Personally I really enjoyed Incredible Baron, despite a few notable issue involving difficultly and pacing I found this a great little gem of a game with fun and Zany characters.

But hey if you'd like alittle more on it here's my Review, enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga1e4y66xnc

Highly Recommend this game
Although there might be a tag saying i recieved the game for free, dont let that think it changed my opinion.
This can in my opinion be the next game that blows up like Plants Vs. Zombies for those of us that played it.
It is fun, addicting, constantly adding features to the game, and having you unlock many goodies as you continue playing it, not to mention an amazing sountrack that I could not stop jamming to (with my only complaint being that it couldve looped better).
For the first session I played for 9 hours and could not put it down.
This is a genuinely fun game and deserves much more attention than it currently has.
10/10 Highly Recommend

GLANCE RECOMMENDATION: 80% YES / 20% NO

• great aesthetic and creature design
  
• simple lane pushing combat that evolves as you need to bring multiple colored creatures
  
• research incentive keeps you coming back to levels as you like if you want to grind out new units early
  
• story is as robust as it needs to be: I just needed a simple reason to be on an island collecting research and I got it
  
• excellent podcast game, although I wish there were sliders for the sounds rather than on/off
  
• amount of content is spot on with the even the full price point

• difficulty is good overall, but you can get stuck if you try to do silver and gold on each stage before moving on. It seems to want you to complete the game on bronze, then silver, then gold and not each stage on each difficulty before going to the next area.

I had a blast with The Incredible Baron. I'm a fan of collecting monsters and doing simple things with them, where this scratches the itch quite well. The price point and ability for this to be played as a great podcast game make this a good recommendation. I wasn't completely in love with the combat and pacing of some of the levels, but that's not enough to stop me from giving a thumbs up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIAkeZm8L5w
.Story.
You are the illustrious Baron Buffon Hildengard and you’re on a mission to gather data on the local wildlife with your benefactor, the Lady Nora, and your pack mule—er, right-hand man, Smartlee.

In typical parodic manner, Baron is the leader of this expedition and also a total ignoramus. Smartlee, the hapless minion, is the brains behind your robotic units as well as the advancements that allow you to recruit new critters. I won’t spoil the plot for you, but expect rivalry, betrayal, and violent scientific discovery.

The story is told in a series of animated cutscenes, followed by a battle, and then another cutscene. Rinse, wash, repeat.

.Gameplay.
The game is decided into worlds in which there are ten stages to play through. Each stage has three degrees of difficulty—bronze, silver, and gold. Bronze is unlocked by just playing through the story while the other two difficulties are unlocked by discovering creatures and progressing.

Before you start a stage, you can see the enemies you’ll expect to encounter. If you’ve seen them already, the game will indicate whether or not you’ve researched one with a little star. If you have yet to encounter the creature in question, it remains a vague outline until you’ve actually faced it in battle. This can take a few playthroughs of a stage.
From there, you’re taken to your loadout screen. Here, you can choose your units and skills to use in combat. It’s important to note that the order in which you place your units/skills matters. More on this is just a bit.

Battles consist of a single lane of your units versus the enemy units. You can pan the camera from left to right by hovering at the edge of the screen or by dragging the bar at the bottom that represents your field of view on the mini map. There are two types of resources used in combat: energy and gold. Gold is used to build rooms and units while energy is used to activate your skills. Both regenerate over time except for in special cases related to the story.
From the outset you are only able to create one unit, linked to the Q hotkey. By building additions to your base (B), you are able to create more units. There are three buildings available to you—Workshop, Hatchery, and Den—which are unlocked throughout your progression. Each allows a certain type of unit—robotic, birds and bugs, and mammals respectively—and also different skills.

Units become available to you in the order that you chose them. The size of the units’ displayed portrait also factor into when you’ll be able to use it: if the unit takes up one tile, you only have to utilize the build menu once; if it takes up two tiles, you’ll have to build both rooms before the unit becomes available. Skills become available to you in the exact same way. Every additional unit you unlock is assigned to a different hotkey in order (q, w, e, r, t—and so on, beginning again at a). You summon your units and they march across the field until they meet a destructible obstacle or another unit. They’ll fight automatically until they run out of health.

