A deceptively deep real-time strategy game where you defend your islands from incoming invaders.

Despite wishing we had access to more classes, such as the enemy horde does, the game still kept me engaged long enough that I played it twice to the end.

The Campaign set to Hard was a wonderful challenge, to the point where I had to retry some islands upwards of what felt like 20-30 times, just to keep all of my commanders alive for the hardest achievement.

The abilities are sweet but highly situational, so it's essential to master positioning and timing of your attacks to get the most out of them. After a while you just intuitively know when to throw that bomb or where to place that mine to devastating effect, and it's an amazing feeling when you land a perfect hit on a large group of enemies.

The visuals are minimalist but lovely, with high readability which helps keeping track of everything as fast as possible. The audio is crunchy with a suitable yet short soundtrack accompanying it. It's also one of those games where you can turn off the in-game music, and play one of your favorite albums to change things up a little, which helps get rid of the repetitive nature of the game.

For its content, it's certainly worth full price, but if you can get it at a discount this title is an absolute steal.

Highly recommended.