
Looks like a Viking-themed Age of Empires but is much more.

Looks like a Viking-themed Age of Empires but is much more.

A city-builder with a killer streak.

Every part of Stellaris is still here; the pieces have just been rearranged, neatly.

A solid remake of a game that’s past its time.

Railway Empire should be so much better.

Easily confused with Life is Feudal: Your Own, Life is Feudal: MMO takes the multiplayer medieval crafting and survival game and makes it larger and, through developer-run servers, more permanent.

This first expansion fills the game with big historical moments and crises.

The Tomb Kings are ultimately a great addition to Warhammer's perpetually pissed-off factions, but their poor integration into the Vortex campaign suggests that Creative Assembly haven't quite figured out how to add factions who don't share the core participants' objectives.

SpellForce 3 is a game that, when pulled apart, doesn't always come out looking great, but that I've still really enjoyed.

What if Thief was an open-world isometric RPG?

If you're in desperate need of a historical strategy romp, you could do a lot worse than Empire Divided, and it's the best piece of Rome DLC by quite a large margin, but barely a turn went by without me wishing I was bullying Elves or fighting the hordes of Chaos instead.

Overgrowth feels like a mod created for a wacky physics sandbox where all the openness and experimentation has been pushed to the side, and everything else has been twisted around a forgettable, barely present story and a series of brief and ugly levels. I'm just glad that, at around two to three hours long, it's incredibly short.

With the combat system and the way it's actually trying to make a point with its exploration of social issues, The Fractured But Whole does improve on its predecessor in some ways, but it quickly starts to coast, relying too much on familiarity to get by.

A fast-paced real-time strategy game that feels great with a controller.

It's an exceedingly strong beginning to this chapter of the Warhammer trilogy and is a strong contender for the best game in the series.