About This Game Axes and Acres is a deep and engaging single-player strategy game designed to create exciting decisions every turn. Axes and Acres includes elements of deck-building which allow you to strategically manage your peasants to farm, build, and survive. The rules are easy to learn, but every turn can be played out in many different ways, leading to complex and interesting choices.In Axes and Acres you are the lord of a small but rich plot of land (and a couple smelly peasants). These peasants are represented by dice and can Build, Work, Gather Resources, and Reproduce, depending on their mood. Using a combination of your burgeoning population and "motivation" cards, you will build, chop, cultivate and plot to produce a thriving village!In Axes and Acres both your workers and your motivations can be improved and changed, all within one game. Each play-through is discrete, every decision is difficult and interesting, and there are tons of decisions - making every minute of gameplay valuable. Axes and Acres will test your strategic and tactical skills while providing a rewarding and fun experience.Axes and Acres is the second game from BrainGoodGames, the creators of the well-received single player strategy game Militia. (7000+ players, 97% review score).http://store.steampowered.com/app/421260/ 1075eedd30 Title: Axes and AcresGenre: Indie, StrategyDeveloper:BrainGoodGamesPublisher:BrainGoodGamesRelease Date: 7 Apr, 2016 Axes And Acres FULL axes and acres boardgame. axes and acres. axes and acres wiki. axes and acres update. axes and acres review Almost refunded because I thought the controls were too hard, but then something clicked and I found this to be a very engaging puzzle game.Town Halls that give 16 victory points each are the key to blasting past any levels requirements.. I like this game. It has a nice learning curve to play.I love the interconnected concepts of various boardgames I already own. Dominion, Agricola, Dice Masters, even a touch of Civ! This game has a lot of potential. It can be a quick time waster, or you can sit down and play longer!At this point the only real cons about this game is that its new, there are bugs! But the developer seems to be dedicated and listening to the communities concerns and fleshing them out!. Overall a very fun game.Since I bought it a few days ago I spend every night for half an hour playing a round or two before going to sleep.The basic principle of rolling dice and using them to your best abilities looks often easy but in later stages you need to think several steps ahead to beat the given milestones.The only little deficit so far is that not every step in a round is reversible. So if you find the right play during clicking? Tough luck...P.S.Thanks for Linux support! I love you guys!. Stick with the tutorials as it is a bit complicated at first, but very much worth it! Once you're hooked you'll be playing for hours.Trying out the different builds is fun and it's engaging and challenging to keep leveling up. It's a surprisingly deep strategy game and will make you really think about every move.Tip: use your cards as much as possible!I'd love it on my ipad!. V1.01a Review, based mostly off of 1.00 gameplay — 21.4 hours loggedtldr: Step-by-step thinking dice and resource management game with clean graphics and somewhat steep learning curve.Recommended for those with the time and patience to learn the game. Short Review------------------------Axes and Acres is a strategy dice/card game with survival elements. You manage food, wood, and stone resources to deploy dice, construct buildings and other actions to gain enough Victory Points to win and progress to a harder rank. Careful management of your resources is needed, and using your dice as a resource is part of the fairly steep learning curve. You start with 6 dice and spend them not only for their face value (building, gathering, working, and reproducing more dice), but also one die to "confirm" each action, and one die to move 2 spaces. You also use cards to perform actions more efficiently to save on dice.Graphics are clean and well done. Music is relaxing and sound effects sparse in a good way.Recommended for strategy gamers with patience for the learning curve.Long Review------------------------Axes and Acres' menu is very simple. You have some tutorial levels, a teaching video I didn't watch, "Play" mode, and an options menu with some basic sound and display options. (The tutorial has been improved in V1.01, but I have not tested it yet.)V1.00's tutorial may be very confusing and frustrating even for seasoned strategy gamers as myself. I had to restart some tutorial levels several times just to pass them, and I still didn't really get the game's basic mechanics when finished. The main mode of the game, "Play" mode, starts you out as rank 1 and will progress you 1-2 levels on a win, and decrease your rank on I believe two losses in a row. This flow is actually very nice, and