QwirkleTabletop Tuesdays: Accessible Dominoes-Like Strategy | Submitted by rbr on Mon, 08/13/2007 - 14:50. |
Qwirkle is a remarkable little game: it's a light and simple tile-laying game for two to four players that anyone can learn in minutes, a game that has something of the feel of Scrabble without words. It's the kind of enjoyable and not-apparently-deep game that parents can play it with kids, and grandparents with grandkids. But when dedicated gamers play it head to head, the knives come out.
...And quarters, rather than dollars, it would be; Gamma Bros feels very much like a game you'd encounter on an arcade machine in, say, 1985, probably one with two joysticks, like Robotron (actually, you use the arrow keys to move and WASD to shoot in the four cardinal directions). It's a space shoot-'em-up (shmup), but unlike the frenetic madness of most shmups, it has a laid-back, almost relaxing feel.
A fun little game--and a finalist at the 2007 Independent Games Festival.
