Highlands
Burrito Studio · 2015 · Indie, Strategy, RPG, Turn-Based, Steampunk
PC
Very Positive81% · 241
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About Highlands
Highlands is a unique turn-based strategic experience where players choices and decision-making will determine whether they return to exile or march victoriously to crush their enemies.
Exiled from their homeland and faced against overwhelming odds of defeat, players in Highlands are tasked to build an army and retake what is rightfully theirs from a group of mysterious overlords and their mechanical army. These noble leaders will manage key aspects of their army and population including food, weapons, recruits and other resources to get stronger and advance in the game.
As they march on, they will unlock new territories and production areas where individual characters will be able to use their skills to strengthen their position. Choose wisely on which sectors to conquer and relinquish to the enemy in order to push new frontlines and find your way back to power.
Features
• Breathtaking setting composed of hand-drawn environments instead of hex grids
• Turn-based strategy game with battles and resource management focused on decision-making
• Asymmetric gameplay
• Units are individual heroes with special traits, abilities and stories
• 4 Distinct character classes:
• Combatants: protect and attack sectors
• Mechanics: fortify (defend) sectors and craft items
• Leaders: organize the population to gather resources and recruit new heroes
• Academics: heal troops and help on various tasks
• Item crafting system
• Story-driven
• Easy to learn, hard to master!
Exiled from their homeland and faced against overwhelming odds of defeat, players in Highlands are tasked to build an army and retake what is rightfully theirs from a group of mysterious overlords and their mechanical army. These noble leaders will manage key aspects of their army and population including food, weapons, recruits and other resources to get stronger and advance in the game.
As they march on, they will unlock new territories and production areas where individual characters will be able to use their skills to strengthen their position. Choose wisely on which sectors to conquer and relinquish to the enemy in order to push new frontlines and find your way back to power.
Features
• Breathtaking setting composed of hand-drawn environments instead of hex grids
• Turn-based strategy game with battles and resource management focused on decision-making
• Asymmetric gameplay
• Units are individual heroes with special traits, abilities and stories
• 4 Distinct character classes:
• Combatants: protect and attack sectors
• Mechanics: fortify (defend) sectors and craft items
• Leaders: organize the population to gather resources and recruit new heroes
• Academics: heal troops and help on various tasks
• Item crafting system
• Story-driven
• Easy to learn, hard to master!
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
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 …1 found this helpful
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.1 found this helpful
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.
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Not terribly long or complicated, but definitely fresh and fun.
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