PC Strategy Games

Mushroom Wars 2

Mushroom Wars 2

Platform: PC
October 6, 2017
In Mushroom Wars 2, enemy tribes of feisty mushroom creatures face off in short but fierce RTS battles. Step into the shoes of a fearless Mushroom Commander, choose a hero to lead your army, and take control of the battlefield in a variety of multiplayer modes or challenging story campaign.
Metascore:
76
User Score:
6.4
Ogre

Ogre

Platform: PC
October 5, 2017
The official adaptation of the legendary wargame from Steve Jackson Games. Engage in futuristic warfare with armored hovercraft, superheavy tanks, infantry, and giant cybernetic war machines called Ogres.
Metascore:
66
User Score:
tbd
Total War: WARHAMMER II

Total War: WARHAMMER II

Platform: PC
September 28, 2017
Prince Tyrion, Defender of Ulthuan, guides the High Elves in their desperate efforts to stabilise the vortex as it roils above their home continent. Atop his palanquin-throne, the Slann Mage-Priest Mazdamundi directs his Lizardmen war-hosts as they surge northward from Lustria. He, too, is intent on preventing cataclysm, though the methods of The Old Ones must prevail. The Witch King Malekith and his sadistic Dark Elf hordes spew forth from Naggaroth and their labyrinthine Black Arks. He tastes great weakness in the vortex -- and great opportunity in its demise. Meanwhile a fourth, secretive race stirs, their motives obscured by sinister plots and machinations. The time for revelation is nigh... The second in a trilogy and sequel to the award-winning Total War: WARHAMMER, Total War: WARHAMMER II brings players a breathtaking new narrative campaign, set across the vast continents of Lustria, Ulthuan, Naggaroth and the Southlands. The Great Vortex Campaign builds pace to culminate in a definitive and climactic endgame, an experience unlike any other Total War title to date. Playing as one of 8 Legendary Lords across 4 iconic races from the world of Warhammer Fantasy Battles, players must succeed in performing a series of powerful arcane rituals in order to stabilise or disrupt The Great Vortex, while foiling the progress of the other races. Each Legendary Lord has a unique geographical starting position, and each race offers a distinctive new playstyle with unique campaign mechanics, narrative, methods of war, armies, monsters, Lores of Magic, legendary characters, and staggering new battlefield bombardment abilities.
Metascore:
87
User Score:
7.9
Raiders of the Broken Planet

Raiders of the Broken Planet

Platform: PC
September 22, 2017
This new game is a multiplayer 4 vs 1 asymmetrical third person shooter that features a distinctive blend of shooting, brawling and thinking man’s strategy. We think this game is a mouth-watering proposition to gamers looking for an immersive, cinematic story coupled with intense and epic online action.
Metascore:
54
User Score:
6.1
Stellaris: Synthetic Dawn

Stellaris: Synthetic Dawn

Platform: PC
September 21, 2017
Stellaris: Synthetic Dawn Story Pack provides an all-new way for players to establish their empire across the stars, starting the game as a Machine Empire -- a society made up entirely of robots. Unique game features and event chains will allow the machines to expand as a robotic consciousness, and create an AI-led network that grows to galactic dominance.
Metascore:
83
User Score:
7.0
Oriental Empires

Oriental Empires

Platform: PC
September 14, 2017
A turn based 4X strategy game, recreating the civilizations of ancient China. Develop your land, build great cities, raise huge armies and fight epic battles, with hundreds of soldiers fighting right on the game map. Advance your technologies, culture and religion to create one of mankind’s biggest empires.
Metascore:
74
User Score:
7.5
Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!!

Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!!

Platform: PC
September 13, 2017
The highest selling and most intense restaurant sim ever made is back! Deceptively easy to learn but incredibly difficult to master, Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!! is your journey of being the best chef in the world with your small but humble restaurant on the 50th floor of the Teragon Supertower.
Metascore:
62
User Score:
7.3
Tooth and Tail

Tooth and Tail

Platform: PC
September 12, 2017
Lead the revolution with an army of flamethrowing Boars, mustard gas-lobbing Skunks, and paratrooper-puking Owls. Tooth and Tail is a Real-Time-Strategy game featuring Single Player, Online Competitive Play, Split Screen, Replays, and more. Build a base, lead your army, eat your enemies!
Metascore:
80
User Score:
8.0
Battlestar Galactica Deadlock

Battlestar Galactica Deadlock

Platform: PC
August 31, 2017
In Battlestar Galactica Deadlock™ you’ll take command of the Colonial Fleet in defense of the Twelve Colonies during the First Cylon War. Lead many different types of ships in this 3D tactical game. Every decision counts, your strategy will be vital – can you ensure mankind’s survival?
Metascore:
77
User Score:
7.2
XCOM 2: War of the Chosen

XCOM 2: War of the Chosen

Platform: PC
August 29, 2017
XCOM 2: War of the Chosen adds extensive new content in the fight against ADVENT when additional resistance factions form in order to eliminate the alien threat on Earth. In response, a new enemy, known as the “Chosen,” emerges with one goal: recapture the Commander. This expansion includes new Hero classes to counter the “Chosen”, new enemies, missions, environments and increased depth in strategic gameplay.
Metascore:
88
User Score:
8.1
Distrust

Distrust

Platform: PC
August 23, 2017
A helicopter crash left a group of explorers stranded near an Arctic base. As they try to find a way back, all they are doing is sinking deeper into a nightmare scenario. When they sleep, they attract a terrifying force that sucks the life out of their bodies, but the longer they battle exhaustion and stay awake, the less likely they are to survive... As the survivors try to sleep just enough to stave off fatigue without dying, they slowly go mad and eventually reach the point where they can no longer trust their senses. In time, they can't even tell the difference between reality and a hallucination. Guide the survivors through a randomly generated Arctic base, overcome the severe climate and fight the unfathomable.
Metascore:
75
User Score:
7.7
Starcraft Remastered

Starcraft Remastered

Platform: PC
August 14, 2017
StarCraft®: Remastered upgrades the essential sci-fi strategy experience from beginning to end. Welcome back to the original game and its award-winning expansion, StarCraft: Brood War.
Metascore:
85
User Score:
7.9
Sudden Strike 4

