Five years ago, Mimimi Games breathed welcome new life into the tactical stealth genre with the excellent Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun. Following in the footsteps of games like Commandos and Desperados, it reminded the world how captivating a finely-tuned blend of squad-based tactics and stealth can be, especially …
Need a fresh dose of turn-based tactics? Shores Unknown, a tactical RPG in a viking-inspired setting and taking influence from both Western and Japanese RPG classics is now available on Steam Early Access. Taking place in a world ruled by the iron fist of the Crown and plagued by perpetual …
Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden was, I think, one of the most overlooked games of last year. A lot of those who played it rave about it, and it reviewed well, but it seems to have been little more than a blip on the radar for the majority of …
God Wars: Future Past was one of the best (and most criminally underrated) games of last year. A straightforward tactical RPG on the surface, it eschewed the genre’s current fascination with needless complexity in favour of something simple yet deep. The ebb and flow of combat, coupled with the oddly …
The isometric stealth tactics genre has been dormant for a long time, and this is understandable. It’s niche, to say the least – there are only a handful of notable examples, even from the genre’s heyday of the early 2000s. Such games are also tricky to design well; to take …
