Militia

Fun, simple game with a good soundtrack. However, the game is very unforgiving. No undo button, no restart level button, takes more XP than it gives, and one mistake could ruin the entire round for you.

A charming, deceptively simple game. Easy to learn, difficult to master. You pit three random player-controlled units against a much larger number of weaker enemies. You have trickier and more powerful options, but a single mistake means losing 1/3 of your firepower. The game has an elegant tutorial and is very quick to learn. Its ranking system accomplishes two difficult tasks at once: motivation to get better at the game, and an effective difficulty curve. You'll probably blast through the first few ranks easily, but soon you'll find yourself in challenging environments that push you to master the mechanics. I can confidently say this regardless of your skill level or aptitude for this sort of game. Overall, a great buy for the price. You can play one of two distinct rulesets, either Light or Dark. Light offers much simpler mechanics, with units that jump and attack in easy-to-understand ways. Dark offers complicated individual pieces that do things like push other units, gener...

A truly dynamite strategy game! A simple ruleset with only one board but variable gamepiece placement makes this a very fun - albeit challenging - exercise in logic and planning. Far less variety among moves and fewer pieces than chess leads to briskly paced games that reward focus on necessity and encourage a flexible tactical approach to achieving the goal: eliminating all the enemy captains. I am so far (3 hours played) quite enjoying the smooth difficulty scaling, but can already see both the enemy quantity and type making my further progress hard-fought and well earned. I have zero reservations recommending this at full price, much less on sale! Militia is a carefully executed and interesting take on small-scale tactics that is well worth both the cost to purchase and the time to play.

This is a simple and engaging strategy game. It provides the satisfaction of chess-like mechanics with procedural generation to keep things fresh.

My warrior took an arrow to the knee - now my mage is wielding his battle axe... It's simple - simple genius. The comparising with chess is close even though it is not 1 after 1 but 1 faction after the other. The movement patterns are simpler with their limited range but those attack patterns, swap spells and refresh abilities of your units combined with the amount of enemies vs your 3 ones makes you think - or lose. This part makes Militia much more like a table top or the fight part of a classic RPG...with 1 HP units... Limited number of turns adds some additional pressure even though to me it seems at the moment that it is more of a rule to prevent endless fights - only have had 1 or 2 fights where i came close to the limit. More frustrating (but also challenging) is the "3 wins vs 1 lose"-mechanic which means you have to clear 3 floors before it's a (real) win and you gain XP but every lose will cost you XP immediately. Those XP are only counted toward a level showing your progres...

Its alternate chess Each piece moves & eliminates other pieces in a different pattern (just like in chess) The game comes with two variants 'light' and 'dark', each one has a different lineup of pieces. Unlike Chess, you win by eliminating all of the enemy 'boss pieces' Its fun, if you pay attention you can win reliably, and avoid losing any of your pieces. If you lose, it was because you weren't paying attention. I'd recommend this to everybody!

This title is pure great game design. The game play is emergent from a set of easy to grasp moves that each piece, yours and the computer opponent, can make each term. Some have likened it to chess, and in some ways it does have that feeling. Mostly when you make a move you think is safe and realize it wasn't. But it doesn't feel like playing chess against a computer (which will generally kick your butt) but rather like an adventure game. Imagine a tactics game where every move has to be given some careful consideration. The play is deliberate and quick. Once you clear a level, you tomble into the next, and it's one of those "just one more..." sorts of things and BOOM an hour or more has gone by! I recommend this game whole heartidly. It is an example of what really good game designers can accomplish with minimal (but very pleasingly assembled) production values. To them, I say well done. To everyone else: if you like turn-based tactics of any kind, this is your game.

Thumbs up! Don’t be fooled by the simple graphics. It’s better than it looks. The way the pieces move may draw some comparisons to chess, but you only get two or three pieces at a time and all the pieces move each turn. It starts off easy at first, but the difficulty keeps increasing as you win more games. The standard game uses the pieces known as the Light World, but there is also an option to play with a different set of pieces known as the Dark World. Either way, it’s a good challenge.

I'm a big fan of game from BrainGoodGames. I've put dozens of hours into Axes and Acres and their latest, Minos Strategos. Militia is a fun game and I can somewhat recommend it. It has many of the features that I like in BrainGoodGames - simple rules but lots of complex strategies. The AI is very simple but the game is definitely a challenge. Unfortunately that is the one flaw in Militia and it is why it is my least favourite of the BrainGoodGames I've played. I reached level 6 after a couple of hours of gameplay and I really struggled to accomplish anything after that. In fact, if anything I got worse at the game, mostly as a result of frustration. The challenge ramps up too quickly for me. Nor sure what was happening with my game but I got quite a few erros. Reinstalling fixed an error that would sometimes occur when I pressed ESC. A few games later I got a crash after winning a game.

For people that like chess, this game should be really addicting. It's great that they change the level according to the player's skill.