Sudden Strike 4

Platform: PC
August 11, 2017
Sudden Strike is back! The beloved Real Time Strategy series returns, this time with bigger battlefields, more units, better graphics, new scenarios and legendary commanders with individual abilities all of which makes Sudden Strike 4 more tactical and realistic than ever before! Sudden Strike 4 sends you off on three extensive campaigns set amongst the battlefields of World War 2. Commanding the British and American, German or Soviet troops, you will lead over 100 different units into battle; like the German bomber Heinkel He111, the Russian T-34 tank, the British Hawker Typhoon fighter plane and the notorious German PanzerkampfwagenVI Tiger. In a first for the Sudden Strike series, you can now choose from one of nine individual commanders, such as George Patton or Bernard Montgomery, who will each allow for different approaches to combat and boast unique abilities. Prove your strategic expertise in over 20 demanding single player scenarios, the challenge-focused skirmish mode and the ultra-competitive multiplayer mode. Excellence will be rewarded through a unique reward system, where successfully completing missions will unlock exclusive content, such as historical film footage from the era. Sudden Strike 4 offers countless ways to vanquish your opponents. Exploit the weak spots of tanks, set up an ambush, occupy buildings with infantry, outmaneuver the enemy with clever positioning or unleash devastating air strikes how you approach each mission is up to you!
Metascore:
70
User Score:
7.6
Total War: WARHAMMER - Norsca Race Pack

Total War: WARHAMMER - Norsca Race Pack

Platform: PC
August 10, 2017
Conquer the Old World as the marauding tribes of Norsca and Wintertooth. Two new Legendary Lords: Wulfrik the Wanderer and Throgg. In the far north, between the Chaos Wastes and the Sea of Claws, lies Norsca. A barren, inhospitable peninsula in the far north of the Old World, it is home to ferocious tribes of warriors, hardened by the relentless blizzards, the barren icy tundra and the monstrous denizens of this accursed land. Fanatical servants of the dark gods, they will stop at nothing to prove their primal might, in a relentless hunt for worthy foes and fresh raiding grounds.
Metascore:
78
User Score:
7.7
Halcyon 6: Lightspeed Edition

Halcyon 6: Lightspeed Edition

Platform: PC
August 9, 2017
A retro space strategy RPG with base building, deep tactical combat, crew management and emergent storytelling. Halcyon 6: Lightspeed Edition is a massively enhanced version of the Award Winning indie strategy RPG, Halcyon 6.
Metascore:
73
User Score:
7.1
All Walls Must Fall

All Walls Must Fall

Platform: PC
August 8, 2017
All Walls Must Fall is a Tech-Noir Tactics game set in Berlin 2089, where the Cold War never ended.
Metascore:
72
User Score:
tbd
Aztez

Aztez

Platform: PC
August 1, 2017
Aztez is a highly stylized beat 'em up set in the world of the Aztec Empire. Take on the role of an elite close combat unit and undergo missions on behalf of the Empire in turn based strategy mode, and fight against warriors and mythological foes alike using 8 unique weapons in real time combat mode.
Metascore:
81
User Score:
5.3
Galaxy of Pen & Paper

Galaxy of Pen & Paper

Platform: PC
July 27, 2017
Galaxy of Pen & Paper is a turn-based meta RPG about a group of players rolling dice in the year 1999! Create your own game master and RPG party, as they roleplay, explore distant planets in their imagination, fight weird aliens and save the galaxy in the era of dial-up internet and floppy disks!
Metascore:
65
User Score:
7.4
Aven Colony

Aven Colony

Platform: PC
July 25, 2017
Aven Colony puts you in charge of humanity's first extrasolar settlement on Aven Prime, an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and jungles light years from earth. Build the infrastructure, look after the well-being of your citizens, manage your resources, and guide your colony to prosperity -- all while dealing with the harsh and often dangerous realities of an alien world. Features: * Build: Take charge of humanity's first extrasolar settlement on a new alien world. Build and expand your small colonies into massive, sprawling cities. * Discover: Deploy your crack team of pioneers to take on alien lifeforms and unlock the secrets of Aven Prime, as you tackle the campaign and sandbox modes. * Survive: Prepare for harsh winters, electrical storms and much more in this cruel and often dangerous new environment.
Metascore:
65
User Score:
8.1
Gigantic

Gigantic

Platform: PC
July 20, 2017
Gigantic is a fast and fluid Strategic Hero Shooter, where you battle against and alongside massive Guardians, in deeply strategic team gameplay. Think fast, be bold, Go Gigantic!
Metascore:
76
User Score:
8.4
Kingdoms and Castles

Kingdoms and Castles

Platform: PC
July 20, 2017
Kingdoms and Castles is a game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle.
Metascore:
71
User Score:
7.3
Antihero

Antihero

Platform: PC
July 10, 2017
Run a thieves' guild in a gas-lit Victorian city. Antihero is a fast turn-based strategy game with an (Oliver) Twist. Recruit street urchins, hire thugs, start a gang, upgrade your guild, steal everything... and bribe, blackmail, and assassinate your way to victory.
Metascore:
81
User Score:
7.0
The Elder Scrolls: Legends - Heroes of Skyrim

The Elder Scrolls: Legends - Heroes of Skyrim

Platform: PC
June 29, 2017
Adding a new set of over 150 cards, each pack of Heroes of Skyrim brings the iconic hallmarks of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim to Legends! From intimidating dragons to powerful Shouts to bestial Companions, this massive expansion is worthy of the Dovahkiin seal of approval. New Mechanics: Shout & Duel
Metascore:
80
User Score:
4.0
Master X Master

Master X Master

Platform: PC
June 21, 2017
Experience MXM's unique Tag System and quickly swap between two chosen Masters mid-combat, offering a new level of strategy, combos and tactics to master the battlefield.
Metascore:
76
User Score:
7.6
Blitzkrieg 3

Blitzkrieg 3

Platform: PC
June 2, 2017
Blitzkrieg 3 is a World War II real-time strategy game from Nival.
Metascore:
68
User Score:
4.0
The Elder Scrolls: Legends

