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![]() Heroes of Might & Magic III - HD Edition
This is the iOS version of Heroes of Might & Magic III - HD Edition. Was this recommendation...?Re-live the epic tale of Queen Catherine Ironfist, as she re-embarks on her critically acclaimed quest to unite her ravaged homeland and re-conquer the kingdom of Erathia. Heroes of Might & Magic III - HD Edition was taken down from Apple app store in May, 2018. Stellaris: Console Edition
The universe is getting bigger every day! Paradox Development Studio is bringing the grand strategy genre to consoles for the first time ever with Stellaris: Console Edition. Was this recommendation...?Featuring the same deep strategic gameplay, rich and diverse alien races and emergent storytelling, Stellaris: Console Edition puts the complexity of the galaxy at your thumbsticks. Terraforming Mars
The taming of the Red Planet has begun! Corporations are competing to transform Mars into a habitable planet by spending vast resources and using innovative technology to raise temperature, create a breathable atmosphere, and make oceans of water. As terraforming progresses, more and more people will immigrate from Earth to live on the Red Planet.
Was this recommendation...?Auto Chess
Dota Auto Chess is a strategy video game mod for the video game Dota 2. Developed by Drodo Studio, the game supports up to eight players playing a modified version of chess, with characters and gameplay elements from Dota 2. The popularity of Dota Auto Chess, with it having over eight million players by May 2019, led to the recognition of the 'autobattler' genre, with a number of games inspired by it. Drodo Studio developed a standalone version known simply as Auto Chess, which was released for mobile devices in May 2019 and will be released for PC at a later date. Valve Corporation, the developer of Dota 2, is also developing their own standalone version
Was this recommendation...?Order of Battle: World War II
Order of Battle: World War II is breath of fresh air for all strategy fans. It is a game that takes wargaming to a new level by upgrading every single game element and rebooting the genre for a new generation of players.
Was this recommendation...?Captain StarONE
Became the hero, Captain StarONE, in this game blending action and ‘inaction’. You set your strategies and combos, then multitask as the game carries out your attacks. Watch the battles unfold and be ready to jump back in to guide our hero! Was this recommendation...?As enemies become stronger your strategies and actions change; you then assist the Captain for stronger moves! Make timely interventions to manipulate and generate combos, aim for major damage, strengthen equipment, organize teams and head to victory! Get ready for a unique and comical space adventure in Captain StarONE! Battle Chess: Game of Kings
It took 2,000 years for someone to make chess better! The most challenging game on earth comes to life in Battle Chess. An entire medieval world at war is reflected on the checkered field.
Was this recommendation...?Cops 2170Business Magnate
Business Magnate is a tycoon business simulation game where you can create all types of businesses: Cars, rockets, phones, tanks, trucks, airplanes, computers, ships and more. Design, produce, market and sell them. You can even run multiple companies at the same time.
Was this recommendation...?S.W.I.N.E. HD Remaster
Experience again the nifty war strategy game that defined the childhood of many players in the golden age of gaming. This funny strategy war game, which was first released in 2001, allows you to fight leading the aggressive pigs or the peace-loving rabbits to victory in several battles.
Was this recommendation...?1953: NATO vs Warsaw Pact
1953: NATO vs Warsaw Pact is a strategic game about potential Cold War conflict just after the Stalin’s death. When the cruel tyrant has gone, Soviet warmongers has been finally able to start war with rotten West. With the nuclear power in the hands of both sides there is a huge possibility to end the world as we know it. How this ends, depend only on the action taken by both sides.
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![]() Ancient Cities
Ancient Citiesis a Survival and Strategy City Builder PC game through the ages, strongly focused on history and realism. Currently being developed by Uncasual Games. Was this recommendation...?Starting in the Neolithic era, you will have to guide your people through generations, discovering and improving technologies, managing resources and population, facing threats from raiders and Mother Nature herself. And, ultimately, building the most fantastic city of antiquity through the ages in a fully simulated world and ecosystem. Dicey Dungeons
Fighting against fortune would be a lot easier if you weren't a walking dice.
