Fit check
Is Taste of Power worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Real-time strategy players who want three factions with distinct military styles
- Medieval warfare fans who enjoy combining city building, research, and combat
- Strategy players who prefer time-limited decisions against AI opponents
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking turn-based battles may bounce off the real-time pace and limited decision window
- Players wanting a simple combat-only game may hit a wall when managing resources, infrastructure, technologies, and cities
- Players looking for a single shared army style may not enjoy the faction-specific unit systems
Our take on Taste of Power
Players who are comfortable with battlefield tactics may still bounce when the economy and infrastructure systems enter the picture. Workers, goods, technologies, cities, and caravan choices compete for attention before the combat tools can be used effectively.
What is Taste of Power?
Set in an imagined medieval era, this strategy game has Europe, China, and the Middle East competing for control.
Select one of three factions, expand urban centers, collect materials, make goods, enlist soldiers, and investigate new technologies. Construction is streamlined, leaving infrastructure and broader planning as major concerns. Combat combines artillery, movable fortifications, subterranean routes, troop formations, snares, smoke cover, toxic grenades, elephants, chariots, mounted units, and forces unique to each faction. Caravans may supply merchandise, though players can instead attack them. Each side follows its own military approach, and defeating the computer-controlled opponent depends on choices made under a time limit.
How Taste of Power plays
- 01Three Factions
- Europe, China, and the Middle East each use different units and battlefield methods.
- 02Faction-Specific Armies
- Examples include European formations and gunpowder, Middle Eastern elephants and incendiary chariots, and Chinese traps and smokescreens.
- 03Underground Tunnels
- Engineers can create routes beneath the battlefield for moving forces and launching surprise attacks.
- 04Resource Economy
- Workers collect materials, produce goods, and support city development and military preparation.
- 05Caravan Decisions
- Incoming caravans can be traded with or raided for goods.
Taste of Power compared to similar games
Men of War: Assault Squad focuses on World War II battles with direct control of individual units, while Taste of Power combines real-time combat with city development, resource collection, goods production, and technology research. Xenonauts uses turn-based small-squad operations against aliens, whereas Taste of Power centers on three medieval factions and larger battlefield systems.
Taste of Power: platforms & release
Is Taste of Power worth it?
It is worth it if: real-time strategy players who want three factions with distinct military styles. Skip it if: players seeking turn-based battles may bounce off the real-time pace and limited decision window.
Where can I download Taste of Power?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Taste of Power's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Taste of Power on?
Windows, macOS and Linux.
