![]() The electronic version is now in production by developer Beamdog (known for the enhanced editions of Bioware RPGs) and is available in Early Access on Steam since July 2019 it already received five juicy patches and is definitely in a state worthy of a preview. ![]() It is too convoluted for the hyper-casual players, but definitely too simplistic for even the most casual of grognards.īut its success has been huge, being in production for ten years and receiving as many as twenty different editions, follow-ups, versions starting from the original, born in 1981, to the very latest Zombie, inevitable, spinoff, in 2018. It is an added layer of analysis that we have to take into consideration if we want to understand whether the game in question is actually fun, or not.Īxis & Allies is an important piece in the history of board games, a game that is not universally loved nor unanimously appreciated, but it is one that occupies a very important sweet spot, that between the simple mindless fun of Risk and the border signaling the beginning of light wargames. So, it comes without saying that a big part of this board game genre is how well the port conveys the experience of this physical medium on a screen. Board games, in fact, are inherently slow, methodic experiences, at least when compared to strategy games, even the turn-based, more pensive, ones. Alternative gameplay labels like “strategy games” or thematic ones like “World War II” are just not precise enough to describe the experience that we will encounter playing these titles. ![]() Board games ported to electronic format is a genre in itself, or at least it should be considered so. ![]()
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