Battle Simulator
- September 27, 2018
- RewindApp
- 2h median play time
Get on SteamBattle Simulator is a strategy game where you deploy troops to defeat enemy armies across 30 levels in 2 biomes. Choose between 3 unit types - Barbarian, Lancer, Archer - and enjoy the medieval music while doing so. The game encourages support for the development of more content. Note that it currently offers basic features with simple gameplay.
PC
Windows
Reviews
- The game is fun and provides a decent amount of entertainment for its low price.
- It has potential for further development, with players expressing excitement for future updates and additional content.
- The simple mechanics and easy-to-use interface make it accessible for newcomers to the strategy genre.
- The game is criticized for its limited content, featuring only 30 levels and 3 troop types, leading to repetitive gameplay.
- There are numerous bugs and visual glitches, including issues with character models and controls, which detract from the overall experience.
- Many players feel the game lacks depth and strategy, often resorting to spamming units to win, making it less engaging.
- stability10 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
The game suffers from significant stability issues, including frequent freezing when fast-forwarding beyond 1.0x speed and various visual glitches such as character models clipping and corpses stretching unnaturally. Users report that gameplay is more stable at lower speeds, but overall, the lack of custom scenarios and persistent audio resets further detract from the experience.
“Sometimes, when you increase the speed of the fight to anything over 1.0x, the game doesn't like it and freezes up quite a bit. I find staying at either 0.5x or 1.0x is best.”
“When you have a large army, during the large group fights, when someone dies, sometimes their corpse stretches horribly and glitches out around the map.”
“There are lots of visual glitches.”
- graphics6 mentions
- 33 % positive mentions
- 33 % neutral mentions
- 33 % negative mentions
The graphics are reminiscent of Minecraft, featuring simple voxel-like designs that are accessible for older computers, making the game easy to run. While the visuals are generally acceptable, players have noted the presence of numerous visual glitches that detract from the overall experience.
“Pros: simple until around level 18-20, can run on any computer after probably 2008, good music, simple voxel-like graphics, easy to use UI.”
“The developers have settled for Minecraft-quality graphics.”
“The graphics aren't bad, but there are lots of visual glitches.”
- music6 mentions
- 33 % positive mentions
- 50 % neutral mentions
- 17 % negative mentions
The music in the game is generally considered good but limited, featuring only one track that becomes repetitive and boring after a short duration. While the simplicity of the music complements the game's easy-to-use interface and voxel graphics, the lack of variety and sound effects detracts from the overall experience.
“Pros: simple until around level 18-20, can run on any computer after probably 2008, good music, simple voxel-like graphics, easy to use UI.”
“There's only 1 song and no sound effects, and the song gets boring after 2 minutes.”
- gameplay4 mentions
- 50 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 50 % negative mentions
The gameplay features solid troop mechanics regarding health, speed, and damage; however, it largely revolves around spamming a limited number of units, leading to easy battles and a short experience with only 30 levels.
“The mechanics of the troops is quite good (health/speed/damage etc).”
“The gameplay, if you even want to call it that, is just spamming a random number of the 3 units you have at your command. The battles are really easy, and there are only 30 levels.”
“The gameplay, if you even want to call it that, is spamming a random number of the 3 units you have at your command. The battles are really easy, and there are only 30 levels.”
- grinding2 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
Players find the grinding aspect of the game to be tedious and frustrating, particularly due to the cumbersome nature of formation placement.
“Formation placement is tedious and borderline frustrating.”
- story2 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 100 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
The story is engaging in the initial missions, but it becomes frustrating as the gameplay mechanics lead to a lack of strategic control, with characters often disregarding formations to rush towards the largest enemy group. This undermines the potential for tactical encirclement and diminishes the overall narrative experience.
