Artillerists

About Artillerists

Artillerists is a single player strategy game with a warfare theme. It was developed by SolarLance and was released on January 2, 2017. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

Artillerists is a turn-based isometric strategy. You should destroy the enemy’s armed forces, capture territories, earn money and upgrade your army. In addition to the main types of units and weapons, player can use radar reconnaissance, volley fire, air strikes, artillery strikes and many others...

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67%Audience ScoreBased on 60 reviews

gameplay5 positive mentions

grinding3 negative mentions

Fun and addictive gameplay blending Battleship and Minesweeper mechanics with artillery pieces and special attacks.
Simple to learn and play, with a satisfying progression system including upgrades like radar and airstrikes.
Campaign and optional missions provide some strategic depth and variation, making it a good casual time killer.

AI can feel unfair or cheating, often knowing player unit positions leading to frustrating difficulty spikes.
Gameplay can become repetitive, grindy, and heavily reliant on luck with little strategic depth for some players.
Campaign has poor writing, annoying lengthy dialogues that cannot be skipped, and an uninspired story.

story
32 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
9% positive mentions, 82% neutral mentions, 9% negative mentions
The story in the game serves mainly as a basic military backdrop, with limited narrative depth and minimal impact on gameplay. Missions are connected through a campaign structure, but the plot is minimal and often considered unnecessary by players. Optional side missions add strategic value, while the overall storytelling is viewed as simplistic and secondary to the game's tactical elements.
- “Whether you win or lose the next mission determines whether the optional mission is removed from the map or stays on it.”
- “Don't miss the extra missions, you'll learn valuable strategies that allow you to win the campaign.”
- “Missions are pretty simplistic, destroy the enemy or die trying, but different missions introduce new tech and abilities, keeping gameplay fresh and enjoyable.”
- “It's a single player game but the story/campaign isn't really a thing.”
- “I haven't made it past the third mission of the main campaign because this is just a pitiful waste of my time when I could be watching paint dry instead.”
- “Why there's any story involved is a mystery to me.”
gameplay
13 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
38% positive mentions, 39% neutral mentions, 23% negative mentions
The gameplay is a battleship-inspired grid-based mechanic with added active skills that add some variety and strategy, though it remains fairly simple and reliant on luck. Missions are straightforward but introduce new technologies and abilities to keep the experience engaging, despite some repetitiveness and overly simplistic design. Overall, the gameplay is satisfying but can feel repetitive and simplistic, with some users missing key mechanics initially.
- “Game like paper Battleship but with active skills that make gameplay more interesting.”
- “Missions are pretty simplistic, destroy the enemy or die trying, but different missions introduce new tech/abilities, keeping gameplay fresh and enjoyable.”
- “The game's entire mechanic is based on the game Battleship, in which you bomb tiles on the grid to sink ships.”
- “Because gameplay is built on luck, repeatable missions can be a good idea.”
- “Extremely repetitive gameplay.”
graphics
6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
50% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 50% negative mentions
The graphics are generally simple and modest, with some users appreciating the explosions and visual style, while others find them outdated or lacking in humor. Overall, there's a desire for updated, more polished graphics and additional visual variety.
- “I'd love to see a further development of this idea, with updated graphics and more choices along the way.”
- “I am satisfied with the graphics and the explosions.”
- “Nice simple graphics, simple sounds but could have done with humour.”
- “Poor graphics that look slightly better than the original Tropico (which came out in 2001).”
- “A battleship-like game with small graphics.”
- “It's Battleship with graphics.”
humor
5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions
The humor in the game is generally considered weak, with many finding the NPC dialogues repetitive, poorly written, and cringe-worthy—likely due to translation issues. Some players enjoy the light-hearted, casual tone, but others find the attempts at humor, especially from certain characters, annoying or ineffective. The ending, in particular, is noted as hilariously bad.
- “Simple, funny, nice casual game, actually a battleship with aesthetics of modern land warfare.”
- “I saw that someone scolded in-game dialogues, but I find them funny :)) Yep, a little bit annoying when replaying a mission again and again, but overall - it's not a problem.”
- “Hilariously bad ending.”
grinding
3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions
Grinding in the game is considered tedious and repetitive, resembling a battleship clone. Players face a frustrating imbalance, as the AI possesses powerful multi-hit abilities early on, while players must slowly grind to afford weaker, costly abilities.
- “Yes, it's a bit tedious for most people and yes... it's essentially a clone of Battleship.”
- “The AI also has abilities to hit multiple blocks, whereas you are stuck with grinding to buy lesser abilities early in the game. They are really expensive and underpowered, particularly when the AI has some attacks that can hit like 5 blocks at once as well as at least one airstrike (which hits 2 blocks) by the third mission.”
- “Grindy.”
monetization
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
0% positive mentions, 100% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions
The game features no microtransactions, staying true to its original free-to-play model; however, players find the AI unfairly challenging, often perceiving it as "cheating" due to its precise knowledge of unit positions.