Tide of Banners

Tide of Banners is a turn-based strategy that respects your time and your brain. Each map is a puzzle: limited units, limited moves, and an enemy that punishes greedy plays. We lost the first three missions and loved every restart.

There's no timer breathing down your neck, which makes it ideal for offline sessions where you might pause mid-turn. You can put the phone down for an hour and the board is exactly where you left it. Unit variety opens up steadily so you're never overwhelmed at once.

The art style is a muted watercolour look that reads clearly even on smaller screens. It's not flashy, but the depth kept us coming back to optimise old victories into flawless ones.

What we liked

• Handcrafted tactical maps
• No timers, pause any time
• Steady unlock of new units