The Elder Scrolls: Legends

Platform: PC
May 31, 2017
Welcome to The Elder Scrolls: Legends, a competitive strategy card game set in the Elder Scrolls universe. From building your deck to taking on foes in one of the game’s three exciting modes, every decision you make will require strategy and careful planning. Will you overpower your opponent with brute force? Or will you defeat your foes with speed and cunning? Each deck in The Elder Scrolls: Legends can be crafted using two of the five attributes in the game: Strength, Agility, Intelligence, Endurance and Willpower.
Metascore:
80
User Score:
5.5
Starpoint Gemini Warlords

Starpoint Gemini Warlords

Platform: PC
May 23, 2017
A blend of space sim, RPG and 4X games. Conduct research and construction in your own gigantic space station, command your war fleets and heroic companions to invade enemy territory, build up your stronghold, trade, mine, salvage and remind your enemies why they fear you.
Metascore:
73
User Score:
7.0
Steel Division: Normandy 44

Steel Division: Normandy 44

Platform: PC
May 23, 2017
Steel Division: Normandy is a tactical real-time strategy (RTS) game that pits players against AI enemies in a single-player campaign -- or against several opponents in massive 10-on-10 multiplayer battles.
Metascore:
83
User Score:
7.8
Regalia: Of Men and Monarchs

Regalia: Of Men and Monarchs

Platform: PC
May 18, 2017
Regalia: Of Men And Monarchs is a tactical RPG set in a cheerful fantasy world full of weirdness and wonder. Assemble your party, go adventuring, manage your kingdom, make new friends, and defeat your opponents in challenging turn-based combat.
Metascore:
73
User Score:
7.7
Endless Space 2

Endless Space 2

Platform: PC
May 18, 2017
The sequel to Endless Space. Endless Space 2 is turn-based, 4X space-strategy that will put you in the role of a leader guiding his civilization in making its first steps into the cold depths of interstellar space. Your Vision. Their Future.
Metascore:
80
User Score:
7.8
Cities: Skylines - Mass Transit

Cities: Skylines - Mass Transit

Platform: PC
May 18, 2017
Mass Transit an expansion for Cities: Skylines, the city-building game, and it brings several new systems into play to help citizens traverse their towns in speed and style. Commuters can now get around on the water, up high mountain peaks, and even through the sky thanks to the addition of ferries, monorails, cable cars, and blimps to the game.
Metascore:
78
User Score:
8.5
Oxygen Not Included

Oxygen Not Included

Platform: PC
May 18, 2017
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Manage your colonists and help them dig, build and maintain a subterranean asteroid base.
Metascore:
85
User Score:
8.3
Block'hood

Block'hood

Platform: PC
May 10, 2017
Block’hood is a neighborhood-building simulator that celebrates the diversity and experimentation of cities and the unique ecosystems within them. Budding city planners will have access to 90+ building blocks to arrange and combine and to create unique neighborhoods and discover the implications of their designs.
Metascore:
75
User Score:
8.6
Galactic Civilizations III: Crusade

Galactic Civilizations III: Crusade

Platform: PC
May 4, 2017
Experience a new side of Galactic Civilizations III with the Crusade expansion. Discover your enemy’s weak points with espionage, actively invade and conquer planets, and help talented citizens rise to power and drive your civilization into a golden age. With a detailed civilization builder tool for Steam workshop, espionage, revamped invasions, Galactic Citizens system, new races and civilizations, and more, Crusade adds a host of depth for Galactic Civilizations III.
Metascore:
85
User Score:
7.0
Dawn of Andromeda

Dawn of Andromeda

Platform: PC
May 4, 2017
Dawn of Andromeda is a plausible, real-time space 4X game focused on providing a fun, immersive and accessible experience. It allows you to build your empire, colonize new planets, interact with other factions and characters, research new technologies and build fleets so powerful your enemies will tremble. On top of that, the game brings you a galaxy filled with diverse factions, outlaws, merchants, pirate clans and mercenaries but also anomalies, black holes, ancient artifacts, ruins and much more.
Metascore:
70
User Score:
tbd
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III

Platform: PC
April 27, 2017
Jump into a brutal battle between three warring factions In Dawn of War III. You will have no choice but to face your foes when a catastrophic weapon is found on the mysterious world of Acheron.
Metascore:
77
User Score:
4.6
Expeditions: Viking

Expeditions: Viking

Platform: PC
April 27, 2017
Circa 790 AD. A small band of Norse warriors lands on the shores of England. History may have forgotten their names, but their actions live on. As the chieftain of your clan, let ambition guide your choices in the party-based RPG Expeditions: Viking. How will history remember you?
Metascore:
74
User Score:
8.0
Forts

Forts

Platform: PC
April 19, 2017
Unleash your creativity and strategic prowess in Forts, the exhilarating physics-based RTS! Design, construct, and customize imposing fortresses, bristling with devastating firepower, and blast your opponent's buildings to rubble! Experience the thrill of real-time construction and resource management as you forge ahead in the unforgiving race to develop your tech tree, and unlock a deadly arsenal of advanced weaponry to exploit your enemy's vulnerabilities. Savor the sweet taste of victory as their once-mighty forts collapse into smoldering heaps of ruin! Are you ready to embark on an adrenaline-fueled journey of construction, destruction, and ultimate domination? Join the ranks of Forts now, and let the battle commence!
Metascore:
74
User Score:
8.3
Orcs Must Die! Unchained

Orcs Must Die! Unchained

Platform: PC
April 19, 2017
Orcs Must Die! Unchained takes the Orcs Must Die! action tower defense game to a new level with team-based gameplay. Bust skulls with your best pals in PvE co-op Survival, or put your teamwork to the real test in Endless Mode.
Metascore:
87
User Score:
6.5
Stellaris: Utopia

Stellaris: Utopia

Platform: PC
April 6, 2017
Build a Better Space Empire in Stellaris: Utopia. The stars have called you for millennia and now you walk among them. A universe of possibilities is open to your species as it takes its first fitful steps into the great unknown. Here you can turn your back on the divisive politics of the home planet. Here you can build something new. Here you can unify your people and build that perfect society.
Metascore:
82
User Score:
8.3
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft - Journey to Un'Goro

Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft - Journey to Un'Goro

Platform: PC
April 6, 2017
Travel to the forbidding jungles of Un’Goro Crater, where primordial creatures from the dawn of time roam. Here, giant dinosaurs infused with raw magical power mercilessly hunt their prey, prehistoric fauna and flora abound, and unchained elementals run wild with primitive magic. Prepare your decks for the expedition of a lifetime.
Metascore:
79
User Score:
3.8
Domina

Domina

Platform: PC
April 3, 2017
Acquire, train, upgrade, and whip your brutish gladiators towards bloody victory in the ruthless arenas of ancient Rome.
Metascore:
73
User Score:
4.3
Has-Been Heroes

Has-Been Heroes

Platform: PC
March 27, 2017
Embark on an epic journey with the Has-Been Heroes, a group of legendary champions once celebrated throughout the kingdom - almost forgotten until the King has one more quest, the most epic of them all: TO TAKE THE TWIN PRINCESSES TO SCHOOL! Key features: * Meet the epic band of heroes as the young and eager Rogue, joining the company of the wise monk Metacles, the giant-wrestling warrior Crux... wait until you meet the others, incl. the Anthropologist turned Mexican Wrestler, the ever-vigilant and paranoid Bodyguard, and many more! * Unlock and collect hundreds of game-changing items and spells, boosting the heroes' powers and making each run unique! * Combine spells for devastating effects, learning the power of magic as you gain more elements. * Face countless monsters, each bigger and more menacing than the next. Can you wipe out the army of evil led by the Great Ghoul? * In roguelike fashion, die and try again - choose your heroes wisely and prepare for battle!
Metascore:
63
User Score:
6.1
Battle Brothers

Battle Brothers

Platform: PC
March 24, 2017
Battle Brothers is a turn based strategy RPG mix which has you leading a mercenary company in a gritty, low-power, medieval fantasy world.
Metascore:
80
User Score:
8.0
Loot Rascals

Loot Rascals

Platform: PC
March 7, 2017
Only you can rescue Big Barry - your huge robot head pal - from a space theme park that’s been invaded by a tentacled pan-dimensional godbeast.
Metascore:
71
User Score:
7.1
911 Operator

911 Operator

Platform: PC
February 24, 2017
911 OPERATOR is a game about the difficult work of people that manage emergency lines and services. Main task is to answer incoming calls and to react properly ­- give first aid instructions, advise, dispatch correct number of fireman, police, ambulances, or sometimes just ignore the call.
Metascore:
68
User Score:
6.8
Northgard

Northgard

Platform: PC
February 22, 2017
Northgard is a strategy game based on Norse mythology in which you control a clan of Vikings vying for the control of a mysterious newfound continent.
Metascore:
81
User Score:
7.4
Halo Wars 2

Halo Wars 2

Platform: PC
February 17, 2017
Lead Spartans, Warthogs and other classic Halo fighting forces in a brutal war against a terrifying new enemy on the biggest Halo battlefield ever.- All-new, Action-packed Story – The heroes of Halo Wars return to find themselves - and the galaxy - in more danger than ever. Following the events of Halo 5, the all-new story is told in action-packed missions set on the legendary Halo destination known as the Ark. Players will strategically command overwhelming firepower in large-scale battles against a terrifying threat facing the UNSC and all of humanity.- Build Your Halo Army – Construct your bases, prepare your vehicles and amass your troops. Lead them into huge battles that span across alien environments in a vast collection of campaign and multiplayer maps.- Multiplayer Warfare – Play with or against your friends and the Xbox Live community in up to 3v3 matches. All-new units with explosive firepower, Leaders with special abilities that help to turn the tide in battle and thrilling multiplayer modes are at your fingertips as you wage war on a variety of maps.- Blitz: Instant Command – Blitz is an entirely new way to experience Halo Wars and real-time strategy gameplay. Combining tactical combat with card-based strategy, your deck is your army in Blitz as you build collections of powerful Halo vehicles and troops and command those units in fast-action matches online or solo against waves of enemies.
Metascore:
70
User Score:
6.2
Realpolitiks

Realpolitiks

Platform: PC
February 16, 2017
Become the ruler of any contemporary country in this streamlined real-time grand strategy game. Use diplomacy, espionage, military and economic power to deal with other nations, while tackling issues such as terrorism, financial crises and medical epidemics, all in an effort to achieve global domination.
Metascore:
52
User Score:
6.7
Disgaea 2 PC

Disgaea 2 PC

Platform: PC
January 30, 2017
In the peaceful world of Veldime, humans rarely encountered monsters. That was until Overlord Zenon cursed the land and all who reside within. With the curse in place, the humans became monsters and ravaged the world. It is up to Adell, the last remaining human, to oppose Overlord Zenon's tyranny and restore peace and harmony to Veldime. In Disgaea 2, players will take on the role of a young fighter named Adell and travel the Netherworld to defeat the evil overlord Zenon. Battles will take place on a 3D grid-based field. During combat, players will take turns with the enemy to move and attack.
Metascore:
81
User Score:
8.5
Urban Empire

Urban Empire

Platform: PC
January 20, 2017
Urban Empire is a ‘City Ruler’, pioneering a new breed of strategy game that combines city builder features with political scheming and adds profound social and historical events into the mix, creating a whole new gameplay experience.
Metascore:
62
User Score:
5.3
Warhammer 40,000: Sanctus Reach

Warhammer 40,000: Sanctus Reach

Platform: PC
January 19, 2017
Warhammer 40,000: Sanctus Reach is a 3D turn-based strategy game like you’ve never seen before: fast, immediate, deep, impressive to look at and incredibly fun! Fight through a dark era of carnage and endless war and lead the Space Wolves in a struggle to defend the last bastion of mankind.
Metascore:
69
User Score:
6.9
Siegecraft Commander

Siegecraft Commander

Platform: PC
January 16, 2017
Siegecraft Commander is the latest installment in the popular Siegecraft franchise. With a combination of twitch mechanics and positional tactics, the objective is to build a fortress in a branching structure with specialised towers connected with lofty indestructible walls. Almost everything is performed by adjusting the angle and trajectory of projectiles. Fans of cult classic Moonbase Commander will appreciate the fresh look and overall improvements.
Metascore:
53
User Score:
tbd
Hearts of Iron IV: Together for Victory

Hearts of Iron IV: Together for Victory

Platform: PC
December 15, 2016
Join the Dominions as they step up to the challenge of defending the motherland for King and Country in Together for Victory, the first major expansion for Hearts of Iron IV, the critically acclaimed strategy wargame from Paradox Development Studio. This expansion puts the focus on British Commonwealth nations, deepening the experience of playing these outposts of the English language.
Metascore:
63
User Score:
4.2
Epic Manager: Create Your Own Adventuring Agency!

