WARBORN

1) Story It's boring and bad. It's mostly simple talk betwen main commander/protagonist, general type character who is rank above and few grunts while nothing interesting is happening. First 10 missions are the most poor exposition dumps about lore and setting I did see in a while. Just skip whole conversation cutscenes. Litteraly nothing worth of your time is happening for majority of the game anyway. 2) Visuals and music Graphics and art is alright but you will get tired of those boring animations and that units from both sides look the same unlike games like Wargroove. Music? What music? Oh there was music in this game? I didn't even notice lol 3) Gameplay It's pretty.... dull version of Advance War or Wargroove without any sort of depth or tactics. Units mostly have two or three moves, there is no difference in units design, abilities or stats between sides and most of missions is just the lamest kind tug of war I did see in a while where the most expensive units are so strong that AI cannot do anything about that because its way too busy purchasing only the cheapest units. Don't get me wrong - this game will definitely satisfy casual audience of this genre but it just didn't work for me who spend almost entire life time playing this genre. 4) Traits, super moves and commanders Those three are the only difference between sides of conflict and they all depend on selected commander. Traits are small passive changes that affect mostly the army. Most of them are boring nothing stuff but some of later ones are indeed powerful. When energy bar is filled by attacking, killing and losing units player can use super move (also depend on selected commander) or summon commander unit. Super move buffs all units with specific thing that last for a turn and commander unit is just a powerful version of a generic unit that last until it dies. 5) The good, the bad and the ugly The game have a very slow start, first 20 out of 40 missions are really boringly easy as heck where no tactics required yet take a while to finish anyway. The gameplay is extremely sluggish - units have very limited movement distance (often moving only single tile right after they spawn in their next turn). Every single time to move you need to select unit then click move button and then select location and click "end unit turn". What is this - Warcraft 1? Enemy units not only takes their sweet time but also the game need to show you for a second their movement range first. Why the heck not just do the action like in any other turn based game before? Enemy AI? What AI? Its dumb as rocks. Constantly purchasing cheap units, doesn't summon commander when should, using super move with only 3 units alive that cannot attack anything... Seriously, Advanced Wars on Game Boy Advance was more intelligent enemy than that. Wargroove, Advance Wars, Divinity, Ancient Empires? Those games are way older and yet did that 10 times better. Not even in game setting to speed up enemy turn movement or skip it entirely? CMON! Is that hard to implement hold right click or hold right+left click and move your mouse to quickly move around camera? Nope, you need to put mouse on side and wait ETERNITY for camera to move. Is there a way to increase the camera scroll speed? Of course not. At least using WSAD buttons does move camera a little bit faster but then again - what is the point of saying that Warborn can be played with mouse only in the first place if doing so is far inferior experience. Why zoom out button does hide UI but displays objective and defeat conditions? I would gladly play WHOLE GAME on zoom out but what the heck is this design decision? Why auto hiding UI and display instead game conditions that are basically the SAME on EVERY single mission. 6) So how long the game is? There is multiplayer but considering that this game combat is not as good as Wargroove I rather stay far away from it. Singleplayer is 40 missions long (most of them are boring or copypasted that takes less than 10 turns to finish), 10 for each different commander. Around 35 hours to beat those. 7) Conclusion I will rate this game 6/10. After finishing Warborn it just left me with feeling to replay Wargroove. I did exactly that and boy that game is so awesome. Never again Warborn. Never again.