Fortix

I liked it but that dragon can f*** off

you genuinely could do worse with a dollar. a pretty solid time. made me hate dragons.

A really fun and unique game that combines aspects and themes of tower defense, bullet hell, strategy, and arcade style gameplay together. A super simple concept to get into that is a ton of fun to experience.

No time for a review so I give this game a rank C.
Okay game - not bad but you can skip it or try on sale.
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Additional notes: this is an old game so no one will read this review, moreover this is a reinventing of an even older genre, where the name of the genre could be called "area splitting / dividing". People played on games like Qix or Volfied, be personnally I played a lot a game called JezzBall. If you are like me and enjoyed JezzBall a lot, back in the days of Windows 3.1, then you know what to expect here, except with a medieval fantasy theme. Cool little game, shareware type of thing.

After game sitting down in library for more than a decade, back when steam was new and exciting. Instead of just launching it to get some cards, I actually played it and beat (easy) in one sitting.
Turns out it was a great fun! Who would've guessed. Best and very satisfying 1.5 hours I spent past few days.
I may return for more difficult modes later on.
Never dismiss your backlog. Try this game out honestly for a few stages and you'll get hooked regardless, guarantee.

Reminiscent of A Bastard's Tale, not just in that it's a quaint short Mediæval game, but also because it's so easy to play and yet has the potential to be every bit as challenging, depending on the difficulty. It's also similar to the mini game of the Art Class in Bully, where you move your brush in a square to reveal the hidden portrait while avoiding enemies such as wandering pairs of scissors and erasers while grabbing power-ups to increase your speed or slow the movement of enemies. The same concept applies here.
As a knight of the Realm, your job is simple: secure the borders of the Kingdom of Fortiana by moving in squares of various sizes towards the spires of the enemy and repel the attempts of all who dare to oppose you while avoiding incoming ordinance from the enemy defenders. As the game progresses, each tower will be defended by more formidable foes. Much like in Bully's Art Class, you can snag power-ups in the form of catapults to vanquish your foes, however, be aware of the terrain as it may hinder you just as easily as help you.
All in all, Fortix is a fun little game for anyone with a couple of hours to kill.

Very late 70s, early 80s arcade feel to it. Which, to the uninitiated, is before everything became fighting, shooting or driving games. Fun little, "I've got five minutes before I have to leave" time waster. Recommended.

It's a fun little 2D overhead view game where you try to move your character about to drag a line around the map and box off (conquer) sections of the map to beat the level. It is very easy to grasp and play, yet can get very challenging on the highest difficulties.

I fell for a scam like 9 years ago, back when I was a dumb 10 year old, where as a step to jailbreak my PS Vita I had to buy Fortix on Steam. I just played it for the first time a couple weeks ago. Honestly, it's a great game. Getting perfect on every level on insane difficulty was a good challenge. It was a lot of fun. Pretty good value for a dollar.

Fortix is fun.

That really sums it up.
It's not a particularly great looking game, but when it comes to being challenging and a good time, it delivers.

There's various difficulties, so it can be enjoyed by children, or people who prefer things to be a little less stressful.
I tried them all, and feel like there's one for every skill level.
Gameplay is easy to understand - yet not easy to master.

Fortix does have achievements and trading cards, and best of all, it only costs 0,99€.
In my eyes it's money well spent for people who like, ... what should we call this, strategic puzzle games?

Its not a strategy, neither fantasy, nor 3rd person RPG. This is more like a simple board cutting game , the concept which is as old as the first video game launched in 1950s. It felt like I am connecting dots in my artbook when I was 5 years old. (I am still 5 though xD). Let your inner kid prance out and take some time off from your usual State-of-the-art cyberpunk, and give some rest to your poor pc running Nvidia all the time. So, its not gonna last long , comes with less than 10 levels or so, but worth a shot. Good news, the concept and success of Fortix led to developers to come up with Fortix 2. This certainly deserved a sequel. Or it had been much better if they have made a single game with more levels than 2 games. Still, go ahead and buy this half-a-dollar game )

I got this game years ago because I needed a game to play after breaking my arm. Hence, I had one arm. IT is fun, easy, and mindless. Good stuff.

Information / Review English

Fortix is ​​an arcade fantasy game developed by Nemesys Games.

Gameplay / Story

Evil forces have taken power in the once fertile land of Fortiana. Only you can storm the castles and snatch them from the dragon hordes. Your task is to draw rectangles in the picture until you have reduced the original rectangle so much that you win the victory and thus push back your enemies (dragons) and thus gradually recapture the country.

Pro

+ Child-friendly
+ Challenge comes first
+ various difficulties, not too easy and not too difficult
+ Bonus goals for point hunters
+ several control options
+ Achievements and trading cards

Contra

- Manageable number of levels
- entertains little more than a few minutes

Conclusion

Fortix is ​​a simple a puzzle game for young and old, but it is difficult to master.

Information / Review Deutsch

Fortix ist ein Arcade-Fantasy Spiel, welches von Nemesys Games entwickelt wurde.

Gameplay / Geschichte

Böse Mächte haben im einst fruchtbaren Land Fortiana die Macht übernommen. Nur du kannst die Schlösser stürmen und sie den Drachenhorden entreißen. Deine Aufgabe besteht darin, Rechtecke in das Bild einzuzeichnen, bis man das ursprüngliche Rechteck so stark verkleinert hat, dass man den Sieg einstreicht und so mit deine Feinde (Drachen) zurück zu drängen und so das Land nach und nach zurückzuerobern.

