Developer: Chucklefish
Publisher: Chucklefish
Release: February 1, 2019
On: Windows
From: Steam
Price: 16 / $20 / 17
The pikemen have us surrounded, lads. There are enemy trebuchets to the north, knights to the east, and alchemists to the west. I ll be frank, men, this is not great optics. Let s reflect as the battledogs charge in from the south. What could we have done to avoid this? No, I don t know either.
The battles of turn-based tactical throwback Wargroove can be tough, and often rigged to knock you on your heels. Yet it has reverse-engineered the toy soldiering of Advance Wars to a delightful and slightly unsettling degree. Well, in my book (Brendan s Big Book Of Battling) that s mostly a good thing. But it does sometimes mean moments like this, when the pikemen seem destined to kill you.