Super Tribes

Hello. Today I'm writing about a very good iOS game. Here it goes.

I recently got an iOS game called Super Tribes. It's recently released and independently developed, and still very impressive. The game is also free and only has one in-app purchase, which is the ability to play as the 5th tribe, the other 4 come with the game. Super Tribes is a turn based strategy game where you play as 1 of 5 tribes. The tribes are Vikings, Ninjas, Samurai, Romans, and a tribe that looks like Native Americans. The game is laid out over a large square, flat world made out of 256 square tiles.

Every time you start a game the world is completely new so the game has infinite replay value. You start off as one tribesman with one very small village and a very small portion of the world visible to you. The goal is to expand your tribe and advance its civilization as much as possible in 30 turns. On the world you can set it to have at least 1 enemy tribe, to as much as 3 enemy tribes. You can battle the enemy tribe and defeat their units, capture their cities, and destroy their trade routes. The basis of the game is city expansion. Every turn a city creates a certain amount of resources, which is what you need in order to do anything in the game except move your units. The bigger the city and the more population it has, the more resources you'll gain each turn. There are many ways to increase your cities' population. You do this by gathering resources near the city, or by building buildings near the city. You can gather fruit, hunt animals, fish, mine, and farm. You can build lumber houses, sawmills, ports, smitheries, windmills, and more. When your cities population exceeds the number of white bars it has below it, it levels up and gets bigger and starts generating more resources for you. You can gain new cities by discovering small villages. These villages don't belong to the enemy tribe and you can capture them and they'll happily join your empire and become one of your cities. You can also get a new city by moving one of your units onto an enemy tribes city, unless they kill that unit on their turn, the next turn you can capture it for your own.

Almost everything you do in the game raises your score, and you win if at the end of 30 turns your score is higher than the enemy tribes'. You can also connect your cities together using roads, and for each city connected to your capital (your starting city) the capitals population goes up 1 and you score points. You can connect cities to your capital across water by building ports, which will automatically create trade routes connecting them. Everything you can do in the game by buying that science. You start out with one way to raise the population of your city, but all the other ways and all the other things you can do, such as sail or climb mountains or farm, has to be bought using resources. The more cities you have the more expensive the sciences get. At the end of the game your score is totaled from your sciences, army and conquests, cities and other categories.

Super Tribes is an amazing, free iOS game and if you're a fan of turn based strategy, I highly recommend it. I also recommend buying the 99 cent in app purchase to help the developer. Bye.


- By Ashton