A-Train PC Classic / みんなのA列車で行こうPC
A-Train PC Classic is a real estate development game, disguised as a train game. Yes, you manage trains, but the real strategy is in buying up land, making it valuable, and building condos and offices on top of it to make money. The job of your transit network is to stimulate demand, not to actually turn a profit. Instead, you’ll be buying up all the land in some sleepy suburb, running a train to it, and then selling the land for double the price you bought it. Better yet, you can skip the middleman and do the construction yourself, and be the sole owner of an entire city worth of apartments and movie theaters.
– Real player with 520.5 hrs in game
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What a wonderful game. Honestly. It’s worth the money for sure.
If you’re a fan of OpenTTD (or similar), but felt like the money management aspect was too simple, and/or the game was too shallow, then this game is for you.
You can make long- or short-term investments into stocks of other companies for extra cash or losses (and others can invest into your company).
You can personally transform a tiny town into a striving metropolis by connecting it to your network and regularly servicing it with a passenger train, then constructing some small residential towers or commercial buildings that will also be an extra source of income.
– Real player with 126.9 hrs in game
Computer Tycoon
This is the first review I’ve ever written, even though I have nearly 100 games in my library, so that should tell you something just there. Computer Tycoon is easily one of the greatest tycoon games I have ever tried, right up there with Game Dev Tycoon and Automation (might’ve got the name wrong). It is addictive, and my first 10 minutes of playing it turned into hours upon hours of doing so. For sure worth the price! You get a WHOLE lot of gameplay, and I haven’t even tried hard mode yet. Everything is nearly completely customizable and it is just overall amazing. Some aspects could use some work, though, such as a slow lategame. When you get near 2010, and really 2000s in general, the game really takes a hit. Demand is FAR more than you could ever produce (I mean, you could, but repeating the same process of buying sites, upgrading factories, upgrading recreation, repeat, gets REALLY boring and almost made me stop playing), research gets really slow as in you don’t really have anything to research lategame. For me, it just ran out for a while. Which REALLY made the research department useless, so that is a definite con. Competitors seem to research everything much quicker, and receive an unfair advantage even though you have the best computer on the market PLUS its cheap, and yet they still have the entire world in their color. If there was a way to mass-buy land or mass-produce sites, or to add more factory upgrades, it would make things much better. Again, competitors obviously don’t face this issue and complete everything instantly. At least, that is how it is currently working for me.
– Real player with 712.2 hrs in game
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After playing it for hours and as a tycoon-games fan, I think this review would be usefull for both the players and the developer(s).
A good, well-balanced Computer Business tycoon game. It’s main focus is computer parts and models, rather than Sims-style city building, which is what many Comp-tycoon players look for.
There are several pros and cons of this game and it is still in alpha-stage; which I hope will result in a batter, near flawless game.
Pros: Vast range of computer parts from memory units to mother boards. Rather than popping computer products, in this game you built your own computer to sell on the market. That way, there are endless possibilities from selling high-end computers to Celeron-type low-end ones; and maintaining classic Home Computer series. During the game, you’d have many available components to choose from. I named my graphic cards as Burnout 100, 109, 330 etc. Quite fun.
– Real player with 51.3 hrs in game
March of the Eagles
I would give a positive review for just about any Paradox title (yes, including Victoria II and Hearts of Iron III, as buggy as they may be), but this is a title I simply cannot baby for its mistakes.
To get one thing off the board immediately, I would NEVER recommend without this mod: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/669074
The reason for suggesting that mod is that it takes you, instead, back to pre-Napoleon era just prior to when he became First Consul, thus there is more time to play and less satellites of France (aka more countries to play as). Plus, the mod offers new technology and an uncommon chance to gain cores on conquered provinces–thus the freedom to build units/ships there.
– Real player with 75.3 hrs in game
For fans of the Total War series who like looking at the bigger picture. Or an excellent entry level Paradox Interactive grand strategy game.
When I bought the game I was a complete Paradox Interactive noob but I always liked the idea of their truly-grand strategy games. However, having played the demos for Europa Universalis III and Hearts of Iron II, I was convinced I would never be able to get my head around the complexities of Paradox’s games. This all changed with March of the Eagles. The era in which the game is set is right up my street and the scale of the campaign map was like nothing I’d experienced before (‘scale’ is a relative term here).
– Real player with 44.7 hrs in game
Orbi Universo
It’s Democracy meets Civilization.
Still a work-in-progress, and from a part-time indie dev, but what you see here shows promise.
If you’re a Civ/Paradox/Democracy fan, it’s an easy recommendation.
If you’re not too sure about it, grab it on sale, or wait until they finish all the ages that make the core gameplay.
Pros:
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Less intimidating upfront than Democracy, you start from humble begginings.
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You can start at any place in the globe
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Many different paths to take your civilization through
– Real player with 81.2 hrs in game
This game is unique. Maybe not much replayability, but there definitely is some. In the bronze age I had a shining civilization, the entire Iron Age was a time of unparalleled ascension, but I quickly over expanded and then the disruption caused by the immense amount of minorities quickly destroyed my stability. I kept undermining the power of the clergy in order to stop them from toppling my republic, which caused the number of heathens and heretics to rise to such a point as to ruin my stability even further. There was this entire collapse scenario very reminiscent of the fall of the Roman Republic, culminating in a coup d’etat by the military which led to a quickly fragmenting military dictatorship that saw a snowball of decline that just kept rolling and rolling.
