Category: Strategy

The team is excited to present the new version of the fheroes2 engine - 1.1.1 for Heroes of Might and Magic II after more than a month of hard work.

Drop Duchy combines Tetris-like block-dropping with kingdom building

By Liam Dawe, Jul 11

Have to admit, Drop Duchy is a clever blending of genres. Giving you the block-dropping from the likes of Tetris with you building up a kingdom.

Warzone 2100 - the Campaign Choices Update is out now

By Liam Dawe, Jul 9

The free and open source RTS Warzone 2100 has a big new upgrade out with the Campaign Choices Update. Making it better than ever and a great time to pick it back up.

Tech-noir musical tactics game All Walls Must Fall is now permanently free

By Liam Dawe, Jul 8

Developer inbetweengames announced that their game All Walls Must Fall from 2018 is now permanently free.

100 updates later, Cyber Knights: Flashpoint is shaping up to be a fantastic squad-tactics RPG

By Liam Dawe, Jul 1

Since entering Early Acccess in October last year, Trese Brothers have been steadily building up Cyber Knights: Flashpoint into something great.

Lueur and the Dim Settlers renamed Dawnfolk, new trailer shows off accessibility features

By Liam Dawe, Jun 26

Dawnfolk (previously called Lueur and the Dim Settlers) is a very promising minimalist survival city-builder, one that suckered me in with the various mini-games in every tile you build and it's looking great.

Archrebel Tactics is a wild sci-fi turn-based strategy game inspired by Rebelstar and X-COM

By Liam Dawe, Jun 25

Inspired by the original Rebelstar from 1986 and in parts UFO: Enemy Unknown / X-COM: UFO Defense, you may want to take a look at Archrebel Tactics if you like your strategy games with a retro look and feel.

Battle Train is a deck-builder where you throw trains at your enemy

By Liam Dawe, Jun 25

Battle Train sounds unique and hilarious! You've seen plenty of deck-builders, but instead of various creatures, here you throw trains at your enemy.

Victoria 3's first major expansion Sphere of Influence is out now

By Liam Dawe, Jun 25

After a delay, Paradox Interactive have now launched the first proper major expansion for Victoria 3 with Sphere of Influence along with the free Update 1.7 "Kahwah".

The Vita Nova update for Terra Nil is out now bringing an overhaul to animals

By Liam Dawe, Jun 25

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Terra Nil is a wonderful reverse-builder, where instead of building a city you're restoring the environment from a wasteland to a successful green ecosystem and the latest free update is a big one.

Rig the game in Pip My Dice, a Yahtzee roguelike experience inspired by Balatro

By Liam Dawe, Jun 24

A Yahtzee Roguelike experience? That's going to be a thing. FokazLabs recently revealed Pip My Dice and the idea does sound quite interesting.

Warzone 2100 version 4.5.0 Beta enhances support for campaign mods, improved multiplayer

By Liam Dawe, Jun 24

One of my favourite RTS games, Warzone 2100, just keeps on getting better thanks to it being open source. A major new Beta has been released that has some really great improvements for both singleplayer and online play.

Drill Keeper seems to have it all with deckbuilding, tower defense and roguelite survival

By Liam Dawe, Jun 18

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Hooded Horse sure do pick some gems to publish with the latest announcement being Drill Keeper from ShoulderByte GmbH that looks like an intoxicating mix of genres.

Bronze Age pixel-arts RTS game TFC: The Fertile Crescent 1.0 is out now

By Liam Dawe, Jun 13

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For those of you who love base-building RTS games like Age of Empires, perhaps give TFC: The Fertile Crescent a try now it's fully released.

Dawnmaker is a turn-based city-building and deck-building game that looks great

By Liam Dawe, Jun 11

Coming from Arpentor Studio, Dawnmaker is a turn-based city building and deckbuilding game that feels like playing a board game.

Age of Mythology: Retold arrives on Steam on September 4

By Liam Dawe, Jun 9

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Always great to see an RTS classic get revived. Age of Mythology: Retold from publisher Xbox Game Studios will be coming to Steam on September 4th.

Sid Meier's Civilization VII arrives in 2025 with a teaser

By Liam Dawe, Jun 9

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Sid Meier's Civilization VII was officially revealed from Firaxis Games and 2K, due to arrive sometime in 2025. Although we don't exactly know much about it just yet.

Build up, command and fight with a big walking colony in Trailblazers: Into the March

By Liam Dawe, Jun 7

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Another one shooting to the top of my wishlist from the Guerilla Collective Showcase is Trailblazers: Into the March, I've not seen a colony-sim strategy game quite like it.

TFC: The Fertile Crescent a Bronze Age pixel-art RTS releases June 13

By Liam Dawe, Jun 4