Reviews

HFC Game Reviews

On this page you can find an overview over our extensive, in-depth HFC Game Reviews!

If you want your game to be reviewed by us, don’t hesitate to drop us a line! We play all games extensively and take our time to really learn your game, test it out, play it with friends and teach it to other gamers in order to get a well-rounded impression. But be aware that our reviews are honest, subjective, and always based on our personal game experience with the game – not what the internet, other gamers, the designer, forums, or critics think about it!

When we are enthusiastic about a game, we really mean it and we are not ashamed to show it! When we don’t like a game, we will give you a detailed description in the review of the things we didn’t enjoy and why. None of our reviews are favors, and none are insubstantial bashings – we are simply honest gamers, writing from the gamer’s perspective for other gamers! We want our reviews to be reliable and helpful in your decisions which games to buy – and which to avoid.

HFC Test Lab

The following games are currently in the HFC Test Lab and under extensive playtesting and reviewing. Reviews about these games (and other surprise games, which are not in the list) will follow when a game leaves our Test Lab!

Currently in the HFC Test Lab	Genre / Topic	Rating
Combat Infantry (Columbia Games)	Block Game / WW2	TBA
Wild Blue Yonder (GMT)	Card Game / WW2	TBA
Sherman Leader (DVG)	Hex & Counter  Boardgame/ WW2	TBA
Sentinels of the Multiverse: Rook City / Infernal Relics (Greater Than Games)	Deck-based Card Game/ Superhero Theme	TBA
Strategic Command WW2: War in Europe (Slitherine/ Matrix Games)	PC Turn Based Consim/ WW2	TBA

 

Our Reviews

HFC Review Reset 2010…please read!

Our ratings represent our subjective impression of a single game and how much fun we have with a given game.

We don’t mean to compare games of different genres and complexity levels, so a rating of 9 in Totaler Krieg doesn’t mean that the game is better than Marvel Heroes with a rating of 8. You could use the rating to compare very similar games, but handle with care!

Game	Game Type	Era / Topic	Complexity	Rating (1-10)
Battle for Stalingrad (DVG)	Card Game	Historical / World War II / East Front / Battle for Stalingrad	E	9
Blocks in the East (VentoNuovo Games)	Block Game	Historical / World War II / Russian Campaign	D	6
Call of Cthulhu – The Card Game: The LCG Core Pack	Living Card Game; Customizable duelling game	Fantasy / Lovecraft / Cthulhu Mythos	D	7
Conquest of the Empire (Classic variant)	Area Movement / Miniatures	Historical / Ancients / Roman Civil War	E	8
Down in Flames: Aces High (DVG) /w comparison to Down in Flames (GMT)	Card based	Historical / World War II / ETO & PTO /  Air combat	D	5/8
Empire of the Sun	Hex and Counter Consim / card-driven	Historical / World War II / PTO	B	8
Homefront	First-person shooter (XBox 360)	Hypothetical / near future	N/A	4/6
Hornet Leader – Carrier Air Operations	Card driven with counters / Solitaire or cooperative	Historical and Hypothetical / Contemporary / Iraq, North Korea, Libya…/Air-to-Air and Air-to-Ground warfare	D	9
Hornet Leader – The Cthulhu Conflict	Card driven with counters / Solitaire or cooperative	Lovecraft /Cthulhu Myth / Contemporary / Air-to-Air and Air-to-Ground warfare	D	8.5
Horus Heresy	Strategy Board Game / Miniatures	Warhammer 40k universe / Horus Heresy / Battle for Terra	E	8
Julius Caesar: Caesar, Pompey, and the Roman Civil War 49-45 BC	Block game / Area Movement	Historical / Ancients / Roman Civil War	E	9
Lightning: D-Day!	Card based	Historical / World War II / Normandy ’44	E	7.5
Marvel Heroes	Strategy Board Game / Miniatures	Alternative Reality / Marvel Universe	E	8/ 6
Phantom Leader Deluxe Edition: The Vietnam Air War Solitaire Strategy Game	Card driven with counters / Solitaire or cooperative	Historical / Vietnam War	D	9
Richard III	Block game / Area Movement	Historical / Wars of the Roses	E	8.5
Rise of the Zombies	Card game / Cooperative and competitive	Zombie Apocalypse / Surviving	E	8.5
Sentinels of the Multiverse	Card game / Cooperative	Super heroes vs. super villains	E	8.5
Space Hulk: Death Angel – The Card Game	Card based / cooperative	Warhammer 40k universe / Space Marines vs. Genestealers	E	8.5
Thunderbolt / Apache Leader (GMT)	Card driven with counters / Solitaire or cooperative	Historical and Hypothetical / Contemporary / Cold War / Iraq, Russia, Libya, Germany…	C	9
Totaler Krieg	Hex and Counter Consim / card-driven	Historical / World War II / ETO	B	9
Toy Soldiers	Tower Defense / Strategy (Xbox 360)	Historical / World War I	N/A	9
World at War	Area Movement / Miniatures / A&A Add-On	Historical / World War II	E	1.75