It’s easy to fall in love with Wartile’s aesthetics as well as with the unique gameplay that is present here. The narrator’s indifference makes it difficult to really get into the right mindset to enjoy the story, but once you get over his delivery there’s a well-written campaign waiting for you. The real sore thumb sticking out here is the lack of multiplayer, which prevents Wartile from being a great game instead of just a good one.
WARTILE
Playwood Project · Mar 24, 2020
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In WARTILE miniature figures battle it out in a real time strategy video game. Position your figurines, use their strengths and be mindful of their weaknesses, activate their special abilities and play your action cards to gain the upper hand on the playing field.
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- Wartile offers a great combination of an RTS and a board game. The cooldown-based action is quite something else if you compare it with a turn-based game. it’ll require you to keep active when in combat, keeping an eye out for better positions and making use of the cooldowns of both your own figurines and the enemies. The game plays great and we didn’t find any issues while playing the game. The story based on Norse Mythology can be quite interesting, although it doesn’t offer a lot of in-depth lore.
- While graphically Wartile might not be much of a looker, he gameplay is where it really matters, and although the game started off a bit tough to navigate, once you’re through that hurdle, it’s quite an enjoyable experience, especially if you are into Dungeons & Dragons or Warhammer. Wartile is a game you’ll need to stick with for a while if you decide to pick it up, and as long as you do, it will turn into a decent experience.
- 8.5Whether miniatures, strategy games, or deck-building is your thing or not, I highly recommend Wartile because the sum of its parts delivers a unique and fun experience more than each alone. One of the indicators I personally measure when evaluating a game for review is: “Does it call to me when my console is off?”. For Wartile my answer is a hearty “Yes!”.
- 7.5Overall, Playwood Project should be proud of creating Wartile, which at this point has only just left Early Access. It’s a very ambitious direction to take strategy games, with a more concentrated experience to offer than broader real-time strategy titles. But this focus needs some polish. It has the potential to pull ideas and tactics out of players, thrown off balance by elements that mean they won’t have to.
- Wartile has a wonderfully unique boardgame aesthetic, but that doesn’t erase its fiddly and often repetitive gameplay – nor does it counter (no pun intended) the sometimes clumsy and unintuitive UI. Strategy fans might also find the content on offer rather light for their standards. Still, Wartile is a beautifully well realised real-time strategy that translates the enjoyably tactile feel of playing a physical boardgame as well as any title I’ve played. Wartile absolutely deserves to be played by Vikings, Anglos and Amercalings alike!
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