Game Category Strategy

Strategy games

Crescent Moon Review

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Wargames tend to do asymmetry best. Crescent Moon is the new kid on the block, moving the strategy to a non-specific Caliphate, somewhere out in the desert.

Cloudspire Review

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With its roots firmly in the MOBA and Tower Defence genres of video games, Cloudspire aims to replicate the feel of a game like League of Legends, but in a tabletop form

Mini Express Review

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A train game with a share and investment structure, but not too dense, and you still get to play with tiny trains?

Moonrakers Review

Maybe it's a generational thing, but when I first heard of Moonrakers, I assumed it was something to do with the strangest James Bond film - Moonraker. It's not though, it's a deck-building semi-coop game from publisher IV Games, and it's very clever.

Gutenberg Review

The first thing you'll notice when you see Gutenberg on the table are the cardboard gears. I dare you to not play with the cogs, making them spin, as if you were two-years-old playing with a Fisher Price toy

Iki Review

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Iki rejects the usual tropes of samurai, ninjas, and bug-eyed anthropomorphic cartoon animals. Instead, it transports us back to feudal Japan

44 BCE Preview

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BCE 44 builds on the infamous events of the eponymous year when Julius Caesar was assassinated on the floor of the Senate, by a group of senators who worried that he had too much power over the empire