Conan Unconquered Petroglyph/Funcom Back in December of 2017, a little game by the name of They Are Billions debuted. Created by indie game developer, Numantian Games, They Are Billions singlehandedly created a new strategy subgenre dubbed “survival RTS,” or survival real-time strategy. By most accounts, this new experiment in genre-mixing has been a rip-roaring success;…
Total War: Three Kingdoms Creative Assembly/Sega Total War has always been one of the most celebrated grand strategy franchises in existence. For the most part, the long-running series has stuck to historical titles—such as the epic Total War: Shogun 2 and Total War: Medieval 2, which covered feudal Japan and Europe respectively. More recently, in…
Total War: Warhammer 2 – The Prophet and the Warlock Creative Assembly/SEGA Like myself, many gamers were a little late to the whole Warhammer Fantasy Battle bandwagon. Personally, I was too preoccupied playing pencil and paper role-playing games as a kid and so didn’t have the time to devote to learning about another IP, especially…
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…
Battle Brothers: Beasts & Exploration DLC Overhype Studios Back in March of 2017, a little hidden gem called Battle Brothers burst onto the indie gaming scene. Personally, since I’m not into “cutesy” type graphics or anything that looks too cartoonish, I didn’t really dig the game’s chess piece-like depictions of its various characters and monsters.…
Stellaris: Megacorp DLC Paradox Interactive When Stellaris was originally released back in May of 2016, I knew right away that it was going to be something special. I always say “going to be” because anyone familiar with Paradox’s post-release policies knows that there are going to be tons of updates and DLC following each game’s…
Total War: WARHAMMER II – Curse of the Vampire Coast Creative Assembly/SEGA By all accounts, Total War: WARHAMMER II has had a slow start coming out of the gate, especially considering how well-paced the first game’s DLC release schedule shuffled along. However, unless you are a gamer who is rather embittered about Creative Assembly’s DLC…
