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The Civilization games have long been a cornerstone of the turn-based strategy genre. If you’ve always wanted to try them out, or just want to plug some gaps in your collection, a new Humble Bundle encompasses most of the series. It includes Civilization 3, 4, 5, and 6 (plus DLCs) for only $18 / £13.86 […]
After a flurry of Dune games in the 1990s and early 2000s, fans of the franchise endured a painful wait of roughly two decades for a new one. With the 2021 movie reinvigorating the Dune universe, the responsibility of delivering a new Dune videogame landed on the shoulders of Shiro Games. The studio delivered, with […]
I’m as excited for Civilization 7 as everyone else, but I can’t help but wonder what it could be if it stepped outside the comfortable familiarity of real-world history. In Zephon, the planet as we knew it is all but dead, blasted into a nightmarish wasteland by an alien apocalypse. Rather than exploring with an […]
Since its launch, 4X game Millennia has been hard at work attempting to come back from a rocky launch that saw it receive a ‘mixed’ rating on Steam. Now in much better health, it’s proving itself a worthy competitor to big hitters like Civilization 6, Ara History Histold, or Age of Wonders 4. Its next […]
One thing it’s always important to remember in any Civilization game is to never trust anyone. You have to keep in mind that everyone you meet, from peace loving pals to warmongers, is only ever truly out for themselves. In Civilization 7 one new leader looks like that’ll be made much more obvious, as Niccolo […]
In Ororto you are traveling around a world inspired by the Colombian Muisca civilization – a colorful place of open paths, enemies, puzzles. Isometric metroidvanias/exploration-focused action games are rarely my thing. I myself getting lost and not knowing exactly what I am meant to do next. However, when I sat down to play Ororto at […]
There seems to be a big influx of medieval games at the minute, but I feel like few will truly embody the power fantasy of being a medieval ruler like Liegecraft. Why? Well, it fuses together the relentless empire expansion of strategy games like Civilization with all the decision making, interactions, and storytelling you’d expect […]
It’s those final few hours of Civilization 6 that can really grind you down, when the map is teeming with different units from every single opponent, and you’re all fighting one another turn after brutal turn. Civilization 7 is reworking the entire meta game, as your nation and culture evolves with each new era, and […]
I have a tendency in games like Civilization 7 to turtle. I get a few cities on the go and then sit behind walls, building and researching while stubbornly refusing to actually recruit an army. This means that as the game progresses into the middle eras, I can’t expand anymore and if someone wants to […]
Whether it’s Civilization 6 or Millennia, Stellaris or Europa Universalis 4, grand strategy games are big – the clue is in the name. But Civ 7 rapidly on its way to PC and Firaxis set to reclaim the genre throne, there’s an underrated contender that, just in terms of sheer scale, might be the biggest […]