In addition to building units and expanding your base, there’s an Alchemic Shovel that you can spend gold on in order to lessen the cost of your units and abilities. This is a double-edged sword, however, because it becomes less of an option and more of a necessity due to the presence of watermelon catapults. They can destroy your units in two, sometimes three hits, and it requires a steady stream of units in order to take care of them. Thus, the first minute or so of battle becomes a balancing game between lowering the cost of your units and maintaining enough units to stop the enemy from destroying your base.

Battle is won after you’ve pushed the enemy forces back to their base and destroy it. Battles have a time limit, so it becomes your mission to finish stages as quickly as possible. After you’re achieved victory, you’re rewarded with research points and experience points. Research points unlock more units for you to use in battle while experience levels up Baron and in turn gives you a higher rate of gold generation in combat. Should you lose, there’s a quick restart option to begin the stage from either the beginning of the battle or the loadout screen.

.Atmosphere.
The music throughout The Incredible Baron has heavy calypso themes—fitting considering the game takes place on a series of islands. The bright, cartoony graphics are cute and charming and a good fit for the humorous story and personalities the game presents.

.Longevity.
I played through the game in roughly 5 hours and I read through the story rather than skipping over it. A speed run could probably be done in 3 hours or less. Different difficulties add to the longevity, as does the ability to collect units. This is by no means a hefty game, but you will get your money’s worth.

.Pros and Cons.

• Simple and easy to pick up for beginners in the RTS genre
  
• Quirky cast and an amusing story
  
• Variety of critters to fight—and collect
  
• Variety of skills. Your skills can heal your units, deal damage, gain extra research points, move your units across the screen, and more.
  
• A degree of strategy introduced through limiting units and skills based on portrait size.
  
• The time limits add a sense of urgency and also require you to think on your toes rather than just spam units.
  
• Different difficulties provide some form of replayability
  
• Performs well; no frames dropped even with tons of units on-screen
  
  
• Controls can get a little bit crazy as each hotkey is selected automatically for you depending on the order of your units.
  
• This is very obviously an iOS and Android port. There are no sound or graphics options other than turning sound on and off and moving from full screen to windowed.
  
• Free on iOS/Android (though it offers in-app purchases)
  
• Due to its simplicity and repetitive nature, veterans of the strategy genre may lose interest fairly quickly
  
• Repetitive tug-of-war gameplay can be frustrating. Battle quickly becomes a contest of who can dump out the most units.

.Bottom line.
The Incredible Baron is a solid entry into the casual strategy genre and is definitely worth a shot. It’s easy to pick up and play and the story is amusing, albeit predictable. The game is adequately priced for what you’re getting: a simplified RTS with some monster collecting mechanics. You can play through the story fairly quickly if you don’t bother to read it, but it’s worth a laugh. There are also additional difficulties and 45+ critters to research, which will only add onto your game time.

If you’ve got 5 bucks to spare and are looking for a quick game to pass the time, you’ve found one. You won’t miss out on anything by waiting for a sale, however.

The Incredible Baron is a game about collecting a small army of cute animals, then marching them towards their death for your personal glory. That’s a little misleading; sometimes you instead doom robotic barrels with tools such as hammers or screwdrivers welded to their lids. Or sentient stone statues carved in your likeness, complete with jaunty pirate hat. But sometimes it’s animals – normal, everyday animals like that snake you obtain early in the game. It’s just that, should this particular snake be defeated, it explodes. Because you’ve filled it full of gunpowder. And then there's that fox. A cyborg fox, the likes of which you see every day in more rural areas.

There’s a whole host of (mostly) animals to enslave, actually. Which you gather via rampant slaughter dressed up as research. Should you come in contact with an undiscovered beastie, you can collect data on them by ruthlessly murdering them. Put enough innocent critters down, and they’re yours to command and further abuse. While this all perfectly describes a game based around wanton destruction, Incredible Baron’s not into all that serious fare. It’s the story of a bungling incompetent masquerading as an exploring scientist trying to document as of yet undiscovered species. I’d imagine that setting off into the unknown in the name of discovery often throws up a myriad of unforeseeable obstacles to overcome. The Baron’s first real test is that a slug nest has developed on the deck of his ship, and they’ve eaten all the bacon.

