Fortix

$0.99

Release Date:: Apr 14, 2010
Developer:: Nemesys Games
Publisher:: Nemesys Games
Platforms:: Windows Mac

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About This Game

Can you reclaim your ancestors’ land? Evil forces have taken over the once fertile land of Fortiana. You are the only one who can storm the castles and claw it back from the hordes of dragons.
Experience a new type of strategy and arcade game. Fence off parts of the battlefield to corner your enemies. Collect catapults and power-ups to besiege the fortresses and take on dragons. But beware! As you progress through the levels it gets harder and harder. The fortresses become much larger and the monsters more vicious. Can you emerge victorious and reclaim the land of your ancestors? You are knight Fortix, the sole hope for the desolate and tortured land of Fortiana to become the fertile land that it was before.

Key features:

New, yet familiar gameplay
Fantasy setting
22 levels of increasing difficulty
Family-friendly / no violence
Simple controls suitable for all ages
Easy-to-learn, hard-to-master
Likeable, cartoon-like characters
On-line high score chart

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User Reviews

Mixed

2 user reviews

50%

Positive

User #568769 english

1 hrs at review

Recommended

[i] My Experience [/i] When I first saw Fortix, I said to myself: "Hey, Jezzball with a theme!" However, it's both more and less than its inspiration. Instead of balls, however, you're interrupted by dragons. And Instead of clicking and having a line drawn straight across the play field (as in Jezzball), you create the size of the captured areas yourself by moving your character from a top-down perspective. Therefore, you can make the areas you capture as large or small as you'd like. In some ways, this makes the game kind of easy. You can slowly work your way across an area (limited somewhat by the time limit for each level), capturing small pieces one at a time, until you capture a massive tract of land. However, this mechanic also allows the game to have terrain-based challenges. Your character moves tremendously slowly through marsh-type land, and some levels also contain walls that are impassible. I loved the power-ups that your character has access to in-game (by capturing sp...