Powargrid
Wee Free Studio · 2016 · Strategy, Indie, Turn-Based, Turn-Based Tactics, Comedy
PC
Mostly Positive75% · 12
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About Powargrid
Turn based strategy. Explosions. A diverse cast of gelatinous characters.
Powargrid is a turn-based strategy game that plays like a board game... with explosions!
Destroy your opponent's power plants and protect your own. Strike a balance between attacking, defending, and building your economy to control the board. Blast your opponent with shockwave towers or strike them from afar with the lightning cannon. Construct additional power plants to boost your power economy and extend your reach with substations. Is the situation looking exceedingly grim? Overcharge your power plants for a last ditch defense or a surprise attack!
- \Serious strategy in a light-hearted setting
- Plan your moves carefully: as with any turn-based strategy game, make tactical decisions and work with the outcome
- Your leader knows best: Commander Grak knows it all and is not shy to share his thoughts. Hear him out, or dismiss him straight away and focus on the action
- Challenge all: demonstrate your skills in the campaign mode, multiplayer (online/hotseat/local) and skirmish battles
- Tinker with the AI: an API is provided that allows you to program the most fearsome opponents possible
- Achieve the impossible: we dare you to do the (almost) unachievable and collect a range of precious achievements
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In the story driven campaign, you will take on rival factions as a recruit in the Blue Blobbie army. Get shouted at by your lovable Commander Grak, face down Hero Archeologist Ford of the Red Blobbies, take on the mad green Zealot Zomg, and thwart the schemes of Chairman Swap of the Grand Yellow Blobbie Corporation. And rumors say that's not all...
Powargrid also features online and hotseat multiplayer, and skirmish battles against computer opponents. Difficulty can be set from "fair" to "let us know if you win because we sure can't."
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
[h1] Tower defense type. Build some pipes and observe what've you built. After that build some towers and destroy enemy's pipeline system. Each action cost energy points. Turn based gameplay, slow pace and everything what can be bad it's in this game. [/h1]10 found this helpful
Strategy is my favorite genre but Powargrid is just too annoyingly hard. The Normal mode is very punishing and there are parts of some levels where unknown information will cause you to fail a level your first time just on the basis of not having any warning of new contrived rules. The AI always plays perfectly and when it already has the advantage there are only a few key moves that can win any stage past the halfway point of the campaign. When retrying a stage you must watch any animations and click through dialogue so it takes awhile to even get to try again. The gameplay is very restrictive in that there is no option to sell or undo and you can only build over connectors not other buildings. Multiplayer does not work and several achievements are impossible to get. It's not a bad game overall I guess, but there's nothing I would recommend about it.3 found this helpful
Was quite fun until one mission where the developers decided it's a good thing to get back on the player and hide the only chance of winning behind an elaborate decision how to play this game, without giving as much as a hint at what they are doing. If you don't play the style the developers *want* you to play (spoiler: [spoiler] Play a mission multiple times without going back to the main menu, in a game which doesn't have a save game mechanic and crashes every now and then. [/spoiler]), you have no chance of advancing in the campaign. You have no chance of even *recognizing* why you don't have a chance of advancing in the campaign. Deliberately done worst game design decision possible. Strictly avoid.3 found this helpful
fun strategy, silly dialog, 5/51 found this helpful
There is a mission where you need to destroy a bunker. But if you bring it to 1 hp it will just stay at 1 hp and cannot be destroyed. I assume developers intended alternative win condition, but you don’t get a new objective. The objective still says destroy bunker, which is impossible. I bought a strategy game, not a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ guessing game. Not telling the player what to do is horrible game design.1 found this helpful
Charming little strategy game.
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