Spaceland in Apple Arcade

It’s okay

The game is fun enough to hold my attention for a few hours. The concept is good but the execution seems to be a bit lacking. I have a few complaints. This is a turn-based strategy game, but you don’t know your chances of hitting your target. It’s very easy to accidentally move your character to a wrong spot, especially if you want another character to move first. What happens is that you want to move X character out of the way for Y to go through. Y is currently selected, so you tap on character X. Then Y just walks to a square adjacent to X instead because your tap was slightly off. You can get around this by selecting who to control by tapping on their portrait on the upper left but this is less intuitive. The story is pretty simple. At least so far. You’re on another planet uncovering the mystery of what happened to a human base that is now ravaged by fairly unintelligent aliens. Interesting enough for a strategy game. I have only played about 4 hours of this game. I have the entire crew now. All the characters are pretty one dimensional, but maybe they get more interesting? I may update this as I play through the game. Maybe I’ll feel a little differently about it in the future. But for now, it’s a good time sink for when you’re bored. The gameplay has just enough depth to encourage you to think through your decisions while at the same time not demanding a lot of your attention. It’s a good game to have on the go.