Forests, Fields and Fortresses
Forests, Fields and Fortresses is a mix of a puzzle and a board game in which you have to build your kingdom. Try on the role of a ruler, piece together your lands and ensure the prosperity of your people. Two game modes will be available to you, each with its own unique gameplay:
Puzzle Mode. Manually created levels with a small number of pieces of territory. Your goal is to place them in such a way as to earn the required amount of Gold.
Adventure Mode. Start the game with a randomly created field and an endless supply of pieces of territory. Earn enough Gold before the playing field is full to successfully complete the game season and move on to the next one. Unlock new Spells, Game Events and Starting Locality Types to diversify your playthroughs.
Steam User 1
Cute little puzzle game with pretty pixel art and levels that actually challenged me (spent like 30-40 mins on some of them only to find out that the solution was much easier than I thought lol)
Same one default medieval background song you've heard 100 times before already.
But everything else is worth the money!
Took me 5 hours to 100%
Steam User 3
I got this one in a bundle for cheap, and for that, it was quite nice. In puzzle mode, there are 50 levels, and every few ones a new mechanic gets introduced in an easy one which then gets gradually harder, so quite a few of those 50 levels are easy. I spent around two evenings on it, which is fine for the price I paid for it.
The other mode is adventure mode, in which you get randomly generated tiles and try to achieve the needed amount of coins with them so you can progress into the next level and gradually unlock a few more things.
If I am honest, I wouldn't buy it for full price, as I can't see myself play adventure mode much past getting the achievements for which you don't need much time. It's fun for a bit, but too random and not rewarding enough to enjoy it long term.
It's nice for around 2-4 hours I would say, depending on the interest in adventure mode, so adjust your price expectations accordingly. And btw, the game played perfectly out of the box on the deck. Steam's complaints about "native resolution" are a joke with pixel art games.
Steam User 0
Cool little tile-placing puzzle/strategy builder game which feels a bit like Carcassonne: different but some experience on that one certainly helps here as well.
There are some manually crafted puzzle levels, many of which serve as tutorial and even the more complicated ones are still quite straightforward: I for one would certainly welcome even more content on this mode.
And then there is the adventure mode where you get a random selection of tiles and try to get enough points to advance to the next level, which is the main content, and fun it is.
The main complaint is that while it delivers on the size and the price it has, I see potential for more and want it.
Steam User 0
This is a really fun puzzle game. Time played is how long it took me to beat the 60 regular puzzles, haven't touched the adventure mode yet but the core mechanics are super cool so I'm looking forward to it
Steam User 0
Clever games curator review: 5/10. A perfectly competent single-player mashup of Carcassonne and viewed from above Tetris: You place shapes on the board according to rules like "every contiguous forest tile scores one point if there's at least one mushroom in the forest." It's a puzzle game, not a board game, however, because each level has a fixed non-random set of tiles and a target point count which usually can only be reached by a single arrangement of pieces.
While there's no single aspect of the game that merits significant criticism, the package as a whole is just lacking any real touch of brilliance, cleverness, or novelty. After about an hour I was getting bored (not bored!) and further play didn't reveal anything that motivated me to keep at it. I can imagine some people would enjoy it more than I, however, and on sale it's a decent choice.
While the UI reacts fine to touchscreen taps, gameplay requires being able to hover your cursor without clicking so a mouse or laptop touchpad is required to play (it plays equally well with either).
Steam User 0
I was pleasantly surprised by this one!
This game has such cool puzzle mechanics, it takes so much time and effort to propperly introduce new buildings and options,you can look at the rules at every time if you forget and all levels are absolutely solvable on your own.
There is also an endless mode where you can try to collect as many points as possible.
I had an absolute blast playing "Forests, Fields and Fortresses" and can 100% recommend it!
Steam User 0
Interesting! It's a known genre, but to be honest, this might be my first one. I got it for dirt cheap. No complaints here, it does what it says on the tin.