Battlecraft

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Battlecraft is a single player and multiplayer strategy game. It was developed by Sigil Entertainment and was released on February 10, 2020. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

A fresh twist on the classic tactics genre – build your army and battle opponents online in Battlecraft - Tactics Online, a game of wits and prediction! Do you have what it takes to become a Grandmaster?

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Audience ScoreBased on 17 reviews

graphics3 negative mentions

The game offers a competitive simultaneous turn-based strategy experience that is relatively rare.
Customizable pieces add strategic diversity, making gameplay more engaging.
It's free to play, allowing players to earn premium currency just by playing.

The graphics are primitive and poorly executed, detracting from the overall experience.
Gameplay can feel shallow and repetitive, lacking depth and variety in mechanics.
The tutorial is poorly designed, leading to confusion and frustration for new players.

gameplay
10 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The gameplay is criticized for being overly simplistic and shallow, relying on tapping the screen to move poorly rendered units on a small grid, which many feel caters to a less discerning mobile audience. While some players find enjoyment in the core mechanics, concerns about pay-to-win elements and a lack of depth persist, suggesting that the game fails to innovate beyond its basic design.
- “The core gameplay itself I actually really enjoy.”
- “Battlecraft leaves them as is, presumably saving the more interesting mechanics for unlockable units, given that it is a free-to-play game.”
- “A lot of amateur developers see Minecraft's success and assume it's because it looks bad, not because it had unique and appealing game mechanics, and they try to emulate the success without understanding it.”
- “Gameplay consists of tapping your iPhone screen to move blocky, badly rendered units around a small square grid, with super dumbed down, shallow gameplay to cater to the mobile players the game was designed for.”
- “Not only graphics, but also gameplay is really bad.”
- “The eggs that act as their crate mechanic may make the game pay-to-win depending on the balancing of the pieces.”
graphics
6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game's graphics have been criticized for their low-quality voxel art, which many reviewers find unappealing and reminiscent of poorly executed Minecraft-style visuals. While some players are indifferent to the simplistic design, the overall consensus is that the graphics detract from the gaming experience, highlighting a need for improvement in contemporary graphical standards.
- “The game features poorly executed Minecraft-like voxel art instead of contemporary graphical design.”
- “That's why reviewers are faced with so many terrible games with confrontingly bad graphics.”
- “Developers must learn that Minecraft succeeded despite the bad graphics, not because of them.”
monetization
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Battlecraft - Tactics Online has been criticized for its monetization strategy, with users labeling it a cash grab by developers who have ported a mobile app to Steam without significant effort. This has led to negative perceptions regarding the game's value and the developers' intentions.
- “Battlecraft - Tactics Online is a mobile app that's been dumped on Steam as a cash grab by lazy, greedy mobile developers.”