American Patriots: Boston Tea Party is a copy and paste of the "developers" other game, "Civil War: Battle of Petersburg", with a different background jpg and a different skin slapped on it. Imagine being so bad at game development you have to asset flip your own assets because you can't afford to flip other people's. It's a somewhat poorly made attempt at a turn based strategy game slapped together badly with Unity. It uses the RTS Camera asset pack amongst others, but of course the "developer" behind this doesn't credit Denis Sylkin for his work, instead claiming it as if it was their own. It's set in the American Civil War era and plays out more like a crap game of chess than a serious turn based strategy game. It's poorly balanced, poorly presented, and just awful to play, as you just shuffle units towards the enemy dumbly and blast them, end your turn, weather their attacks and bludgeon away. This game doesn't deserve the "strategy" part of "turn based strategy". It's just "turn based awful".
From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.
While there are options to change the resolution for the game, all this does is scale up the simplistic 2D art assets used to make the game, which makes little or no difference to the graphics quality. Without any other substantial graphics tweaks, it's not possible for gamers to improve the lacklustre 2D visuals.
The game features somewhat lazy, simplistic 2D graphics, of the type you normally expect to see in low effort Flash/browser games and mobile apps. Considering this is being evaluated as a PC game, having the graphics phoned in like this isn't going to result in a high quality, visually impressive game that PC gamers are used to seeing.
This looks and feels like a mobile app, but I wasn't able to find it on the app stores. Maybe it was removed, maybe it was rejected by Apple and Google (they do have more rigorous quality standards than Valve does for Steam, after all).
Regardless, for all intents and purposes "Civil War: Battle of Petersburg" might as well be a mobile app, it has the same limitations and dumbed down qualities. It's impossible to recommend such a game to PC gamers. We don't spend all this money building gaming rigs so we can pretend they're iPhones and play games that might as well be mobile apps.
These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.
The poor quality of this game is reflected in the general public reception. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 4 players. That's right, only 4. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 50,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in the game is to be expected. Gamers just didn't take this low quality game seriously, and for good reason.
American Patriots: Boston Tea Party is relatively cheap at $1 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend. Because this is the kind of game you can just play for free on mobile phones, it's impossible to recommend anyone should pay money for the same experience on Steam.
