Tatsu

После первой же партии рекомендую. Может быть я чересчур сильно люблю настольные абстракты, но эта игра запала в сердечко своей лёгкостью и непринуждённостью. Да, это не шедевр, но это хорошая игра для того чтобы расслабиться и отдохнуть. Некая смесь нард с чем-то ещё. Единственный минус, концовка игры может затянуться из-за рандома. Вся игра построена на броске кубов, но здесь так называемый белый рандом, когда сначала ты бросаешь кубы, а уже потом принимаешь решение исходя из расположения фишек на поле. P.S. Играть с ботом на сложности выше, чем лёгкая не рекомендую - читерит страшно (при чём разницы между средней сложностью и самой высокой уже нет). Ему с первого и по последний ход выпадают кубы таким образом, что он своими фишками каждый ход попадает на твои, а тебе выпадает на кубах что угодно, но ни одной своей фишкой ни при каких комбинациях на фишки бота ты практически никогда не попадешь.

The game is simple and fun. I'd especially recommend it to backgammon players who are looking for something a little different.

I have not played it against other players, but solitaire against the hard difficulty is great fun. Please note that occasionally the game changes the remaining die after you play the first one, but this rarely happens. The AI is fairly skillful.

Seems a faithful adaptation, however the manipulation of probabilities ruins the entire thing.

Backgammon-like abstract by the creator of Hive. It takes the element of capturing pieces and cycling in backgammon and distils it into a relatively quick game. I read a lot of people's comments that it is not as good as Hive (granted), too lucky and too long. Also I read someone argue that the dice are stacked in favor of the AI. So starting with luck and bias - I have played 24 times and have at time of writing a 62% win record - if the dice are biased, then they are towards the player! In the lower AI levels, certainly up to hard where I played most of those games, it does not seem biased towards the AI. I am a little suspicious of the Dragon Master AI level because in my two games at that level the AI was astoundingly lucky. CRAZY lucky. I still won one of the games... my rolls were not as good... but it seems that even with the AI cheating (if indeed it was cheating) it may not be able to parse out the tree far enough that bias is a sure win. Is it too long? Sometimes the game can be long and a bit degenerate. an evenly matched attrition game is a bit long. overall, it is relatively fast to play. I mind less the time to play than the possibility of forced moves over many moves. i.e. it is possible to roll several rounds in a row where you have no decision to make - and so every move is forced. That can be annoying. Is being less good than Hive a problem? Hive is very good, but woe to a beginner playing with me. Sure I can hold back the best moves but it is hard to know what to play in that context. The luck in tatsu and its relative simplicity make it an easier game to introduce to people and losing is less painful when it is obvious that luck plays a big role. All in all, I wanted to try this game and steam offered me a nice affordable way to try it out. I enjoyed it. Your mileage may vary, no game is for everyone.

Игра интересная, но жутко недоработанная; задумка хорошая, но реализация так себе. Пока не исправите все это - рекомендовать не могу.