Blocks!: Julius Caesar

Been a fan of these tabletop games for years, very nice to see them come to digital. Played my fair share of Julius Caesar at the table, I don't consider myself the greatest player. Played first game as Pompeii on easiest level and destroyed the AI handily. Played second game as Caesar on medium difficulty and won fairly easily. Will play my next game on the hardest level, hopefully more challenging. Regardless, i'm more interested in online play and don't mind the easier games vs AI to keep me fresh. Also picked up Richard III.....a game i've never played yet but look forward to learning. Praying Hammer of the Scots (one of my favs all-time) is in the works. Great to see these in digital format Avalon Digital! Job well done. :)

Please don't waste your money, the game is incomplete and abandoned by the developers and publishers. Check out the discussions

There are bugs to this game and they don't seem to be fixing them. I stopped buying "Blocks" games because of this game.

Just bought this unfortunately without reading many of the reviews, intention was to play against my friend online, but the bugs in the combat phase cause the game to crash and happen frequently enough to make it difficult to commit to trying to play PvP. Also as has been previously pointed out the AI is particularly weak and does not provide much of a challenge. I hope patches will be forthcoming as I would really like to play and enjoy this game, but in it's present state it is very disapointing

Based on actual PvP "game play" and review of forum responses by the developers, I do not recommend this game. It has some value as a solitaire version of a great board game, it is not worth $25. I, personally, will not buy or recommend any of Avalon Digital's versions of great Columbia games until this one works PvP online as represented

To start off with, "Julius Caesar" is an amazing game from Columbia Games. It ranks high in my game collection. When it was released by Avalon Digital, I had to have it. I have played six games, three first as Pompey and three playing Caesar. I played the games in all AI settings. I am quite sad to tell you that I beat the AI six times in a row. It wasn't bad enough that I won the six games, I won the six games quite easily. At this point I will even say that it was a "cakewalk". So if you are planning to buy this game to be challenged don't bother. If you like to beat your computer opponent quite easily then this is a must buy for you. A quick note to my good friends at STEAM. With a game like this you need more than two hours of play test time to figure out if a game is good or not. For the record I asked STEAM to refund my money after three hours of playing which was rejected by STEAM. I have not bothered to count the number of games that are in my STEAM library but I can say it is ...

Adapting a boardgame to digital format is admittedly an art. Columbia Games' Julius Caesar is a very well-regarded wargame, accessible enough for a beginner to pick up. However, it loses something in this version. Although the in-game Tutorial hints do provide excellent insight on the mechanisms and rules of the boardgame, the interface is lacking. The 23-page manual provided is basically a rewrite of the original 8-page (!) Columbia Games rules, with some misspellings ("Appolo" on the card shown in the manual), and, critically, without any information on the user interface. One of the key mechanisms in the game is "Levying" troops, or bringing them from off the board and/or increasing their power. The manual and the game interface had no instructions on how to increase their strength, so it's possible to proceed in the game without having a unit at its desired strength. I eventually stumbled on how to do it, but it was not straightforward like it is in the VASSAL adaptation of ...

Unfinished and abandoned.

Please fix the bugs and make the multiplayer game playable. I have not been able to complete a multiplayer game, and I bought the game specifically to play multiplayer.

I want to highlight the tutorial and UI in this game as being excellent. Too often in boardgames or wargames (or both) one or the other is lacking - here both are good. The gameplay is smooth, fast, and interesting. Happy I picked this up.