Today I checked out Unstoppable Gorg, yet another tower defense game (there was a bit of a wave of them a while back), but the twist of this one is that you place satellites into orbit instead of on fixed ground spots, and you can rotate the orbits around as the enemy waves attack, to defend particular spots on the fly.  Interesting, but not interesting enough to stick with I think, and it was actually fairly difficult.  I kept getting my ass kicked on Medium, and it almost feels like you have to ‘cheat’ by winning on easy to get research tokens to upgrade your satellites first.  It has a nice retro-50s flying saucer B-movie style to it, though.

Today’s game was Sengoku, one of Paradox’s grand strategy games but set solely in Japan in the warring states period.  I don’t really know much about that era though, so the constant shifting of territory between names I couldn’t recognize didn’t really mean anything to me. I thought I had a relatively good, peaceful development period going when my neighbour suddenly attacked and overwhelmed me, despite having good relations with them.  Not a bad game, but for my grand strategy fix I’ll go to Crusader Kings 2 instead, so it’s not a keeper.

I checked out Gratuitous Tank Battles as my game for today, and it’s fairly standard tower defense with a few twists, like being able to design your own units, choose both the attacking and defending sides, and manually designate targets.  It’s hard to judge just how well I was actually doing though, especially since you don’t get much warning about what kinds of units are coming, so it feels like I just have to slap down a variety of defenses and hope that’s sufficient.  Not a keeper, though I think the previous game, Gratuitous Space Battles, might fit my tastes better.