Разработчик: Wee Free Studio
Описание
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
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."
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS: XP SP2
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo (or AMD equivalent)
- Memory: 1024 MB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX 9 compatible, 256 MB graphics memory
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 1200 MB available space
Mac
- OS: 10.8
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo
- Memory: 1024 MB RAM
- Graphics: ATI/AMD Radeon or nVidia GeForce, 256 MB graphics memory
- Storage: 1200 MB available space
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 12.04 or SteamOS
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo (or AMD equivalent)
- Memory: 1024 MB RAM
- Graphics: AMD Radeon, nVidia GeForce or Intel HD graphics, 256 MB graphics memory
- Storage: 1200 MB available space
Отзывы пользователей
Charming little strategy game.
fun strategy, silly dialog,
5/5
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: 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. ), 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.
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 fucking guessing game. Not telling the player what to do is horrible game design.
why can't i save it or pause it? those are the BIG problems with the game the first few levels are okay like levels 1-6 they are fine but after that it starts getting boring.
Excellent game. Simple without being uninteresting, genuinely laugh-out-loud funny, without trying too hard. It took me hours to get through the campaign on Normal difficulty, but I think the difficulty is just right. Only on one level did I feel that I actually needed to be really lucky to make it through.
For $10, this game is a steal.
I picked up the game because of the AI development aspect. I haven't gotten to that point yet, just playing through the campaign to better understand the game. I recommend checking out a let's play to see if the game is your style.
This game lets you take delightful tower defense mechanics and use them offensively. I'm part of the way through the campaign and have greatly enjoyed the dialog so far. The missions are well balanced to either require good understanding of a new mechanic or are checkpoint for macro game understanding. Expect to lose a bit on normal, you'll develop a style and better build orders as you experiment and have your mistakes punished.
I hope to try out the AI dev tools soon, I'll try to update this review with info about that when I give it a try.
Engaging puzzle game!
It's hard, hard in an unforgivable way, but keeps dragging you back to squeeze out an edge against your opponents from your last resources.
+ Engaging, fair but hard game play
+ Humorous and witty plot
+ No real-time action, simply turn-based (quite a relief when you need to keep an eye on your kids every now and then)
+ Hot-seat multiplayer
+ Catchy tune
- The 90's want their GUI and 3D graphics back (is it programmer's graphics?)
Not your typical dime in a dozen, everyday laidback puzzle game.
- Easy to learn, hard to conquer.
- Simple controls.
- Humble but fun graphics.
- Challenging AI and addictive gameplay: Don’t be surprised to fail the first time, or the second, or the third…. You need a wheeh bit of patience, but winning the battle makes it all the more satisfying without the challenge becoming frustrating.
- Humorous and entertaining dialogues: One of the very few games where I take the time to really read the game lore.
- Good price-fun-factor.
Definitely worth the time.
TLDR: This game has been worth it for me, and I would recommend you and a friend to get it.
The campaign for this game is very fun and has several twists. The only way to win is to try and try again until you have found the perfect build order. There is a lot of humour and the devs obviously put some time into the storyline. The campaign really helps you learn the game so that a tedious tutorial is not needed (it is within the campaign and is not tedious).
The multiplayer has potential. Currently, there are only 1 v 1 battles, but the devs have stated that more options are being worked on. 1 v 1 battles are fun; my friend and I have probably played 10 matches since we bought the game. We have both observed that if we could have a lot more fun, however, once there can be 4 player free for alls and 2 v 2 matches.
Overall, this game is great, and has potential to be even greater. Currently, if you want to play multiplayer, you need a friend with the game, but the community is growing, so that may not last very long.
EDIT: They also added trading cards, soooooo
Tried to get an internship,
came back with a flyer of this game.
10/10 would apply again.
P.s. Fun and challenging game, even against A.I.
Powargrid is a great board game like abstract game.
The relatively simple rules create interesting and complex situations.
Things that are great:
1) Very simple rules that are explained thoroughly in the campaign
2) Interesting campaign missions that clearly had a lot of thought put into them
3) Very amusing sense of humor in the mission dialogue
4) The concept for the game is fantastic – easy to learn hard to master is /very/ overused but this game seems to be a good example
There are only a few things that are a little frustrating.
1) is there a way to skip the (admittedly very funny the first time) dialogue in the missions?
2) is there a way to scroll around the screen? I usually play games like this while Netflix is on the other half of the screen but doing so without a way to scroll to the part of the map is not workable.
3) keyboard shortcuts: they don't appear to be re-bindable, for people starting the game the towers are 1,2,4,5 (I assume tower 3 is just introduced past the part I am?), having the end turn key be hitting tab twice without a way to change it is odd at best and annoying at worst.
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Wee Free Studio |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 15.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 75% положительных (12) |