You control a group of mercenaries, trying to keep the books balanced and upgrading your suite of mechwarriors and battlemechs in the game's strategy layer.
In battle, you target specific parts of enemy mechs, taking into account armor, angle, speed and the surrounding environment, then make difficult choices when the fight isn't going your way.
It can initially be overwhelming and it's undeniably a dense game, but if that's what you want from your strategy games or you love this universe, it's a great pick. A beautifully designed, near-perfect slice of tactical mech action from the creators of FTL. Into the Breach challenges you to fend off waves of Vek monsters on eight-by-eight grids populated by tower blocks and a variety of sub objectives.
Obviously you want to wipe out the Vek using mech-punches and artillery strikes, but much of the game is about using the impact of your blows to push enemies around the map and divert their attacks away from your precious buildings.
Civilian buildings provide power, which serves as a health bar for your campaign. Every time a civilian building takes a hit, you're a step closer to losing the war. Once your power is depleted your team travels back through time to try and save the world again. It's challenging, bite-sized, and dynamic. As you unlock new types of mechs and mech upgrades you gain inventive new ways to toy with your enemies. The game cleverly uses scarcity of opportunity to force you into difficult dilemmas. At any one time you might have only six possible scan sites, while combat encounters are largely meted out by the game, but what you choose to do with this narrow range of options matters enormously.
You need to recruit new rookies; you need an engineer to build a comms facility that will let you contact more territories; you need alien alloys to upgrade your weapons. You can probably only have one.
In Sid Meier described games as "a series of interesting decisions. The War of the Chosen expansion brings even more welcome if frantic changes, like the endlessly chatty titular enemies, memorable nemeses who pop up at different intervals during the campaign with random strengths and weaknesses. Sneaky tactics doesn't come in a slicker package than Invisible Inc. It's a sexy cyberpunk espionage romp blessed with so much tension that you'll be sweating buckets as you slink through corporate strongholds and try very hard to not get caught.
It's tricky, sometimes dauntingly so, but there's a chance you can fix your terrible mistakes by rewinding time, adding some welcome accessibility to the proceedings. First, you manage stockpiles, and position missile sites, nuclear submarines and countermeasures in preparation for armageddon. This organisation phase is an interesting strategic challenge in itself, but DEFCON is at its most effective when the missiles fly. Blooming blast sites are matched with casualty numbers as city after city experiences obliteration.
Once the dust has settled, victory is a mere technicality. Unity of Command was already the perfect entry point into the complex world of wargames, but Unity of Command 2 manages to maintain this while throwing in a host of new features.
It's a tactical puzzle, but a reactive one where you have the freedom to try lots of different solutions to its military conundrums. Not just a great place to start, it's simply a brilliant wargame. Hearts of Iron 4 is a grand strategy wargame hybrid, as comfortable with logistics and precise battle plans as it is with diplomacy and sandboxy weirdness.
Ostensibly game about World War 2, it lets you throw out history as soon as you want. Want to conquer the world as a communist UK? Go for it. Maybe Germany will be knocked out of the war early, leaving Italy to run things.
You can even keep things going for as long as you want, leading to a WW2 that continues into the '50s or '60s. With expansions, it's fleshed out naval battles, espionage and other features so you have control over nearly every aspect of the war. Normandy 44 takes the action back to World War 2 and tears France apart with its gargantuan battles. It's got explosive real-time fights, but with mind-boggling scale and additional complexities ranging from suppression mechanics to morale and shock tactics.
The sequel, Steel Division 2 , brings with it some improvements, but unfortunately the singleplayer experience isn't really up to snuff. In multiplayer, though, it's pretty great. And if the World War 2 setting isn't your cup of tea, the older Wargame series still represents some of the best of both RTS and wargaming, so they're absolutely worth taking for a spin.
We're always updating this list, and below are a few upcoming games that we're hoping we'll eventually be able to include. These are the strategy games we're most looking forward to, so check out what you should be keeping an eye on. There's also a dynamic turn-based campaign, where you can pretty much do everything that's possible in the RTS layer, whether that's dropping artillery strikes on enemy or sending engineers in to deactivate mines.
There's also an expanded destruction system that gives objects, whether they are buildings or foliage, different damage states, so you'll see buildings being slowly eroded and chipped away at before the finally collapse. Other new headline attractions include extremely customisable companies and detachments—you can add a medical detachment to a company and then summon a medical truck mid-battle—and full tactical pause. It's not coming until , but you can take it for a spin earlier by signing up to Games2Gether, which will let you try out alpha and beta builds.
The conclusion to Creative Assembly's Warhammer trilogy is coming this year, and it looks like it's going to be massive. The series has been gearing up for a big confrontation with the forces of Chaos, so Total War: Warhammer 3 will give us a quartet of daemonic armies to fight with, and a pretty different battlefield: the Realm of Chaos. Kislev, Cathay and the Lands of the East will also be thrown into the mix, and Creative Assembly boasts that it will have an "unprecedented scale".
