Biberkopf
Hehe. Flat.
Jupp, genau wie bei mir. Nutzung 99,99% auf Mobile und da via Apollo-App. Ich kenne Reddit gar nicht mehr anders. Und Reddits eigene App ist wirklich furchtbar. Extrem viel Werbung, die auch nicht wirklich leicht von unbezahltem Content zu unterscheiden ist. Features, die ich nicht will und nicht brauche, wie Chat, Avatare und ein TikTok-Verschnitt. Ich bin gespannt, wie das wird ohne Apollo. Einerseits weiss ich gar nicht mehr, was ich im Internet VOR Reddit eigentlich so gemacht habe. Andererseits ist die App tatsächlich so schlimm, das ich sie nicht benutzen will. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Disclaimer: Never played Star Realms, but I assume it is very similar to Hero Realms.
And no, it’s not similar at all. There is a lot of stuff added on top in Undaunted that makes it not a deck builder in the primary sense. You move your troops around on the battlefield; positioning, cover and distance are as impactful as the stats on the troops cards. Also there are only a handful of different card types - scout, gunner, machine gunner, sniper and mortar. All cards of a type are technically identical.
You could think of the deck as both your “health bar” and your available options per round.
Each troop token on the battlefield is represented by several cards in your deck (the soldiers that compose that troop). If your enemy hits, you discard one of those cards from the unit they hit. If you can’t do that any longer, you remove the token from the battlefield.
Also the cards dictate the options you can do per turn, such as move, fire, taking cover etc. That means if you don’t pull the “bravo scout” card, you can’t use the bravo scout token this round.
Summarizing: Undaunted is a great - snappy, easy, elegant, but also deep - “dudes on a map” game. But if you expect “only” a deck builder, you would have the wrong picture.
Ich bin bei eBay Kleinanzeigen ja immer skeptisch…
Ready or Not and Ground Branch are the obvious choices.
The Stalker: Anomaly mod pack is also quite hard, less so because of tactics and more so because of bullshit. But its free.
Wildcard: Ghost Recon: Wildlands. On default difficulty its a stupid popcorn shooter, but if you crank all the difficulty settings up (they call it „advanced mode“ IIRC) it becomes really fun. Most people like to shit on the typical Ubisoft formula in Breakpoint and Wildlands, but I enjoyed my time with both.
If you are not married to 1st person, Zero Sievert and Doorkickers are worth a look too.
And maybe also something like ARMA3?
I got burned with the Stardew Valley board game - it’s very cute, but also not a great game. And for my non-designer brain it’s way easier to translate Stardew into a boardgame than Terraria. I will definitely wait out some reviews and the BGG forums…