Siege Survival: Gloria Victis
I first heard of this game during the Steam Game Festival back in February and I spent maybe 2 dozen hours trying out the demo before getting the full game.
Siege Survival is heavily inspired from This War of Mine, and incorporates many of the same looting and resource management aspects, such as base-building, scavenging the city at night, trying to keep your people alive until the end of a war, and more.
I think Siege Survival handles some aspects very well, even better than TWoM, such as:
– Real player with 100.4 hrs in game
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I really tried to like this game, I did, really. I think the hours speak how much I tried. I gave up a few times on the hardcore mode because while I didn’t mind a challenge, I didn’t feel like doing the siege again, but harder.
I understand, and it wasn’t a bad idea to try to mix This War of Mine and Medieval siege. But the problem is, well, you kind of lost the point of T.W.M. when you tried this. That war is shit, and stupid, especially as a civilian that has no horse in the race. When you’re the focus of the siege, forced to pick a side, and it’s so binary who’s right/wrong, the message is lost. It’s a typical story of “us vs. bad men” and that’s where you dropped the ball. The events are binary right/wrong as well, pick the obviously right/morally good choices and your rewards are a mood boost plus a benefit. Versus a mood debuff plus a benefit. Closest to “conflicted” I get to a decision is the rat event where you either go for the food that can make ~12 meals and get lightly scratched or don’t. You never talk to an Ismir raider to ask them why they’re raiding us, what they hope to get out of it, and what they say to justify it all. You meet one, but he’s too wounded to talk philosophy or reason which admittingly did amuse me when I thought of trying so with a notebook and pencil in my hands.
– Real player with 50.4 hrs in game
Fantasy General
good game of the old school
– Real player with 75.6 hrs in game
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Love the sounds, and it is just like I remember. Great variety of units to choose from. Great fun!
– Real player with 67.7 hrs in game
JARS
Though this game still has bugs, especially for Windows machines, it is a fairly interesting game that is sometimes a bit confusing to suss out what is going on. It’s fairly good.
– Real player with 17.9 hrs in game
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Nice little puzzle game that combines tower defense gameplay, Tim Burton’s humorous grotesque style and easy-to-use game mechanics. With the help of his insects and animals, the boy Victor will have to uncover the secrets of the dark nooks and crannies of his house, entering into a confrontation with annoying pests. You can use from 1 to 3 types of units, depending on the type of mission to be completed and the conditions for its implementation. Each species has its own peculiarity, there are powerful punching bumblebees, and small mosquitoes, prickly hedgehogs to protect confined spaces and other specimens. The set of tactics, albeit not huge, is quite sufficient for a fun game, and various types of equipment allow you to create interesting options for defense and attack. I did not like the fact that some missions had to be completed exclusively in the way the developers intended (most often this concerned missions with one single ward). And the most unpleasant thing was the moment when a prerequisite for starting a mission was the presence in my squad of a certain unit, which can only be bought in a junk shop. It is very expensive and if there is no money for it (and I did not have it), then the only option was to start a boring grind of currency in previous missions, and in the local endless mode. This is a strange idea, to be honest. In all other respects, this is such a solid good puzzle, which is very pleasant to play in the evening, quite sincere and dynamic.
– Real player with 9.8 hrs in game
Memetric: Final Lifeforms
Very exciting the whole world, I’m waiting for the future developments. I want to know what’s going to happen! Also love the design, quite unique. Still a lot of way to improve it, but Memetric is a promising game, I totally recommend it!!!
– Real player with 2.0 hrs in game
Inspiring story and great graphical design
A solid 10 out’a 10
– Real player with 1.1 hrs in game
Sin Bearers Tactics
Played the beta - promising first tactical game from a really small studio. Quite a good lenght for the price
– Real player with 1.0 hrs in game
Star Vikings Forever
Star Vikings is actually a bit like Plant vs. Zombies - but you play the Zombies not the plants. It is a reversed tower defense game, where you have to destroy the towers (slugs) to get through. You have a variety of “heroes” in your arsenal, the tank, able to withstand a lot of damage, the viking, able to throw lightning on the slugs, “angels” able to cast shields (and healing), …
Each hero can wear a hat, giving him some bonuses, like extra damage, extra energy, more hitpoints, …
It is a worthwile casual game and quite nice to play.
