Star Dynasties Early Access Preview and Q&A
Star Dynasties is a turn-based role-playing game when you take on the role of a ruler in a feudal space empire. Each turn, you’ll take a limited number of actions, ranging from managing diplomacy, managing your planets, open or covert warfare, or managing your personal life, and more. The happier, larger, and wealthier you and […]
Alliance of the Sacred Suns Preview
It feels like all I have been talking about recently is Stellaris, given its omission on eXplorminate’s Top 10 4X Games of All Time List (*cough* MoO is overrated *cough*). Now you might be thinking, this article is not about Stellaris. And dear reader, you are correct! Instead, I’ll be taking you on a behind-the-scenes […]
Imperator: Rome 2.0 Review
As a devout Paradox cultist, I am thrilled each time there is a new release. Whether it is an entirely new game or just a new DLC, I know that I am going to lose hours of my life to it. The time that I put into these titles almost always promises to be worth […]
Empire of Sin Review
I will cut straight to the chase: Empire of Sin would be a better game if it wasn’t so buggy. This Prohibition-Era tactical combat and empire management game is pretty damn fun, but it’s marred by bugs, bugs, and more bugs. So many in fact, that regardless of what I write below, you should probably […]
Per Aspera Review
Thankfully Per Aspera is finally out because there has been a dearth of colonization[1] city[2] builders[3] these past few years, especially Mars[4] ones. However, after playing spending ~15 hours through much of the campaign, I can say it finds ways to differentiate itself from other entries in the genre in interesting ways. Per Aspera is […]
Airborne Kingdom Review
Here at eXplorminate, where we are dedicated to the 4X, strategy, tactics, and (now apparently) city-building game genres, I am now dubbing this time the “Winter of City Builders”. Considering that my last review was for Per Aspera, another city (ahem *colony*) builder, Airborne Kingdom, developed and published by The Wandering Band, is a continuation […]
Fort Triumph Preview
A couple of years ago, we spoke of Fort Triumph as its Kickstarter was successfully funded in 2017. We were excited about its X-COM meets Heroes of Might and Magic gameplay and vowed to keep an eye on it. Since then, Fort Triumph has seen 24 updates on its Kickstarter page and it’s now available […]
Trials of Fire Preview
This week’s Less eXplored game is Trials of Fire. Trials of Fire (ToF) is a narrative-driven, turn-based roguelike with card-based combat. It’s set in a post-cataclysmic world where your party of heroes is tasked with surviving the desolate wastelands in order to make a positive impact on an increasingly bleak world. In your search of […]
Valkyria Chronicles Review
Valkyria Chronicles (currently available on PC/XBOX Game Pass) is a turn-based anime-style story-driven strategy game (say that five times fast) that published in 2008 by SEGA for the PS3. It ported to PS4, Switch, and PC. What it does differently from other games of the genre, like Jagged Alliance, is that moving your units reverts […]
Unity of Command II Review
Unity of Command II is a fresh turn-based strategy game from 2×2 Games, putting the player in the role of an Allied army commander who has to deal with two daunting problems: invading (“liberating”) Europe and the logistics of war. It was recently described as “the perfect gateway” into computer war games. I’m not so […]