
The game has cartoony graphics and features a crude, but also charmingly humorous plot. Skulls of the Shogun puts you in control of small squads of samurais, locked in an eternal war for control of Japan. The game was developed by 17-BIT and hit Xbox 360, Windows Phone and Windows 8.1 as a Microsoft published title a few years back.

Skulls of the Shogun is a Xbox Live enabled turn-based strategy game featuring undead samurai. However, building armies and attacking other players is rapid and seamless, so there's plenty of fun without paying a dime.ĭownload Age of Empires: Castle Siege from the Windows Store (Free) Progressing through the later ages of civilization can require weeks of grinding without coughing up in-app purchases. Build times and resource accrual can be very slow. As a freemium title, the game is gated in particular ways. Your victories and losses can be viewed in an instant replay mode, allowing you to examine where you need to improve your strategies.Īs previously noted, AoE: CS is entirely cloud-based, meaning your progress carries across devices using your Xbox Live Gamertag as the login credentials. You can defend your base with various buildings and units, such as watchtowers and walls, in typical AoE fashion. Other players will attack your base when you're offline, and you'll receive a notification for when this occurs.

Your base exists in the cloud, allowing your civilization to persist even when you're outside of the game.
