Andor – The King’s Secret v1.2.0

★★★★★

Greg Gruszka

This Game is so lovely animated for a boardgame and even though rolling the dices is fun. I also enjoy to get a wellade, quality game without any adds for the price. Thanks a lot not pushing towards crystals, diamonds, coins and advertisements in between! :)

★★★★

A Google user

This is a really challenging but fun game. I highly recommend it if you like board games and carefully planning out your moves. It's essentially a board game puzzle with turn based combat. I call it a puzzle because most maps have very little flexibility in how to tackle the map. Quests all must be completed by a certain turn on the board, and there's rarely a lot of extra time to meet it. Most of the time you'll finish a quest at the last moment you can. Because of this, one mistake or bad dice roll can effectively end the map. Also, often they throw curveballs at you, like discovering you have to defeat a flying monster by turn 15, only to realize it's turn 14 and none of your heroes have a bow which is necessary to even fight a flying monster. This means you have to be overly prepared for everything, or just accept you'll spend 30 minutes on a map to lose at the last second to some surprise to have to do it all again. That's why it's essentially a puzzle. I'd give it 5 stars if there were a little more wiggle room in maps. But overall, it's well worth the money.

★★★

I Penguini

Choo choo! Everyone ride the railroad! This game has good mechanics but ultimately isn't as fun as it should be. You basically need to do every quest multiple times to learn what surprises and gotchas are in store for you. Be prepared to flush 15+ minutes down the drain just to recon each quest and figure out what you need to do when you play through it for real. That's frustrating and unfun. It would be significantly better with fewer puzzles and more open-ended scenarios.

★★

A Google user

More of a puzzle game than a strategy game, I didn't much enjoy the learning curve or the game itself. Time progresses after every battle (not just after every day), so if you strategically kill everything in a single turn you'll run out of time and fail. It's more about planning what to skip over and ignore, and the minutiae of multi character movement to optimise move distance, escorting distance and gear ferrying. Due to turn order, not being able to trade when a hero is done for the day, and sitting still taking the same energy as moving one space – this all just becomes tedious.

★

D-DAWG

Not so much a game as a railroady puzzle of time management with very little replayability. The rules of success and failure aren't well explained and so you lose a lot. It crashes on load sometimes, and other times you will lose, only to continue after closing the app and it will go back(?) and you can win sometimes like this whereas you should have lost. You can also quit and reload if you lose a battle and get a different outcome, or avoid it entirely sometimes and do something else. Lame.