Pro

+ Kinderfreundlich
+ Herausforderung steht an erster Stelle
+ verschiedene Schwierigkeiten, nicht zu leicht und nicht zu schwer
+ Bonusziele für Punktejäger
+ mehrere Steuerungsmöglichkeiten
+ Errungenschaften und Trading Cards

Kontra

- überschaubare Anzahl an Levels
- unterhält kaum mehr als wenige Minuten

Fazit

Fortix ist bietet dir ein einfaches Denkspiel für jung und alt, welches aber schwer zu meistern ist.

This game in 4min
https://youtu.be/SRBYQfUQqJg

Simple gameplay.
You play a greedy knight that runs around in 12 kingdoms on lines that you "own" on the board and he takes land by squaring it off.
Dragons and the current land owners will try to kill you when they find you on their land.
When you venture out some dragons will come at you and/or shoot fire at you.
There is also the towers that will fire on you, and a bat that has your scent, traveling on your lines hunting you down.
If any of these touch you or your line when your taking land your dead and the bat will just kill you outright on your own land but can not follow you out.
Water, cliffs, and sand will slow you down, then there are also impassable walls (dragons can fly over these).
If you can take the area with the crossed axes you'll launch a catapult and take out one of the towers.
You win by destroying all enemies or taking enough land to satisfy the gods.

"Crush your enemies. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of their women."

Fortix is a strategic puzzle game in which you must capture the castles by making lines and rectangles. There are turrets and dragons ready to kill you all around and you have a set amount of lives per stages.

The game is really stressful, because if you die in a set of levels, you will start over at the first one. Also in the later difficulties, with how hard it is to make pixel perfect squares, you will die to random 1x1 pixel bumps you have made while capturing terrain. This game could have been pretty good, I like the idea. There's even more bad things about the game...

This is a "puzzle" kind of game, but the enemies and bonuses doesn't spawn at the same place if you retry or start over. That makes it so you can win many levels just by re-trying until you get a "Stop-time" bonus in a convenient spot and clear the level in 20 seconds.

The game can be completed in less than 30 minutes (even on Impossible difficulty), but at least it's cheap...

I do not think it is too bad, but I cannot recommend it, way too punishing, it's 1$ though... So if you want to try a new type of puzzle/strategy game, sure, try it. Personally, I found it too punishing and frustrating. I also felt like I had no real control over certain of my deaths.

I bought it for the price hoping it would be a some what enjoyable game. It turned out to be a fun casual game for me. I was really surprised how addicting the game was for me.

Small but likeable top-down strategy

This is a really small game, but it still takes a bit of time to get to like it. The basic idea is very simple: capture enemy territory by moving your one character along a "baseline", where you are safe from attacks, and cutting off pieces of the territory by leaving the safe baseline. While you're out in the open, you're prone to attacks from cannonballs and dragons, so it's crucial to get a good timing, and even apply some basic strategy here and there.

There isn't much more to it, really, so the game is quite easy to master, but the intricacies of some of the later levels ask for some quick reactions while moving into the open. There is something addictive in trying to finish every level and outwit the dragons; and there are some nice steam-achievement and even trading cards on offer. So if you can pick this one up at a low price: just spend the money, but don't expect a great game in return, just a quick but tasty snack.

Gameplay: 20/30
Graphics: 12/20 (basic really, but still with some atmosphere)
Sound: 5/10
Longeliveity: 10/20
Stability/techical: 15/20 (I had a couple of sudden minimalizes, but the game just continued in the background so no big deal).

Overall: 62/100

I've actually played it for a little more than usual, trying to get perfects on all the castles and I will probably play for an additional hour trying to do the same. I have no complaints about the graphics, since the artwork is excellent, but the controls can mess you up a few times. Quick premise: You are a knight and you have to basically walk in straight lines while creating shapes to capture land and surround a castle while being chased by dragons that you need to capture. The castle also has cannons that shoot at you. The controls include either the mouse or the keyboard. I use the mouse and find myself missing a connection point and getting killed by dragons because I didn't encircle them completely. That's my only complaint. I made a guide to get all achievements, so need help? There is a guide by yours personally which can help you. Fortix is totally worth the dollar I paid for it. It's a real steal.

Ahh, Fortix... Where to begin? Think about the best game you've ever played. Got it? Now think about what if that game had a love relation with a god of your choice... Pretty sexy, am I right? Imagine the love child of your favourite game and a god. A masterpiece forged in heavens. Ladies and gentlemen, that would be Fortix. I cannot think of any defect in this artwork and I honestly feel bad for everyone that hasn't played it yet, to the point of having rivers of tears falling from my sad eyes. Ever since I laid eyes on this "game" (such an offensive and futile denomination for such wonder), I started seeing life with different eyes. For exemple, I was a sad human being and wanted to end my own suffering... But now, fortix is all I ever think about. I now have a reason to live, and a new hope for tomorrow.
For those of you who took the time to read my felt review, my deepest gratitude. I hope you take my advice and make a good action for both the developers and yourself.

A great casual game to sit down and play if you don't feel like getting involved in something for a long time. The concept is to basically extend the safe zone that you can walk around in by completing blocks. You don't need a controller for this, but I recommend it. It doesn't take too long to beat the game on all difficulties, but it's an enjoyable experience. After each level, you want to keep playing.

Rating 7/10

...my first cell-phone was Ericson, some old model. There was a game called "Erix", and that one was very good for me - I could have spend a lot of my time with it. And this game just makes me remember these good old days. Thanks, Fortix!

What the description doesn't explain very well is that this is a Qix clone (classic 80's arcade game), mashed up with RTS elements. If you enjoyed Qix, you'll probably like this.

The game is very polished and attractive, and the gameplay is engaging. The menu system is difficult to manage, and suggests that this is a console port. No matter. The game plays fine, because it plays best with a keyboard. Only the menus are goofy.

I'm gald I bought this. It's fun entertainment for a few hours.