Epic Manager: Create Your Own Adventuring Agency!

Platform: PC
December 12, 2016
Epic Manager is a crossover between Sports Management, 4X and classic JRPGs. Experience an addictive “one more turn” mix of tycoon strategy, roguelike elements, roster management, combat and character progression, all rooted in an epic yet light-hearted fantasy setting. Rated ‘E’ for EPIC.
Metascore:
69
User Score:
tbd
Total War: WARHAMMER - Realm of the Wood Elves

Total War: WARHAMMER - Realm of the Wood Elves

Platform: PC
December 8, 2016
New Wood Elves Race in the Grand Campaign; New additional Race-specific currency: Amber; Wonder-based Campaign victory condition; Wood Elves may conquer any region on the map; Two New Playable Legendary Lords: Orion and Durthu; Two new Lord types with deep-specialisation skill trees; Three new Hero types with deep-specialisation skill trees.
Metascore:
76
User Score:
6.5
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun

Platform: PC
December 6, 2016
The tactical game with stealth elements Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is a cooperative endeavor of Daedalic Entertainment and Mimimi Productions. The game is a special take on the genre: it takes place during the Edo-Era of Japan in 1615. Within a playtime of roughly 25 hours, 5 characters will face challenging missions, each protagonist with their own special field of expertise. Only if you know the positive and negative qualities of your characters and play tactically and with finesse, will you master the challenges ahead.
Metascore:
85
User Score:
8.5
Cities: Skylines - Natural Disasters

Cities: Skylines - Natural Disasters

Platform: PC
November 29, 2016
Natural Disasters features a catalog of catastrophes to challenge mayor-players everywhere, including planning with early warning systems and emergency routes, devastating and destructive disaster effects, and caring for the populace as they struggle to rebuild. The expansion will also update Cities: Skylines with a new scenario editor and gameplay mode, allowing players to finally win – or lose – the game on their own terms.
Metascore:
80
User Score:
6.2
Planet Coaster

Planet Coaster

Platform: PC
November 17, 2016
Planet Coaster is the future of coaster park simulation games. From the developer: We’ve created a living world where every guest is an individual with their own personality and money in their pocket. We’re giving you limitless freedom to build rides and scenery piece by piece, and to seamlessly blend them with your own hand-sculpted terrain. We’re building a connected global village where everyone can share in your creativity. And that’s just the start. We hope you’ll join us to dream, build and share the ultimate coaster parks in Planet Coaster. [Frontier]
Metascore:
84
User Score:
7.7
RollerCoaster Tycoon World

RollerCoaster Tycoon World

Platform: PC
November 16, 2016
RCTW includes new innovations including an intuitive 3D track builder, deformable terrain, realistic coaster physics, and the ability to share your park creations. Players can also team-up with friends from around the globe to form a theme park company and compete with others worldwide. Experience the ride of your life as you customize incredible coasters, entertain your park guests, create stomach-churning corkscrews and become the world’s next RollerCoaster Tycoon.
Metascore:
43
User Score:
2.1
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation

Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation

Platform: PC
November 10, 2016
A massive-scale real-time strategy game where you command entire armies on a dynamic battlefield. Conquer multiple worlds across several single-player campaigns; or play with your friends in multiplayer combat.
Metascore:
81
User Score:
7.6
Motorsport Manager

Motorsport Manager

Platform: PC
November 9, 2016
Have you got what it takes to become the manager of a high-performance motorsport team? Motorsport Manager is a highly detailed, best-in-class management game for fans of motorsport. You’ll hire the drivers, build the cars and embed yourself in the dynamic world of racing. Every single detail will need to be considered in order to push your way to the championship title. Split second decisions on the race track combine with carefully laid pre-race plans; everything from building and customising your car to race-day tactics will affect your path to either ultimate victory or epic failure. Stop watching, start winning and take control as the manager of your own motorsport team.
Metascore:
81
User Score:
8.2
Beholder

Beholder

Platform: PC
November 9, 2016
You’re a State-installed Landlord in a totalitarian State. You must spy on tenants, peep, eavesdrop and profile! You must report on anyone capable of plotting subversion against the State.
Metascore:
75
User Score:
7.9
Transport Fever

Transport Fever

Platform: PC
November 8, 2016
Transport Fever is a railroad-focused tycoon game. Players start in 1850 and build up a thriving transport company. As an emerging transport tycoon, the player constructs stations, airports, harbors and makes money by connecting areas requiring transport services. Construct complex road-rail-water-air networks in the endless game and experience more than 150 year of transportation history. Fulfill the peoples needs and watch cities evolve dynamically. Supply industries with freight, develop complete cargo chains and enable economic growth. Build up a transport empire! Master challenges and get entertained in the campaign game mode. Two campaigns each consisting of ten missions with increasing difficulty can be tackled. Missions of the American and the European campaign tell the historical context of the 19th and 20th century and offer a wide range of real-world transportation challenges.
Metascore:
71
User Score:
7.7
Clockwork Empires

Clockwork Empires

Platform: PC
October 26, 2016
Assume the role of a Junior Bureaucrat (Colonial Grade), sent forth to seek fame, promotions, and natural bounty to feed the ravenous maw of Imperial Industry & Commerce. Build a prosperous colony, fill it with magnificent factories worked by oppressed laborers, and harness the awesome power of steam through fearsome machines invented by determined men and women of Science! History is yours to seize for fame and fortune, for Science, and for the Queen and the glory of the Clockwork Empires.
Metascore:
58
User Score:
3.1
Sid Meier's Civilization VI

