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
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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 |
|
6 |
| Call of Cthulhu – The Card Game: The LCG Core Pack |
Living Card Game; Customizable duelling game | Fantasy / Lovecraft / Cthulhu Mythos |
|
7 |
| Conquest of the Empire (Classic variant) | Area Movement / Miniatures | Historical / Ancients / Roman Civil War |
|
8 |
| Down in Flames: Aces High (DVG) /w comparison to Down in Flames (GMT) |
Card based | Historical / World War II / ETO & PTO / Air combat |
|
5/8 |
| Empire of the Sun |
Hex and Counter Consim / card-driven | Historical / World War II / PTO |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
8.5 |
| Horus Heresy | Strategy Board Game / Miniatures | Warhammer 40k universe / Horus Heresy / Battle for Terra |
|
8 |
| Julius Caesar: Caesar, Pompey, and the Roman Civil War 49-45 BC | Block game / Area Movement | Historical / Ancients / Roman Civil War |
|
9 |
| Lightning: D-Day! | Card based | Historical / World War II / Normandy ’44 |
|
7.5 |
| Marvel Heroes | Strategy Board Game / Miniatures | Alternative Reality / Marvel Universe |
|
8/ 6 |
| Phantom Leader Deluxe Edition: The Vietnam Air War Solitaire Strategy Game |
Card driven with counters / Solitaire or cooperative | Historical / Vietnam War |
|
9 |
| Richard III | Block game / Area Movement | Historical / Wars of the Roses |
|
8.5 |
| Rise of the Zombies | Card game / Cooperative and competitive | Zombie Apocalypse / Surviving |
|
8.5 |
| Sentinels of the Multiverse | Card game / Cooperative | Super heroes vs. super villains |
|
8.5 |
| Space Hulk: Death Angel – The Card Game |
Card based / cooperative | Warhammer 40k universe / Space Marines vs. Genestealers |
|
8.5 |
| Thunderbolt / Apache Leader (GMT) |
Card driven with counters / Solitaire or cooperative | Historical and Hypothetical / Contemporary / Cold War / Iraq, Russia, Libya, Germany… |
|
9 |
| Totaler Krieg | Hex and Counter Consim / card-driven | Historical / World War II / ETO |
|
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 |
|
1.75 |
D
B
C
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