Underplayed Gems

Attack at Dawn: North Africa (2022)

Attack at Dawn: North Africa cover
Developer
Panzer Division Games
Platforms
Windows
Genres
Indie, Strategy
Rating
4.4 of 5, 103 player ratings
Typical playtime
about 11 hours
Where to get it
Steam
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How it feels

A fast and intense tactical wargame that captures the chaotic mobile fighting of the North African desert, with fog of war adding tension.

tacticalfast-pacedintensehistoricalhex gridfog of warmoderate difficultyreal-time with pause

What players say

Players are split on this one. Some praise it as a faithful simulation of the North Africa campaign, while others find the gameplay too simple and complain the AI is weak, with combat reduced to comparing unit multipliers.

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