March, March! European Warfare

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"March, March! European Warfare" is a "minimalistic" (read: Low effort) simplistic tactical strategy game that eschews a nice hex map for something that looks like a rejected Xiangqi board, and unfortunately the mediocre appearance is met with equally mediocre gameplay. This is a basic turn based strategy game with PvP options (and no players of course, making that irrelevant) where you move some last century military units around and they fight, except the military units are red and blue discs, because computer graphics are hard. This game features very lacklustre minimalist "art" for graphics instead of anything remotely contemporary. I'm sure the "developer" thought this would come across as "artistic", but it doesn't, it comes across as "really lazy" and looks bad as a result of their lack of interest in doing their job properly. Developers must try to understand that gaming is a visual medium, and gamers spend a lot of money on high end gaming rigs for a reason. And that reason is not so they can look at lazy, phoned-in half efforts like this. Not every "free" game really is. There's often MTX, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other num…

2/10 A board/TBS game. Good: - seems to be a unique and interesting combat system - the idea to use historical images and the setting of 18th century Europe (?) are good. This adds a certain flavor So-so: - the presentation is very basic. The color palette is "shades of brown". Even in a historical setting this could be far more interesting. E.g. there were many colorful paintings done in that age which are all public domain now and could liven this up a lot - I understand it's a kinda board game but using simplistic chips for the units doesn't look good. I dunno, it could be something else, looking much better. E.g. I recall a board game about Napoleonic wars back from the 1990s where they at least drew static pictures of those units. Or it could be "tin soliders". Though for a free indie game it may be okay. I dunno. Even if it's minimalistic style, there are ways to make it look cool. Not sure the whole pixel setting even fits the chosen theme (18th century) Bad: - no AI, no single-player campaign. The tutorial also has just static enemies which do nothing. So, after completing the tutorial, you're supposed to either play in hotseat mode (against yourself?) or over Steam remo…

A unique and attractive board game.