Game For the Weekend: Styrateg
Looking for something fun to do over the weekend? Styrateg is a fantasy strategy / roleplaying game hybrid game from Rake In The Grass, and a winner of a Silver Award for last month at GameTunnel.com. As I've recently gotten into the D&D Miniatures game, I found the gameplay familiar and enjoyable (though it uses its own, simplified rule system). Styrateg is a game of amassing a force of fantasy characters and completing quests through many different areas.

You begin by choosing one of several heroes. They differ in terms of starting statistics, special abilities, and movement speed. As you progress through the game, you gain treasure and experience through completing quests and slaying monsters in true RPG fashion. You can use the treasure to buy extra supplies, like potions. As you progress through the game, you will add more heroes and forces to your team as you take on bigger challenges to stop an invasion of monsters into the kingdom.

One of the tricks is that there's a limit to the number of turns allowed to "complete" a map. Within that allotment, you must complete your primary mission as well as any sub-quests you can. Since the sub-quests can net you more experience (and higher levels) for your heroes, you have to balance how far you'll go to accomplish all the side-quests. Take too long, and you may fail your real objective.

The rule system is pretty straightforward and easy to learn. The text shows that English wasn't the principle language of the developers, but it's still easy to understand and fairly forgiveable.

As a side note, to any game developers interested in the Torque Game Builder 2D engine, that was the engine used for this title. You can see that the developers took advantage of certain features such as the particle effects (which look really nice throughout).

Go ahead and download the free trial version HERE.

Enjoy some turn-based butt-kicking!

Labels: Game Announcements, Roleplaying Games

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