Recent reviews by Arcee

Short and sweet, very nice style and humour.

Ogre is a fine implementation of the board game, including some content from the GEV standalone expansion. There are no GEV scenarios included (update 12/04 - there are some now) but there is an editor and there will probably be some popping up on Steam Workshop soon. All of the scenarios from the original OGRE game are in. There is also a campaign mode "Nightfall" which I haven't yet tried. There is a tutorial, it seemed solid but as I am not new to the game I can't say for sure. It did teach the interface well enough!

Ogre needs some UI polish and AI improvements (especially when playing the defense). For example, it shouldn't set up in a way that lets me launch 6 missiles at its GEVs on turn 1. The AI did play its endgame perfectly (1 missile tank vs my 2 move weaponless OGRE, stayed out of ramming range while shooting every turn, I even tried pinning it against the map edge but it avoided that). The interface is a bit click-heavy, if more keyboard shortcuts are added that would be fine. Additionally, popups can obscure other information.

So far the dev seems responsive so I expect the interface and bugs to improve, but it's only been a day. I would recommend the game to OGRE fans but not necessarily everybody at this point.

Update: Some GEV scenarios are added, the AI remains pretty laughable particularly when it comes to moving GEVs or being aggressive under a timer such as Breakthrough (and I am not an expert! - I am playing these scenarios for the first time here). Still hopeful - adding stack movement was a great addition so I'm still on the devs' side :)

A lot of cool concepts, but the game really bogs down with the pile-of-stats mech-optimization puzzles. There's a neat game buried in here and it might be best played by tuning the difficulty such that you can ignore that part. Still, worth the price of admission for the opening theme alone.