Ash of Gods: Redemption
Do you like story-driven turn-based tactical RPGs? Even those who have nothing to do with Japan and with fantasy in general?
Well, I was just searching for other turn-based games, and this one popped out as one of the recommended titles on Steam.
And I was not disappointed at all, as a long-time RPG player and turn-based lover.
The gameplay isn’t really innovative, but I wanted exactly the contrary - here you’ll face a classical turn-based system in which everyone will stay put until you choose which action to do (each turn is timed anyways).
– Real player with 191.4 hrs in game
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Choices. Much like the choice you’re making on whether to buy this game or not, making difficult choices is one of the key aspects of this game. It will affect how the characters react, whether they’ll live or die, how the story develops, and ultimately how it will end. A lot of that takes time and setup, and in many ways this is the kind of game that takes patience to love. It has its share of faults, but if you can get past them I think there’s an excellent strategy game just waiting to be played.
– Real player with 64.9 hrs in game
Ash of Gods: The Way
Twenty years have passed since the Great War. Frisa and Berkana kingdoms have managed to forge an uneasy peace but old grievances are not forgotten and new war is inevitable.
The Frisians have groomed new and talented commanders. They did this using a secret game developed by their best strategists to teach young aristocrats tactics and the art of war. Only by proving their tactical prowess can Frisian nobles achieve respect and a high rank. This way, only the best of the best make their way into the command. And soon, Frisa will be ready to strike.
Finn, a young and talented foster-son of Eik, the Berkanan secret service master and a veteran of the old war, is sent on a dangerous mission to participate in Frisian tournaments against the best of nobility in order to stop the war before it starts by eliminating top generals on the tournament arenas.
Gather characters, items and spells, learn about factions and their skills and abilities, level them up to create strong complementary decks and to build unique strategies to surprise your opponents on the battlefield.
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Old World
Old World is a historical strategy game where you lead your empire through multiple generations, building a grand legacy to last beyond your own years. This is an era of great leaders, from the revered to the feared. Which will you be?
Marry for politics, raise your heirs, and manage your relationship with the families of your kingdom. In the fast and furious world of kings and queens, family matters.
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Each of the 7 kingdoms has four noble families that provide various benefits when put in charge of your cities.
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Manage family ties through events, actions, and marriages to keep them happy and reap additional benefits. Upset them, or make them too powerful, and you risk their ire.
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Maintain a strong family unit, or distract yourself with more illicit adventures.
The world is full of great characters with distinct personalities, strengths, and weaknesses. Use them to forge your kingdom, defend your borders, and build ties with other leaders.
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Seek out and recruit famed warriors, philosophers, builders, and more. Have them tutor your children, lead your armies, and further your reign.
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Different personality archetypes allow your court members to perform different tasks in similar roles. Find the right combinations to take full advantage of governors, diplomats, spymasters, and even your spouse.
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Characters develop new personalities and traits over time, growing old, gaining experience, and finally falling ill and passing away, leaving room for the next generation.
Unsettled tribes, barbarian marauders, and remnants of previous cultures are all waiting in the vast unexplored wilderness.
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Discover artifacts and great heroes of the past at ruins scattered across the map.
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Experience over 3,000 unique events inspired by history and mythology.
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Contact with foreign dignitaries triggers event chains, stories, and courtroom drama.
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Pursue ambitions and legacies related to conquest, development, faith, and more.
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Historically inspired scenarios, weekly challenge games, and a choice between randomly generated and handcrafted maps to explore. Lead Carthage to victory as Hannibal in the Punic Wars, hold your own against Barbarian Hordes, or compete against other players in tackling fictional scenarios.
Why do things the way they’ve always been done? Old World brings a new take to key elements of the 4X strategy genre:
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Go beyond the traditional resources. Buildings are made of wood and stone, not “industry.” Population doesn’t grow off “food” alone.
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Orders are a resource shared across your realm. Instead of moving every unit once per turn, each unit can be moved multiple times until fatigued or Orders are depleted.
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Technological advancement is not predetermined. Randomization helps keep technology trees feeling fresh with each new playthrough.
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Quality of life improvements, such as the ability to undo mistaken commands and nested tooltips, ensure you’re always making informed decisions.
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Play with friends in countless multiplayer modes — from hotseat, to asynchronous, to cloud play.