Expect big monsters, and a campaign that's twice the size of Warhammer 2's Eye of the Vortex campaign. Call of War official website. Create intricate battle plans, work with your allies and defeat your opponents! Prepare for war, build up your armies and defenses and do your best to survive. If the tides of battle turn against you, take direct control of a soldier or vehicle and take on your enemy directly, bringing your forces victory!
Official Call to Arms site. Choose and command your troops both from the sky and on the ground. Unlock new, awesome equipment, including tanks, APCS, helicopters and more. It is up to you, along with your online allies, to face them and take back the galaxy. Build and command your fleets, form alliances and battle your foes in real time. Build up your base and construct massive fleets.
Send out your fleets to battle in real time across space. Train troops and build machines to wage war against the opposing side in the conflict.
Only cooperation with your allies will bring you victory in this tumultuous time. Official Star Wars site. Encounter your favorite characters from the Star Wars franchise. Build your forces to attack enemy headquarters and claim the resources within. Fight as part of the Confederation or the Resistance and duke it out with players from around the world. You can cooperate with other players or fight solo, and do so in a classic RTS style.
Official Art of War Site. Fight in intense, real-time battles against thousands of opponents. Customize your units and buildings to gain the tactical edge over your foes. In DomiNations, you must lead your people from the stone age and antiquity up to the modern era and the space age.
Build up your village and train your troops, then wage war against other rulers for loot. Team up with other players to form alliances and take on even bigger opponents, then claim rule over the world! Official DomiNations website. Build up your army and send it to raid and pillage the towns of your enemies. Build up your own town and prepare your defenses to defend against threats. With gameplay modes separated by types of stars, you must build up your solar empire and fight for dominance and resources against other players.
Trade is also a viable path to growth - but battle will remain inevitable. Build up an impressive fleet and fight for dominance over various star systems. Expand your empire in your home star system and trade with players for valuable resources.
Art of War: Red Tides features a relatively simple game concept with intricacies hidden in its mechanics. Official Art of War site. Send your troops and work with your allies to take out enemy units and structures. Hearthstone brings the field of fantasy battle to a tavern card table. Collect new cards, assemble powerful decks and fight both against AI and other players.
Discover new strategies, figure out card combinations and improve your skills to become a Hearthstone champion! Official Hearthstone site.
Utilize a huge selection of spells, monsters, abilities and weapons to achieve victory. Beat your opponents in online matches to show off your prowess. The classic card game featured in the Witcher series now free to play for all! Assemble your troops and plan each one of your moves carefully to crush your opponent. A game that is far easier to learn than it is to master, this will provide a great challenge for veterans of the trading card genre.
Official Gwent website. Use special abilities and spells to gain an edge in battle. Wage war across the galaxy as you fight for one three factions - the zerg, the terrans or the protoss - and battle for resources and domination.
With an intense multiplayer mode and some of the best strategy gameplay out there, this is a game everyone should try out. Starcraft II official website. Build up your base and a variety of units in preparation for battle. The game's presence in North America is still very tame compared to the likes of Defense of the Ancients 2 or League of Legends , which are always high up on the Raptr monthly gaming charts. However, CrossFire has an exceptionally strong following in South Korea, where the game originated.
It's not surprising that the Counter-Strike -esque MOFPS would continue to maintain a healthy following in its home country, propelling it to the top of the global charts. I'm especially impressed with Team Fortress 2 , rivaling the likes of Star Wars: The Old Republic for equal revenue share, despite the fact that Team Fortress 2 is going to be seven years old this year.
Greed for Glory is a fast-paced strategy game developed by PerBlue. Players need to build the strongest empire and wage epic war against Orcs. Lead a mighty army of Knights, Elven Archers, Wizards, and other creatures with others online.
Grow your village and keep evolving to gain more experience points. Ask your friends for help if you want to get fast results. The battles have great 3D effects. Players need to protect the fantasy world of Aldfarne from the fierce hordes. Face off in various challenges using strategy and tactics. Every army has its own abilities so make sure you choose wisely. Use your magic wisely on the battlefield and watch out for treasure chests.
Line Strategy Pro is a game that will get you to think for hours. Earn points by lining up five or more balls of the same color. Players will explore areas including deserts, snow-covered plains, exotic islands and other exotic islands. Fight knights, archers, orcs, trolls, dragons and skeletons.
Similar to RPG games, players will need to lead their soldiers and gain experience to become stronger at every fight. Build and upgrade towers to improve strength, speed, range and damage.
Landrule is a multi-player, turn-based strategy game by Pixamark LLC. Similar to Age of Conquest, players will battle against thousands of other players online. Develop a new strategy to conquer all of the maps.
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