Author: Serena
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The best abstract strategy board games ranked — Hive, Onitama, Santorini, GIPF, and YINSH — with notes on player count, learning curve, and what each game actually tests.
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A roundup of the best strategy card games across three categories: living card games (Arkham Horror LCG, Marvel Champions), trick-takers with real depth (Tichu, Sticheln), and tight two-player classics (Lost Cities, Schotten Totten).
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You’ve played Catan until the resource probabilities are memorized. Ticket to Ride stopped feeling tense somewhere around game six. The next tier of strategy board games is out there, and some of them will genuinely change how you think about what the hobby can do. This isn’t a list for first-time buyers. It’s a curated…
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Doomsday: Last Survivors Pulls Ghost in the Shell Into the Apocalypse With a Full SAC_2045 Crossover
IGG’s zombie survival strategy hit just got a cyberpunk upgrade. Doomsday: Last Survivors has launched a full crossover event with Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045, dropping Major Motoko Kusanagi and Public Security Section 9 straight into the post-apocalyptic wasteland. The collaboration is live now and running as a limited-time event through May 2026. Section 9…
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What Makes Economic Simulation Games Worth Playing Economic simulation games occupy a strange and satisfying corner of the strategy genre. They strip away the armies and the explosions and ask a deceptively simple question: can you build something that actually works? Not just survives, but thrives under pressure, competition, and the unpredictable logic of markets.…
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Ten million downloads is a big number for any mobile game. For a PvP autobattler built by a Cyprus-based studio that most people hadn’t heard of two years ago, it’s a statement. Top App Games, operating under the Utmost Games umbrella, just confirmed that LUDUS has officially crossed the 10 million mark worldwide, and they’re…
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After years of false starts, spiritual successors, and a fanbase that never stopped replaying Heroes 3, the franchise is back where it belongs. Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era launched into early access today, April 30, and the early verdict from critics and players is landing hard: this is the strongest entry the series…
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Warner Bros. has dragons on the brain again, and this time they’re flying straight at your phone. The studio just pulled the curtain back on Game of Thrones: Dragonfire, a free-to-play mobile strategy title built around the world of House of the Dragon. Pre-registration is already live, and the pitch is exactly what fantasy-strategy fans…
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Over the past two decades, the real-time strategy genre has produced no shortage of heavy hitters: StarCraft II, Company of Heroes 2, and more recent contenders like Stormgate and Tempest Rising, just to name a few. Yet ask any veteran of the strategy gaming scene which title set a benchmark that still hasn’t been broken,…
