PBBG Review

Conquer Club is a free online variation of the boardgame Risk designed for the casual gamer, while also offering features and upgrades for those power gamers too. After users create a game with the desired settings and map, every player has at most 24 hours to take their turn when it is theirs. This means you only need to play once a day, but games may progress quicker if players take their turns more often. This allows those users who can’t spend the hours playing a continuous boardgame enjoy the strategy and thrill of the tabletop boardgame on their own time. And for those power gamers, Conquer Club offers the option to upgrade their membership to 1 year of Premium, which allows for an unlimited number of active games, private-password protected games, and speed games where turns are taken every 5 minutes, mimicking closely the tabletop boardgame.

During every game, there are three phases to your turn: the Deployment of Troops, based on the number of owned regions, plus additional troops for holding a bonus zones like Australia on the Classic map. Next is the Assault phase, where you determine where you’d like to assault and weaken your opponents, gathering a spoil-card in the process for successfully conquering an enemy region. Lastly is the Reinforcement phase, where you fortify your borders and can plan ahead for future assaults. At the end of every game, points are awarded to the winners, and as you accumulate points you increase your rank and position on the scoreboard.

Conquer Club hosts a diverse selection of 160+ maps to play on, but it also has the Classic map that everyone grew up loving and playing on. With multiple game settings, users may select from a degree of varied settings such as Automatic Initial Troops, where regions are randomly divided evenly at the game start, or users may instead select Manual setting and take turns placing their Initial Troops on the gameboard. Adding to the traditional tabletop game are settings like Fog of War, which mask opponent troop counts on non-adjacent regions to yours, creating an atmosphere of deception and uneasiness, and Freestyle, where multiple players may take their turn simultaneously, creating a fast-pace game of quick reaction. With game settings for team games like Doubles, Triples, or Quads, you and your friends can play together, or you can choose to be a one man army by playing on your own with other settings. Moreover, but certainly not to be overlooked, Conquer Club has a vibrant and active community. Conquer Club has multiple forum boards, a Tournament section where there are hundreds of user-run Tournaments every month, plus hundreds games of user-created games waiting to be joined every day—all while offering a competitive scoreboard that allows users to keep track of their rank and points won so they know how they size up to competition in the community!

http://www.conquerclub.com/

Submitted to PBBG-review.com by Andy Dufresne, Conquer Club Community Manager

Set in a fantasy realm, castle and monsters and heroics and all that…

Immediatly on playing I started to get annoyed by the pop ups, you succeeded at this, you gained this do you want to share, you levelled do you want to share. So not sure I will revisit it very often, its a shame because it looks pretty nice.

A while ago I did a day by day play of a game called spymaster. When you try and use that link now it takes you to this new game I am going to show today. Its called shadelight, and plays in a very similar way to spymaster, apart from it has a few more elements, still nothing jumping out at me yet, but its early days so far.

The game could be heading in the right direction compared to other games i’ve seen linked to facebook. Its not a facebook game direct, you login through facebook but it runs in its own place. It has a few elements of traditional PBBG’s but they haven’t done much with them so far, I wait to see what will happen with this.

http://playshadelight.com

I got an invite to this one, so I did the usual facebook allow thing. From the start you realise its sense of humour is worn totally on its sleeve. It wants you to press a button at the start to allow it to gain permission to do the traditional spam your friends feed with your achievements in the game.

You hire employee’s and can enter them into fights.

 

You gain experience and cash for winning the fight

I managed to level straight away from winning that fight, so I assume it won’t take long to get levels in this game

You see all the latest new in a box at the bottom

Will play along a bit more and post again in a few days. Must say the music they added in the background is annoying Like all facebook games, its seems a very quick fix game, with very little real reason to play, but I will play a little more to be sure.

http://apps.facebook.com/attheoffice

Played this game before, I don’t remember it having the lite tag before. To be honest I’ve never understood the appeal of these games. Ok, I get you grow stuff, I get you make stuff out of that stuff, but what are you doing it for or other than levelling over and over and growing more stuff. Or is that it, thats what it is.

I’ll post more stuff as I play, for now, I must plant some clover, my cow need to be fed.

http://apps.facebook.com/countrylife_lite/