Battle of Polytopia - Strategy pixel-art game
New review : The Battle of Polytopia
Polytopia is a turn based strategic adventure. It's a game about ruling the world, fighting evil AI tribes, discovering new lands and mastering new technologies - Midjiwan AB
Today I want to show you a game I´ve been playing for a while. Being a little redundant, Polytopia is a turn-based game with cubic design where you choose a tribe between the 13 of the existing (4 of them are available for free) to start a intense strategy match.
The game has 2 modes:
Perfection: The game lasts 30 turns. The goal is to earn more points than your opponents at the end of the game, meanwhile you survive.
Domination : The game ends when a tribe defeats the rest of the opponents.
The maximum of players and AI´s in a game are 4.
Both game modes can be played either locally or multiplayer through internet. Local multiplayer game (played in only one smartphone) is called Pass and Play. Every player picks a tribe, selects a name and start the war. Every player´s turn is notificated and the others wait for their movements.
Now, let´s talk a little bit about the gameplay. We start with a single city with a soldier in it. We can perform a movement or action with every of out entities. This mean, than in our first turn we are able to do: move the soldier to a collidant square, gaining poblation paying the needed amount of stars depending of the resource or structure, invest in a new technology of the Tech Tree and end the turn. Once you have spent all your stars and moved your units, you have to end the turn in order to continue.
At the beginning you should explore the area to control new free cities to generate more stars per turn, in adittion to create more troops and expanding the tech tree to be able to buy more powerful warriors and new useful structures as ports, farms, mines, etc.
The games continues fighting for the control of cities, upgrading them to gaim more stars per turn and getting points until we reach the goal of the game mode selected.
Auto generated maps make each game a new experience, with unlimited replay value - Midjiwan AB
As it´s said, the maps are procedurally generated, making every game quite different and even more challenging, depending of facts as your global spawn position, the resources near you and the spawns of the foes.
In my personal opinion, the game is great. It´s mechanics are simple, the hardest AI difficulty can be challenging, the graphics are smooth, the soundtrack fits very well and it´s lot of funs!
I´ve played in the multiplayer mode Pass and Play a lot of times with my friends while we wait for the next lesson in college. You can save the game whenever you want, so you can play it at any time!
So, if you like strategy games, I would recommend you this game. This is the end of the post. See you in the next one!