Strategy Games

Extreeminatus.

Publisher Dotemu have revealed their space strategy game Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes is now set to release May 11th.

After millions in NFT sales, the hyped “play to earn” game was effectively dead in weeks.

Molyneux made a lot of his now-famous grandiose promises about the design of Legacy, of course, calling it “a vast and epic game” where you could design “any conceivable product… anything you can think of” to build your business around. In a contemporary interview with The Verge, he promised “the most advanced simulation that I have ever been involved with,” complete with “moral choices and [a] narrative storyline [that] really picks at those moral choices.” At Galaverse, he added, “I’ve been involved in simulations for decades now, and this is everything we know about those simulations.”

In addition to Molyneux’s usual game design bluster, though, was a newfound enthusiasm for the idea of making money from simply playing a game. “And because it’s a blockchain game, you earn,” Molyneux said at Galaverse, leaning on the last word for emphasis. “For a game designer, imagine how exciting it is to know that a game design that you’ve been working on, people will be earning money with it!”

“I want to focus and make Legacy the defining game of blockchain gaming—because that’s the sort of ridiculously optimistic person that I am—and a defining game of any of the games that I’ve created before,” he said in a separate livestreamed Galaverse interview. “It feels like the start of something interesting… I just get super excited in places like this, and I think what Gala is doing is incredible.”

Who doesn't love a rebate?

Masters of Albion is a promising god game, but it's very much in early access at the moment.

As Masters of Albion and Sintopia show, it's amazing how giving us a physical hand gestures in god games can make us feel godlike.

Crusader Kings 3's Silk and Silver expansion won't introduce naval warfare, Paradox have confirmed.

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Minos is a roguelike tower defense game that starts strong but rapidly becomes too complicated to meet its demands for precision.

Or you can stop being so choosey and just pick a side.

Crusader Kings III just got a major update released, along with a new expansion pass to bring extra content to the popular Paradox strategy game.

The spin-off of Legend of Keepers takes a similar concept in a new direction.

Infamous Keepers on Steam

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Defend Your Dungeon! Infamous Keepers (Reveal Trailer) - Roguelike & Tower Defense

Mindustry is a free and open source open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements, with a major new update finally out.

The Warhammer Classics initiative re-releases 28 vintage Warhammer and W40K games, with Steam debuts for Shadow of the Horned Rat and the original Chaos Gate.

Darkswitch on GOG (coming soon)

Peter Molyneux, Google DeepMind's Richard Evans, and more on the making and legacy of Black & White as it turns 25.

I have 1,700 hours in EU4—now I don't feel like I can go back, but EU5 has to change if I'm going to play it again.

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Xenonauts 2 - 1.0 Launch Trailer

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Reviews (1.0 release):

• Shacknews - Xenonauts 2 review: Good ol' fashioned strategic flip a coin & die
• Neowin - Xenonauts 2 review: Modern take on classic XCOM, but lacking style