Battle for Wesnoth User Reviews

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Wesnoth is one of my favorites because of its quality and lack of ads.

It is impressive how well this works on mobile and I like being able to play this on a phone.

Thanks for this great video game.

Great turn based strategy

Thank you to the developers for all your work! I played it on my PC years ago and was surprised there was an app. Lots of gameplay with the built in campaigns. I appreciate that it’s easy to browse and download add-ons.

I Love this game but…..

I grew up playing this game on a laptop sooo… you can imagine how excited I was when it popped up as a game recommendation. It’s great, just as I remembered. Except it doesn’t save my progress in the scenario I’m playing. If you close the tab or are gone to long
BOOM! ☄️🔥
It’s all lost.
I plan to keep playing and hopefully it will be fixed in the future. Great job otherwise 👍🏻
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Mechanics

The core mechanic of lawful, chaotic, neutral with the day and night cycle doesn’t seem to work all that well, I’ve been playing this game for 10 years now and have repeatedly had my lawful units; which are supposed to attack better in the daytime, miss every one of 4 or 5 attacks or only land one, while the chaotic defender hits with every attack even in the daytime when they allegedly attack worse.

Terrain is also another issue, tactically speaking being in water limits movement, visibility, and weapon effectiveness. As being in water is tactically considered to be occupying low ground and thus a disadvantageous position; some disadvantages to occupying low ground, limited visibility, which can significantly obstruct your view of surrounding terrain and potential threats. It makes you more vulnerable to fire from enemies occupy higher ground, they can fire on you with greater easy and accuracy.

Lastly combat is based on a number of attack basis, for example an elf archer has 2 melee attacks, but if attacked by a unit with 3, the elf archer will only attempt to defend itself twice, when in reality nobody is going to stand there and let someone hit them freely, fundamental flaws in the system as a whole.

Plus I would like to see the loyal trait be applied to units once you’ve advanced them twice
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Great Strategy Game

This game has just the right mix of chess, Lord of the Rings and DND. It has a simple but really intuitive combat system and has tons of hours of gameplay with mod support, scenarios and local gameplay. I love playing this game by myself (I love a good pass and play I can play against myself) with friends or family. I would say I think cross platform play (my computer with another computer) is a little hard to figure out. Also most of the games units are not recruitable in normal local games (units such as death knights and peasants) the only to access them is through mods like Era of Magic and Reign of the Lords. I would love more base game factions to be released in future updates and this is a really overall fantastic game!
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Not for phones

This game looks really cool! I was hoping to overcome the control learning curve, but it is not intuitive. The tutorial text still shows instructions for computer based play. I may check this out on a computer and rate it higher there, but on a phone, it borders on unplayable. Developer- please respond if you update this game for touchscreen controls and I’ll be happy to change the rating
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One of the best

I played this game on my 1st Gen Ipad when it first came out years ago and I still find myself still going back to it. Easily one of my favorite games of all time, I highly recommend this game to any fans of strategy games. It’s worth $10 dollars or more and it’s free for countless hours of fun. I really appreciate the developers and all the hard work they put into such and amazing game.
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Fantastic game

Fantastic, very well designed strategy game. Lots of helpful information in the in game help, wiki and reddit. Highly recommend!

Great

Super great

Crazy that this game is free

It’s awesome.

Throw back

I played this game years ago, 2007ish loved it then love it now. It the perfect mobile game! So glad it’s still being worked on

good old school game!

remember when you bought a game and that was it? well here it is. it’s really hard to find a game today that isn’t full of seizure inducing graphics and in app purchases. f all that. i want to buy a game & then (novel concept to follow) PLAY THE GAME. this does just that. i’ve been playing this for a decade plus. i put it down for a while to replay the total war games. when i came back i was delighted to find literally hundreds of add on games developed by fans all for free! i’m on my 3rd campaign & it’s been months. i can’t recommend this game enough. i wish more developers would go back to this old school model.
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Wesnoth is awesome

I appreciate Battle for Wesnoth supporting Apple macOS and iOS. The music is lovely. This game is very fun and gives me hope that people can set aside their differences and make life enjoyable for everyone. There are commercial games that wish they had the quality of Wesnoth. Zero cost is great and free open source is also. A colossal amount of work went into this video game and it shows. Thanks very much!
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Amazing game for ages.

wesnoth has had many years of development on almost all major operating systems. It offers many campaigns and alot of replay ability. it is such a gem to have available.

Amazing

You guys rock

Great Game!

This game has challenging campaigns, that will have you playing for a while! Or, if you get bored of the classic game, you can download new campaigns made by players very easily!

Amazing Game

A very well done game that brings me back to the classics. Great story and depth!

Fun to play again

I’ve played this on a laptop and the iPad, challenged myself to the hardest levels and won, a super satisfying achievement. It’s like chess and requires lots of strategy. Playing it it again years later it still holds up.

genuinely great game

played this a lot with my older brother as a kid and its nice i can still play it. only issue is the controls and how the game will randomly break sometimes. but everything else is really good. juet finished playing through yhe first two compaigns and i love the specific ways you have to train troops for later missions but st the same time you’re always sacrificing the majority of your troops to bring down your opponent, 4/5 would recommend but it is a little janky sometimes
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Excellent turn based strategy game

Its perfect