Antihero for Pc

I’ve been playing this app, the first great mobile digital board game of 2018. You play a Master Thief in a Victorian setting. Your turn-based tasks are to scout and burgle hidden locations, build up your thieves’ guild, hire and deploy your army of thugs, street urchins, and other underworld characters. But wait, each level is a race against a rival Master Thief and guild. If your rival beats you to the coveted victory points by achieving each level’s objectives (bribes, assassinations, etc.) before you, you are defeated, and must restart the level. Gameplay is brisk and the learning curve is gentle in the early going, gradually building the challenge as you progress. Strategy comes in the form of various upgrade decisions: do you spend your limited resources first to attract more street urchins, so they can infiltrate and earn money? Or do you focus on beefing up your gang of thugs to guard your turf and block the opposing gang’s progress? Presentation is polished, with appropriate graphics that evoke the gaslight era, and brief voice clips that define each character as you issue them orders (ala Warcraft — “Yes, my lord!”). It’s a premium game with only cosmetic characters reskins available via IAP — no pay-to-win here. It has quickly shot to the first spot on my iPad games screen. Highly recommended.

I’m a huge board gamer, and was honestly very impressed by the mechanics of the game. It’s sort of like Stratego meets Monopoly. My only complaint is that the game is too short, and even on Hard, is a little too easy (but that’s subjective). The campaign only has ten levels, and first few are just tutorial-style; probably only two or three levels where all units are unlocked. I beat the whole thing in under three hours, which is fine for just a few bucks. But even the Skirmishes against AI are pretty repetitive, and skirmishes against real players feels like Words With Friends—waiting for the other person to take turns means games last for days on end, and you end up starting so many that you forget what’s happening. I wish they’d made more levels since the game is wildly addicting. Also, the win conditions boil down to mainly the same strategy and is slightly unbalanced. Make a gang, protect the gang’s movements with thugs, rinse and repeat. Gangs are just so OP since they can clear out buildings, can generate up to 3 gold a kill, and can assassinate for victory points. Why even bother with other units when you can just spam and protect gangs? A fully stocked bank makes the same money per turn as a fully upgraded gang.

The best mobile game I’ve purchased, and the only app I’ve ever been so impressed by that I felt it worth taking the time to write a review. Purchased this while on a work trip, and ended up playing the campaign mode 2-3 hours straight the first time. Great graphics, music and gameplay as mentioned in the other reviews. I love that you can play offline while flying in airplane mode, then go online after you’ve completed the campaign to play against other people. It gives you two ways to play online, live where you play till completion, or turn based. I usually opt for turn cases since you can play a quick move and play at your leisure over a couple days when you have a few minutes. Only feature I would request is a time limit of some sort (maybe 2-3 days?), where if an opponent hasn’t made a move they automatically forfeit. I don’t know if there is already something like this in place, but I’ve had a couple matches where I was winning and it was getting toward the end and my online opponent just stops and hasn’t made a move in a couple days. I hope there is another campaign in the works, or an expansion of some sort. Would love more levels to play offline. Overall love this game! Great work!

Well put together board game. Lots of depth in strategizing what to upgrade, when to upgrade, where to place folks and when to strike. The art style oozes with beauty, the music scores are perfect for the atmosphere, and there’s just so much charm in a game where you’re the opposite of the hero! There’s definitely potential for more, but the price is a steal for what you get already. I’ll keep an eye on this developer because, so far, I’m LOVING their work and would really like to keep supporting them. And a big THANK YOU for bringing a premium priced game with voluntary and sensible IAPs. It’s a breath of some very much needed fresh air for the iOS/tvOS platforms! (Don’t get me started on the loads of shovel-ware fermium garbage in the AppStore riddled with IAP as a money-grab….)