Perfect Circles in Manor Lords – Player Built a Village from Concentric Roads and Explained the Method
The road grid in Manor Lords nudges players toward right angles, but one medieval city planner decided to fight that logic. In his latest playthrough, he made both the plots and the villages themselves circular,...
A Stellaris player asked if it's normal to have only three wins in 400 hours – and found out that's actually a lot
In grand strategy games, the victory screen has become a rare artifact that plenty of players have never actually seen. It is a genre where hundreds of hours logged offer zero guarantee that anyone will...
Crusader Kings 3 player showed a screenshot of an epic battle after which only one warrior remained on the battlefield
Medieval strategy games have a habit of dressing up disasters as triumphs in their post-battle screens. The result flashes a proud "victory," but look closer at the numbers and you'll often find nothing left but...
Steam version of Civilization 7 is free until September 10 – the game is gradually catching up to the fifth installment in online players
Firaxis Games has made Civilization 7 free to play on Steam through September 10. Just head to the game page and hit the "Play Game" button, then let the files download – no payment required....
A Crusader Kings 3 veteran finally finished a campaign for the first time in 2,000 hours – eight rulers with god‑like traits were enough to last 586 years
Paradox grand strategy games are built so the final date barely matters. Fans start a campaign with excitement, turn into a land-grabbing machine by the midpoint, then start a new save the moment an heir...
A Crusader Kings 3 fan's girlfriend found his old saves named "Kill the Pope" and "Before Incest" – and she had questions
A save folder is more honest than browser history. It doesn't know how to make excuses and has never heard the word "context," so the moment someone peeks at the file list, it turns out...
A Crusader Kings 3 player fell into despair after having six daughters in a row and asked the community for advice
Paradox strategy games like to pretend that everything comes down to calculation and patience, and then the random number generator shows up and burns fifty years of planning in a single child-birth screen. Sometimes it...
Space Marines in Total War: Warhammer 40,000 will monitor reputation and avoid accusations of heresy
Creative Assembly has revealed new details on how relationships within the Imperium will work in Total War: Warhammer 40,000. Space Marines will need to do more than fight xenos – they'll also have to stay...
Hearts of Iron 4 fan got so immersed in the strategy game that he started seeing Hungary in his cat after the First Vienna Award
Long strategy games do something strange to the brain: it stops seeing the world map as just a map. First you memorize the shapes of countries, then the resource provinces, and at some point your...
Prospera announced – a victorian-era city-building simulator
Prospera made its debut at the Future Games Show, bringing an unusual take on the city-building genre by letting players experience it through the eyes of an ordinary worker. The debut trailer runs just 30...
Crusader Kings 3 player created a copy of himself – but gamers were more impressed by the real photo of the chad author
Character creators exist for pretty much one reason – to let people make themselves a little better looking than they actually are. Higher cheekbones, a sharper jawline, none of the asymmetry only the bathroom mirror...
New trailer for Game of Thrones: War for Westeros reveals Arya Stark and The Mountain
PlaySide Studios released a hero reveal trailer for the PC strategy game Game of Thrones: War for Westeros, this time putting Arya Stark in the spotlight. The clip shows off the deadly assassin skills she...
Ubisoft announced a remake of Heroes of Might and Magic 3
Ubisoft announced a remake of the beloved Heroes of Might and Magic III during gamescom. You can already wishlist it on Steam. The remaster will include all three campaigns – Restoration of Erathia, Armageddon's Blade,...
Crusader Kings 3 fan spent a whole hour creating an exact copy of herself in the game, and she's already ready to seduce the Pope
Character creators have basically become the unofficial exam for any game with a portrait system: shape up some nameless barbarian and everything looks fine, but try to recreate your own face, and the whole thing...
A Stellaris player found themselves locked in a small region with no access to the galaxy, but with one wormhole
Is this the perfect start? Maybe, if you're the kind of player who likes focusing on their own empire without competing against a dozen other space civilizations. That's exactly the kind of start one player...
Old age in Crusader Kings 3 has become too harsh after recent patches – just like in real life
Reaching old age in Crusader Kings 3 is a questionable pleasure. One moment your character is winning tournaments, weaving plots, and building an empire, and the next you open the character sheet and spot the...
Stellaris fans joke that the patch adding the ability to center the emblem on their empire's flag has finally made the strategy game playable
Sometimes real happiness for strategy fans doesn't come from a new ship class or an overhaul of an entire game system – it comes from finally being able to center an emblem on your empire...
Minimalist Arise Dark Lord combines strategy and action in the spirit of Tolkien
Introversion Software has announced Arise Dark Lord, a hybrid game that mixes action, real-time strategy, tower defense, and base building. Players take control of a Dark Lord and raise an army of the undead to...
A Crusader Kings 3 player raised such a greedy character that a request to lend five coins could give him a heart attack
In Crusader Kings 3 you can die from poisoned wine, a dagger in the back, or a lost war, but sometimes the deadliest weapon turns out to be a request to borrow a couple of...
Solar Expanse is a space economy sim about conquering the Solar System, coming in April
A trailer dropped for Solar Expanse – a space economy sim where players build an interplanetary business empire, starting with the early days of commercial spaceflight in the 21st century and eventually working up to...
