Eador: Genesis

For all the positive aspects, read the other reviews. Most of it is true. But nevertheless, the difficulty renders this game almost unplayable. Very early in the game you will find yourself surrounded by areas you can't conquer, or, if you are lucky, only with heavy losses. So you might want to try different approaches, or rewind one wrong click that cost you the combat, but this game forces you to play on iron mode. You can't even restart the whole mission. So in the beginning it's really hard work to capture 2 or maybe 3 areas... if you did EVERYTHING right and had the luck on your side. And after, maybe after 10 turns, the enemy just crushes you. At least that happend to me. It's feel quite dull. In the early game your options are limited, you heavy depend on luck, and you won't even have a chance to retry. On "Beginner" difficulty. Due to that, not really recommended.

But maybe a bit adictive...

Building up the army and fighting is great, but very brutal with many troops dying from one or two hits. I like the random events for the exploration however it gets repetitive for fighting and then going back to repair.

I like the game, but it is repetitive and the endgame recipes are annoying.

So, I have been waiting for the upcoming Eador: Masters of the Broken World and all of a sudden this shows up on GOG. What a great game. Turn-based strategy, with turn-based combat. I love the shard system for the maps. I love the fact that each territory on a shard can be explored for cool sites. I love that there are meaningful choices to be made every turn. Overall, this one is just a pure gem. Can't wait to see how the sequel turn out, but it'll have to be pretty special to be better than this one.