NarcoGuerra Reviews

What is going on?

John14087

This game is confusing. Tutorial is confusing waste of two bucks. Could have bought a pack of gum.

It took me some time to get the hang of it but it ended up being a good challenge and enjoyable game. The game itself has presented some interesting topics about cartels and it's nice to have a game on the other side of crime...not playing the actual gangsters. Great artwork too...good design.

Could be good but no

Lyubarskiy

The game could be good, but the randomness of battles just get annoying. I lost 5 troops to 1 cartel. The added bonus for weapons doesn't do anything. 5+1 vs 5 means you loose if you are attacking. At this state the game is just frustrating

Great Idea, Meh Implementation

Versability

The idea of this game is great. To beat easy, just keep skipping turns till you have a lot of money & dominate. It needs some tweaks but still better than the freemium garbage I normally see on mobile platforms.

AI needs work

Deverind

Game balance is unrealistic. Have the devs played this game at higher levels? The only way to win is to hope that warring cartels kill each other long enough to ignore you but that outcome is random. Also, what exactly is the point of political campaigns or regional icons? They have no bearing on gameplay.

Just Because You Don't Win, Doesn't Mean it Was a Bad Game

Chuck42181

Take the strategy of Risk and combine it with an educational experience on the drug war. Putting yourself as head of the Mexican battle against drugs may be a bit far-fetched, but it is humbling. In a world where everyone not in office knows the political solution, this game is a humbling experience. Even if you do everything right and have a numbers advantage, you can still lose. To those commenting about the difficulty of the game, I believe that is part of the lesson! Real life is not as simple as the good guys beat the bad guys easily. The point is this—even if we are doing our best in fighting the drug war, there will always be corruptible authorities and money available. But that doesn’t mean it is not worth fighting, just that we will lose more battles than we would like. There is much more to this app than a simple game. It is an education in the ongoing battle that, like it or not, affects the world around us. Even if this does not become an all-time favorite for you, it is worth the buy for the realization that sometimes solutions are not as simple as we think them to be in our head.

No Point in Playing

Black Pyramid

This game does a good job showing the futility of the war on drugs by NEVER ALLOWING YOU TO WIN. I controlled half of Mexico and lost everything but 1 territory. The cartels could wipe me out but don't. Yeah, that's realistic. NOT FUN.

Interesting and fun

putermcgee

This game does a nice job of informing about the war on drugs in Mexico, and it seems like a lot of data is based off real-world information. It's a bit hard (I get destroyed on easy if I play aggressively), and it really suffers from not saving your progress after each turn. For those who think it can't be beat, play more passively. Don't attack the cartels all the time. Just keep them in check till the price of drugs goes down. Less money for the cartels means fewer recruits... which leads to easier-controlled regions.

Laughable

Kaiju15

It did not take me very long to find a strategy that makes this game trivially easy. Even on the hardest difficulty, if the player amasses a large number of troops in a territory with an attack bonus, they can steamroll their way to victory by attacking every adjacent territory. Taking a territory grants a monetary bonus which can be spent on another attack, so within a turn of occupying an attack territory, all of the surrounding territories can be easily captured. The game can be completed without any real challenge so what's the point?

Political game to show you can't fight drugs

Sophie26773389:

Point of this game is to show you that the war on drugs will never be won. Even when you are winning they suddenly receive dozens of troops and wipe you out. I had over half the map and they suddenly received 50 troops. Only way I "won" was to support the president that was legalizing drugs.