About This Game The classic abstract strategy game comes to Steam!Othello is an ageless game that takes a minute to learn and a lifetime to master. Place tiles surrounding your opponents tiles to flip them to your color. Get to the end with more tiles of your color and you are the winner!Buy it once, play it on PC, Mac, & Linux.This is the most full-featured version of Othello ever created. Features: Play locally or online. Play against the computer – World class "Zebra" AI with five difficulty levels. Includes "hot-seat"/"pass-n-play" mode for multiplayer using only one computer. Asynchronous play - you can play even when your opponent is offline. Easily switch between full 3D with camera-control & a 2D graphics mode Full controller and “Steam Big Picture” support Switch seamlessly between playing with mouse/keyboard and gamepad. Elo Ratings for online games – ranked on a Steam Leaderboard Steam Trading Cards, Badges, Backgrounds & Emoticons Dozens of Steam Stats & Achievements. Steam version has no added DRM and can run everything except the online play & Steam-specific bonuses (Steam Achievements, Steam Leaderboards, etc.), without any internet connection and/or without Steam installed. a09c17d780 Title: OthelloGenre: Casual, Indie, StrategyDeveloper:BlueLine GamesPublisher:BlueLine GamesRelease Date: 5 Aug, 2016 Othello Download Windows 8.1 A classic board game with working versus AI, local, and online multiplayer. I've had good fun playing friends online across the country aside from the occasional crash. UI is really ugly and is only servicable. Get it when it's on sale and make sure its a 2-pack so you can actually play with someone since online is dead.. When I got this game, I was hoping to learn how to play. The first few times I played it, I wasn't sure what was going on - I put down my piece and flip over the other color, right? But there was obviously more to it than that, as I was winning - or losing - with no rhyme nor reason. Eventually, I started to get an idea of how to play and it became more fun. The music is great, so that certainly makes it more pleasant.. Othello is a adversarial strategy board game; although it's very different to Checkers, in some ways it's similar (at the least, that comparison should give people an idea of what genre of game it is).It is not as complicated as Chess, but it can be very hard to win against a good opponent - as the line on the original box says, "A minute to learn ... A lifetime to master".I used to play Othello as an actual board game (years ago); and then played an earlier computer version, which was called "Iago" (the latter was presumably named after Iago, a character in Shakespeare's play "Othello").This computer version of Othello is quite good.There are several settings available to play against the AI: Beginner, Easy, Medium, Hard, Harder, and Hardest.However, I've found that it crashes a lot - especially when it looks like I'm going to beat the AI on the "Harder" setting ("Yay, I'm going to win this time ... I'm going to beat it ... this is going well ... aw, geez, it's crashed again!"), which can be really annoying.The game also has multiplayer options, so you can either set your brain against the AI or versus some human players (provided that you can find an opponent online at the same time as yourself - which may be easier said than done; although you always have the option of arranging some matches against a friend).Despite the too-often crashes, I still quite enjoy the game.For anyone who enjoys Checkers, Chess, or similar games, Othello is worthwhile taking a look at.. I remember playing Othello aka Reversi with my grandparents. It is an all time favorite. Something we would sit around, play, and talk about random stuff. Some of my fondest memories are around this game. If you love this type of game, its great. It has Player vs Computer, Local Multiplayer, and Online Multiplayer. I love it.. Great game, still haven't got through the harder levels but a decent timewaster if you want to use your brain rather than just blasting away in a shoot em up.. The best game of BlueLine Games if you want to play against computer.. I know, it wasn't difficult. Had this on my wishlist and snagged it when it was on sale. Don't reget buying, it's a decent time sink.. I don't like this game apparently. I don't mean this actual game, I mean othello or whatever people refer to it as. It wasn't my cup of tea, to say the least.The AI is great and actually offers a challenge, or it could be that I was so bad that even the low level AI's were better than me. Regardless, if you can't play against people online for some reason, the computer seems to be plenty good enough to challenge you. It also allows you to play versus your friend through couch co op, it looks like. Overall, this game is smooth and worth your time, if you like reversi\/othello to begin with. I didn't enjoy it but that's not the developer's fault or anything so don't blame him. Also, the developer was responding to just about every thread in the discussion forum so that is pretty phenomenal.Get this game if you like reversi\/othello and you won't be disappointed. Promise.. First of all, these reveiwers saying this is not "Reversi" but actually "Othello" I have no idea what they are talking about. I've been playing Reversi\/Othello for a long time, as well as have been researching board and card games, and I have never encountered a version that didn't start with four pieces in the center, and I've always found "Reversi" and "Othello" used interchangeably. But games like this are old and acquire many rules over time. Who can really say, and does it really matter that much?Now, as for the game itself, don't buy it unless it's on a pretty heavy sale. I waited until it fell down to about $3, and had I paid a dime more than that I'd have been pretty upset. While functional it lacks polish. Only two varieties of pieces, no varieties of boards or backgrounds. The background music is annoying with no other options. The sound effects are grating. Seems like small stuff, but they are all things that should be present for $10 whole wing-wangs. In 3-D mode the pieces flip over in a very satisfying way, but if you make a large capture the computer goes immediately after while your pieces are still flipping. And if you make a large capture, and the computer makes a large capture, your first pieces could be flipping back before your captured pieces are finished turning over. I find it to be incredibly annoying.All of these seems like small complaints and they are, but to be charging $10 I'd expect a lot more. I'd expect a lot more especially when you can just google "Reversi" or "Othello" and find a low tech flash version on a website and play for free. So save your $10 and put it towards a real Othello\/Reversi board you can buy at any Toys'R'us.. Good ol' classic Othello. Game is fluid, graphic is crisp and clear, AI is very good. Moreso, it has hotseat and internet\/online play.Recommended.
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