Europa Universalis IV Paradox Interactive Years ago, a gaming friend of mine who knew I loved strategy games suggested that I give Paradox Interactive’s Crusader Kings II a try. Since Crusader Kings II is the game that coined the nomenclature “grand strategy” back in 2012, I was intrigued as to what all that entailed. I…
MarZ: Tactical Base Defense Doorfortyfour “It’s the year 2065, and humanity has launched a mission to colonize Mars. Unfortunately, the Red Planet has already been overrun by zombies. Defend your base with turrets and soldiers to repel waves of undead cosmonauts.” This tidbit of background information thus encapsulates MarZ: Tactical Base Defense, a new tower…
Tropico 6 Kalypso Media City building games have never been my forte. Sure, I recently bought into the hype and played Frostpunk, but came away from that experience feeling more depressed about the future than anything else. I’ve also tried out Surviving Mars, but that game was far too tedious for my liking. The Tropico…
Steel Division 2 Eugen Systems Eugen Systems have a knack for capturing a sense of scale that is unrivaled, at least with regards to real-time strategy games. The only other title that I would say was comparable to what they are capable of is Stardock’s Sins of a Solar Empire, an epic space RTS which…
Deep Rock Galactic Ghost Ship Games When I’d first heard of Deep Rock Galactic I checked out some gameplay videos of it and came away feeling pretty underwhelmed. The concept seemed interesting—you play as a small team of space dwarves who are on a never-ending quest for shiny ore, embedded on far-flung planets. However, it…
Desolate Nearga/HyTrain Digital Yeah, we all know that survival games are a dime-a-dozen these days. Survival (and survival horror) fans are pretty much being spoiled right now with all of the options on the video gaming market. We’ve got everything from straight survival titles, such as The Long Dark, to more PvP-oriented fare like the…
Generation Zero Avalanche Studios Retro-futurism is something that is really tricky to convey—whether through art or the written word. Creating a world, or even a single work, that embraces both the past as well as the future is no easy task to accomplish. Video games are a form of art combined with narrative, and so…
