Flotilla Strategy Game Download

Flotilla Game Review by Pat J Smith
Game Rating = 5/5

Game Review Summary: Flotilla is fun and quirky, like a fast play version of Sid Meier’s Pirates, but in space.

Three Reasons to buy Flotilla

- Reason #1: Fun, easy to learn
- Reason # 2: Great value for ten Dollars
- Reason # 3: Re-playability

Three Reasons to avoid buying Flotilla

- Reason #1: Not so great graphics.
- Reason #2: “Careers” are short.
- Reason # 3: No story to follow

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Full Game Review:

Remember when strategy games were fun and compelling without requiring years of your life. Or worse, when they degenerate into annoying click-fests, when the player wins by merely being able to drag and drop faster than the AI. Flotilla by independent game developer, Blendo easily avoids both these pitfalls.

In Flotilla, you are the Captain of a small fleet of space ships. Starting with two missile destroyers, you seek adventures in space. Each planet explored brings opportunities for trade, growing the fleet, getting new personnel and other alien encounters or fighting for your life. The ‘story’ is advanced through a series of text boxed decision points where you must make a choice. It is in these snips of dialog that the games shows much of its odd charm as the player interacts with Panda bear pilots, aggressive space pirate chickens, bellicose rhino bounty hunters and other strange “aliens”. This way of advancing you through the game’s action reminded me a lot of the old “Choose Your Own Adventure” books from the 70s and 80s. In that each decision changes your fate in the game.

While the exploration and adventuring is fun, it is the combat mode that is the heart of the game. When you encounter a hostile force, the game mode changes into a 3-dimensional (3D) battle space. The combat is simultaneous-turned based, which means that you and your opponent make decisions while the play is paused, but the combat is resolved simultaneously.

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Ships armor is weakest on the bottom and rear. The fleet commanders maneuver their ships to achieve bottom or rear shots on the enemy ships to inflict real damage. The combat continues until one side or the other is totally destroyed. The combat is easy to learn, but hard to master, as you must learn the capabilities of your own ships as well as the enemies. Each class of ship has its own individual strengths and weaknesses. Further, the AI is no pushover and you can lose rapidly if you don’t fight well.

Each time the game is replayed the game’s universe is randomized, which means no two “careers” are ever the same, giving Flotilla lots of re-playability.

So, if you like PC strategy games that are fun and interesting; Flotilla is a beautiful gem of a game, you should not missed.