Militia Reviews

One of the best games of its kind on Steam. I am always impressed with how BrainGoodGames takes what would be simple abstract board games and gives them a real feeling of life as a video game. One thing I keep forgetting to mention in my reviews for their games is how much of a fan I am of the simple graphic style most of them use. There is something about the lack of clutter and the very clearly defined monochrome pieces that feels almost meditative versus games with a lot of animation and unnecessary flashing colors. This is minimalism done very right.

Militia is like something between Hive and Chess. It is a combo that works really well, and rewards thinking moves through. The various character abilities, which do things like teleport and guard adjacent allies, add some helpful diversity and allows for some cool improvisation. With a few factions or modes, and ranks and leaderboard to get that feeling of progress, Militia is a good palate-cleanser when you want to play a simple-looking but still engaging game. Recommended.

This game is bad because of one simple reason: You have no control over the difficulty. It starts you out at the easiest level. Win some matches, difficulty goes up. Lose some, it goes down. Have a bad run? You have to redo a bunch of too-easy levels just to get back to where you were. It's ridiculous. If the game let me turn off "difficulty goes down when you fail" in the settings, I'd consider giving this a thumbs-up. But that single flaw is so severe that I can only give this game one star out of five.

Nice and simple chess-like strategy game. If you're in the mood for a puzzler thats low stress, this is a good starting point.

I think this is a brilliant little game - great for a fairly short round of racking my brains to find the right moves for victory. Simple enough that it doesn't take up days of my life but complex enough to make me think hard. Strongly recommend.

A simple idea done well. Feels like playing chess on campaign mode. The difficulty seems to scale well and I don't think I've been put in a match that was unwinnable. Some units are able to refresh others, which allows for some fun move combos. A few minor gripes: There is no way to save in the middle of a game. If you quit/go to the menu the current game is considered a loss. You can only quit in-between battles. There doesn't seems to be a way to change sound settings in game, you have to go to the menu...which can only be done between games. In Dark mode the Eye Lasers fire too quickly on the enemies turn, I lost several units without knowing what had actually killed them. The Wand (wizard?) is the only unit that can survive its box explosions, including allies. This is fine, but I didn't feel like it is explained well in the help page. Over all a great game.

A truly dynamite strategy game! A simple ruleset with only one board but variable gamepiece placement makes this a very fun - albeit challenging - exercise in logic and planning. Far less variety among moves and fewer pieces than chess leads to briskly paced games that reward focus on necessity and encourage a flexible tactical approach to achieving the goal: eliminating all the enemy captains. I am so far (3 hours played) quite enjoying the smooth difficulty scaling, but can already see both the enemy quantity and type making my further progress hard-fought and well earned. I have zero reservations recommending this at full price, much less on sale! Militia is a carefully executed and interesting take on small-scale tactics that is well worth both the cost to purchase and the time to play.

Its alternate chess Each piece moves & eliminates other pieces in a different pattern (just like in chess) The game comes with two variants 'light' and 'dark', each one has a different lineup of pieces. Unlike Chess, you win by eliminating all of the enemy 'boss pieces' Its fun, if you pay attention you can win reliably, and avoid losing any of your pieces. If you lose, it was because you weren't paying attention. I'd recommend this to everybody!

A charming, deceptively simple game. Easy to learn, difficult to master. You pit three random player-controlled units against a much larger number of weaker enemies. You have trickier and more powerful options, but a single mistake means losing 1/3 of your firepower. The game has an elegant tutorial and is very quick to learn. Its ranking system accomplishes two difficult tasks at once: motivation to get better at the game, and an effective difficulty curve. You'll probably blast through the first few ranks easily, but soon you'll find yourself in challenging environments that push you to master the mechanics. I can confidently say this regardless of your skill level or aptitude for this sort of game. Overall, a great buy for the price. You can play one of two distinct rulesets, either Light or Dark. Light offers much simpler mechanics, with units that jump and attack in easy-to-understand ways. Dark offers complicated individual pieces that do things like push other units, generate explosives, and warp across the edges of the board. I am excited to see how many hours of play this game offers me.

Fun, simple game with a good soundtrack. However, the game is very unforgiving. No undo button, no restart level button, takes more XP than it gives, and one mistake could ruin the entire round for you.