Commander: World War II

TLDR: just want a gameplay video? its below the review. If you've played Drone Tactics or Advanced Wars then you're familiar with how this game will play. I enjoyed my time with it. If you haven't played those two games then I'll explain the gameplay style below this sentence as succinctly as possible. The main goal is to capture the enemy Headquarters, Airstrip, and/or Naval Yard. These are the structures that produce units. You can produce units on these structures once per turn if you have the cash. Capturing buildings makes you generate more income. Combat is based on a typical rock-paper-scissors format with unit typing. That is the gist of it! [b][u]How does combat feel?[/u][/b] The combat is fairly intuitive, but there needs to be some clarification work down on its exact breakdown which I will cover in my suggestion section at the bottom. An infantry stack will deal 5 damage to a fellow infantry stack. The enemy's stack will strike back and also deal 4-5 to you, depending on terrain. Every unit has a strength applicable to each unit type. Infantry for example will deal often 0-1 damage to a tank, but 3-5 to light vehicles. Airplanes for the most part seem to have very little counter except the anti-air vehicle and other airplanes. If you control your airplanes well then the enemy AI will struggle to deal with it. There is also a rank up system, the more kills your units get the higher ranks they can achieve (or maybe its based on cost of enemy unit? not sure) then the more strength they get. Normally speaking a bomber can't one shot an anti air vehicle, but a ranked bomber can. This means you can stick a bomber on top of the enemy spawner and ensure they can't make units anymore. [b][u]How does money generation feel?[/u][/b] Money is generated based on buildings captured. The enemy AI during the campaigns will start with all buildings captured so typically you will rely on the combat AI making odd decisions to push through the missions. The more buildings you get the beefier units you can make - its very snowbally. For the most part you aren't going to have an issue generating units and maintaining a solid frontline as long as you pull units back properly to get healed. [b][u]Overall how do I feel about the game?[/u][/b] I enjoyed the game. It reminded me a lot of Advanced Wars and that's a game type that kind of fell off the radar in favor of stuff like civilization which i'm not fond of. Its much more bite-sized and faster paced. Something you can sit down with for a short period of time and enjoy it. [b][u]Suggestions for the game[/u][/b] Just wanted a brief note of things I feel can improve the game QoL style. [list] [*] -Enemy units should be clickable so I can see their unit typing and damage values [*] -Headquarters are too easy to capture; a unit should be able to be bought and placed within the surrounding hexes instead of just on the building itself. This allows the AI or player to station a garrison while still producing units without juggling them. Just make it so the Headquarters can only produce one unit per turn to avoid shenanigans. [*] -Having to right click to deselect a unit before clicking a new unit feels clunky. Have an option to just select a newly clicked friendly unit without deselection. [*] -Unsure of interaction between health and damage. Create a tutorial missions for this please. It doesn't feel like there is any downside to having low health units. [*] -(opinion)1 turn capture seems a bit quick to me since there is no detriment to it. You can also capture after exhausting movement and attacking. Personal bias but I feel capturing should cost either movement or attack action. Or perhaps disable unit retaliation during capture. [*] -(opinion)Ranged artillery is quite beefy and feels slightly imbalanced. Minus 1 ranged to all artillery would feel a bit better. [*] -An explanation of how terrain affects vision and targeting during one of the tutorials would be keen. [*] -Q and E should select by default units that still have not made an action. [/list] [b]Final Words, post review!][/b] After posting review and suggestions the very next day the devs fixed the floaty camera feel! Very nice to see quick response time on a new release. Contains first four missions. Was using new beta settings and forgot to downrank the game audio. I do have two other videos with the other campaign missions as well (with the audio fixed >_>) https://youtu.be/VS06JWSJiBA

