really seems to perfectly know what to do to make it just that bit harder for you the next time you play it. Every playthrough, if I won, it was at the last or before last turn. Although it’s a turn based game, I was on the edge of my seat because you think: oh no… I’ll never make it.
– Real player with 336.5 hrs in game
Axes and Acres Review
The review below, and others, can be found in my Announcements page (http://www.mercedesmace.com/announcements/game-review-axes-and-acres )
This is the second game (Steam, Apr 2016) by a small indie developer, BrainGoodGames. (http://www.braingoodgames.com ). They had a great hit with Militia (on Steam Dec 2015), and just released a new game (Skyboats, Steam Aug 2016). I’m a bit behind the Steam release schedule; I only got around to picking up A&A this month. In the past two weeks, I’ve put 46 hours into A&A, and can strongly recommend it.
– Real player with 150.3 hrs in game
Blastboard
I’m playing this now with 3 friends and I have to say…I’m very surprised! This is actually a real fun game to play in a group and a great time killer when solo. I run 3 screens and it works fine. More features/DLC would be cool or even Workshop. For the price you can’t lose IMHO.
– Real player with 116.1 hrs in game
Blastboard Impressed my friends and I We are always looking for multiplayer games that are fun! This just made the list. For the price you can’t go wrong, hours of fun with friends. Do i recommend Blastboard… Hell Yes if you have friends and a pulse this is worth checking out. …….what are you waiting for ;-)
– Real player with 79.1 hrs in game
Minestrife
A fun little Minesweeper version with some extra modes available. Pros are that it’s lightweight plus has multimine and ‘clear the falling line’ modes. Cons are a faulty screen rescaling, obtuse multimine flagging with mouse controls, and a lack of middle click (‘smart select’). The dev probably thought it wouldn’t work with the multimine mode since flags are arbitrary
At only a buck during sales I’d say it’s a nice step up over the minesweeper that used to come with your computer
– Real player with 25.5 hrs in game
edit: the game got patched quite a bit, so rewrote the review and turned it into a recommendation.
minestrife is a souped-up version of the original minesweeper. figure out where the mines are based on number clues, right click to mark as dangerous or potentially dangerous, left click to reveal. there’s a timer (can’t hide it) and a bomb counter, as expected, plus the following quality of life improvements: rebindable controls, zoom in/out and right click to move bigger levels around, hotkeys to open the 4 corners, unlimited hints (pressing it over a square reveals its contents, bomb or nothing), and there’s a compass, pointing to unrevealed and unflagged tiles, which can be handy on bigger boards.
– Real player with 2.1 hrs in game
Minos Strategos
to give a little back story to new comers, BrainGoodGames has no pushed out their 4th strategie game Minos Strategos, a sort of board game turn based strategie game. While all there games have the same sort of feel as asthetic at the base, they all of very distinct game styles and rules. To give a little feedback on the type of developers BrainGoodGames are, its not uncommon to a player to find a bug and for it to get patched and fixed an hour later. Iv seen people suggest an idea they think would really work in one of their games, just to see it implemented the next day! Iv seen them push a new game out, just to go back months later and push another content patch for all their older games as well, continuing to make sure all their games get tons of love. Its almost as if buying one of the BGGames also comes with a 24/7 Dev hotline ! HAH
– Real player with 35.9 hrs in game
Now that I’ve played quite a few games of Minos Strategos and moved up a few ranks I feel confident in saying this game is another great addition to the BrainGoodGames collection of strategy games.
The tutorial is a bit brief and left me with some questions. Watching a short video that is linked to on the main page of the game soon cleared up the questions I had. There is a practise mode so if you aren’t sure how something works and you want to experiment, you can do so without affecting your rank.
– Real player with 35.0 hrs in game
Number One Rich
Pretty cool game!!
– Real player with 27.4 hrs in game
Evil Cult
Evil Cult gives the player control over a Cult which tries to take over key figures in society to spread its influence and complete the Final Ritual, before any of the competing cults.
Generators generate resources, making them an obvious prime target for expansion, yet the easier (cheaper) to influence Adepts increase the probability of gathering Virgins, which serve as resource wildcards and are of course necessary for rituals as a sacrifice.
Sects within the cult allow for some optional micro-management. However, the player’s attention is mainly directed at the expansion on the map, resource balance, and awareness of the Investigator.
– Real player with 15.9 hrs in game
This game represents a very niche and rare computer game genre: the cult simulator. There are only two games I know of in this genre: 1. Evil Cult, and 2. Cults and Daggers, which is also available on Steam. This game has great potential, and is being improved with expansion sets. I highly recommend this game, which also has an excellent soundtrack.
– Real player with 13.1 hrs in game
Home Safe and Silent
Home Safe and Silent is a survival game heavily inspired by popular zombie tabletop board games. You will play as the leader of a colony trying to survive the zombie apocalypse. Each day of the apocalypse you will allocate members of your colony to perform different tasks while also planning out your own route to scavenge for supplies. Each location you explore will have randomly generated rooms which you can rotate around to try and find helpful items for yourself and those you look after.
Key Features:
Search for hidden items in fully interactable rooms
Manage members of your colony by assigning them to different tasks
Fight off the dead by rolling different combat dice based on the weapons you equip
Make every move count!
