Minos Strategos

This is another fantastic game by BrainGoodGames. I'm a big fan of their other games, and this one could be their absolute best. It takes ideas from all their previous games, improves pretty much everything, and makes a nearly perfect game, in my opinion. The game is kind of difficult to explain, but very easy to learn with the excellent in-game tutorial. Plus, there is a link in-game to a video tutorial which also helps greatly. The game is played on a grid, similar to Chess or Othello. It's basically a race to collect enough points before the AI collects their points. You collect points by moving your pieces into 'temple' squares. Every turn you get points for how many temples you own. Same for the AI, who is moving minotaurs to try to take these same temples. The brilliant part of the game is the card playing. You get three cards from your deck each turn, and can play one of them. You can also move one unit one space, or add a new unit to the board. The cards are basically different kinds of attacks and unit spawning, based on the patterns you have your units set in. It is a very unique and wonderfully fun game mechanic. You can pull off some very cool moves by setting up your forces in the proper pattern, then unleash one of your cards for mega damage or tactical paradrops of units onto key spaces. It's a wonderfully addictive game, with leaderboards, different play modes, e.g. card drafting, no timer mode. Also, a new double secret probation mode is being designed, which should be out soon. The developer is super responsive. Often new builds will appear within hours of finding a bug, or a new feature that the developer likes will be implemented super quick. All boardgame and tactical gamer fans should own this one. It's a work of art.

to give a little back story to new comers, BrainGoodGames has no pushed out their 4th strategie game Minos Strategos, a sort of board game turn based strategie game. While all there games have the same sort of feel as asthetic at the base, they all of very distinct game styles and rules. To give a little feedback on the type of developers BrainGoodGames are, its not uncommon to a player to find a bug and for it to get patched and fixed an hour later. Iv seen people suggest an idea they think would really work in one of their games, just to see it implemented the next day! Iv seen them push a new game out, just to go back months later and push another content patch for all their older games as well, continuing to make sure all their games get tons of love. Its almost as if buying one of the BGGames also comes with a 24/7 Dev hotline ! HAH ON TO MINOS IMO this is the best game they have ever released to date! I feel like they really took all the knowledge of all the releases till now, took every fun aspect that worked and pushed it into One wonderful package. In Minos the idea is to move your army on checkpoints to score points while an invading Minotaur army is also trying to do just that ! Through the game you will also be unlock new "Cards" that let you use your armys formation to do different abilities to your benifit. Its preparing to use these cards to the extent where a lot of the Strategy and depth really start to shine! The game does a beautiful job of taking you through step by step to make sure the player is comfortable with all the rules of the game before they throw you off into the MINOTAUR HORDES! Just like the other games this has a single player ranking system (elo ladder if you will) for you to climb, making sure it starts off nice and eassy for the newcomers to get all the mechanics down slowly introducing new elements as you climb the ranks! I cant speak highly enough about this game OR the Developer behind this game but they are both wonderful. To bad there isnt a HELL YES recommend option...

It's not very good. In fact, it's pretty bad. For two reasons, 1: It's very simplistic. Like, far too simplistic. To the point where it feels a lot less like you're using good tactics and a lot more like you're just making obvious moves because they're obvious moves. 2: It's extremely RNG based. EXTREMELY. Control points are placed randomly, enemies appear randomly, your action cards are randomly chosen. The number of things that you CAN influence are outnumbered by the number that you can't.

Only at 2 hours and I already want to praise this game. I can only compare to Axes and Acres, another great game from this developer, and this game is a big improvement. Axes and Acres (you should really try it, it 's great) had one problem: the drawn conditions could be so hard several times in a row that you got disappointed and your level went down a lot. EDIT: This issue has been fixed since patch 1.05. This game, however, doesn't have this issue. It's truly strategy and the conditions are merely decided by random locations where enemies spawn and the order in which you draw your cards from your stack. This is as close a to a real skill-test you can get. At first, I thought it was a big mistake to add a timer in this game (which you can disable), but I have found that I always get enough time to think through my strategy. As usual, the tutorial is very short (too short) and you need to try and think for yourself. I don't mind, but children of this century usually want more. You can watch some youtube movies if you need more info, but you really CAN figure it out yourself, it's not that hard and certainly not as hard to grasp as Axes and Acres. Also, as usual, the graphics are very simple (maybe a bit ugly), but you shouldn't care about that because it's a brain game. Even if it was purely ascii, it would still be great. I bought this game initially only to support the developer (in case you haven't noticed, he is a great guy, responsive to everyone, bugfixing the same day, ...) because I liked the initial thoughts I had before playing it, but I was actually expecting to not be getting into it. I was wrong. This game pulled me right in and it's great! EDIT: still though, I got a bit bored of it after 8 hours and returned to Axes and Acres which since patch 1.05 still is the best IMO.

Minos Strategos is one of the best strategy/tactics games I've ever played. The basic idea behind it is that you have to utilize your soldiers and ability cards in creative ways to capture temples and gain enough points before the minotaur hordes do the same. The game gives you a randomized map (temple placement, soldier placement, and minotaur placement) and a deck full of random ability cards every time you play, so each match feels unique and keeps you on your toes. You have to look at your resources and make intelligent decisions based on what you have, there's no build orders or memorized strategies. It's all about creative thinking and smart on-the-fly decision making. In addition to that, the game has a single player ranking system, increasing in challenge the better you do, so that you are always playing at a difficulty level appropriate to your skill level. Making for a game as replayable as any multiplayer competitive strategy game, but without the pain of dealing with random teammates who may cost you the game or toxic opponents you often times get matched up with. If you like Strategy or Tactics games, and are maybe looking for a singleplayer game as a break from all the team-based games out there, definitely give Minos Strategos a chance.

[h1] Waste of time. [/h1]

The AI and replayability is top notch. Very addicting, cool strategy game. Much better than Militia. Don't let the graphics dissuade you from getting. Check out the other games as well- excellent gameplay.

Now that I've played quite a few games of Minos Strategos and moved up a few ranks I feel confident in saying this game is another great addition to the BrainGoodGames collection of strategy games. The tutorial is a bit brief and left me with some questions. Watching a short video that is linked to on the main page of the game soon cleared up the questions I had. There is a practise mode so if you aren't sure how something works and you want to experiment, you can do so without affecting your rank. Games are quick, 5 to 10 minutes. One of the many great features is that the game introduces now features as you advance in levels - new cards, new Minotaurs to fight, special collectible bonuses, so it won't get old in a hurry. I put over 50 hours into BrainGoodGames' Axes and Acres, their games are dangerously addictive.

Minos Strategos est le deuxième jeu de BrainGoodGames que je teste après Skyboats, qui m'avait beaucoup plu. Une fois de plus, nous avons ici affaire à un bon jeu de plateau numérique, aux mécaniques intéressantes et à aux graphismes limités au strict minimum. Vous diposez de pions à déplacer sur un plateau ainsi que d'un deck de cartes qui évolue au fur et à mesure de vos parties. Précision : le jeu est solo uniquement mais vous donne l'impression d'affronter des adversaires de plus en plus coriaces. À recommander aux amateurs du genre, les autres seront probablement rebutés par les graphismes du jeu. Si vous souhaitez avoir mon avis plus complet et dévourir le gameplay du jeu, vous pouvez consulter ma vidéo de présentation : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUajJQKso9Q

Nice strategy game, sadly not that well known, I would consider it as a hidden gem. Thanks to devs for the Linux version.