– Real player with 36.9 hrs in game
Polaris Sector
Nice and deep space 4X game, definately the best of the recent releases. It also avoided a common fact with 4X which is that many features are copy/pasted beetween games, so it will feel fresh even if you’re used to the genre.
In a nutshell, it’s a bit rough but a must for every space 4X fan. It shines in empire management, elegant mechanics, diplomacy. It would deserve a bit more streamlining.
Why is it better than most other 4X?
+ Rewarding diplomacy:
Interactions pretty rational. There are many possibilities, from trading ressources (shortages are common so that’s handy), to technologies, to being able to use friendly planets as bases for your fleet or asking for a 3rd party to negociate a peace with your ennemy, or bribe them into getting into war against your ennemy (or request a bribe to help them!)
– Real player with 229.8 hrs in game
Lets get to it.
Pro:
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- A.I. (Articial Intelligence) - I cannot emphasis or stress enough of how extremely good the A.I. is. It’s probably one of the most advanced one I’ve seen in a 4x game genre. I absolutely love how it handles playing against me and handling my orders for planets, colonization, and etc (without the need to micromanage everything). Again, the A.I. in this game is just so good that it cannot be expressed sufficiently of how good it is. Even the developer of this game admits that hard is very tough for him.
– Real player with 159.5 hrs in game
7,62 High Calibre
It’s the gamer’s lament: some of the best games ever made are busted, buggy, and obviously unfinished. Sadly, such is the case with this game. One of the best titles on Steam, despite languishing in almost complete obscurity, 7.62 High Caliber is a Russian-made real-time/pauseable squad tactics game with a stupid name and an absurd attention to detail that permeates nearly every aspect of its design.
Yes, I do mean absurd. Take the magazine out of a gun, and its in-game model will reflect this. You can fold the stock of your rifle, and this too will show up. Your character will even hold the weapon differently, closer to their body. Every attachment will appear on every single gun, which you can examine up close within a special window, even though this is a strategy game and you have no reason (though you do have the option) to zoom in ludicrously close enough to even notice that level of detail in the game. Equip a backpack? It shows up on your character. A carry vest? Yep, and with a few unique models. Armor? Yeah, that too, so long as it’s not a concealable plate carrier carried underneath clothing, in which case you won’t see it. Put on a belt with pouches and there you go, you’ll see that too. And I haven’t mentioned yet all the different uniforms you can wear, each with their own camoflauge value. It’s like having a box of virtual GI Joes.
– Real player with 258.5 hrs in game
7.62 High Calibre is a Strategy Game developed by Apeiron and is the sequel to the game Brigade E5. It almost feels like a spirtual successor to the old Jagged Alliance games, which have influenced many games in their time. This game does not fail to impress, and emulate all the key elements of Jagged Alliance which made it such a good series, while bringing new features to the table.
Based in the fictional nation of Algeira, a country just north of Brigade E5’s previous warzone, you are a mercenary who has been hired to hunt down a Russian man who screwed over a bank and was never apprehended. He has fled to Algeira to avoid prosecution, and you’ll have to hunt him down by any means necessary, and bring him back dead or alive. Of course, you’ll start the game with rather shitty equipment which means you have to spend some time doing jobs on the side, but that’s one of the big advantages of the game in a way, as it is a strategy game, yet you get to carve out your own destiny and plan prior to getting stuck in and finishing the main quest before you’ve even done the cool parts. If you go try to go ahead with the main plot and speedrun it, you’ll most likely get curb-stomped unless you know what you’re doing, but you’re always free to roam the jungle and cities of Algeira, finding quests and new mercs to hire on your way, up to a 6-man squad.
– Real player with 192.0 hrs in game
Creeper World 2: Anniversary Edition
Another classic I played many times on Kongregate.com. This takes the concept from the first game and gives you a sideview perspective rather than a top down, and it also adds new toys to destroy Creeper with. The missions get progressively harder as you go on and you aren’t always allowed the luxury of consolidating your power before going on the offensive. It’s a tactical and strategic masterpiece of a game wherein it seems simple on the surface but becomes very complex as the game goes on. Furthermore you learn to anticipate the unexpected and make ready for it. You also learn to restrain your desire to build everything at once and maximize your energy usage to build more efficiently to deal with rampages, particularly the drones that spawn on the later maps. Probably one of the best additions to the game that wasn’t present in the original was the inclusion of conversion bombs, which allow you to turn pools of creeper into your own anti-creeper lakes. This can come in extraordinarily handy at times, though the missions that this wonderful tool exists are counted on the fingers of one hand. Still, the thing that really made this game different from the first other than the perspective was the inclusion of the Nullifier weapon which lets you destroy the Creeper Emitters and spawn-gates for the drones and phantoms. No longer do you just have to perform lockdown, now you can actually destroy the sources directly.