Sid Meier's Civilization VI

Platform: PC
October 20, 2016
Civilization VI offers new ways to interact with your world, expand your empire across the map, advance your culture, and compete against history’s greatest leaders to build a civilization that will stand the test of time.
Metascore:
88
User Score:
7.1
Atlas Reactor

Atlas Reactor

Platform: PC
October 4, 2016
Face off in fast-paced, turn-based PvP with Atlas Reactor – a competitive game that fuses simultaneous turns with team tactics. Read minds, master customizable Freelancers, and outwit your enemies in a world where a 20-second turn can change the tide of battle.
Metascore:
81
User Score:
7.5
Masquerada: Songs and Shadows

Masquerada: Songs and Shadows

Platform: PC
September 30, 2016
Navigate the masked deceptions and deadly magic of a vividly Venetian city in this fully voiced pause-for-tactics RPG. In the turmoil-ridden Citte della Ombre, religion holds no sway. Only the songs sung of one’s deeds will carry an Ombrian’s legacy beyond death. Those who hold even the smallest morsel of power will make every effort to ensure their songs live on. Enter the Mascherines - masks that grant their wielders the power to channel the elements and cast destructive magic. The Mascherines have perpetuated a culture of inequality between the power-hungry guildsmen known as the Masquerada and the impoverished lower classes, the Contadani. A prolonged civil war, ignited by Contadani rebels who steal Mascherines from the Masquerada, has only drawn scars of mistrust across the Citte since. One of Ombre’s finest sleuths, Cicero Gavar, was exiled for a crime against the state five years ago, but he is now summoned back to Ombre to solve the mysterious kidnapping of the diplomat Razitof Azrus. As other members of the Masquerada join his investigation, all having their doubts about one another within this culture of deception, their faith will be pushed to the limit as a deeper conspiracy lurks in the shadows of Ombre.
Metascore:
64
User Score:
7.5
Sorcerer King: Rivals

Sorcerer King: Rivals

Platform: PC
September 22, 2016
You have risen to lead an up and coming civilization in magical land of Elemental. Your village lives in the shadow of one of the precious shards of magic. It also possesses something unique in all the world -- the Forge of the Overlord. This powerful artifact allows its user to craft magical items and equipment. Armed with the Forge of the Overlord, your people look to you to challenge the malevolent Sorcerer King, a being who has devastated the land and filled it with ruins and minions. Unknownst to him, you have learned the Spell of Ascension that will allow you to channel the magic of the shards and enable you to ascend to a being of nearly unlimited power who can set the world free (or destroy it). But you are not alone. Other civilizations are rising while the Sorcerer King schemes in his distant fortress. They too have their own plans…
Metascore:
78
User Score:
6.9
Cossacks 3

Cossacks 3

Platform: PC
September 20, 2016
Cossacks 3 is a combination of war, economy, army developing, building and upgrading. This RTS gameplay promises to return old fans in the golden ages of the genre and give newcomers a unique experience.
Metascore:
63
User Score:
6.5
Project Highrise

Project Highrise

Platform: PC
September 8, 2016
Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim.
Metascore:
73
User Score:
7.8
Tahira: Echoes of the Astral Empire

Tahira: Echoes of the Astral Empire

Platform: PC
August 31, 2016
A tactical turn-based RPG, set on a world fallen into a medieval dark age after the collapse of a spacefaring civilization. You must guide Tahira, the 20-year-old princess of Avestan, on the most challenging night of her life as she fights to save her people from the genocidal Astral Empire.
Metascore:
66
User Score:
6.0
Champions of Anteria

Champions of Anteria

Platform: PC
August 30, 2016
Champions of Anteria is a tactical RTS with Active-Pause Mode in which you can fight with three of five Champions in diverse and challenging battles. Each Champion is aligned to a magical element, and players must strategically choose the powers they bring into a battle, as interactions between affinities constitute a very important part of the gameplay. Champions of Anteria features a completely new narrative and adventure for players to enjoy. With a renewed focus on story, the economic and logistic features are revised and are handled via a homebase management system where you can craft items for your Champions and unlock new abilities. [Ubisoft]
Metascore:
67
User Score:
6.6
Master of Orion: Conquer the Stars

Master of Orion: Conquer the Stars

Platform: PC
August 25, 2016
Discover Master of Orion as it was always meant to be: A fully orchestrated score, interstellar warfare and exploration against the backdrop of animated far flung galaxies. Confront hostile civilizations, negotiate with mysterious aliens, share knowledge with allies and uncover this newly imagined universe.
Metascore:
74
User Score:
7.1
Worms W.M.D

Worms W.M.D

Platform: PC
August 23, 2016
With a hand-drawn 2D look, brand new weapons, the introduction of crafting, vehicles and buildings plus the return of some classic weapons and gameplay, Worms W.M.D is back.
Metascore:
76
User Score:
7.5
Duelyst

Duelyst

Platform: PC
August 23, 2016
Duelyst is a tactical turn-based strategy game with a heavy focus on ranked competitive play, brought to you by veteran developers and creators from Diablo III, Rogue Legacy and the Ratchet & Clank series. The world of Duelyst has an expansive identity and mythology, with gorgeous landscapes filled with rich, complex characters, untold stories and unraveled histories. The focus is on squad-based combat on a tactical map with fast-paced multiplayer 1v1 battles where victory comes from defeating your opponent's General. At launch, there will be five unique factions with a roster of 100+ battle units and spells.
Metascore:
82
User Score:
7.7
Guards

Guards

Platform: PC
August 19, 2016
Four heroes are facing a horde of evil! Ultimate abilities, magic artifacts, hero upgrades and clever tactics... All these will help to defeat the Boss. Play by the 4-heroes team. Defend against the hordes of monsters, plan your moves, improve your abilities. Defeat all the enemies on each level and join the deadly fight with Boss!
Metascore:
49
User Score:
7.9
Meridian: Squad 22

Meridian: Squad 22

Platform: PC
August 11, 2016
Meridian: Squad 22 is a single-player science-fiction real-time strategy game with a focus on base building and advanced tactics. Every single choice, every tactical decision you make, shapes the outcome of your story.
Metascore:
56
User Score:
tbd
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft - One Night in Karazhan

Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft - One Night in Karazhan

Platform: PC
August 11, 2016
Karazhan, long a potent nexus of arcane energies, is about to become the focal point of a very different kind of cosmic force. The wizard Medivh has used every bit of magic at his disposal to set up the most lavish and extravagant party of all time, and your name is on the guest list alongside the crème de la crème of Azeroth and beyond. With such an eclectic mix of attendees, it’s guaranteed that this party will be out of this world. But as you groove to the music and let the sights dazzle you, beware; one night in Karazhan, and even tough guys tumble. Keep your decks straight, your wits sharp, and above all, stay alive.
Metascore:
74
User Score:
4.1
Little King's Story

Little King's Story

Platform: PC
August 5, 2016
A blend of RPG, simulation and light Real Time Strategy gameplay, the action in Little King's Story is all about improving your skill level and those of your followers as a means of gaining wealth and territory, which will in turn benefit the overall health of your subjects and your status as king. As players enter their humble town after finding their crown, they are assisted by their advisors, especially Howzer, in taking on missions in the immediate area of town. With the success of each, as well as activities like farming and natural resources development, they will gain wealth in the form of in-game currency called 'Bol.' Once an essential infrastructure has been established in town a suggestion box is set up through which in-game characters can make quest suggestions to supplement those of your advisors. During quests players in the role of young King Corobo can control multiple subjects of his kingdom who follow and serve based on your kingly status. These subjects have different professions which come in handy in specific as well as general quest scenarios and should be chosen wisely. Additional training facilities can be constructed to retrain existing subjects as well as those that are added to your kingdom as it prospers and eventually needs to expand into surrounding territories. The world of Little King's Story is expansive and set on many levels. Although each level contains multiple possible boss battles, progression through the game levels always requires the defeat of a substantial boss. Battles become more intense as you set out to conquer the lands that surround your kingdom, although these are never too overbearing due to the game's easy to alter difficulty settings. As these campaigns against neighboring kingdoms proceed you are kept aware of the health and happiness of your subjects at home and that of your troops via an information bar at the top left, as well as a ticker scrolling across the screen. Balance their needs with the needs of an expanding kingdom and you may indeed become the best king ever.
Metascore:
62
User Score:
8.5
This Is the Police

This Is the Police

Platform: PC
August 2, 2016
This Is the Police is a strategy/adventure game set in a city spiraling the drain. Assume the role of gritty Police Chief Jack Boyd and dive into a deep story of crime and intrigue. Will Jack reach his retirement with a nice stack of bills, or will he end up broken ... or worse?
Metascore:
66
User Score:
7.8
Fallout Shelter

Fallout Shelter

Platform: PC
July 31, 2016
Fallout Shelter puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault from Vault-Tec. Build the perfect Vault, keep your Dwellers happy, and protect them from the dangers of the Wasteland. BUILD THE PERFECT VAULT Create a brighter futureunderground! Select from a variety of modern-day rooms to turn an excavation beneath 2,000 feet of bedrock into the very picture of Vault Life. OVERSEE A THRIVING COMMUNITY Get to know your Dwellers and lead them to happiness. Find their ideal jobs and watch them flourish. Provide them with outfits, weapons, and training to improve their abilities. PROSPER A well-run Vault requires a variety of Dwellers with a mix of skills. Build a Radio Room to attract new Dwellers. Or, take an active role in their personal lives; play matchmaker and watch the sparks fly! EXPLORE THE WASTELAND Send Dwellers above ground to explore the blasted surface left behind and seek adventure, handy survival loot, or unspeakable death. Find new armor and weapons, gain experience, and earn Caps. But dont let them die! PROTECT YOUR VAULT From time to time, idyllic Vault life may be disrupted by the dangers of post-nuclear life. Prepare your Dwellers to protect against threats from the outsideand within. Vault-Tec has provided the tools, but the rest is up to you. What are you waiting for? Get started building your Vault today for FREE.
Metascore:
63
User Score:
6.0
Total War: WARHAMMER - Call of the Beastmen

Total War: WARHAMMER - Call of the Beastmen

Platform: PC
July 28, 2016
The Call of The Beastmen Campaign Pack introduces the Beastmen as a playable race to Total War: WARHAMMER. A feral, Chaos-tainted horde race, they move like a plague across The Old World, fielding half-human aberrations and colossal beasts in battle, many of which feature unique abilities. The Beastmen are playable in the Grand Campaign, custom and multiplayer battles, and in their very own Story Campaign, An Eye For An Eye.
Metascore:
72
User Score:
4.5
Phantom Brave PC

Phantom Brave PC

Platform: PC
July 25, 2016
In the year of 921, on the world of Ivoire, in the island cluster called Wisteria, there is a place called Phantom Isle. Here live a 13 years old girl called Marona, she has a special ability to communicate with phantoms, this happened 8 years ago when his parents and a friend died at the talons of a mysterious monster, the Marona's parents used their last breath to revive his friend Ash, but not was enough, now Ash lives between life and death as a ghost and one Marona's guardians. Now they travel all over Wisteria to work as Chromas to earn enough money to buy Phantom Isle. In his aventure she will know as "The Possessed", but with his joy and optimism Marona did not bother. Marona believe in her parent's teachings that "people will one day come to like her as long as she stays compassionate and kind".
Metascore:
81
User Score:
8.2
Crush Your Enemies

Crush Your Enemies

Platform: PC
July 13, 2016
Return to the glory days of Real-Time Strategy games. Crush Your Enemies has planning, choosing different types of units, managing resources, taking enemy territory and outwitting your opponent with the ingenious formations of your men.
Metascore:
63
User Score:
6.4
Anarcute

Anarcute

Platform: PC
July 12, 2016
These are dark times. A group of evil corporations has taken over the world's major cities. They've taken over the media, brainwashed the police and are now shamelessly running citizens' lives from the security of their skyscrapers. It is time to act. Assume control of the revolution to confront the terrible Brainwash Patrol who are dominating the world.
Metascore:
79
User Score:
7.5
Space Run Galaxy

