This game was very well thought out. The difficulty of the enemies throughout the game keeps you on your toes at all times. You constantly have to figure out what direction to move your armies, who to attack, and who to protect. I loved it. The only problem with it was it got a little repetetive, probably due to the small amount of troops to select from. Other than that, the game was great.

One star blank for only one con: missing multi-play.

Ok, I'm gotta say this maybe one of my best 3 indie games I purchased last year. Most ancient games focus timeline on Rome & Caesar or mediaeval europe, but Hegemony gives ancient strategy game the fresh blood. I hope I should know this game earlier.Firstly, Hegemony is a indie game,but its graphic still be nice even I zoomed +, have many details like siege,city wall,etc. The big map's style is awesome if you zoom out. And as a RTS game, not like starcrafts, dawn of war, players don't need to have a high apm, Hegemony has its own game mechanism, more need player's game skill,not speed. For me I played Hegemony and let me get interested in the pre-Alexander history too. So I recommand Hegemony to everyone who like ancient war games. You can't miss this gem.

This is a mix between classic resource management games (i.e Age of Empires) and tactic-battles games (i.e Total War saga) and if you expect a game deep in any of these areas you probably won't find it. Instead of that, what Hegemony offers is a well-balanced hybrid where you will have to manage big empires (dozens of city) by planning routes and resources and, at the same time, have some of the fun of regiment battles -flanking, morale, etc-. The campaigns are long and you always have something to do, but you may fall into too much micromanagement of things if you don't plan things -you may grow too fast for your army and farms to cover your cities-.

Overall, is a very good bang for the buck.

The game offers missions to unlock if completed videos about the history of that period. On the other hand is very dynamic.

Other attractive features are the enemies, for example, with the usual sorpenden you land attacks, ie, moving from city state to you, but so do by sea, landing at poorly defended points farms and burning you to miss supplies. And if you have to send units react.

Another curiosity is that the enemies defeated, can become the slaves, you'll need to work the mines or to build. The buildings are constructed at predetermined locations, not as an Age of Empires in which you can build wherever you want.

The units also gain experience points that you can distribute in different areas.

There are some buildings that give bonuses, such as certain temples etc.

All nations of the map are your enemies, the only politics is war.

Original and fun.

whoa! this game totally surprised me. there is a certain simplicity and elegance to the gameplay that got me hooked and kept me on my toes. its "real-timeness" makes the gameplay smoother amd immersive and keeps you thinking. and when it gets tough, PAUSE anytime and rethink yer strategy, zoom out and plan out yer empire. vastly different from the Total War series in that it seems more accessible, unintimidating, and more fun(?) maybe. i dunno, but this game is FUN! kudos to LONGBOW games! theyre total history nerds and i love it! although its easy to get into since there are pop up info windows everywhere you click thats a link - i only wish you could see more information about your empire laid out before you when you zoom out - and pop up info windows when you scroll over a city or province. because as soon as your empire expands, it could get really hectic! get this game and have fun!!!

This is a solid strategy game that in many ways feels just a tad too generic. The graphics are decent for a budget title, the game itself is a bit on the shorter side, and the music loops over and over again. Worth a play, but aside from the fact that I got this with 3 other games for a total of $3, I'd be hard pressed to recommend it on its own, especially with so many other great strategy games on the market.

A special little diamond on the strategic table.

This game has it differently from what RTS would be seen as.

Takes more in fact than just a resource and a supply limit.

Sending in supplies, managing their political favors, and more is what you can find to keep in tact, for having your forces to take down the enemy.

As i bought this with the indie bundle, i can say it is more than worth it. The 15 € it is on the game itself, is quite a fair price for this game.

This game definitely deserves a close look. It emphasizes true strategy, using means like supply lines, raids and sieges with the possibility to starve out whole cities. Multiple fronts and raids appear quite frequent, which makes the player struggle quite a bit, the pause function and the seamless zoom make up for that, though. The use of formations is also a great thing to experiment with. For example: Using an arcadian hoplite unit against a spartan one, normally results in the loss of the arcadian soldiers. This is because they have fewer manpower and moral. But, if you choose to let them take on the spartans using the half circle formation, they get to surround the spartans and thus gain a significant bonus which makes the mable to defeat the spartan unit. So the use of formation is rewarded, which is awesome! In conclusion I have to say, that this game really is "dumped" down to the point, which I love. It is also quite accurate concerning historical events, which is great!

Excellent accessible strategy game, neat graphics for the genre and a good AI. Lots of depth under a simple interface. What the strategic element of the Total War series should have been!

