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The entire point of strategy games, and a lot of the appeal, is that you’re given direct control over entire units…
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Druidstone: The Secret of the Menhir Forest is pretty to look at, interesting to solve, and absolutely ruthless…
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John Wick Hex is a newly announced “fight-choreographed chess brought to life” strategy game inspired by the films and being developed by Thomas Was Alone’s Mike Bithell. It’ll feature voice work by Ian McShane and Lance Reddick and come to consoles and be on PC as an Epic Store exclusive.
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I’m not very good at stealth games. I like the idea of trying to sneak around undetected, but as soon as I get…
I’ve been playing Impressions Games’ 1998 classic Caesar III this week. While I love it for a lot of reasons (some…
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Circle Empires forces me to constantly worry about merfolk shooting my troops with orbs. When it comes to dragons, I…
I’m a sucker for tactics games and cyberpunk settings. Frozen Synapse 2 combines both into a cerebral, moody…
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