Morphblade

Surprisingly addictive little strategy game. If you're a fan of Into the Breach, this will feel somewhat familiar as the game loop is quite similar. You start on a tiny hexagonal map that expands as you progress through the game. Every tile changes what abilities you have and sometimes can also affect enemies. Every "level", i.e. every enemy wave starts with enemy spawn locations being shown to you. You must neutralise all of them in order to progress further, after which you get a chance to upgrade certain tiles of the map based on the number of enemy kills. Normally a tile starts with just one ability, but each time you upgrade it, you can choose an ability granted by one of the surrounding tiles. Because this can often lead to extremely powerful combos, you must actually think which tiles you want to expand into, as the game randomly generates which abilities the new tiles will have. I love the very minimalistic, but extremely user-friendly interface, the sounds are quite satisfying, and you can also just play it for 30..60 minutes and close it when you feel that you're done for today. Actually, who am I fooling, you can easily sink 2..3 hours into it because of that "just one more turn" feeling.. But hey, I did start this review by saying it's addictive, so don't tell me I didn't warn you! :D The only thing I feel it's missing is the ability to check the attack order of the enemies. There's an ability that kills the first enemy that attacks you, but there's no way to know which one it will be. And if that enemy happens to be an explosive one.. well, you'll regret picking up that "upgrade"