This is a brilliant indie game from Longbow Games. Unlike a lot of wargames this places a real emphasis on the campaign season and your ability to supply your forces. Fail to provide adequate food supplies and your units become brittle and liable to rout, foreign cities may also defect as a result too. On the flip side, if you get your own logitics sorted out, you can have fun manoevring against your enemies supply lines and burning their crops if their cities prove too strong to siege or assault. Logistics are well handled and appropriate. Land battles are fun, in some respects a bit like Total War, but with better strategic AI. The only downside to battles is that you can't put light troops in "skirmish" mode, which ups the micro management in a battle. That said it's a fun game, very subtle (if you are to win) and very thought provoking. IMHO, it's certainly one of the better "Ancient" wargames out there. Easily recommended.

This game is great! I've been hooked since I bought it and put almost all the free time I have in playing this. Music is good, graphics are good, strategy element is absolutly fantastic. Because you cant manage everything at the same time so you really have to choose what is your next step whil still look with the other eye on what happens to the rest of your realm. Setting up supply lines and moving armies is easy, but hard to master. AI is good, when fighting oponent A the rest see that most of your troops are at onother location and start to attack you. A few times i've been so busy with fighting that is forget to defend some parts of my realm. The notificatio system could be better though so i give this 4/5.

This game is really cool with the whole sandbox deal. However, it seems the AI doesn't attack each other or something I dont really know for sure it just seems that way. Anyways, you train armies with the city states in the ancient greek era and I guess try and unites all of Greece.

It has a pretty neat economy system as you need to set up supply routes from farms and mines to your forts and cities and if your soldiers dont get any food their morale drops.

Nice strategy as you need to think of how to outwit the enemy if you seem to be outnumbered. Your soldiers also gain experience and you can improve them.

Overall a pretty cool game.

This game has offered me a lot of fun times. There is a lot to do and quite a few ways to accomplish it, if you're patient (which I'm not, but i still enjoy it) The graphics arent fantastic, but the map transition from close up to the general map is pretty seamless and makes it really easy to work out what areas need focus.

Sometimes the game is overwhelming, as things can happen all at once, but you can always pause the game when that happens and plan out your actions accordingly.

Might not be worth a whole $30, but if you see it on sale and you like grand strategy, definitely spring for it

A great strategy game with real time campaign (also with the sandbox version); the battles are managed directly on the strategic map. Political, logistic factors are taken also in the planning for the victory. Naval battles are played also. You have three main campaign that of Philip of Macedon, and two about the Peloponnesian War. Each culture have own proper unit types, and you can also enroll mercenaries units when you conquest another culture cities. YOu can associate generals to units for improve their values. Bigger your empire grow bigger armies you can have, but more garrison you need for manage insurrections. A great game where only a multiplayer side is missing.

Overall this was a pretty solid game. I had already bought the original on steam and played it for hours. I did feel the original was lacking in some pretty basic concepts that the expansion certainly came through on (such as upgrading supply lines and the sandbox mode). The gameplay can be slow at first but as you expand it gets faster and you definitely need to use that pause button more often ;). The greatest thing that the expansion has over the original is the sandbox mode. You can play as any of the tribes/city states/whatever else is in Greece and just proceed to conquer everything. However, some of the factions are much easier to play than others. I did find myself starting it up a couple of times only to find that my faction had several cities scattered throughout Greece and a limited army. Overall, however, the sandbox mode is amazing. If you like games like Europa Universalis, and other games like it, this is positively a game for you. However I would recommend getting the gold version if not just for the sandbox mode alone.

This game gains part of its value from the historical accuracy effort made by the designers: the detailed map with all the cities, the region-specific units and factions, the characters, etc. Even the help capsule are detailed enough to be compared to that of games like Civilization or the Age of Empires series.

The combination of real-time battles with large-scale strategy is also an interesting mix, reminding a bit of the Europa Universalis style. The game does not provide the depth of a Paradox game however, with very limited administrative gameplay. Most of the time your just moving units from point A to point B, the only options to improve your cities being the construction or destruction of walls. This simplicity might however please the RTS fans in some ways, since you only have to manage food supply and gold income.

Graphically the game is rather beautiful, and the interactive game map adapting itself to the level of zoom comes in very handy as soon as your empire starts to expand. A simple colour system also allows you to immediately identify any problems in or near your cities. The backfire is that micro-management of those issues is often required, slowing the game pace a lot after one hour or two in a game. Placement of units in specific formations can also be tedious due to a not-so-good control interface.

Overall its an interesting concept and game that Ancient Greece fans ought to check out, but one that also has enough flaws to make it only a mixed product.

The game's concept and idea are interesting as it incorporates a plethora of features of strategic and tactical warfare in classical Greece. Still, the permanent need to pause the game to review the situation and to make decisions before you unpause it in an interval of 5 to 10 seconds, combined with a very user-unfriendly game control mainly caused by the slow mouse movement, makes the game sometimes unplayable. I played it for two or three days before I decided that I had enough. If it hadn't been the beautiful graphics and the music, I therefore wouldn't have given it 3 out of 5.