Kriegspiel 9+

Name: Kriegspiel
Rating: 4.6 (42 reviews)
Author: Alexander Galloway

Alexander Galloway

- 4.6 • 42개의 평가

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Inspired by the military theory of Carl von Clausewitz and the European war campaigns of Napoleon, Kriegspiel is a chess-variant played by two opposing players on a 20 x 25 game board. Capture the enemy's Arsenals to win. Deploy your Lines of Communication to keep friendly units in contact. Block enemy lines for strategic advantage.

"The surprises of this Kriegspiel seem to be inexhaustible," wrote French Situationist Guy Debord. In Debord's view the game represents the totality of factors at play in wartime maneuvers, what he called "the dialectic of all conflicts."

-- Play 2P online against another player
-- Play 2P in person on the same device
-- Practice against the computer
-- Level editor for customizing formations
-- Language support for French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, and English

Kriegspiel is produced and maintained by Alexander R. Galloway. The game is noncommercial. There are no in-app purchases. No advertisements. No Patreon. No GoFundMe. No monetization of player data. There is literally no possible way to take your money.

2024년 7월 3일

버전 1.20

Added new language localization for Russian.

Made small improvements to Turkish, Spanish, and Portuguese language localization.

4.6/5

42개의 평가

Always heard of this mythical game

I learned about the Game of War back in college while studying DeBord and the Situationists and was super interested in trying it out some day. The game itself seemed so complex and talk of coefficients, but the way it was talked about: “ I [DeBord] played this game, and in the often difficult conduct of my life drew a few lessons from it — setting rules for my life, and abiding by them.” So the fact that this exists in such an accessible format with so much help and with so much further potential and transparency at this current moment is truly special. I am very excited to sink my teeth further into this and introduce it to my friends!

thank you! yes it was a challenge to find the right balance between playability and transparency around the game mechanic. but auto-calculating the combat arithmetic makes for a much more playable game i think, even if it's not "original" to Debord's version. (same for drawing the lines of communication - in the offline version you have to imagine the lines in your mind's eye. but much harder to play that way.)

The Classic Strategy Boardgame.

Great UI, if only every tablet game were this clean and uncluttered!
Players simulate Napoleonic tactics with cavalry, infantry, and artillery. No dice. it’s somewhere between chess/shogi and an entry level wargame. It really teaches you the importance of combined arms tactics, and even more so the importance of keeping open clean lines of command back to your HQ.… units that’s are out of command become easy prey for the enemy.

It’s very clean and intuitive gameplay, but deep. The AI is fairly weak, and playing it you will feel like Napoleon versus the Austrians, but it’s good enough to teach you the basics.

If I had one request to the developer, it would be nice if we had a couple of alternate maps to play on, although I realize getting one just right must take a lot of work. Also, the tutorial could use some explanation of retreat.

Fantastic game; Lots of Potential

TL;DR: great game, worth the download, needs better AI.

Love how polished and clean everything looks. Clearly has had a lot of work put into it. Gameplay is pretty straight forward (tactics is a different story 😅). My only issue is that the AI in single player is quite dumb. Good enough to learn the game and for those struggling, but after about two to four games there isn’t any point to keep playing the AI. This wouldn’t be an issue if there was a ton of online people playing, but there just isn’t. I know the dev mentioned in someone else’s review that they are working on harder AI, so if they do, then this game will get a definite five stars.