Cracking strategy game with plenty of options & multiplayer supported in tonnes of ways. Why it would be so difficult for them to put a tutorial with the game, I’ll never know, and unless you invest in reading their website on how to play, good luck even getting started.
This afternoon, Phil Hassey released a surprise sequel to his acclaimed strategy game, Galcon. Galcon was recently given an aesthetic facelift, and Galcon Labs not only incorporates these aesthetic changes but also adds four new game modes. Oh, and in addition to many AI single player difficulties with random maps there’s still fully-featured online multiplayer!
Galcon was one of the earliest strategy games on the App Store and remains one of the best with simple and addictive gameplay. You and an opponent are placed on a battlefield of planets. You each start out with a home planet, and your goal is to eradicate your opponents fleet. To do this, you send out a certain percentage of your ships from one planet to another. Based on the size of a planet, ships will grow at a certain rate. This sounds simple, but the game quickly becomes frantic as players set up satellite planets, fight for key strategic outposts, and eventually wipe their opponent off the face of the galaxy.
In addition to this “classic” mode, Galcon Labs features four new game modes:
Billiards – play in a battlefield of constantly moving planets.
Stealth – enemy ships are invisible.
Crash – ships battle mid-space.
Assassin – each player is designated a target planet. The first player to conquer their target wins.
Currently at only $.99, Galcon Labs is by all accounts a bargain. Expect a full review soon!
Like Advanced Wars, but on the iPhone. If you like turn based strategy, you should really look at picking this one up. It’s straight up turn based strategy goodness.
Defender Chronicles manages to push itself above the crowded App Store Tower Defense genre with nice visuals, incredibly deep and balanced gameplay, and RPG elements. Defender Chronicles is a new perspective on TD games that you won’t want to miss.
Kaloki Adventure manages to master that fine line between too easy and too tedious while also being very complex without being complicated. The game is a solid buy to say the least for anyone who likes a tycoon style of gameplay.
UniWar is one of the iPhone’s best strategy games. While it offers almost nothing in terms of innovation, it delivers a solid, carefully crafted rendition of a turn-based strategy game, complete with online multiplayer (and support for twenty simultaneous games!).
This game is an action / strategy game where you have to plan the flight paths of the airplanes coming into the landing strip. Sounds easy hmm? Don’t be too confident, this game is addictive, fun and difficult to land all the planes!
Reversi Online Tournament takes a classic board game, adds a fantastic multiplayer, and creates a polished, detailed app that’s everything you could ask for from Reversi. If you’re a fan of Reversi (or Othello), this is an absolute must-have…and we have a free copy to give away!
A collapse style game with an added twist. Manipulate the coloured ball positions by clicking one of the circles with an animal in it! The adjacent balls rotate clockwise, and you can score much higher.
Orions is an addictive turn-based strategy game with collectible card game combat. If you’re a fan of Civilization-style games and Magic: The Gathering, this game will be right up your alley.
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:: FAMILIAR GAMEPLAY WITH A TWIST
