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As it nears a new release, The Battle for Wesnoth is looking for new contributors

By Hythlodaeus, 1 Sep 2021

The team behind the classic strategy title issues a call to arms, as it seeks to increase contributions and community participation.

Draft of Darkness is a deckbuilder like nothing else with a horror theme

By Liam Dawe, 4 Aug 2021

Could this be your next 100 hour deckbuilder? Draft of Darkness has freshly released into Early Access on Steam.

Pawn of the Dead is a fun Zombie twist on Chess in the style of Battle Chess

By Liam Dawe, 21 Jun 2021

Love Chess but want something a little different? Pawn of the Dead seems like it could be exactly what you want.

Wildermyth is a fantastic papercraft styled party-based RPG out now

By Liam Dawe, 16 Jun 2021

Worldwalker Games have now officially released Wildermyth, a game that very much deserves plenty of attention and it's easily one of the best releases this year.

Master of Orion inspired strategy Remnants of the Precursors had a new release

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jun 2021

The original Master of Orion was certainly something special, and I personally put endless hours into the sequel. Remnants of the Precursors aims to play into your nostalgia and try to modernize the original mechanics.

Modern Wolf announces Mechajammer, a tactical cyberpunk turn-based RPG

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jun 2021

Time to get your cyberpunk back on as Mechajammer from publisher Modern Wolf and developer Whalenought Studios has just been announced with confirmed Linux support.

Mainframe Defenders: Meltdown - Prologue gives you a taste of the excellent tactical game

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jun 2021

Mainframe Defenders released back in February 2020 is a quality turn-based tactics game with a very retrofuturistic visual style like old terminals and now there's a free Mainframe Defenders: Meltdown - Prologue to play.

Creators of Warhammer 40K Gladius have announced their new 4x strategy ZEPHON

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jun 2021

Proxy Studios, developer of Warhammer 40,000: Gladius and Pandora: First Contact have just recently announced their brand new upcoming 4x strategy game ZEPHON.

1998 classic strategy game Signus: The Artefact Wars sees a full open source release

By Liam Dawe, 31 May 2021

Signus: The Artefact Wars, originally a commercial release in 1998 was later open sourced in 2002 and it just got an updated re-release with all the data too.

If you love Heroes of Might and Magic II do check out this open source reimplementation

By Liam Dawe, 20 May 2021

Heroes of Might and Magic II is an absolute classic right? Released back in 1996, it lives on thanks to fheroes2.

Farlanders: Prologue offers a fun taste of the upcoming Martian city-builder

By Liam Dawe, 18 May 2021

Build the city you've always wanted to on Mars in Farlanders, with a free Prologue out now to go along with the new Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign. It's already very impressive.

Defend your dungeon in Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager out now

By Liam Dawe, 7 May 2021

Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager from Goblinz Studio is out now, letting you build up and protect a dungeon from pesky hero intruders.

Katja's Abyss: Tactics turns Minesweeper into a turn-based tactics game

By Liam Dawe, 4 May 2021

What joy! Seeing even more developers try and take on the basic idea of Minesweeper with a fresh spin.

Civilization VI has a final free update 'of the season' hinting at more

By Liam Dawe, 23 Apr 2021

The final free update to Civilization VI is now live although the team appears to be hinting that more may be on the way now the New Frontier Pass is finished.

Tactical Troops: Anthracite Shift offers up top-down combat tactics out now

By Liam Dawe, 16 Apr 2021

QED Games just released their first full title with Tactical Troops: Anthracite Shift, a top-down turn-based tactical combat game with "the feeling of 80's sci-fi movies".

Across the Obelisk is an engrossing new deck-builder with online co-op

By Liam Dawe, 13 Apr 2021

You've played Slay the Spire, Dicey Dungeons and many other great deck-builder but now it's time for Across the Obelisk to shine and it's rather engrossing.

Tyrant's Blessing will offer up slick tactical battles inspired by Into the Breach

By Liam Dawe, 8 Apr 2021

Into the Breach is a fantastic game that really hits the mark for turn-based strategy fans and now Mercury Game Studio are doing their own take on that style with Tyrant's Blessing.

Wildermyth ignored April Fools with the addition of multiplayer and controller support

By Liam Dawe, 5 Apr 2021

No fooling around here, Worldwalker Games decided not to do any April Fools shenanigans for Wildermyth and instead release a massive upgrade adding in multiplayer and controller support.

Midnight Protocol, a tactical narrative-driven hacking RPG releases Summer 2021

By Liam Dawe, 2 Apr 2021

LuGus Studios have announced their hacking themed tactical narrative-driven hacking RPG, Midnight Protocol, will be releasing this Summer and they have a new trailer.