Demigoddess!

A great freeware/fanware scale take on re-imagination of old SLGs. Every run feels like a tiny puzzle that you finish in one hour.

I keep taking more than an hour to finish these games, despite the advertising and comments. It might be because I'm just bad, though! Balance is whack and getting blown up by global spells in the opening turns is lame, but I still have fun. I recommend turning on the advanced setting that stops people from spawning next to eachother [imo that should be on by default], and then sitting back a bit so the computer players blow their once-per-game explosions on eachother. Which might be why I take so long finishing games, now that I think on it...

Quick and easy fun, most of the thinking work is done in the early game. When you get a really good stack of units you can just roll your enemies over, but there is good variety in spellbook and faction combinations.

+ Really good game if you have experience with J strategy game. + The graphics are so-so, but the sandbox experience is valuable. + Aware of loud music, but the melody really digs in once you get used to. + Recommend for purchasing since it's cheap and worth the cost. + This year's support promising multiplayer mode and new contents. I'm looking forward to it. - The bad point would be early and mid game, you have little way to develop your home while constantly keeping stalemate the enemy. - Very few building can be built. And some necessary units are hidden behind tech tree. - Only few factions have one additional mechanics, most don't have any. - The spell book was meant to be tech tree. But unfortunately, the amount of spells are low and high-cost, leading to unable to research tech at beginning, and then suddenly no tech left to be researched at mid game. - No character voice or unit voice, which make listening to the battle boring. - Modding (workshop) is currently quite limited. Only units can be made or modified. Customized buildings, spells, skills, mechanics, special terrain... is not (hopefully yet) available.

I thought the game was a bit too complex at first, but I got into the groove after an hour or so. Could see this being an engaging replayable game.

The game has an old school charm to it and it's nice to have running on the background while I'm trying to skim a few other things. Runs don't take overly long and there's some fun to be had in what weirdness you get up to.