– Real player with 117.2 hrs in game
Have you played any of the Creeper World games? Do you like Tower Defense, RTS or Puzzle games? Do you like games that are easy to pick up, but have a difficulty curve that can ramp up to 11? Then the odds are you will like this game.
If you haven’t played any of the other Creeper World games, the main premise is that there is Creeper (purple goo) that wants to destroy everything. It flows like water, seeping in and punishing you for not paying attention to what seems like a few pixels that you thought wouldn’t be a problem. You have to protect a base, make buildings to produce energy and then make weapons to destroy the Creeper.
– Real player with 73.5 hrs in game
Dracula’s Castle
Manage the castle by expanding it, then build and unlock new rooms granting new mechanics to explore. The Alchemist will allow you to equip Dracula with mystical tools, unlock the bat cave to improve Dracula’s Mist Form. The more you expand, the more your labour force can grow. You’ll need to grow your army of servants in order to accumulate enough soil to sail to England on the Demeter.
Travel Transylvania by night but watch out for Van Helsing. Stalk the towns of Transylvania, on the hunt for fresh blood, or attempt to overwhelm them to gain powerful bonuses. Feast, recruit laborers or “invite” a guest to the castle, the choice is yours. You’ll need to entrap Jonathan Harker to fulfill Dracula’s dark designs.
Grow Dracula’s power the way you want to. Dracula possesses different attributes such as Power, Cunning, Speed, Charm and Magick. Choose which ones to train and equip the right relics for your build. Build new monsters at the Alchemist’s Lab utilising recipes found in the Necronomicon! Craft or acquire new gear throughout your adventure.
Engage angry mobs, town militia and even dedicated vampire hunters in exciting tactical turn-based combat. Leverage Dracula’s powerful abilities and forms to outwit and overwhelm the enemy. The spoils of battle are yours! Hand over curios and materiel to the Castle Alchemist to craft new items and raise new monsters to join Dracula’s dark menagerie.
Follow the early plot of Bram Stoker’s masterpiece, the main goal centers around Jonathan Harker, Van Helsing and the trip to Carfax Abbey in England; but plenty needs doing in the dark corners of Transylvania. Engage in various side-quests given to you by Death and other denizens of the castle as you work on building up Dracula’s regional power.
Holy Potatoes! A Spy Story?!
Holy Potatoes! A Spy Story?! is a quirky game full of puns and references of pop-culture. Despite the cheesy puns which can be quite cringyworthy at times, the gameplay and the interface is seemly well-thought of. Although I do like that it’s on PC (bigger screen), I believe the game would fare better on mobile too.
The art really appeals to younger audiences or people who prefer this kind of art style. It is one of the rare 2D art games that actually delivers in consistency and it looks much better that it’s previous titles.
– Real player with 42.9 hrs in game
I’m always on the fence about these potato games - they look appealing to me, but sometimes I can tell I won’t like them watching videos and I tried one and didn’t like it (3&4 below). This one was a winner for me for because:
1. No resource collection (3 woods + 2 stone to make an axe or whatever). In this game it just takes a spy’s time to make an item.
2. Creates good choices - do I want to make a lot of small investments in training my spies or save up for a big building upgrade?
3. The missions are generically fun enough that they don’t depend on choose your own adventure multiple choice which will lose its appeal once you know the right answers.
– Real player with 30.5 hrs in game
Jagged Alliance - Back in Action
After logging many hours on this game in the last two years, I finally decided to write a review. My taste in PC games mostly includes the strategy (especially turn based and pausable RTS) genre. I’m a fan of the X-Com Games, The Total War Series, Close Combat, etc. I played all of the Jagged Alliance Games and enjoyed them all. In my opinion, JABIA is a good game if you like this type of game; a game that requires a lot of management (inventory, strategy, assembling teams, et.). I found the planning and execution of my plans in this game a lot of fun. There are a few rough edges. They could have included a way to look at items ordered after you ordered them, as in the old JA Games. As it is now, you place the order and you have to remember what you ordered until it arrives and the only place it can arrive is at the Drassen Airport, requiring a lot of ‘mule’ trips by your mercs who will spend much of their time running back and forth for supplies and using newly hired mercs as mules when they come in. The end result of this is that I found myself spending much of my time organizing logistics for reenforcement and resupply. If, like me, you enjoy this in a game, then you won’t mind it and may even have fun with it. If this kind of micro-management isn’t to your taste, skip this game.
– Real player with 2302.2 hrs in game
This review is for the Windows version. The MAC/Linux version is unplayable at this point.
I am a fan of JA2 and i was quite disappointed when JABIA was released. It was unfinished and overpriced on release. But things have changed. Most of the game’s problems can be fixed by using mods and the price of the game has decreased considerably. I played the modded Windows version for 220 hours and really enjoyed it. I can only recommend this game.
The story/scheme of the game is very similar to JA2: You are hired to liberate a small 3rd world country and can only afford to send in a few wannabe mercenaries. You start to liberate/loot remote locations in order to get your hands on more money and better weapons while you recruit NPCs and improve their skills.
– Real player with 904.5 hrs in game