Potemkin

A decent little turn-based strategy war game. Gameplay is an army vs army border shoving match. Players stack units on friendly tiles, then clash with opponents' stacks on adjacent tiles. Higher stack number overtakes lower stack number, and the player is left with the difference on the newly occupied tile. The number of armies you can place each turn depends on the health of your economy, as manged by allocating resources to tiles with cities on them. You can place up to 3 armies per friendly tile per turn, and move them one space to an adjacent tile. Win by controlling all the tiles on the map. The menus aren't very intuitive, but there's only a few buttons and you can figure out what they do within the first couple of turns. Also, to play again you have to exit and restart the game as far as I know. I visited the Reddit page where there are some contrib maps, and they do work well with a simple copy-paste of some txt. The game locked up a bit when loading a bigger map but eventually came through just fine. Overall I'm very satisfied with my purchase and I think the game will have good replay value.

Very confusing - the map editor is ridiculous..there should be an option that lets you pick how many players and other settings and then randomly creates a map for you. Not worth the 5 bucks. I have spent hundreds of dollars on single games with DLCs before..so for me to be upset over 5 bucks - the game has to be really bad.

A really clever little strategy game. It's got very simple rules, but some interesting strategies arise from them, and it's got a robust level editor.

Potemkin is, at it's heart, a very, very simple strategy game, with basic mechanics that would fit well with a board game, or a oldschool 80's/90's shareware title. The core mechanics are balancing your income with upkeep for your armies, and properly using your limited number of units you can raise in a turn properly against your opponents, often through the use of chokepoints, encirclements, and the like. The AI is simple, but generally competant as long as you don't expect a digital Rommel to fight. Graphically, there's nothing to write home about, though to an extent, that's a strength as it gives it a simple charm. The user interface is spare to the extreme, and I would say the part of the game that needs the most improvement. Many options can only be toggled through the use of somewhat obtuse text strings, though this seems to be an area that's being improved, with the most recent update adding some hotkey fuctionality for options previously only usable with the aforementioned text strings, so one can hope that it's a trend that will continue. Where the game really shines is the ability to create your own maps, and to import those created by others. The editor is fairly sim…

This is a very simple game, but highly replayable and highly addicting. The AI is fairly smart and there's definitely a strategy to it where it's not a simple expand and destroy game. There's lots of ebb and flows during a game, and its fun to have to withdraw and then advance. I wish there was a way to view a recording of your game--as there's so many ebbs and flows, and it can last for hours. I also wish there was a stats view to look at how many army + economy all the players has. Overall highly recommend this game for anyone who like risk style strategy games.

Simple and fun.