REVIEW | CORSAIR COVE | PARADISE NEEDS SUPPLY LINES

A wooden settlement climbs the side of a tropical cliff while ships cross water so clear and inviting that managing another production bottleneck briefly stops feeling important. Rope bridges hang between rock faces, elevators carry goods toward higher platforms, pirates wander between taverns and workshops, and the entire bay resembles a pirate postcard that has somehow come to life. Corsair Cove understands the immediate attraction of its setting...

PUBLISHED | 3O.O7.IIO26

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CLICK & PLAY | NEPTUNE’S PRIDE | THE GALAXY NEVER SLEEPS

A fleet leaves one star and begins a journey that may take several real-world hours to complete. By the time it arrives, the neighboring empire may still be an ally, may have quietly reinforced the target or may have signed a secret agreement with someone preparing to attack from the opposite side of the galaxy. Neptune’s Pride is a browser-based multiplayer space strategy game from Iron Helmet Games, built around slow real-time expansion rather than...

PUBLISHED | 3O.O7.IIO26

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PREVIEW | ANVIL EMPIRES | FROM OPEN FIELD TO FORTIFIED KINGDOM

A fortress does not appear because one commander selected it from a construction menu, and an army does not remain effective because supplies arrive automatically from an invisible economy. Every wall, weapon, meal, transport route and siege engine in Anvil Empires is intended to exist because real players gathered the materials, organized the labour and carried the finished equipment toward a war that may continue for weeks. Siege Camp, the studio behind...

PUBLISHED | 29.O7.IIO26

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TERRA INVICTA: DARK SKIES DLC | TWENTY MORE YEARS TO PREPARE

An alien invasion does not need to change for the entire war to become unfamiliar. Change the Earth waiting beneath it, move the opening decades backward or shatter civilization long before the first extraterrestrial probe appears, and every political alliance, research priority and journey into space develops under different pressure. Terra Invicta: Dark Skies, the first major DLC for Pavonis Interactive’s grand-strategy invasion simulator, is now available on PC...

PUBLISHED | 28.O7.2O26

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PREVIEW | ZEROSPACE | STARCRAFT AMBITION, RPG IDEAS

A fleet gathers above the Orion Sector while rival civilizations, mercenary armies and political interests prepare to decide who will control humanity’s next frontier. ZeroSpace enters Steam Early Access with ambitions far beyond delivering another competitive real-time strategy game. Its developers are attempting to combine traditional base building and large-scale battles with a cinematic campaign, crew relationships, dialogue choices, cooperative missions and...

PUBLISHED | 28.O7.IIO26

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POMPEII: THE LEGACY | SISCIAGAMES DELIVERS A MAJOR UPDATE

A public square can reveal more about a city than its walls, warehouses or military strength. Siscia Games has released Update v1.009.0 for Pompeii: The Legacy, introducing the Plaza as a new buildable city element while also delivering a substantial collection of interface changes, gameplay corrections, quality-of-life improvements, localization fixes and engine optimizations. The update arrived on July 20 and was presented by developer Željko Kos as more than...

PUBLISHED | 26.O7.IIO26

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CLICK & PLAY | MARTIN SADILEK'S OUTSPACE | COSMOS IN A TAB

A browser tab does not normally suggest enormous orbital stations, real-time fleet battles, industrial supply chains and journeys measured in actual travel time, yet that unlikely combination is precisely where Outspace establishes its identity. Created by Czech solo developer Martin Sadílek, this free online strategy game places players inside a persistent three-dimensional universe that runs without a conventional installation while attempting to preserve the...

PUBLISHED | 22.O7.IIO26

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SPECIAL | GAME OF THRONES: WAR FOR WESTEROS | WINTER MEETS WAR

A proper Game of Thrones strategy game should never begin and end with large armies marching beneath familiar banners. Westeros is defined by what happens before the battle begins, by the promises made in private rooms, the territories left unprotected, the allies who arrive too late and the ambitious commanders who understand that political victory can be more valuable than military strength. PlaySide Studios is finally placing that world inside a...

PUBLISHED | I7.O7.IIO26

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PREVIEW | MANDATE ORDER | CITY BUILDING WITH CONSEQUENCES

Mandate Order approaches the city-building genre from a harsher direction than the usual settlement fantasy. Its ancient Chinese stronghold is not being raised simply to grow, decorate and prosper; every farm, workshop, warehouse and defensive wall exists under the possibility of invasion. Set during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, Digital Sky’s strategy game combines free-form construction, resource management, government policy...

PUBLISHED | I4.O7.IIO26

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REVIEW | BSG: SCATTERED HOPES | SHARP, SMART, INTENSE

Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes understands the franchise better than many bigger licensed games ever managed. It does not treat Battlestar Galactica as a simple space-war skin, where ships explode, Cylons attack and the player moves from one clean objective to the next. Its real subject is pressure. The fleet is damaged, scattered and constantly exposed, and every decision feels like it belongs to a command structure already running out of time. That is...

PUBLISHED | I2.O7.IIO26

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