TABS is, in so many senses of the phrase, a no-brainer.TABS is a fun game with an interesting concept: The ability to place down soldiers and watch them fight, or even better, play as one of thoseTABS is a fun game with an interesting concept: The ability to place down soldiers and watch them fight, or even better, play as one of those soldiers yourself. There are plenty of video games that I’d call “dumb fun,” but few are this dumb or this fun. Despite my reservations, I can’t help but recommend it. On the other, it’s wicked fun, a series of slow-motion train wrecks you can’t look away from because you engineered them. Thus, we find ourselves at an impasse: On one hand, it’s hard not to wish TABS was in better shape-or at least a little less early-after the amount of time it’s spent in development. On a couple occasions, it just stopped letting me place units for no apparent reason, and I had to jump back to the main menu and reload the level I was on. However, other elements of the game are unintentionally busted. They fall off cliffs like different Looney Tunes characters. They slam face-first into each other like Looney Tunes characters. Units flail in circles and scream, something that never fails to make me laugh. TABS’ AI, in case you were wondering, is not very good, but I think that’s on purpose. Even I’m not sure what was going on there. Well, aside from that time Zeus wouldn’t stop throwing lighting at a pile of extremely fried corpses. The former makes for an amusing timewaster, but there are only so many different ways you can pit two Zeuses against a horde of 50 bone wizards before the (admittedly very funny) novelty wears off.ĭespite how ludicrous the battles tend to get, you can probably more or less guess what happened just by looking at those screens. Right now, there are two main modes: one in which you can spawn as many units as you want on a two-sided battlefield and let armies have at it, and another in which you play through a campaign of handcrafted levels.
The new version is, frankly, still kinda barebones, but it’s also fun as heck in a way so compulsively consistent that it borders on maniacal. The game - in which you pit massive armies of comically inept soldiers against one another in AI-powered battles - finally released into Steam early access today after making waves with a barebones alpha version back in 2016. They say that war is hell, but Totally Accurate Battle Simulator imagines it as a drunken ragdoll mosh pit filled with screaming Gumby men. It also requires that you accept a fundamental truth of the universe: Victory, no matter how hard-won, is rarely pretty. You might think that four gangly muppets pushing wheelbarrows have no place on the same battlefield as a battalion of catapults, but if there’s one thing I’ve learned from my time with Totally Accurate Battle Simulator, it’s that strategy requires an open mind.
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