has kept me playing for hours trying to get better at the game and achieve a higher rank. Maps are procedurally generated.Axes and Acres is a strategy game with some very concrete, step-by-step thinking involved. Careful management of your resources is needed to succeed, and using your dice as a resource is part of the fairly steep learning curve. You manage food, wood, and stone resources to deploy dice, construct buildings and other actions to gain enough Victory Points to win and progress to a harder rank. Your objective is to achieve a certain amount of Victory Points (VP) in a certain amount of turns. VP are gained through completing the phase objective on the top of your screen (ex build a road, have 4 houses, hunt an animal, kill a barbarian). Harder ranks require more VP relative to the amount of turns given. Each game has three phases with a VP threshold required to meet phase two and three. When the phase changes, an event happens (positive event on lower difficulties, negative on higher ones) and your three phase objectives change as well.You start with 6 dice and spend them not only for their face value (building, gathering, working, and reproducing more dice), but also one die to "confirm" each action, and one die to move 2 spaces. You can't save up extra moves gained this way, though dice left over at the end of your turn do add 1 move to a pool you can use anytime. You also use up to 3 cards a turn to perform actions more efficiently to save on dice. This detailed management may seem tedious to many players, but after playing this fun game a while you will get used to it, and is all part of the strategy and fun of Axes and Acres. :)The player starts out a match with just two houses by a river. They must expand their infrastructure over the course of the game to gain enough VP in time. Axes and Acres features 15 buildings that will let your dice navigate the map, collect resources easier, "upgrade" your dice, generate powerful cards to your deck, and more! It takes hours to realize the potential of buildings and their effects.Graphics are nice and simple, with a large and clean interface. Don't confuse simple with lazy — the graphics are very well done and all fit a cohesive art style. The music is doable, there's two or so acoustic-y tracks that play and serve as some good background music, though about half of the time I like to listen to my own. Sound effects are simple but nicely done, nothing over-the-top or annoying and fit in well with the relaxing atmosphere (minus the stressful thinking involved :P) and minimalist style of the game.Overall, I would recommend Axes and Acres for those with the time and patience to learn the game. There is great fun to be had for those that enjoy step-by-step thinking and setting both short and long-term goals for a level.. A fun "Arcade-y City Builder". I definitely recommend it. Yes, I know this review sucks, but I'm too tired to type a better one but I wanted to leave Positive Feedback on a game I like so much.. A fairly simple game but one that is enjoyable to pass the time, Axes and Acres puts you in charge of a group of peasants and their budding village. Do not be fooled by its simplicity, though, as it is actually quite challenging balancing the progressing needs of your settlement while not letting any aspect fall behind. I've spent about an hour playing this game and I don't believe there is much that I haven't seen at this point, but the randomized generation of the lands and your goals keeps the game exciting as each playthrough is different in how you acquire victory points.Short review, but there isn't much to say about this game other than that I do recommend it if you're into challenging single-player board game experiences. It does pull that off fairly well even if it only does it in short bursts for me. If not, I'd give this a pass.. probably a great game, but I can't figure out what I'm doing & the tutuorial doesn't really help.. Assess the terrain, review your objectives, and carry out actions as efficiently as possible. This game is less about winning or losing than it is about endlessly improving your decision making. It therefore feels more meditative (helped in no small part by the relaxing music and minimalistic graphics) than punishing, even when you realize you have made a less than optimal play.In addition, the developer is very responsive to questions, rapidly implements features and bug fixes, and is very friendly.The only "down-side" -- if you can call it that -- is that the game is a bit tricky to learn and understand, even though the tutorial is one of the better ones I've seen. I ended up playing through the tutorial several times and I still didn't quite grasp priest rolls, for example; but I think it was a good idea to do so, as the basic mechanics became very easy.If you enjoy quiet, puzzle-ish single player games, then Axes and Acres is for you. :)
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