– Real player with 254.8 hrs in game
I love these kinds of light strategy games.
Pros:
Easy enough.
Always seems that if I don’t pay careful attention I end up hurting myself.
Feels like you have lots of options in the load out of your Vikings, and you can play it how you want to play it if you are willing to work for the hats that make your strategy work.
There’s a good amount of game, especially if you want most of the achievements.
Cons:
I seemed to have an issue if I let a Viking die in front of another Viking, the one left alive would not step past the dead Vikings last spot. Think that’s a bug.
– Real player with 220.5 hrs in game
BeeFense BeeMastered
(I got this game free because I have the original beefense)
Beefense is a rts/ td hybrid. You send your bees to harvest resources in between waves. There are 4 resources- pollen, nectar, water, and honeydew.
Pollen- Money, used for building/ leveling up new towers and spawning new bees.
Nectar- Fuel. If it runs out, your bees will perform poorly.
Water- used to give towers a boost, improving firing rate, range, and I think damage.
Honeydew- Special Currency, used to unlock tower upgrades, beesearch, free caged bees, and buy ding balls and black ninja wasps.
– Real player with 38.4 hrs in game
Simple tower defense with a simple chummy plot. Having fun.
Downside….
Some things are not clear at all which leads to cons.
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Rolling Dungballs with mouse and keyboard. Even after finding thru a 3rd party, it takes alot of finesse to right click and drag the ball.
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After around the 15th mission, I had issues where I could select everything except my bees… Reboot problem sovled.
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At mission 25, game decided to tell me what to due in German. I failed. Rebooted game told me to destroy glow things in English. Still failed. Rebooted, and killed a enemy base and was able to advance.
– Real player with 28.5 hrs in game
Buzzle
Buzzle is a simple, small, 3D Puzzle game where you move the cubes up, down, left and right. The goal is to get the marked cube to the opening. There are also 40 levels to complete.
A small Note for the players:
The levels aren’t sorted in difficulty, meaning a level that is before one other level could be harder than the next one.
Controls:
**Move orange with:
W - Up
S - Down
Move pink with:
A - Left
D - Right**
**R - Restart
ESC - Pause**
Updates:
More Updates are coming in the future!
Chickamauga Battles
Nice to see another HexWar game!
Very nice and easy to pick up and play turn based strategy game
– Real player with 2.0 hrs in game
Covers the Chickamauga campaign of the American Civil War. Gameplay is as most HexWars games. Decent array of scenarios. If you are comfortable with HexWars style, recommended.
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game
Conquest: Frontier Wars
Finally, my favourite childhood game is on Steam! This one is definitely a rare and well polished gem.
I have wasted spent countless hours playing this game and it is definitely worth checking out. It has some interesting concepts that rarely appear in other games, like playing across multiple maps, managing supply lines, special hero-like admirals, that make fleet management much easier.
The campaign storyline is somewhat linear, but very enjoyable and a great way to get into the game’s lore, which I find is one of the most fun aspects of the game.
– Real player with 12.8 hrs in game
one of the best RTS game i have aver played
Conquest:Frontier wars is a RTS like no other! every time you do battle you will get a newly created randomly battlefield and you can have up to 16 of them at once that are connected by wormholes! wormholes that you can build a “jumpgate” around that only lets allied units move through!
ships also have supplys! somthing i have not seen any other RTS do yet if your ship runs out of supplys they are dead in the water! all you have to do is make supply ships and your fleet will stay supplied!
– Real player with 5.3 hrs in game