Farabel

Farabel is a basic hex grid turn based combat strategy game. It has an interesting progression system for the campaign. You play it backwards, fighting the final battle first then working your way back to the first enemy encounter. The only unit to gain XP is the king, who gets a stat boost with every level. Backwards. As in, each time you win a battle you lose a level and must choose a stat to lower. This does...

17 found this helpful, 2018-10-21

Farabel is a charming and addictive little turn-based strategy game. The central premise of "turning back time", while interesting to the plot, does not really change the feeling of working through progressively difficult levels. Everything is balanced to provide a good upward hardness curve. However, unlike something like Memento - where gradually seeing the past makes earlier story make sense - I couldn't shake the...

19 found this helpful, 2017-03-03

https://youtu.be/NydifRGPt18 The de-leveling mechanic is a creative way to allow players to slowly ramp up the difficulty to their liking. Unfortunately, the basic strategy combat struggles to be engaging enough.

8 found this helpful, 2019-10-31

the tactics bit is actually pretty fun... but i wish i could decide anything. The best option is usually pretty obvious (particularly in the "strategy" portion) and the time travel gets boring fast. But that didn't make me quit. You cant save in level and i got a gamebreaking bug with an invisible and invulnerable ballista that shredded my team. Since you cant just reload, this game isn't fun enough to replay a...

5 found this helpful, 2020-07-19

I love turn based tactical games, and I'm especially fond of hex-based games in this genre. I didn't mind the UI and liked the graphics well enough. That said, the whole going backwards in time gimmick is annoying and I wasn't compelled to keep playing after the first few levels (which appear to be completely scripted, so forget any replayability).

5 found this helpful, 2019-04-27

Quite a fun indie turn based strategy game with a great sense of humour. A lot of replay value if you're the type of person (I am) who has to complete every mission without the loss of any units. High priestess is sassy!

12 found this helpful, 2016-10-17

I'd say don't bother. The one thing that obviously stands out (playing backwards in time, starting fully skilled and becoming less and less powerful as the campaign goes on) loses its charm relatively quickly, followed by the rough realisation that the gameplay offers no actual strategy/tactics and takes away any choice. And you know, for a gaming experience that only offers a single playstyle, I would pick a heavily...

2 found this helpful, 2022-06-01