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Real-time tactics game Strategos aims to outflank Total War with over 120 factions at launch
MicroProse announced as publisher
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Romestead is an upcoming survival city-builder that brings some quite lovely pixel art to ancient Rome
And it's being published by former Valheim and Minecraft devs
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Most Civilization players don't finish a single game, going by Civ 6 data, and perhaps that's the best way to play
Hence Civ 7's Age system
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IGF 2025 nominees show what a wild and vibrant place indie gaming is
There are several surprise nominations and absences this year
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Dynasty Warriors: Origins review: a glorious, melodramatic and convincing illusion of tactical warfare
Romance of the me kingdoms
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Dreams On A Pillow's developer on the challenges of making games from the West Bank
Crowdfunding success aims to tell the story of the 1948 ethnic cleansing
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Our 50 most anticipated PC games of 2025
Here's what we're excited about in what looks like a big year
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Ancient Chinese RPG The Bustling World is, in fact, all of the genres, from city builder to life sim
Too ambitious for its own good?
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The RPS Selection Box: Jeremy's bonus games of the year 2024
Hauntings and dragons and whips
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Times Of Progress is an elegant, focussed city builder set during the Industrial Revolution
More steam engines for Steam
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Band Of Crusaders is a dark fantasy party RPG with heady overtones of XCOM and Diablo
Archdemons mount European package tour in face of local objections
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In medieval strategy sim County Of Fortune you run a whole county's worth of quarrelling towns
Unless you persuade them to get along
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In horror puzzler Corporeal, you reassemble a cursed photo album from the 1990s
The Pog decade continues to haunt us
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I'm sorry for all the dead bodies I left behind while walking from Ireland to China in Crusader Kings 3's brilliant new DLC
The Roads To Power are paved with good intentions
Review
Ara: History Untold review: a pretty, almost great resource management game chafing under a 4X suit
Delegation of a nation
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Ghost Of Yotei announced as a samurai sequel to Ghost Of Tsushima
Yoteiking the piss by not confirming a PC version
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Nikhil Murthy's Syphilisation is a ferociously in-depth, empathic reworking of Civilization and other 4X games
Now out of early access, but still has a demo
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Turn-based strategy game Bonaparte wants to redo the French Revolution, but this time with mechs
Let them eat clockwork