There's not much going on this week, is there? I think it's fair to say that most game developers are battening down the hatches and waiting for the imminent arrival of GTA 6, which will surely ...

Remember RUSE? And remember the RUSE table? No? Well, let me show you this piece of gaming non-sense history! It’s fantastic! Anyway, RUSE pioneered what would eventually become the Wargame series of ...

Now, let’s start the top 20 with the most detail-oriented strategists. Gary Grigsby’s War in the West is a monumental operational wargame covering the entire Western Front from 1943 to 1945, and if ...

If you ever wondered what would happen if you mixed XCOM with The Running Man, Showgunners is your answer. You control Scarlett Martillo, a contestant out for revenge in a dystopian, high-lethal ...

Mixing real-time stealth exploration with tight, turn-based tactical combat, Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden delivers one of the most distinct XCOM-likes of recent years. You lead an unlikely team of ...

After the massive success of XCOM 2011, the gaming industry saw a massive surge of new turn-based strategy games. Some titles, like Phoenix Point, Into the Breach, and Xenonauts, soon followed and ...

Steam Next Fest events are some of my favorite gaming events. They bring hundreds, if not thousands, of new demos for us to try and decide whether a game we’ve been anticipating is worth our time. It ...

If, in the early 2000s, the gaming industry was plagued by movie-game adaptations, these days, those are a rare treat I miss dearly (some of my best memories playing games in the PlayStation 2 and ...

You would be hard-pressed to find a World War 2 strategy game with great graphics nowadays, but Call to Arms – Gates of Hell: Ostfront delivers some of the most authentically gritty visuals in the ...

Let’s take a step back from all this combat and trade weapons and tanks for historical survival. Meet Salt and Soil: A Frontier Family Sim, which is a unique turn-based colony sim spanning three ...

There are very few strategy game series as revered as the Close Combat one. Being the pioneers behind simulating the psychological tool war has on soldiers, it is also one of the more details ...