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…
Foxhole Clapfoot Lately, my friends have had to endure hearing me lament about the apparent death of the real-time strategy genre. I believe that the genre as a whole peaked around the time of Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings (1999), and although we did have some decent RTS titles after that, it…
Verdun BlackMill Games Last week I wrote about a World War II game, Day of Infamy, and related how I almost couldn’t believe that someone thought that it was still novel to produce yet another game based on it. I’ve always wondered why no one had created a proper World War I shooting game. “You have…
Squad Offworld Industries I still remember loading up my first game of Squad just days ago. I was thrust into one of the six maps that Squad, still in its Alpha stage, has on offer—called Logar Valley. Logar is a large, dust-swept valley flanked by craggy mountains. Down in the valley itself, there are dusty…