Beacon Patrol

I hadn't heard of Beacon Patrol before seeing it in a bundle, but it seemed like my kind of thing so I took a chance on it. I'm very happy with it. The visual style, easy to understand gameplay and compatibility with Steam Deck make it perfect. If you're a fan of strategic tile placement games (e.g. Tsuro, Carcassone, etc), you will likely love this too.

If you are looking for a chill co-op game to play with a friend with low stakes (~30 minutes per game). The gameplay is simple, but deep and will have you thinking about you next turn and talking with you friend about what to do next. A must have if you enjoy strategizing and communicating to solve a problem.

If you like logic puzzle board games. But I wish there was an AI.

Played for 2-3 games in the exploraation mode. Game is missing a lot of elements to make it great. It's ok. Would I recommend? For $8, why not! Give it a shot. It's a fun weekend addition to your cozy game collection. That said...here are a few things that came up: 1. Add points to each card. Otherwise, how can you know if you are collecting the right number of points? I only learned from losing that lighthouses give more points. 2. Movement tokens are not added when you have a full bank of tokens and cards are discarded. If this is intentional, it should be changed. If one discards the card, they should get their token (or block people from discarding cards before a token can be redeemed then). 3. Need more blank cards. It's really hard to navigate around the board. I only got maybe (5) open water cards which really minimized the ability to move around the map. As someone familiar with puzzle map games like Dorf Romantik and Panorama,. single player mode needs more blank cards since you don't have another player there to help out. I didn't understand the significance of the player indicators (shell, anchor etc.) that you get to pick when you choose your boat and bird u…

Nice puzzle game with a decent mix of luck and strategy. There's 8 different boats to choose from, which each have their own playstyle, high score tracker, and goals to meet. This adds a good amount of variety in gameplay, although the Construction Boat and Hovercraft stick out like a sore thumb as being absurdly overpowered and depressingly underpowered respectively. The other 6 are well balanced though. The game only took me about 15 hours to get 100% achievement completion, which is actually a positive, since with its mostly unchanging visuals and only a single music track (which is a really good one, thankfully), I could see it getting a little stale if it went on for longer. Speaking of the Achievements; they are quite well done. None of them feel unfair, and there's not any grinding required to complete them. Oh, and this game also has a second game mode which IIRC is called "Classic Mode." I didn't get that into it, since I found the main "Exploration Mode" much more engaging. I may try it out again some time and go for a higher rank.

Not for me.