Guards of the Gate

I like turn-based tactic games, and I am hardcore gamer who dedicated many hours to the XCOM series. However, sometimes I turn to obviously more simple games, like Guards of the Gate. Pros: - Nice look, for the game of that kind quite fair; - Interesting map system without out-of-battle healing and statues which strengthen teams in next runs; - Some skills that I have not encountered in other games of this type; - Simple but enjoyable battle system on small hexagonal fields. Cons: - The game is very badly balanced, for now. Some classes are more useful than others; teams of certain type make walkthrough very easy, and others - very hard, but irritating hard, because of bad skills combination and artificial weaknesses. This is very important, because for turn-based tactic game to be replayable it must have various strategies and approaches. Now there is only one effective approach. - Poor AI. It just strikes the hero with lowest hp. Also they do not try to move their place to free ...

The game looks promising at first, but it has almost no substance. Some skills or classes are way better then others. The battles get boring and tedious soon. You do always the same. The enemies are not really smart. I completed the game at 3 hours. But the last hour was only boring battles and then the game was over. I had max character level even after 1/3 of the game. The game is clearly overpriced. If i had stopped after the boring grind later i would have refunded the game now. But i hoped at every new level that the game would introduce new mechanics or better things, but nothing came. The game needs way more of everything. Like stated at first, it has really potential, but at this state it is a bland and boring turn based combat game.

This is a VERY casual game. My first play through took 32 minutes. Success or failure seems to be dictated by your initial character class selection and less on skill or tactics. Given the short duration of the game, mechanics such as skill and talent leveling up seem pretty pointless.

Another game with the shiny exterior of Unity, and similarly the empty simplicity inside. It looks nice until you realise it runs like a hog to show very little on the screen. Gameplay wise there are no hotkeys, there are plenty of bugs and it doesn't feel rewarding at all, but rather random.

No depth to be had. Either your stats are better, or they aren't. Decent graphics, but no gameplay.

At present moment Guards of the Gate seems to be a small adventure game à la Heroes of Might & Magic. Unfortunately, it is not such complex as Heroes, but it makes fun what is already ok for the first day online. I´m also glad that the studio did the „early-access-plan“, so we can see what are their aims for the game´s future. In my opinion right now Guards of the Gate is a raw game with potential. Some things doesn´t make any sense now, but I hope with a time it will be rounded. In Guards of the Gate you travel from field to field and fight monsters. Actually, there is no story, no adventure and very small maps at the moment. But hey, the game is very new and costs peanuts – so it deserves a chance. 5 of 10 – YB P.S. After 4 hours gaming is the whole game completed. I really hope that in the future there will be added more content.

A very good graphic style, and some prety nice ideas on heroes. However this is just a short stream of going to the next "hex" with random encounters. There is prety much nothing you can do between moves and you will be out of HP so fast after stage-1 with no way of repplenishing that you get bored with replaying always the same start of the game in hope of finding some usefull permamant boost very fast. They say role play, I say beat-em-up.

This is a great game!! Simple enough to just relax and play, yet just enough tactics to make it interesting. Good job Devs!! I'm really having fun with this game!! P.S. - I love the hex based set up and graphics!!

A genuinly charming indie game with good combat, that has its flaws and drags a little too long. After having been burned by early access games in general pretty hard i waited for the full release and voila, this is a good game. The baseline is just that you choose three out of six heroes and attempt a roguelite dungeon run with them. There is barely any story, just go and kill stuff on each level until you kill the last boss. There are generally three types of encounters on the way, monsters, which you fight in good hexagonal combat, traps, which feature a simple and rather stupid minigame, which however fulfill their job to make the game less monotonous, and stuff that powers you up (treasure, merchants, statues). It is roguelite because you keep the statue bonuses for your next run, which makes you incredibly overpowered after playing a few runs (30% base crit chance kek) The heroes only level up 5 times each, but at each level you can choose one of two perks. Also each starts with...

Nice mix of turn based battle with basic team/character building. Graphics is superb (love to play on my 43col 4k) combined with a soft background music, I easily can be lost into the game for hours. I also like the rogue-lite aspect with statue bonuses, which grant bonus for the next runs even if your team wipe out. (The first few levels are a bit slow and easy, but it is probably good for starters)