Tooth and Tail

Tooth and Tail is a delight. I enjoyed the campaign and it's even more fun versus. Not sure why so many people are complaining it's hard. It's an RTS crossed with Pikmin of course it's going to be difficult. But matches are quick and the gameplay is amazing so I always want more. Good as both a casual and all night experience. Definitely worth it on sale. Just buy it so I can play against more people on GOG!

story was better than the game play, pixel art is good but game play just gets old really fast.

I bumped into Tooth and Tail after watching a GDC talk about the game's art direction, felt compelled to give it a try, and was pleasantly surprised! Beyond the amazing and charming artwork, I found this a refreshing take on the real-time-strategy (RTS) genre. My favourite RTS is Total Annihilation, where you can spend a *ton* of time first building up your base before you go on the offense. I'd say Tooth and Tail is on the complete opposite end of that spectrum: games tend to be short (5~15 minutes, for most single-player maps at least) and you'll need to fight back early-on. It took some getting-used to, and the later maps in the campaign can get pretty intense .. so some maps I had to retry several times, but I was ok with this because the games are so short. Some would say the gameplay is simplistic; I would call it streamlined, and I like it because of this. Just the bare essentials of an RTS .. to the point where the game is made to be played with just the keyboard or a controller .. and there's something very enjoyable about that. (FYI - the default controls do use mouse buttons .. but mouse movement isn't used at all, so it works best for me all-keyboard) I also really liked that the game doesn't hold your hand story-wise; there are 4 different factions and the bits of dialogue assume you already know everything from the get-go .. so you'll be pretty clueless at first, and everything only starts to make sense gradually. I also enjoyed the "Banjo Kazooie-style" voices to add a distinct character to each of the units. I only have a couple points of improvement: it's cool that the maps are procedurally generated, but there often are very narrow pathways that are visually hard to read, which makes navigating a bit finnicky sometimes. You'll also need to learn about each unit mostly through trial and error; would've liked something to speed up that process. All in all, whether you're a newcomer or veteran RTS player, I can easily recommend Tooth and Tail!

I would call this game a casual RTS like. Rounds are fast and fun. Mostly over in 10 to 15 Minutes. The automatic ressource generation and unit production is also a feature that makes the game more accessable in my opinion. Overall very fun for now and again with lickable characters and an interresting story campaign. Only thing that is a bit sad is that there is no LAN multiplayer and the servers are mostly dead, even though tehy are still online.

Would be really fun multiplayer but nobody is playing.