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Mods further open up infinite options for new worlds, empires, and dynasties — inspired by our real world, and by works of fiction as well.
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Pro Basketball Manager 2021
Very good game playing the PBM Franchise since 2017
I hope they would add more Leagues in the game especially Asian Leagues because I don’t know much about EuroLeague. The developers are clearly hardworking so I’ll give this a 9/10 rating for me hopefully it improves. Again a very good game I recommend it to a basketball fan or people who is dreaming to be a coach, I’m getting pretty addicted to this game
-from a PBM Fan
– Real player with 187.7 hrs in game
Teams in the ‘Turkish 2nd basketball league’ can not promote to ‘Turkish basketball 1st league’. At the end of Turkish 2st basketball league, normal season leader must be promoted to Turkish basketball 1st league and from 2nd to 9th teams will play playoffs and the winner must be promoted to Turkish basketball 1st league. I would glad you to solve this problem. Thank you.
– Real player with 141.7 hrs in game
Zombie Cure Lab
Mindless hordes of zombies roam the earth. Humanity has fled underground. Now after years of research brave scientists dare to leave everything behind to retake the world. Build a lab in the wilderness and do what it takes to achieve your designation: Find the cure. Save humanity!
Plan ahead, layout rooms and furnish them with objects and machinery to set up your lab. Expand it to match the needs of your growing population. Comfy beds, diverse food and all kinds of skill training are essential to keep up the morale within the apocalypse. Provide shelter, defense and treatment chambers to buy time for your scientists and set them up with everything they need to heal the zombies.
Gather basic resources to construct and grow. Process, refine, cook and manage your resources to sustain your lab and its inhabitants. Prioritize jobs within your lab to maximize efficiency, plan ahead to foresee upcoming trouble and create your zombie curing masterpiece!
Your scientists will come up with new technologies and research points. New upgrades will allow you to harvest high tier materials and allow you to build late game tech science equipment. Unlock new machines and perks in the techtree and progress through all four tech tiers in order to finalize the cure.
Zombie healing is what it is all about, but first you need to catch zombies with your fancy freezing guns. Escort your well preserved ice block zombies to the treatment chamber. Here zombie-human hybrids - the ’humbies’ - will emerge and become new friends willing to help you out. But beware the humbie, if he’s in a bad mood he might be hard to predict and start rampaging your lab. Keep them in shape at all times to scale up your workforce and UNDO the apocalypse!
STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack
Empire at War
Forces of Corruption
Empire at War is a Real Time Strategy game on a galactic scale.
How you can play:
🔸 1 x Empire Campaign
🔹 1 x Rebel Campaign
🔸 1 x Zann Consortium Campaign [Forces of Corruption]
🔹 Galactic Conquest (sandbox on some or all of the ~70 systems)
🔸 Skirmish missions set on unique Ground or Space maps (many options)
What kind of RTS ?:
As there are many variants of RTS games, this is a brief overview:
🔸 Space looks 3D, (some units can pass over others) but expect 2D,
– Real player with 924.1 hrs in game
In my opinion, I would recommend that you should buy this game if your considering to buy it. The game is pretty fun, considering that its graphics and everything are like pretty old but I like it. Also, If your considering to buy it and not sure, well make sure that you want to spend $20 and also to make sure that you like Star Wars or you just wanna play this because it looks fun (Which it is). Some things I suggest though when you buy the game.
Suggestions -
- EAW (Empire At War)
Once bought the game “STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack”, you will see either EAW (Empire At War) or FOC (Forces Of Corruption). Since you have bought the game just now, your experience might not be the best. Consider that you load into Empire At War, have some practice or do the campaign if you want, it was pretty good in my opinion. Skirmish Battles or Galactic Conquest in #Single-Player is pretty much your options to practice in EAW (Empire At War)
– Real player with 544.4 hrs in game
Door Kickers
Door Kickers is one of those pleasant surprises that comes every now and then.
This is essentially a Top Down SWAT Team Simulator that is extremely Tactical. (And I’m not using the word just because it’s cool)
How would I describe Door Kickers ?
This game reminds me of older releases that change the way FPSes are played such as Rainbow Six and SWAT.
This is a slow and methodical game as it’ll brutally punish you if a mistake have been made. Thought and precise movements must be taken into account if you wish for all of your troopers to survive that one bloody great gunfight.