Was this recommendation...?Romance of the Three Kingdoms X with Power Up Kit
'Romance of the Three Kingdoms Ⅹ with Power Up Kit' is an expanded version of 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms Ⅹ,' which was released in 2004 as the 10th game in the series. Was this recommendation...?In this release, the all-officer playable advances. In addition to over 3 times the number of events, we have added 'Duels,' where officers clash with each other, 'Debates,' in which strategists and ministers clash verbally, 'Campaigns,' large scale battles involving multiple cities, in order to allow players a greater opportunity to freely experience the world of the Three Kingdoms. In addition, the Power Up Kit adds 4 new scenarios, a 'Historical mode,' 'Trial mode,' and an 'Expert mode.' What's more, Marriages and Births have been included, as well as a chronological table and edit mode. Field of Glory: Empires
Field of Glory: Empires is a grand strategy game in which you will have to move in an intricate and living tapestry of nations and tribes, each one with their distinctive culture. Set in Europe and in the Mediterranean Area during the Classical Age, experience what truly means to manage an Empire.
Was this recommendation...?Billion Road
Billion Road takes you on a journey to a number of real-life prefectures and cities throughout Japan, and your goal is to be the richest player in the game. Up to 4 players can compete locally and online. Takeover all of Japan and dominate the businesses world like a tycoon!
Was this recommendation...?Pokémon Masters
Pokémon Masters takes place on the island of Pasio, where the rules of battle are different and the treasured bond between Trainer and Pokémon is taken to the next level with sync pairs—the combination of a Trainer and their partner Pokémon. For the very first time in a Pokémon game, Trainers and their partner Pokémon from every Pokémon region will come together to form sync pairs. Players can team up with duos such as Korrina & Lucario, Brendan & Treecko, Clair & Kingdra, and many more. With all sorts of Trainers on Pasio, there are sure to be some exciting and unexpected encounters in this new story.
Was this recommendation...?Bronze Age
Two small classics from Clarus Victoria published in 2013, Stone Age and Bronze Age, are now available on Steam! Manage an ancient tribe in the African Savannah, build the first city in the Fertile Crescent, guide your people across prehistory and lead them to Victory!
Was this recommendation...?Pax Nova
A sci-fi turn-based 4X strategy game where you lead the fate of one of several factions divided between three races. Explore new worlds and new star systems filled with exciting secrets as well as new dangers. Build new cities, expand your influence and fight great battles on land and in space.
Was this recommendation...?Rise of Industry
Rise of Industry is a strategic tycoon game that puts you in the shoes of an early 20th-century industrialist. Build and manage your growing empire in a living, breathing, and procedurally generated world that is constantly evolving and adapting to your playstyle.
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Hello youse!It’s Tuesday night, and from now on that means CARDBOARD CHILDREN and it means BOARD GAMES. And card games too. And pen and paper RPGs.
And gamebooks. And stuff like that.
You know the drill. Anyway, the point is – it’s Tuesday night from now on. We all cool with that? NowKrosmaster: Arena is quite the game.
It’s a tactical miniatures game, styled after the kind of Japanese SRPGs that you PC Master Race people never get to play in your supposedly perfect worlds. I don’t feel at all prepared to adequately talk about Krosmaster either, because it’s a game that you’d need months and months to dig deep enough into. But man – it’s time to pull the trigger on this recommendation stuff, right? Read on.KROSMASTER: ARENANow, apparently Krosmaster comes from some kind of PC F2P MMO thing or something.
I dunno, but that sure was a lot of capital letters back there. The worlds of Dofus and Wakfu can be entered ONLINE right now, it seems, if you’re that way inclined. “I can’t come to bed, darling. I’m busy in the world of Wakfu.” I have no idea what I’m talking about here. Let me show you a screenshot.Okay, what is that?
Any of you cheapskates played it?In fact, Krosmaster: Arena itself can be played online too. I haven’t done that yet, because I like board games and also this is a board game column and also just shut up I just haven’t. I want to talk about the board game and the board game alone.HOT LOOKSOh my goodness. Krosmaster: Arena is a gorgeous board game. In the box you’ll find eight bug chunky miniatures, each of them fully painted. The board is a big cartoonish, colourful thing in the JRPG style. There are 3D cardboard trees and bushes and crates.
It’s all so cute. It really pops off the table. Not literally! That would be annoying.I love how Krosmaster teaches you how to play.
The rulebook is split up into tutorials, just like you might find in popular video games of the year 2013. Each tutorial unfolds a little bit of the game system, and you can play it out right there in the book.
Yeah, just stick your miniatures onto the page of the book and run the tutorial. The first tutorial is all about moving and punching. That’s how slowly the game teaches itself to you. That’s a GREAT thing.A great rulebook.How does the game actually work? Movement points, Action points, Hit points.
