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. The UX is straight to the point, no complex windows all well desgined and simplistic. All you need is fast to get. The mood of the game for some reason reminds me of FTL, probably the soundtrack, o…

I write this feature a week and a half after the Batu Games's Steam debut of Atriage. The score as it currently stands is 1-0. One Steam review. One. Many worse games garner significantly greater attention from the faithful players on Steam. If it were just the lack of trading cards I could understand but I fear that this game has been hidden. I fear it may have been hidden among all of the VR hype upon its release because this game deserves your attention. Atriage is a turn-based strategy game that has been based upon classic board games and brought to life as a video game. The player commands a fleet of warships in order to defeat their opponent. It feels a little like an advanced version of Battleship but the gameplay is absolutely fantastic. The player is tasked with defeating an opposing commander by forcing them to lose BSP (Battle Strength Points) with both starting at 12 and the winner determined by who gets their opponent to zero first. It comes down to a battle of employing the best strategy. Each player starts with ten ships from four different classes with each of the four having their ow different movement and attack patterns with each having unique strengths and weak…

Atriage is a very simple conversion of what should maybe have been a board game. There are four types of pieces with different movement and engagement patterns on a 2D playing field. Every piece also has a number of hit points and when you eliminate an enemy piece you take its place, too, potentially opening yourself up to counter attacks in uncontrolled areas of the board. Think of it as chess light with a space background and some random objects that block parts of the board to make things a bit more interesting. Simple, but some of the most fun games are simple. So why is this one in my eyes a bit of a let down? I guess mostly because it was done as a computer game with an AI that is not up to the job. If I manage to beat the game while still trying to figure out the rules of the game then that is already a minus...If, in the first game, I manage to figure out that you can easily get the computer to make mistakes a human player would certainly not make (e.g. luring him into 1:1 exchange situations when I lead in the score or letting him score an easy kill with a valuable piece that totally exposes it and destroys his defense, then that is a fail). The game also quickly deteri…

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.

1/10