Commander: World War II is a mobile app that's been dumped on Steam as if it was a real PC game (it's not)... it's a cash grab from greedy mobile devs. This mobile app is a reskin of the developers other games... basically a simple form of asset flipping, take the same game, change the assets, then you can sell the game all over again. This obviously has no value for gamers, but unethical developers don't really care about gamers, they just want money. The've done this about a dozen times... a dozen hex based mobile app "strategy" games all alike, but with different skins on them. From a technical perspective, as a mobile app, this doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. While there are options to change the resolution for the mobile app, all this does is scale up the simplistic 2D art assets used to make the mobile app, which makes little or no difference to the graphics quality. Without any other substantial graphics tweaks, it's not possible for gamers to improve the lacklustre 2D visuals. The mobile app features mostly static, barely animated 2D images, the kind of thing you expect to see in browser/flash games. This looks bad when the attacking soldiers just "slide and bump" into the next hex. This was released in 2024, and they couldn't work out how to do animations? While the artwork itself, while mediocre, might be considered passable, the visual presentation here is negligible, it might as well be a slideshow or a Youtube video. Pac-Man, Space Invaders and Asteroids had more advanced animation and visuals going on than this game does. The developers didn't design the mobile app for modern gaming PCs, as such the display resolution caps out at around 1440p, there's no support for the state-of-the-art 4K or higher resolutions. The mobile app simply won't look right on modern gaming displays due to this failure on the part of the developers. The controls can't be customised because the game has such a dumbed down, simplified interface that it's just iPhone screen tapping stuff. The fact that the interface is this dumbed down might be seen as a problem in itself, however... this is a fairly shallow experience if you're the kind of gamer that likes to play games with deep, rich control schemes and interaction. You'll get none of that here. Because this is a mobile app, it carries a number of deliberate design deficiencies. Compromises were made to cater to the iPhones that the mobile app was designed for. These are unfortunate handicaps and limitations that PC gamers shouldn't be forced to accept, but it's evident that PC was an afterthought for the iPhone developers who are to blame for this. The mobile app is deficient as a result of these choices, and would have been so much better without the handicaps that designing games for mobile phones forces upon a game. Once more, mobile devs have made gaming worse for everyone. I didn't spend thousands on building a gaming rig just so I could pretend it's an iPhone. These technical defects push this mobile app below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. The poor quality of this mobile app is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 4 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 100,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality mobile app is to be expected. This mobile app features a number of suspicious, likely fake positive reviews. The reviews all appear at almost exactly the same time, all on the same day, all have a direct Steam purchase of the mobile app, and all have very similar wording and writing style, and they're all in Chinese. Extremely unlikely to be a co-incidence. Immediately after this huge peak of reviews, reviews (and player counts) for the game dropped incredibly sharply. This is highly unusual given the very low quality of the game and poor player counts. The "Positive" review score on this mobile app should be taken with a large grain of salt. This might have been done to deceive/mislead gamers into paying for a bad product. [quote][b][url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/profile]Profile Features Limited![/url][/b] Valve have marked this mobile app as "Profile Features Limited" at the time of this review. This is usually caused by poor sales figures and low community acceptance for the mobile app (to date). Until this status changes, this mobile app will not give you +1 to your Game Collector badge count, appear in profile achievements or any other Steam meta-accomplishments, nor can it be displayed in some profile showcases. If these factors are important to you, it may be worth holding off before buying this mobile app.[/quote] So, should you buy this mobile app? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam? Once more we see greedy mobile devs trying to scam PC gamers. On Steam, this is $10 USD, on app stores, it's $3.60. Mobile devs must learn PC gamers are not here to be gouged, and can't be expected to pay ALMOST THREE TIMES THE PRICE for an already overpriced mobile app just because it's been lazily dumped on Steam. This is unacceptable disrespect for PC gamers. Because this is a mobile app, is priced to insult and gouge PC gamers, and because of the other defects, it's impossible to recommend. Just who do they think we are?

Intense battles for a turn based, there's a very challenging campaign with a dozens missions some historic ones, and very intense. There's also skirmishes battles with pre made or made in editor maps to enjoy. Overall very good game, I will delve deep when I have more time available. I'll update my review with more details.

