Strategy: Real-Time Strategy

A group of tanks and artillery shooting at a huge mass of purple vegetation on a desert planet in strategy game Calyx

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In creepy real-time strategy game Calyx you battle a huge mass of alien plants

Rout the sprouts

Jan. 21, 2025 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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A winged woman with a sword battling another, elven woman in promotional art for Wartorn

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Bioshock's lead designer is making an elven real-time tactics game that looks like a painting and reminds me of Myth

Out spring 2025

Jan. 15, 2025 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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Two huge armadas of spaceships doing battle in Annihilate The Spance

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I reckon you autobattler sickos will like Annihilate The Spance, probably you RTS nutters too

Spance! The final fronntier

Jan. 14, 2025 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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A flappy-winged fantasy plane shooting cannon balls at a flying city in The Airborne Empire

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Flying city-builder Airborne Empire hits early access today with a new military element

Laputa shooter

Jan. 13, 2025 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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Hit city-builder Manor Lords has been updated with two new maps and a heap of changes

Bridging the gap to 1.0

Jan. 10, 2025 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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A terrifyingly painted space marine model.

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Future Creative Assembly games may "require blood thematically", which sure sounds like a Total War: Warhammer 40,000 teaser

Blood is compulsory

Jan. 9, 2025 Nic Reuben

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Subnautica 2, Mushroom Musume, Sid Meier's Civilization VII and Monster Hunter: Wilds screenshots.

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Our 50 most anticipated PC games of 2025

Here's what we're excited about in what looks like a big year

Jan. 8, 2025 Graham Smith

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Artwork from Valheim, No Man's Sky and Astroneer form the header for our best survival games list

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The 30 best survival games on PC

Promise me that you will never die

Jan. 2, 2025 Ed Thorn

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Screenshots from Alan Wake 2's Lake House DLC, Total Warhammer's Thrones Of Decay DLC, and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth.

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The RPS Selection Box: Nic’s bonus games of the year 2024

Games in a box? What is this, 1997?!

Dec. 27, 2024 Nic Reuben

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Promotional art for Roblox game King Legacy, or King Piece, showing a character running towards the screen holding a glowing purple weapon in their teeth.

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King Legacy codes list

Codes you can redeem in King Legacy for free Beli, Gems, and more!

Dec. 23, 2024 Ollie Toms

Golgfag Maneater opens a big chest of gold in the trailer for Total War: Warhammer III Omens Of Destruction.

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Total War: Warhammer’s Rich Aldridge on roleplaying, iteration, and lessons from nearly a decade on strategy’s most ambitious series

"There's good energy" for the team right now, says game director

Dec. 12, 2024 Nic Reuben

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Title art for Band Of Crusaders, showing a bunch of knights in armour squaring off against a winged insect demon.

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Band Of Crusaders is a dark fantasy party RPG with heady overtones of XCOM and Diablo

Archdemons mount European package tour in face of local objections

Dec. 12, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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Fighters attacking a larger capital ship in Nebulous Fleet Command

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Beautiful, brainy space RTS Nebulous: Fleet Command is getting carriers and fightercraft

Carrier update coming in January

Dec. 10, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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A big orc on a big boar in Total War Warhammer 3.

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Supporters only | Total War: Warhammer III’s Gorbad Ironclaw feels like the perfect final expansion for the Greenskins

Brutal Cunning

Dec. 10, 2024 Nic Reuben

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A large goblin rides a chariot into battle in Total War Warhammer 3.

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Supporters only | Object-ive Review: Total War Warhammer III’s Crown Of Command

Hat trick

Dec. 6, 2024 Nic Reuben

5 comments

A screenshot from Creeper World IXE, in which a bunch of 2D spaceships lasering hills and rock deposits to repel and rerout tides of purple liquid

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One of strategy gaming's true oddballs returns in Creeper World IXE, which pits starships against oceans of wrathful gloop

Fleet vs flow

Dec. 3, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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Artwork of an orc and a human staring at each other in Warcraft II: Tides Of Darkness

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You’ve got ten days to pick up the original Warcraft I & II from GOG before Blizzard pull them, but GOG will support their preservation forever

They'll still work work

Dec. 3, 2024 Nic Reuben

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Two ambulances attend players at the front.

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I play Foxhole as a pacifist medic who refuses to carry a gun but the enemy doesn't seem impressed

Trust me, I'm sort of a doctor

Nov. 28, 2024 Brendan Caldwell

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A terran marine from the original Starcraft manual, cropped.

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Blizzard's old manual art is a real nostalgia trip

Ahh... That's the stuff!

Nov. 28, 2024 Nic Reuben

31 comments

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Omens Of Destruction brings hot gnoblar on gnoblar action to Total War: Warhammer 3

Plus the series' 100th legendary lord

Nov. 26, 2024 Nic Reuben

21 comments

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Manor Lords is getting new maps, building upgrades and reworks for the marketplace and ale distribution

Pretty much got everything into the headline, there

Nov. 25, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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Mice line up in Medieval II Total War mod Mossflower.

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Turn Medieval II: Total War into Redwall with this Mossflower TW mod

Cheese is encouraged

Nov. 22, 2024 Nic Reuben

5 comments

A close-up of two ships in combat in Homeworld 3

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Homeworld 3's last major update adds superweapons, campaign interludes and a new armour system

A "Mothership-sized" overhaul before Blackbird begin "a new chapter"

Nov. 19, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

15 comments

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Blizzard just quietly released Warcraft 1 and 2 remasters, and they look like Zynga games made by a blind duck

If something needs doing, it's worth doing right

Nov. 14, 2024 Nic Reuben

61 comments

A bomber flies over land in Foxhole's new Airborne update.

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Foxhole is getting planes next summer and an infantry combat overhaul later this month

Land, sea and air combine in the MMO wargame

Nov. 6, 2024 Graham Smith

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