Knights of the Square Table 3

Want to play a tactical strategy that doesn't make any fuss, just hands you tea and tells you where to move your soldier? Knights of the Square Table 3 is exactly that kind of game — no showiness, no speeches, just a chessboard and your brain.

It's a turn-based strategy on a checkerboard where you control units resembling chess pieces. Each has its own way of moving and attack options. The goal is to eliminate your opponent or complete the set scenario. The game offers single-player campaigns and matches against the computer. The setting is simply knightly, the name plays on the Round Table, but the story isn't needed here — this game is played least of all.

You play simply. You select a unit, see where it can move, and tap it on the right square. Then you attack if possible. The computer does the same. No time pressure, no breakneck pace. Turn after turn, like classic chess, except with more pieces and more options. Whoever calculates better where to move and where it pays off wins.

In the nineties this genre worked. Tactics fans took it as a gift — finally something where you don't have to react within a third of a second, but where brain and patience are enough. Knights of the Square Table 3 doesn't pretend to be more than it is. Graphics are basic, sound is dull, but the game holds together and delivers what it promises. Now it's dated, of course — turn-based strategies came later, better designed.

Today it's viewed through nostalgia, not as a masterpiece. Those who like Go or chess might find some hours of entertainment, mainly if you're interested in how this idea fared in a time when each strategy was a rarity. You can try it online, but it's nothing that would make you feel like you're missing out on life.