本来以为是战棋，没想到是个4X游戏。消磨时间挺不错的，甚至有种玩军旗和战争推演的感觉。 没朋友一起玩的话也可以打AI，智商挺高的（没朋友的人竟是我自己，哭

本作是一部入手门槛较低的4X游戏，虽然很快就能了解游戏的大体机制进行游玩，但在实际情况下需要玩家自己摸索的内容也有很多，回合制的战旗模式，再加上地图迷雾的情况下，更考验玩家的随机应变的能力。 本作从二战中挑选了十场著名的战绩进行演练，即便在笔者选择简单模式的情况下，游玩时间也要花到将近10小时，更不提需要挑战自我的玩家或许能钻研更多胜利方法，diy各种有趣的地图和红警类似的ai对战模式，本作的可玩性还是很高的。 在战役模式中，本作的战役大多以陆战为主（虽然设定了驱逐，航母，战列舰等海战舰艇），主打进攻占领，防守战，有限兵力这几个形式，前两者可以通过占领重要建筑，花费随时间和占领建筑种类所获得的货币制造兵力，只要不被占领就可以一直打下去（也有可能被ai堵泉水），有限兵力则需要玩家权衡利弊，利用兵种的相克和自身特色进行攻略和取舍，仔细查看左下角关于兵种的伤害，一不小心就容易错失良机，前功尽弃。 本作主要阵营分为德国，美国和苏联，其基本兵种上相差不大，更多的在于不同的重型武器，再配合不同的地形，建筑加成，概率命中，兵种升级这就让游戏更具挑战性，本来能一炮收尾结果被残血反杀，敌军甚至升职回血，本就难打的情况下雪上加霜，不过在自己的悉心经营，打游击，占地偷袭，收复失地然后摧枯拉朽的反推回去，还是很有成就感的，笔者最有感觉的还是保卫莫斯科这关，面对德军的钢铁洪流，只能步步退缩，偌大的地图被逼到小小的一角，很多次都想放弃但是还是坚持住了（游戏的部分文本有问题，这关文本显示是防御等待援军，但是实际的取胜方式还是占领），整整打了将两小时，50多个回合，不得不说苏联制的火箭炮和轰炸机十分靠谱。升职后基本上拉扯两炮一个坦克，硬生生打到ai没钱造不了兵才反推回去。 在实际游玩过程中，本作还是有部分不足需要改进，在兵种的伤害上，虽然说兵种相克，但是轰炸机依旧能顶着防空车投，反坦克炮比坦克还脆，甚至是高等级的基础上，有些兵种基本上用不到，比如说工程师；在系统上，缺少手残克星——撤回上一步，敌军兵种的显示，兵种的防御会随兵种的移动降低？在战役模式上，缺少海战，航空母舰等海上兵种形同虚设。不过总体来说，还是不错的游戏，很有挑战性，新手教程都带有难度（bushi） [quote=Lem0n juice] 笔墨写春秋，挥毫描秀色； 欢迎关注[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44125219-Lem0n-juice/] Lem0n-juice [/url]~ 我们致力于游玩各类游戏并给出自己的意见供大家参考，欢迎加入我们的大家庭~[/quote]

for fans of Advance wars for Nintendo it will be very welcomed, but is in 4X. Can keep you entertain for hours. I like it.

有一些底子的回合制策略游戏，但是明显能看出来游戏过于粗糙了，很多细节需要完善，喜欢TSG类但是刚接触的玩家可以一试，应该会非常合适，TSG老玩家可能会觉得有些鸡肋的感觉

二十多块钱，小买怡情，打发一下时间还不错。

二战指挥官，一款非常有想法的战棋游戏。 作为一款旨在还原二战战争场景的游戏，二战指挥官以它自身并不算多的制作经费，以一个“很有童趣”的方式为我们展现了一个二战战场的棋盘，并且我个人是能从中感受到很大的惊喜的。 进入这个游戏的第一眼，我感受到的是贫穷，简陋的画面，看起来像兵棋一样的友方单位，以及这聊胜于无的攻击特效，过教程的时候，就一个感受，折磨，非常折磨。 但是，当教程结束，我进入第一关开始实际游玩的时候，我就被这游戏的游戏性给震惊到了。 首先，作为一款战争题材的战棋游戏，它的玩法虽然但绝不简陋，繁多的棋子组成了海陆空三军，并且彼此之间都有粗糙但非常严谨的克制与配合，简单的玩法意味着平衡需要考虑的点也不多，因此二战指挥官在数值与策略方面的平衡做得相当好。 在这款游戏中，我们可以合理地利用自己在看军事杂志里的看到的军事小知识，来一场步坦协同、陆空协同甚至是三军协同作战，飞机的高机动性让它可以横穿整个战场定点为陆军清除掉难缠的敌人，为步坦的攻坚扫平道路，而步坦也可以占据地面的建筑，为自己的战斗提供优势加成（在游戏中体现为加防），还有简单的造兵出兵以及登船过海的玩法，可以说是麻雀虽小五脏俱全了。 无论是作为攻击方，通过对双方资源的评估自己这一把是通过速攻取胜还是打血腥的阵地战，还是作为防守方，对己方阵地进行规划，利用地形和建筑挡住敌人的进攻，都非常考验玩家的策略性。 目前体验下来就感觉这款游戏非常地有想法，而且上手之后根本停不下来，如果你对战争题材的战棋游戏感兴趣的话，这款游戏会是你不容错过的一款游戏。 [quote]欢迎关注我们的鉴赏家:[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/35402982/]走心评测[/url] ←遵从内心，写出真实感受 欢迎加入我们Steam组:[url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/ZXPC]走心评测[/url]←点击加入，一起探索游戏的乐趣 喜欢这篇评论，也麻烦点个赞，让更多人能够看到！[/quote]

打折入的，便宜的4x游戏，建模不太还原历史，但是比较好上手，闲来无事摸鱼的时候玩玩还挺不错。