Strategy Games
‘Surviving Mars’ Taught Me I Would Not Survive on Mars
The new city-building strategy game lets you colonize Mars with “minimal casualties.”
Someone Needs to Put Emily Blunt in a Video Game, OK?
The simple beauty of 'Into the Breach' and underrated sci-fi classic 'Live, Die, Repeat.'
'Into the Breach' Didn't Click Until I Played it Like an EMT
Mech strategy is hard for me to parse, but patient care in a cascading emergency? That makes sense.
'Rise and Fall' Takes a Cautious Step Toward a More Nuanced 'Civilization'
An interesting expansion proves too wary of it's own changes to the status quo of 'Civilization VI'.
'Moby Dick' Makes for an Improbably Good, Very Strange Strategy RPG
Reviewing Picaresque's 'Nantucket'; Or, 'The Raid-Boss of the Oceans'
Meet the Developers Behind a Wargame About People, Not Weapons
'Burden of Command' looks at a familiar battlefield from an new and novel angle.
'They Are Billions' Is Zerg Rush: The Game
One part of 'StarCraft,' over and over again, but in a good way.
The Best Games of 2017: Day 1
This year saw players commanding troops, exploring labyrinths, flying through the air, going home, and (of course) crying.
'Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle' Is the Perfect Bedtime Game
I mean, it’s pretty great anywhere, but it’s even better as a wind-down.
Four Years After Launch, 'Rome 2' Might Finally Become a Great Game
Creative Assembly return to their epic—and epically flawed—blockbuster with an ambitious patch and a major expansion.
Life and Death at the Spear Tip of ‘Total War: Warhammer’
On this field, on this day, I will pay the price for being poor and young and powerless.
Dystopian Strategy Game 'Alpha Centauri' is a Little Too 2017
The classic strategy title has never felt more relevant.