Space Run Galaxy

Platform: PC
June 17, 2016
Space Run Galaxy is the sequel to Space Run, the game from one-man studio Passtech, which seduced hundreds of thousands of players with its dynamic and original gameplay. By twisting the tower-defense game style, Space Run offered an addictive real-time spaceship construction strategy experience.
Metascore:
75
User Score:
5.5
SteamWorld Heist

SteamWorld Heist

Platform: PC
June 7, 2016
Join Captain Piper Faraday, smuggler and occasional pirate, as she recruits a rag-tag team of steam-driven robots and sets out on a daring adventure. With your hearty crew you’ll board, loot and shoot your way through enemy spaceships. Overcome the challenges of the vast frontier by upgrading your robots with unique abilities, weapons – and even stylish hats!
Metascore:
81
User Score:
7.8
Hearts of Iron IV

Hearts of Iron IV

Platform: PC
June 6, 2016
Hearts of Iron IV challenges players to face the brutal conflict of World War II in a multifaceted grand strategy game, where history can be fully relived or rewritten from the perspective of a global superpower attempting to change the world, or a small nation simply trying to survive.
Metascore:
83
User Score:
7.7
Turmoil

Turmoil

Platform: PC
June 2, 2016
Drill for oil like it's 1899! Turmoil offers players a visually charming, tongue-in-cheek take on the simulation genre inspired by the 19th century oil rush in North America.
Metascore:
73
User Score:
7.8
Planar Conquest

Planar Conquest

Platform: PC
May 30, 2016
Assume the roll of an all-powerful Sorcerer Lord and lead one of 8 different races to the ultimate victory. Explore multiple planes of existence, raid dungeons, and conquer cities. Expand your armies, cast mighty spells, and summon godly creatures to do your bidding. Fight the enemies in D20 OGL battles.
Metascore:
53
User Score:
6.4
Excubitor

Excubitor

Platform: PC
May 26, 2016
Excubitor is an action shooter at its core that challenges the player to strategically control the battlefield whilst using skill based mechanics. The player will have to master three key gameplay features: Offense, Defense and Resource Management. Each level contains strategic locations, allowing the player to build defenses, interact with the environment and change the enemies’ tactics.
Metascore:
69
User Score:
tbd
Total War: WARHAMMER

Total War: WARHAMMER

Platform: PC
May 24, 2016
In an era of ceaseless conquest, a myriad warriors clash in epic battles as entire races wage war on one another, each led by a notorious hero seeking dominion over the world. All at your command. The courageous Karl Franz marshals the men of the Empire, looking to unite the fractured elector counts under a banner of strength against their common foes. Hungry for the vicious brutality of combat, the Greenskins flock to the tribe of Grimgor Ironhide; Orcs and Goblins alike filled with an insatiable thirst for carnage. High King Thorgrim helms the stoic Dwarfs forth from their mountain strongholds, marching to right the serious injustices wrought upon them over the millennia. Yet the motives of the Vampire Counts under Mannfred von Carstein are shrouded in murderous secrecy, his armies raised from the decrepit ranks of the dead. And while the Old World is torn by betrayal, war and the unleashing of unfathomable power, a rising threat still whispers in the winds from the north. The fabric of reality itself begins to rend and buckle.
Metascore:
86
User Score:
7.4
Sengoku Jidai: Shadow of the Shogun

Sengoku Jidai: Shadow of the Shogun

Platform: PC
May 19, 2016
Sengoku Jidai: Shadow of the Shogun is a turn-based tactical and strategic game set during the Sengoku era; primarily focusing on the Japanese Warring States period and Japanese Invasion of Korea.
Metascore:
85
User Score:
5.8
Duskers

Duskers

Platform: PC
May 18, 2016
Pilot drones into derelict spaceships to find the means to survive and piece together how the universe became a giant graveyard.
Metascore:
83
User Score:
6.5
TASTEE: Lethal Tactics

TASTEE: Lethal Tactics

Platform: PC
May 10, 2016
Strategy has a new name and it’s damn TASTEE. Recruit a team of volatile mercs and execute dramatic gunfights on a mission to take down the Cartel. Out think, outmaneuver, and eliminate enemies in a fresh take on simultaneous turn-based tactics. Precision planning meets epic action.
Metascore:
74
User Score:
6.3
TransOcean 2: Rivals

TransOcean 2: Rivals

Platform: PC
May 10, 2016
In TransOcean 2: Rivals you'll face a new challenge as the boss of your own shipping line in both single-player and - for the first time - multiplayer mode: The international competition has gotten a lot tougher and the battle for the most lucrative contracts has only just begun.
Metascore:
69
User Score:
4.9
Stellaris

Stellaris

Platform: PC
May 9, 2016
Featuring deep strategic gameplay, an enormous selection of alien races and emergent storytelling, Stellaris has a deeply challenging system that rewards interstellar exploration as you traverse, discover, interact and learn more about the multitude of species you will encounter during your travels. Etch your name across the cosmos by uncovering remote celestial outposts,and entire civilizations. Will you expand through war or walk the path of diplomacy to achieve your goals?
Metascore:
78
User Score:
8.0
Offworld Trading Company

Offworld Trading Company

Platform: PC
April 28, 2016
Offworld Trading Company is a new direction for real-time strategy, where money is both your deadliest weapon and toughest defense. After the Earth is tapped out and the asteroids claimed by faceless megacorporations, the stark Martian surface is the final frontier on which dreamers and entrepreneurs can make something of themselves by staking their claim to the red planet’s abundant resources and building an economic engine capable of out-producing the competition.
Metascore:
78
User Score:
7.6
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft - Whispers of the Old Gods

Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft - Whispers of the Old Gods

Platform: PC
April 26, 2016
This sinister expansion revolves around the dark influence of the Old Gods, ancient and unspeakably evil creatures that have long lay hidden, imprisoned in the dark places of the world millennia ago. Despite their imprisonment, these shadowy beings' influence can be felt in every corner of Azeroth, twisting and corrupting any who hear their maddening whispers. With an army of followers performing forbidden empowerment rituals, the tentacles of these massive horrors are growing rapidly toward the light, eager to bring their own kind of excitement to the sunlit kingdoms and merry taverns of Azeroth.
Metascore:
85
User Score:
4.9
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