Antiyoy

Antiyoy

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Developer Yiotro Publisher Yiotro Published 2015-11-20 Platforms Android Genres Casual, Strategy, Turn-based strategy Themes War Multiplayer Alternating versus Distribution Freeware

Antiyoy is a turn-based strategy game of Medieval conquest developed and published by Yiotro for Android on 2015-11-20. You try to conquer all of the land in a randomly generated hex grid by building offensive units to invade and defensive units to protect.

Personal

Own?	No. The game was never sold.
Won?	Yes. I've beaten the 70-level campaign mode.
Finished	2017‎-01-27.

I found this game on the Google Play Store while looking for a new free game for my tablet.

Review

3	4	3	1	3

Best Version: Android

— This section contains spoilers! —

Good

• The interface is pretty simple and easy to work with.
• The undo button helps you cope with poor touch screens.
• The units are easily understood and visually distinct.

Bad

• Even at its highest AI difficulty, the game never gets very hard.
• The graphics are pretty bland, and there is no music.
• There isn't very much variety in the units, just a linear progression.
• The undo goes back too far, allowing you to fix mistakes you made dozens of moves ago.
• I found towers to be overpriced and was able to beat all 70 levels of the campaign without ever building one. In fact, when I tried using them, I found that the AI would often skirt the rules and bypass them.
• I don't like that you can't walk through your own farms or towns. I get that it was done to add to the game's strategy, but it doesn't make any thematic sense.
• Because the knight cannot be defeated other than through starvation, it's possible to create a stalemate by blocking off a narrow pass and then never moving. In fact, it seems like the AI had to be programmed never to remain stagnant to avoid this because it often surrenders beneficial tiles.
• The campaign mode is less of a campaign, and more of a series of randomly generated maps with an increasingly difficult AI without a story or theme. Also, the maps fail to take advantage of the game's mechanics. In my final campaign map, I began with two villages at the end of a long curving landmass, which I easily won. Had it started me in the middle of a circular landmass, surrounded by enemies, it would have been much harder.
• The bounciness of the zoom is annoying. If you zoom to the max, it should just remain at the max.
• It's unusual (and not thematic) for trees to be a liability rather than an asset.

Ugly

• Nothing.

Media

Screenshots

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  A procedurally generated Antiyoy map.

Representation

Strong female character?	Fail	There are no women.
Bechdel test?	Fail	There are no women.
Strong person of color character?	Fail	Everyone is white.
Queer character?	Fail	There are no queer characters.

Links

 

• play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=yio.tro.antiyoy.android - Google Play Store.
• github.com/yiotro/Antiyoy - Source code.