Nexus Legacy, a grand strategy MMO, inspired by classic browser space strategy games, where you colonize the galaxy, released on Steam

Total War: Warhammer 40K is getting a closed beta in 2026, and after its latest gameplay reveal I'll be first in line

Self-cloning strategy game The Alters is getting a 20 hour terraforming expansion that plays with the problem of age

Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns arrives in August

Star Wars Zero Company release date leaks ahead of Summer Game Fest, and its XCOM-ish star warring isn't too far, far away

Pioneers of Pagonia – Meadowsong Expansion DLC Review: Meadowsong extends an already great city-builder with a lengthy scenario and tons of new things to consider while playing.

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Your allies in turn-based tactics game Menace can now be completely wiped out by the [REDACTED], but at least the new patch gives us battle tanks

Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus II - Review - Back in the never-ending war

"If they turn off, they might not be able to turn them on again": The charming reason behind Dawn of War 4's excitable, dancing mech

Theatre of War Rearmed First Impressions - This Series Is Finally Good!

Come dribble with me over this pitch for Total War: Redwall, in which Shrimp 'n' Hotroot soup is a vital strategic resource

Total War: Warhammer 3 pushes the giant tiger people button next week

Stellaris is getting space nomads and scenarios for its 10th birthday

"Your infidelity will no longer be broadcasted to everyone as it happens" declares Crusader Kings 3's latest patch, unless you made a baby at a certain time

Rally Point: What's it like to be in charge of the Xenonauts? Um. Two?

The Strait of Hormuz Crisis Game

Amberspire review - a strategy game dedicated to the dicey ecopoetics of urban sprawl

Europa Universalis V: Fate of the Phoenix Review: by no means essential, but those interested will be very pleased.

Ash & Adam's Existential Treads, a retro top down tank shooter x tower defence x city-builder hybrid, while also including exploration gameplay, with a unique art style, released on Steam

Repterra, a base-building survival RTS set in a world overrun by dinosaurs, where you can breed (and ride) new dinosaur types to reclaim the world for humanity, released in early access on Steam

Total War: Warhammer 40,000 will have destructible terrain elements: 'That forest, if you don't like it, you don't have to keep it'

Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes launches May 11

Meet the players who lost big money on Peter Molyneux’s failed Legacy

SandTable War: Three Kingdoms, a Grand Strategy game with a wargame-like presentation layer, focused on the historical Three Kingdom period in 3rd Century China, released on Steam

Menace's first major early access update overhauls its least interesting faction and jettisons its reviled promotion tax system: 'We have done away with it'

Peter Molyneux has made a proper game again rather than a monetization experiment, and I really hope he finishes it

Masters of Albion and Sintopia show god games are nothing without a deity's twitchy fingers

Adding naval warfare in time for Crusader Kings 3's Silk and Silver expansion would have blown Paradox's "schedule out of [the] water"

Scribed castle, a minimalist RTS x tower defence hybrid, with lite city-builder and economy gameplay and all art drawn in a medieval tapestry style, released on Steam

Minos review - Theseus can have the minotaur, this roguelike tower defense gets just too punishing

Cyber Knights: Flashpoint's latest update lets you two-time a pair of warring factions or ignore them completely

Crusader Kings III gets a new major patch and Chapter V expansion pass

Sintopia, a tycoon x god game hybrid, where you manage the bureaucratic administration of Hell to build a resurrection business of your dreams, released on Steam

Infamous Keepers is a reverse dungeon crawler where you have to survive after mass layoffs and oh no is this a games industry metaphor

Age of History 2: Definitive Edition, a grand stratgey game with a 13,892 province map and historical coverage ranging from the dawn of humanity to the distant future, released on Steam on Steam

After years in development v8 of the factory management RTS Mindustry is out

Explorers of Esmar, a combat and expansion focused city-builder, inspired by The Settlers 2/3, released in early access on Steam

Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager, a space exploration company management game where you compete with other corps in colonization, industry and spaceflight (all objects are in motion) across t

Warhammer Classics initiative re-releases 28 vintage Warhammer and W40K games, with seven out on Steam for the first time

DarkSwitch, a blend of vertical city-building, tower defense, and exploration, where you have to ensure the sruvivle of your colony of elves based on an ancient giant tree, released on Steam

Black & White at 25: how Lionhead's hairbrained, stoner-powered game design became the harbinger of modern AI

The Spotter: Dig or Die, an FPS x strategy x digging/exploration game hybrid, where you have to protect your base from waves of zombies while scavenging/mining underground, released on Steam

I have 1,700 hours in Europa Universalis 4. After one EU5 campaign, I can't go back—but I don't want to stay, either

Planetary Governor, a macro-focused, planet management game set in a feudalistic space empire setting, with factions, distinct characters with personalities and economic strategy gameplay, released in

Xenonauts 2 review - an exceptional tactics game, even without the nostalgia [available on GOG and Steam]

Wargame Design Studio American Revolutionary War [an in-depth histroical wargame including 60+ real battlefields to be released later in 2026] Interview

"I was chomping at the bit to crack the code": How procedural maps became XCOM 2's biggest ambition, after Firaxis couldn't manage it in Enemy Unknown

Xenonauts 2 hits 1.0 after almost three years of early access [on both Steam and GOG] and paves the way for mods galore