Atriage

I have seen kickstarters asking for 10 of thousands or more for similar types of turn based ship formation games but they fail in the execution or never come to be. Now, this game pulls it off, straight forward turn based strategy game without any fillers or unnecessaty complexity. I recommend this game because it is easy to pick up yet shares a similar mastery approach like chess. You control a fleet on a tiled board against another fleet. Each ship has a move pattern and attack pattern, some stronger others weaker. I played a game session for over 30 minutes because I took my time before each move and in the process learned different tricks watching the enemy AI in action. Learned a lot from it and will try to pull those new moves on my next session. It was fun, tactical, straight forward and has a arcade touch to it. Seems the game has online capabilities, so it will be interesting to play against a human contender. The style of the ships remind me of Ikaruga and radiant silvergun...

It's basically CHESS! IN SPACE! You can imagine the gameplay. There are set 4 classes of ships and each ships move different and attack differently, and you fight in a 2 dimensional board with random obstacle. My feedback for now is that I wish there's more options on the visual (like for example to reduce the thickness of the board lines). Also, I guess I must reiterate again. It's Chess In Space with a bit of random elements. Gurgeh would be proud. So there aren't any campaign or storyline or upgrades or fleet building or such. I guess I should recommend it at discount for those who aren't really into chess.