Obscure

Axes and Acres

85% positive of 106 Steam reviews

Released: 2016
Steam Deck: Playable
Platforms: Steam

Made by BrainGoodGames.

About the game

Axes and Acres is a deep and engaging single-player strategy game designed to create exciting decisions every turn. The rules are easy to learn, but every turn can be played out in many different ways in order to farm, build and survive.

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Turn-Based
Procedural Generation
Strategy
Turn-Based Strategy
Board Game

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Axes and Acres

85% positive of 106 Steam reviews

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Released: 2016
Steam Deck: Playable
Platforms: Steam

Made by BrainGoodGames.

About the game

Tagged by players

Turn-Based
Procedural Generation
Strategy
Turn-Based Strategy
Board Game

What players say

Recommended
Absolutely fantastic game if you are a fan of building games (Civ etc.) and the elegance of chess. You build a little town, making your build choices differently based on variations in the layout of the terrain and the victory point conditions that vary in each play-through. It is consistent enough to appeal to (former) chess player in me, but random enough to be exciting and new each time. Random cards and "dice"…
161 h played when written. 62 found it helpful.
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Recommended
Right now, Axes and Acres is half off for the Winter Sale, and I think that $4.99 is a fair price for what this is: a digital version of a typical European board-game. It's not an American board-game, so it plays more like "Settlers of Catan" than "Candyland." That means it's complicated at first, though it's very easy to learn if you watch TomChick's video of him playing it. For what it is, it had the potential to…
23 h played when written. 14 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
I wanted to like this game. I really did. But there are some major fundamental problems with how it's played that make it not fun for me. 1. There's supposedly an "undo" with right-click, but more than half the types of actions, primarily the ones where you realllllllly want an undo if you do one by accident, the undo simply doesn't work at all. The game is open-knowledge. Nothing is random except between phases.…
3.3 h played when written. 3 found it helpful.
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