Run For Rum

nice try.. but fails on all levels, unless you like rock paper scissors, and failed tactics games, oh look i cant move to hit a guy as my back is turned, wait let me turn,, oops to far there goes one turn! cant hit twice in a row, etc game is terrible. funny but terrible. stay away 1/10

Run For Rum is an old 2014 turn based tactical game, 10 years old at the time of this review. Now, there are some games from 2014 that still look very respectable today (Assassin's Creed: Unity, Dragon Age: Inquisition etc), and then there's this. This was never a great game. It wasn't then, it isn't now. Gameplay consists of turn based tactical unit moving on a small grid (the grid is small enough that I believe this was intended for the primitive emerging tablet and smartphone market, yet is on PC today for some reason). The developers somewhat misleadingly advertise this as "chess like", that's probably too ambitious. You move units around and each unit has different attack ranges and viable attack targets (like 3 squares in a row in front of the unit etc), so careful placement of units is a factor, but it's the RPG elements that are pivotal (hit points, attack damage, the usual). The presense of RPG like attributes to the units doesn't make this a deep or rich game, however, the gameplay is fairly shallow as far as turn based strategy games go. I could mention there's a comedy/pirate theme but that's just a lazy veneer on a lazy game. From a technical perspective, …

Run For Rum: A Pirate Tale, developed by Reload Game Studio and published by Strategy First, is a quirky and experimental strategy game that tries to blend the whimsy of a pirate adventure with the intellectual pacing of a board game. Rather than taking the expected route of sea battles, treasure hunts, or open-world exploration, the game opts for a more tactical and abstract experience. You play as Short Legs Bill, a fisherman known for his exaggerated stories, who finds himself cursed after boasting about becoming the feared pirate Road Jack. That curse transforms his lies into reality, setting off a strange, tongue-in-cheek odyssey across a board-game-inspired world. The narrative premise alone is intriguing, a mix of irony and fantasy that gives the game its peculiar charm. It doesn’t take itself seriously, and that playful tone carries through much of its design and presentation. The gameplay itself unfolds like a tabletop strategy hybrid, where players move units on a grid-based map, not unlike classic games such as chess or checkers. Every turn matters, with positioning and timing being key to success. The player must balance offense and defense while maneuvering around opp…

While feeling like it was made for mobile first, it's a cute game and defiatnly a fun on to play on the fly- or if a young person who was invested in turn based combat with a fairly tame and family-friendly story. Defiant buy when on sale.

Tags: Tactical Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library TLDR: Tabletported quality. Recycled pirate sprites get battered on with your fists, turn based. HOMM style mini arenas with random obtacles. Inept UI. This is a mobile optimized style tactics game in which you pummel the same pirates over and over with your fist, there is no options menu, and it does not have profiles and no way to wipe the data. All hallmarks of mobile origins. The game takes a long time to cycle through the various phases of every turn. The arenas are always small and with one or two pieces of junk thrown in the scenery as lame obstacles. Because the UI is inept you must click a bunch of times to do the most basic actions, the landscapes in tactics mode are featureless and empty. The characters look like cheap flat outdated 2D comic book type sprites. The game is full of silly references to naruto, pokemon and other kiddish things.

Clunky controls.