Antihero for Android

A perfect digital board game—I can’t express my love for it enough. I can only pray that one day we may get more content, or maybe even a sequel game of some sort—even if it’s only spiritual.

Everything about the game from its art to its flavor to its play is great. But the campaign is extremely frustrating because the AI opponent is so overpowered. Rather than having an even, if asymmetrical, playing field, you feel as if your strategy doesn't matter because it's more of a case of having to do specific moves in a specific order to win. The AI opponent gets powers of the bat that might take you 10 rounds to earn for yourself which completely undermines the area control aspect. If the opponent can evict you in round two and you can't get that power until round twelve, why even try to control the area? It's unfair even to call it an AI because it doesn't have any intelligence. It doesn't change its strategy according to your moves. It just uses brute force to disable you. That is my least favorite kind of solo game -- one that acts like a random puzzle where if you don't make the right move in round one that will defeat the opponent, you've already lost. It's a shame because everything else is so cool.

The art style is evocative, the strategy is deep, the multiplayer is great.

This is quite fun and some of the levels are quite challenging and require a lot of planning to beat. The graphics, sound effects, and characters are fun and cartoony, and evocative of Victorian London (like a playable cartoony Oliver Twist).

Why are we forced to do tutorials on the hard levels? This messes with strategy, wastes turns, gives the AI opportunity to gain the upper hand. If you’re playing the hard levels, you know how to play the game and don’t need to be taught via throwaway turns.