![]() ![]() ![]() (They last for two minutes instead of one.) Of the three games, the original Galcon (£1.49, iPhone) remains our favourite but if you tire of it, Galcon Labs (£1.49, iPhone) adds some new twists on the basic formula, while Galcon Fusion (£1.49, iPad) more or less combines the two iPhone games but gives you relative acres of space for longer battles. Your aim is therefore to balance conquest with defence, ensuring you don't isolate important parts of your galactic empire. In Galcon, territories are planets, and the bigger the planet, the faster it can build new resources. The trio of Galcon games by Phil Hassey is rather more intuitive, with its simple prod-based gameplay Galcon takes Risk into space, sets it in real-time and then, to add to your woes,massively speeds everything up - it's not uncommon for an entire conflict to be over within minutes. ![]() Slay's core gameplay is pretty deep, but we found this the most inaccessible of the games on test and were regularly frustrated by the difficulty in keeping track of territory finances, which is pretty important since the game immediately kills all your troops if a territory goes bankrupt. As your territories expand, you can 'build' peasants to seize more land, or combine them into units that can attack enemy structures and troops. The mildly baffling Slay (£2.49, Universal) transports you to a medieval island composed of hexagons. The remaining titles we unearthed are rather more radical departures from the basic Risk formula, although we think they're all games that fans of the board game will enjoy. It's one of the most strategic of the Risk-type games on the system and is without doubt the one we recommend most highly. The game also scraps continents (reinforcements are solely based on your largest section of linked territories) and restricts the number of armies that can be stationed in any one place, thereby removing the ability to stockpile. We shudder to think about how many hours we've lost on online battles in Strategery's abstract worlds. The game's futuristic graphics are also a big change from a typical Risk board, though, the animations really slow the game down (you can turn them off).Ĭonquist 2 also differs from EA's game in offering an online mode, which is one area in which ones of our favourites, Strategery, also excels. World Domination works much like the original Risk, but Secret Mission gives you a set task for victory (such as eliminating a specific opponent - rather like Super Mission Risk in the board-game version).Ĭolonization has you holding your capital and control the others to win, while Castle apes Colonization but cedes your entire territory to any player that conquers your castle. The net effect of these changes is a hugely enjoyable and fresh take on Risk, albeit one that we found extremely tough, not least because the AI tends tohave a savage all-or-nothing approach.Ĭonquist 2 (£1.99, Universal) and Strategery (£1.49, Universal) also mess with the traditional Risk formula in fairly subtle ways that result in unique but recognisable board-game experiences.Ĭonquist 2 does this through four game modes. ![]() The game also throws optional command centres into the mix (lose that territory and your entire civilisation is wiped from the map). You can knock out enemy armies using air strikes and atomic weapons it's possible to assassinate a territory's general to scupper the opponent's next go and you can improve defences through resistance movements and 'treacherous' alliances. Rather than the cards you play merely bringing in reinforcements, their effects are far more varied. (There's also the free, Universal, Lux Touch, perfect for skinflints hankering for Risk action - it's pretty basic and not a patch on EA's official game, but it does the job.)Īnd then there's Blood & Honor (£1.49, Universal), which makes small tweaks to the rules that, perhaps surprisingly, dramatically change how you approach the game. You get five with the game itself, but dozens more are available for download, mixing ancient, modern and fantasy worlds. Lux DLX 2 (£2.99, Universal) is essentially 'Risk with new maps'. In many cases, these come across like 'Risk plus', and that's fine by us, given that the EAgame doesn't expand on the original concept. Because Risk has a fairly simple rule-set, it's one of those games - like Scrabble - that enterprising developers have used as the foundation for their own creations. ![]()
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