Here Be Dragons is a satirical turn-based strategy game featuring unique "living map" graphics, where you lead a group of crazed captains and eradicate legendary monsters in order to allow Christopher Columbus the discovery of the New World. STORY Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas in 1492. In 10 weeks. With 100 men. With 3 ships. This is a LIE! Firstly, someone had to defeat kraken and tritons. Someone had to vanquish the Leviathan. Someone had to banish all the ghost ships. The information about these deeds is missing from the archives, and you can’t find it in any great statesmen’s memoir. The knowledge of the “Avant Armada” was completely erased by some bloody officials. The people who took part in the expeditions were not sane people. Maniacs, psychos and common crackpots were forced by royal orders to eradicate Evil in the uncharted seas. “Here Be Dragons” describes these events. GAMEPLAY * Use original Dice Activation System to attack enemies, heal your crew, and upgrade the fleet. * Collect and use Command Points to turn the tide of the encounter. * Cross the seas with an ancient, living map, full of terrible creatures that want to devour you! * Confront the most fierce beasts that ever lived: leviathans and krakens, predatory whales and lustful mermaids. Decimate tritons, awake Dagon, and then erase them from human memory. SATIRE * Meet an extraordinary company of weirdos, madmen and oddballs. Their vices and virtues fuel the journey. * Experience clashes with bureaucratic machine. Don’t lose your mind when confronted by absurdities spewed by authorities and royal advisors. * Sniff at pirates. Ignore the settlers. You are above them. You are a monster hunter traversing through the aqua incognita. Who cares if you are insane?
The dialog is superfluous to game play…
…and coming frequently in short sentences requiring touching to work through dialog that neither humorous nor really pertinent to actual gameplay. After a while it starts feeling like a slot machine mechanics. After about 20 minutes it starts getting annoying with tapping through the pointless dialogs.
United StatesChallenging but beatable!
I’m a big fan of turn based strategy games, and this one didn’t disappoint. I had to run through the tutorial levels again after a few levels because I didn’t understand the subtleties of salvos and how to keep initiative (hint- sometimes it’s better to not choose a die rather than lose initiative). I beat the game on “Fun” so now I’m playing again on “Challenge”. The dice throws are RNG so replayability is high. I’m glad I downloaded this one!
United StatesExcellent challenges
Yes this game has minor flaws. The story is meandering and too much and frankly everyone is just gonna skip those parts. For the few who want to read it the font is too small to be legible. But if you just skip that, or play on an iPad, it’s all about the battle scenarios and those are constantly “fresh” challenges because they add a different variable in each battle, the challenge level is great (hard but doable), overall it’s an A as long as you don’t get hung up on stories.
United StatesThis is a puzzle game
This isn’t a strategy game. It’s a puzzle game. There’s no character/ship building. It’s all the same for everyone who plays, regardless of their choices.
United StatesExcellent but…
It freezes. I am sure it will be a quick fix though, so it is otherwise an excellent game. The humor is great and the theme is well thought out.
United StatesQuite good
You could tell this game had a top-tier board game designer on deck. Red Zero introduces a novel dice-combat mechanic, and then artfully introduces an extensive series of levels, with each one presenting a distinct puzzle. The difficulty curve on Challenging mode is *chef’s kiss*. You know how in some of those classic tactical RPGs, the introduction of characters and the switching of narrative threads makes the combat feel completely different? Somehow this game captures that feel. It creates an ongoing sense of anticipation that keeps it quite fresh throughout the game’s ample length. The writing is quite amusing to boot. It’s a delightful game that deserves more attention.
United StatesFreezes
I want to like this game. But it freezes and stays that way. Which means the game does not work and your money is thrown away. Don’t buy it until this is fixed. For the dev: it is frozen at the scenario where the tritons are introduced. The collect ink screen does not go away and stays frozen so the game cannot be played.
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- Revive skill - Maelstrom environment in the 13.1 scenario
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