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The Incredible Baron is a casual strategy with a beautiful 16-bit graphics, which resembles the game tug-of-war or a tower defense game. The principle is simple… on the battlefield, which is a 2D with a side-scrolling perspective you have a base at one edge of the map and the enemy has one at the other edge. From your base you send units that cannot be controlled, just march towards the enemy which sends back its troops or build defensive towers. Once your units overcome resistance and get to the enemy base, they will attack it. The main objective is to destroy the enemy base before he destroy yours or the time limit is reached. Production of units costs money, which slowly generates and some units needs supporting buildings to be summoned. You can also use several bonus power-ups for energy points.

The Incredible Baron takes this genre a little further. First, it is a story that is so cute and brimming with wit (hi Shovel Knight :). With each level you will be more interested in how the journey of Baron evolves and what will go wrong on the way. It’s a nice surprise to see such a nice story presenation in this genre. Along the way, you recognize the strengths and weaknesses of the enemy units in the form of research of strange animals. You can research up to 45 species in total.

Species research is not just a collectible, because in each level it’s necessary to correctly choose own units with its abilities to have any chance at all against the enemy. The units are divided by type and its color that indicates which unit has more power against another color type and vice versa. To build bigger and better units you must first build a supporting structure, so you need to choose a right tactics whether to build many smaller units or wait for money to build bigger ones.

The entire game is divided into three worlds with 10 levels each, and the first playthrough is basically the story mode. After that you can replay the game with silver and then gold levels, so there’s 60 levels in total. To get all achievements it is necessary to even repeat some levels to research all species. At this stage, it may be already repetitive, because you already know your own strategy and can’t expect any surprise. For casual players seeking nice, funny, strategic game I can gladly recommend The Incredible Baron.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TJPciKtqcs

The Incredible Baron is a tug-of-war strategy game where the characters are inspired on Don Quixote and Baron Munchausen, on a 18th century naturalists settings.

The game has a simple story: you, Baron Buffon Hildengard, with the help of your assistant Smartlee and the money from Lady Nora are going to discover and catalogue unknown especies for fame, fortune and science.
On your way to the quest a few slugs show up on your ship and your invention (Robucklet) not only eliminate those slugs but also destroy your ship. When you get to the island you find out that Norab is the one to blame for tinkering with your robots.

The game has 3 worlds with 10 levels each. When you finish one world on the Story difficulty you unlock the Silver difficulty for that world. And when you finish that world on Silver difficulty you unlock the Gold difficulty also for that world.

You have 45 creatures to research. After finishing the three worlds on Story difficulty and the world 1 on Silver difficulty I was able to unlock 15 creatures. So if you want to unlock all the 45 creatures and get the related achievement you'll need to finish the game in all difficulty settings.

At the beginning of each level you must choose your units based on the color of the enemies units.


7/10

1. Great tutorial
   
2. Funny dialogue
   
3. Great variety of units/creatures
   
4. Great soundtrack
   
5. Nice 16-bits graphics

1. The game gets repetitive

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FUN. Solid, whimsical, well-balanced fun. A teacher once told me it's a little unfair to judge games on a set of criteria (like furniture), and I agree, but let's go down the checklist anyway:

- Dialogue is witty, lighthearted, and gives great characterization.
- Creature/ability variety is ridiculous. So many fun, crazy things available to the player. So many!
- Tutorials are skillfully embedded in gameplay and wrapped with adorable, creative dialogue - I don't think I've ever picked up the mechanics of a strategy game so quickly.
- Mechanics are tight. Building rooms, deploying creatures, and selecting abilities is intuitive.
- The difficulty curve is spot-on. Excellent balancing.
- I didn't like that the antagonist was the protagonist with a different color scheme. It made for a couple funny jokes, but a whole new character would have been more fun.
- It also irked me that naturalism was the excuse for the little battles. Again, it made for some cute jokes, but I wasn't buying the research/science angle.
- Great art, both world and character. The little animations and level variety really help make the game memorable.
- The music is great too - before playing, I was puzzled that an OST is being offered for such a game of this size. But now I get it.

Delightful gameplay, wondrous variety, exquisitely silly premise! Worth the money!

Great dev team.