– Real player with 451.6 hrs in game
One of the best real-time tactics games on Steam.
Having finished all of the single missions and all of the campaigns, both in Normal and in Iron Man, I believe I’m in a position to write a few things about this game. I don’t usually write Steam reviews, but Door Kickers is a special game that deserves recommendation. As someone who is very interested in tactical gaming, the top-down tactics offered by this game are very enjoyable.
The game gives you control over a team of SWAT operators and tasks you with defeating the bad guys and completing missions such as rescuing hostages, arresting a suspect, securing evidence, preventing escape of the suspects or escorting a VIP. There are different ways to play the game, but the way I play it (and I guess the most obvious style of play) is real-time with pause. The way I usually do the missions is like this: I draw actions for my troopers, let them play out those actions, pause, assess the situation and then plan my next move. You can also play the game in 100% real-time or even prepare the entire mission in the planning phase if you want. It’s a lot more difficult and challenging to do, but the option is there. There is no ‘true’ method of playing the game.
– Real player with 66.7 hrs in game
Men of War™
You may think this game is good at first. You may think that me having clocked in over 200 hours means it must be good. But really, this game is like cocaine. You’ll use it once, think it’s interesting, then keep going. Soon you’ll know it’s bad, and that it’s just constantly killing you, but you’ll keep going, hoping it’ll go back to the good it once seemed to be. If you’re lucky like me, you’ll escape and never play this again.
Let me explain my opinion a little more. This game is essentially an RTS with guns, tanks and artillery. That’s fun and fine in itself, at least on paper, but it necessitates a few things. For example, if you have troops with guns, you expect that they’ll be able to shoot enemies, and generally get things done without your constant aid. Not in Men of War. Your troops will frequently throw grenades into their own squads, waste ammo shooting at nothing (yeah, you have to keep track of every troop’s ammo), miss enemies at point blank range, stare at the last sighted enemy even if they’re miles out of range, stop running in favor of standing in a field trying to shoot an invisible sniper, or just flat out do something that makes no sense. This is only the beginning.
– Real player with 245.1 hrs in game
Men of War Review - Rating: 8.3/10
General Impression
– Real player with 194.6 hrs in game
Pro Strategy Football 2022
I came into this series last year with Pro Strategy Football 2021. A game which, for an old time gamer sparked a lot of nostalgia in the way it was presented. There were things missing like game keeping records for head to head etc I fixed that little itch with a spreadsheet and small things like not being able to navigate to a players career stats from any screen. Still the game was a little gem.
Those things have been addressed with this addition along with numerous other improvements and continued optimizations as the game feels tighter and slicker when loading if that makes sense.
– Real player with 798.4 hrs in game
A tremendous effort by a lone indie developer with a day job. This game was created with love and passion for the game. Know what you are buying first, because it won’t be for everybody. Please read the description and feel free to ask things in the game forum first if you wish. The developer (Kerry) is very honest, open, and transparent - and very consumer friendly and a great guy! (plus it is a really terrific community too).
The game’s strength is the on-field gameplay - and in that department, it is unheralded, producing an accurate, realistic simulation of the game. You will not be controlling the players with a gamepad - it is focused on coaching, or if chosen, spectating games. In the coaching department there are thousands of plays that can be designed on the fly. This year many new formations (both classic and modern) were added and entire leagues (or individual teams) can be tailored to utilise them in ways that create their own characteristics or flavor (and there are mods done by really talented mod authors covering almost the entire NFL, USFL, and various other leagues too –- including fantasy leagues and teams).
– Real player with 355.6 hrs in game
XCOM® 2
On my umpteenth install of this game, no mods and on a fresh install of Windows. Still great, still buggy. Crashes often on missions involving the Lost. Sound disappears randomly, sometimes returns but often needs a game restart to fix. I think it’s fussy about graphics cards, other than that, I have no idea why it’s still so fragile after all these years.
– Real player with 1565.8 hrs in game
This game is all about learning not to be disheartened. You will fail sometimes, you’ll lose good soldiers that you invested time and effort in training up. You’ll make a single tactical error in a mission and will be punished with your entire squad ending up dead. Even worse, sometimes you’ll just get your butt handed to you by bad RNG. You’ll make a bad strategy decision by researching something in the wrong order and leave yourself behind on technology, making it easier for the aliens to wipe you out.
– Real player with 426.6 hrs in game