Highlands

This is a pretty neat game with a board game feel with the turn based gameplay, the simple mechanics and the heavy emphasis on resource management. It starts out simple but as you'll soon get more characters and abilities that you'll have to manage to defend multiple fronts at the same time. Doing that may not be hard, but doing it the best you can is a very fun challenge. There are two big downside to this game. First, the UI which is very poorly designed and often buggy. Some mechanics are not well explained, and some are even harder to understand because the UI doesn't convey really clearly what's going on. Second, you will not feel like you have any real choices in strategy until like 3 or 4 missions in when your characters start unlocking interesting abilities. Until then it's just micro-managing characters and trying to optimise resources. And if you're not playing on hard, you can probably just walk forward until you find your objective. (Also, the fights are pretty much just outnumber your opponents and roll dices. It's not a real downside since the game is more about the resource management than this but it can really be a bummer depending on what you're expecting going …

If you enjoy strategic thinking then you'll love Highlands. It doesn't have astonishing graphics or an epic narrative, but the game is really fun and addictive. Most importantly it is well paced with an ending that comes before you tire of the game's mechanics. It is well thought out and well made, definitely worth a play.

Nice!

It's fun, though short. But the frequent 'here, charge through a level with few or no resources' missions suck, and the last level is 'here, charge through a level with NO resources so you can't use any special abilities at all.' It's not even annoying as much as it is dull and disappointing as an endpoint to the game. Oh, and a character you meet early is the villain and you could have basically solved this by stabbing them in an early mission. And the motivation is dumb. Not great. Neat little game. Worth the small amount I paid for it. But a disappointment overall.

gud

Not terribly long or complicated, but definitely fresh and fun.