TINY METAL

Tiny Metal is a wonderful "Wars-inspired" title with emphasis on pincer tactics. The game encourage the player minimizing losses – as units rank up the more enemies they take down, along with giving you points for repairing them. The fact units have different amount of physical soldiers/tanks/planes/helicopters in each unit type squad (and special units vary from normal ones), really make you think about how to maximize damage output and capture by maintaining the health of units above certain threshold. Many campaign maps are huge and makes the lack of worry about fuel and ammo logistics a true blessing, as otherwise it would made certain levels quite a nightmare to maintain air presence on (due to how few airports there are and is no APC's to refuel from). The lack of APC's in general makes the player truly appreciate your soldier units, as losing them reduce your ability to capture properties were needed. Assault command that let units push opponent units off buildings is probably the most appreciated mechanic I ever seen in a Wars-inspired game. It add an extra element of tactics as it can be used to extend your units movement with 1 more tile at cost of letting your opponent…

I was hoping for at least a decent approximation of Advance Wars, I got a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ insult to the memory of Advance Wars.

Advanced wars vibes 100% If you like AW then this will deliver. Does some things different (e.g., no gas for machines), but does some things different as well, like multiple units attacking at once. Fun game and would recommend. Resolution change is seemingly not working, though. Update: Just finished the campaign. Tiny Metal may be even more fun than AW. Will go back to AW Reboot to finish the 2nd AW, but Tiny Metal's gameplay may be even better!

its so bad....

I just can't get into it. I heard the sequel is better (and cheaper).

I really wanted to like this game. Aside from the controls being a bit clunky, it's fairly polished and plays decently, but an advance wars successor it is not. Gameplay depth is just way too shallow to keep my attention. No naval units, no different "commanders", no troop carriers. To be clear I wasn't necessarily looking for AW 3, but aside from a few mechanics (hero drop, focus-fire) it doesn't feel innovating enough.