Mythic Mischief

This game/puzzle ruleset is amazing and the app polish is off the charts! They're adding an AI but in the meantime you can learn each faction really well with the "Triple Catch" puzzles. I recommend sticking to one faction until you've mastered all the puzzles. One you realize that pieces frequently can (and need to) move on top of each other, and that many of the abilities work diagonally, things should really click. Puzzles that took me a day and blew my mind now take a few minutes, so stick with it. What an amazing find this is!!!

I acknowledge that it is a provocative title for my review. However, for those of you who enjoy chess for its tactical nature, I believe Mythic Mischief is clearly superior in that regard. Of course, Chess will always be better strategically. That said, I simply don’t have the time to study all the chess moves and counter-moves, etc. MM gives me the same sensation as chess without the need to go deep in studying varying strategies. I can just look at the MM board for 20 min, come up with something clever and unexpected, and move on. It has all the sparks of chess and more since every faction is wonderfully asymmetrical. This game is a delight and its developer has been consistently improving it. I highly recommend it.

Let me start by saying the physical game is one of my favorite 2-player games. Period. But everything that is slick and frenetic about that game falls flat here. Analysis paralysis reigns supreme. Turns take far too long. And the relatively small player base (including people who are beyond pros and only care about ELO-hopping) make this less fun. Combine that with needing to know about the behind the scenes development of the game to be “better” aka have more knowledge for a leg up make this game sad to me. As a long-time beta tester with many games under my belt, I basically don’t play this anymore. I wish it well, but think it needs significant improvements to be widely adopted. And despite making suggestions, there’s no appetite for it.