Mittelborg: City of Mages

Feels like a phone game, not really a 'Roguelike Survival Strategy game' You have one singular currency and three starting 'mages' that are basically +10% bonuses you can allocate around between turns. That's it, you don't get to customize a character or ironically enough even make any decisions at first unless a random event pops up. So you're left going day to day random event to random event until you die, and when you die you don't have any unlockables or extra content for your next game from the looks of it so... Basically, I don't see any real decisions, especially since the biggest 'strategy' is sending a mage off on an expedition to hope you find the right item you need for the random events that pop up. Yes sure there is the strategy of risk management and making sure everything is shored up and agents allocated appropriately...but it feels very shallow and honestly not worth the price tag at all in my opinion. Edit: Some constructive criticism. Add a tooltip or something ...

Really like the idea behind the game! The game has a deep backstory, and the way you progress on this story is really interesting. The texts are really beautifully written. Definately would recommend!

This is really tedious, frustrating and bland. The core gameplay is to send your mages to the right places during the tempest. Which means sending them to the gates if the color of the day is red, and to the tower on the right if the color of the day is blue. You send them left if the color of the day is white, and to the bottom left if the color of the day is yellow. If you send them to the wrong place, you will be hit for 100% damage (red and blue), or miss out on 100% of the reward (white and yellow). If you send them to the right place, you will take 75% of the damage, or get a reward that is not quite enough to recover from the damage you took on another day. This is the first game I've played where the tutorial didn't lock me in to doing as I was told (that might be a good thing) and then had a game character scold me for being disobedient. ("You must do as you're told" said the NPC.) That might be why the 'sacrifice' button simply didn't appear when the tutorial told me t...

I rarely leave bad reviews on Indie games. But I have a gamebreaking bug on the game, and the developers have not helped me though I've reached out multiple times, and send bug reports. They directed me to Discord, but my comment there has been ignored since late August. So I have never been able to actually play. Basically the sides the game flicker and make certain parts invisible. Maybe it's good! Definitely don't buy this if you have a Mac.

The game is very simple. Most of the challenge is not to understand its strategy but to play it over and over again to unlock achievements which grants massive bonuses the subsequent replays. Repetitive and boring. What is more important is that this game, after 6 months of release, is still bogged down by game-breaking bugs, which make playing really frustrating. I had to abandon the game a few times during good runs because of that. Without the bugs it would have been a simple little game like many others, which you may or may not like depending on your tastes, but given the current level of quality this is simply a waste of time.

Does not feel like a game. Feels more like spending your time doing nothing more than a swipe in the map to move a mage and a click here and there. Only funny part are the random events, which anyway after a while seems to be the same. Cannot re-play too much. Guess it could be good in my phone on a boring time to wait an airplane or a train.

There are games, which really require you to focus, to do your best, to be in your personal GOD MODE ON and so forth and so on. And then there are games you play, when you come back home after a bloody long working day - you are way too tired to show monsters who's the boss, to solve puzzles, to save the world etc. You actually should go to bed, but your brain keeps processing work-related things, and so you can't sleep. And on such evenings you would play Mittelborg. Easy going and relaxing - you can stop any time and continue any time. You won't be challenged, but you won't be bored either.

Bought thinking it would have more replayability than it did. each games random and ends up feeling much the same as the last 20 times you played it and died 4 rounds in.

This game hides its charm at first couple of cycles, but the more you play - the more involved in the story and the gameplay you get. After a few hours (!) of playing it, I turned it off only to write this review. So, here I am and I recommend you to try this indie jewel. Well, Mittelborg awaits my commands, I must go. See you in the Plains!

On mac, a bug prevents the completion of the tutorial