Some old-school alien butt kicking
Some old-school alien butt kicking.
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Sometimes you have to cut the rope, and not everyone on the team is going to take it well when you do
Ascenders: Beyond the Peak is set to launch on Steam later this year.
'Early on in the 2000s, we got enamored with consoles and I think certain games didn't make the leap right:' Star Wars Zero Company's director has a theory about why old school PC gaming genres are back with a vengeance
"Hopefully people are just [going to say] 'a great game is a great game,' and look at it from that …
Mechabellum is a conversation you should be having
Them's fighting words.
Sintopia, the management sim that smashes together Dungeon Keeper and Black & White, will stand before Steam's pearly gates for judgment in April
Team 17's Bullfrog-like strategy game releases next month.
'Realtime-with-pause is not dead,' says lead designer of promising turn-based game Star Wars Zero Company
Which is why I'm looming over the genre's coffin with a stake and hammer.
Star Wars Zero Company forces you into permadeath so you can see "what's on the other side of the experience"
I've already spoken once today about my intrigue around permanency today, so why not keep that train running. Star Wars …
Everything you need to know about Star Wars Zero Company
Bit Reactor's debut is a complicated and exciting beast of a tactics game.
Vaunted's tactical combat looks fine, but I'm most interested in the consequences of rewriting history when one of its dodgy mercenaries bites the bullet
We've all been there. You and two other morally dubious alien treasure hunters have an expedition go wrong, and find …
Builder Nova Roma releases today, and I'd have drowned all my Romans already if it weren't for those pesky gods
I have two dreams as mayor of an island town in Nova Roma, the new early access city-building game from …
Star Wars Zero Company devs said 'there were some fights' about its story-centric squadmates suffering permadeath, but accepting that 'Star Wars is about loss' made the game stronger
Hopefully nobody's processing that loss while the Tuskens are around. We know how that goes.
Coexist with a capricious, rusty moon in Amberspire, the new isometric city-builder from the creator of The Banished Vault
I am shocked to discover that this is the first time we've written about Amberspire, the new sci-fi city builder …
Time strategy with firefighting on lavish maps made entirely of paper
It takes a lot to get me interested in anything tower-defensive these days, and I'm getting pretty grouchy about paper-based …
This Slay The Spire 2 PvP mod lets you battle friends mid-run to see who's made the better deck
Slay the Spire 2's multiplayer component is a lovely, sociable game of tactical chemistry and unity in the face of …
Epic's mass layoffs will impact the game in ways the remaining teams "cannot even fully understand"
Following Epic Games' mass layoffs, a Fortnite producer has said that the devs left behind "cannot even fully understand" the …
Fantasy tactics RPG Wartales is getting a "dense, reactive" capital city in the next DLC expansion, yours to save or destroy
Sordid, flesh-eating medieval tactics RPG Wartales is getting a new Fires in the Capital DLC expansion in April. It adds …
Solve a crab housing crisis and fight a Dreadhog in part one of Runescape's big Havenhythe expansion, which is out now
That sound you can hear in the distance is someone mumbling in-teh-grih-teh, because a key bit of RuneScape's in-teh-grih-teh-focused 2026 …
Your citizens don't stay put in Stellaris-style 4X strategy game Final Vanguard - start a war and "entire waves of refugees can emerge"
Final Vanguard is a real-time sci-fi 4X grand strategy game that puts an unusually big emphasis on migration. We've seen …
"This progress will not be linear": Mega Crit outline their patching process for Slay the Spire 2 after ruffling some feathers
Slay the Spire 2 is, quite notably, a game in early access. This means many things, but most importantly it …
What are we all playing this weekend?
I truly hope the sun has got his hat on this weekend as I'm cycling out to family in the …