Every character has its own unique attacks, and maybe some special abilities. You roll dice to see if you cause any critical hits, and roll dice to see if your armour deflects any damage. You roll dice to try to LOCK characters adjacent to you (that pretty much means you keep them engaged, grapple them, strip all their movement and action points) and you roll dice to try to dodge a lock.That’s pretty much it. Where the combat just flips the fuck out and expands like crazy is in the fact that every character plays so differently.LEMME FREESTYLE ON THIS CHARACTER SHITOne character might like standing way at the back, pinging off arrows, and basically being impossible to catch.Another character might like to throw water balloons into a crowd of enemies. And then in a separate attack, leap back while shooting the water balloon, making it explode to soak all the enemies. Causes damage and strips away action points that does.
Brilliant.Another character might like to summon lots of little ducks that can be moved independently. And those ducks can be sent to surround enemies and kiss them. Yes, kiss them. And then the summoner can do an attack that is enhanced by the amount of those little duck dudes that surround the target.
MAGIC.Oh, and another character might be able to leech health. And do a cool attack that pierces armour, but only hits on the roll of a critical attack on a die.Another character might have a special ONCE PER GAME attack that blows an enemy character across the board and hits them HARD with a poisonous PUFF of I dunno what.Another character might be able to do weird grappling assaults that inflict damage but also swap positions with enemy characters. So, like, just off the top of my head, you could use this character to assault an enemy and switch them into position beside a water balloon or a crowd of little Tofu ducks.Is this sounding brilliant yet?IS THIS SOUNDING BRILLIANT YET?No, I’m asking you. Is this sounding brilliant yet?In the Arena matches, the main way of playing the game, it’s all about the Gallons of Glory tokens. Each player starts with 6 of these GG tokens.
You win the game by stripping your opponent of GG, until he has none left. When you kill an opponent’s character, you take from the opponent a number of GG equal to that character’s level. But that’s not the ONLY way of getting GG.I told you this felt like a video game, right? Well, there are little coins lying all over the map. These are called Kama coins, and your characters can spend an Action Point to pick one up.
Once you collect ten of these coins, you can visit special Demon Tiles on the board and spend the ten coins to claim a GG from your opponent. Ah, but wait. You can also spend coins at these tiles to buy cool shit.
You can buy one-time use spells, or equipment, or even whole armour sets that will customise your character. How fucking amazing is that? It’s like visiting the shop in a video game. It’s more decisions piled on top of all the other decisions.
And games with decisions are great games.Oh, and there’s another way you might LOSE those GG tokens. At the start of a player’s turn, he’ll have to roll two dice.
If the same symbol comes up on each die, the TENSION rises. That means that each player has to throw away a GG token. It makes the game accelerate towards the finish. The pace of the game is never certain – it certainly keeps you on your toes. And when you roll those two tension dice you can also use the dice to give your characters special powers, or claim some coins.There are a lot of little moving parts in this game, but none of them are fiddly or overly fussy to deal with. It really clicks together quickly. But wow – this is a game with a lot of replayability.
Just seeing how the characters work with each other is delicious enough, but once you start figuring in all the upgrades you can buy during the game, you’re starting to see possibilities stacking upon possibilities. It’s a very clean game too. A lot of it feels like common sense stuff.
Stand on a crate and you have better reach for your ranged attacks. Bushes don’t block line of sight. You KNOW all this stuff.TOYSAh, and it’s like toys. It’s like having beautiful little toys. The game is hugely expandable. You can buy booster sets with new characters, and I admit that I have fallen for this madness. I got a set with a cool cat dude who has playing cards in his hand and a smile and aw and I love him.
You don’t NEED to buy any of this stuff – what’s in the box is plenty. It really is. Worlds of plenty. But it’s likely you’ll look at some images of the other characters and feel like dipping in. It has that much charm. Another cool thing.
The expansion packs come with little single-player scenarios. Little puzzles you fold out, with a grid and such, and you’re given a certain amount of turns to complete some objectives with your new characters. It all flows into the “VIDEO GAME ON A TABLE” feel of the whole thing. They totally nailed that. Credit to them.AND SOAnd so it’s easy for me to recommend Krosmaster: Arena.
It’s a lovely thing. Lovely to look at, lovely to learn, lovely to play. 2-4 players can pick some miniatures and fling themselves into an arena, collecting coins, powering up, and beating the shit out of each other.
I haven’t even NEARLY finished with it. I haven’t even settled on my favourite team yet. There’s just so much stuff to mess around with. And with all the available characters out there, and the new boards incoming, I can see this being a game that really lasts for me.Check it out.
Might be great for Christmas! Did you know that it’s Christmas soon?See you next Tuesday for the start of all the end of year coolness. Lists, buying guides, weirdness. I got you covered.STAY DICEY.
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