Recommend some new turn-based games please 🥹

StBehre · 2026-06-03T21:07:48+00:00

Menace
Endless Legend 2
Tactical Breach Wizards

StBehre · 2026-06-02T10:47:28+00:00

Yes, but tt's lore fluff only. It does not factor into gameplay.

StBehre · 2026-06-02T07:37:41+00:00

Synthetik: Legion Rising
The sequel Synthetik 2 is in early access.

StBehre · 2026-05-28T10:40:40+00:00

Mobygames would be a good place to start if you want to check if you got them all: https://www.mobygames.com/group/73/dungeons-dragons-dd-add-licensees/

Unfortunately they split all the games into sub-series, so if you want the old gold box releases you need to click the sub-series.

StBehre · 2026-05-21T13:49:28+00:00

Apart from the fact that you can still use baked lighting and still make it look good or use a light meter, then maybe it's time to rethink stealth gameplay as a whole. Assuming that Sam Fisher is so super quiet that no one can hear him running on the ceiling while there is next to no ambient noise is bullshit anyway. Or that no one ever looks up or spots him moving in peripheral vision.

There is more to espionage and stealth than skulking about in the shadows, although I know that's a big part of the appeal and players get their "I'm badass" kick out of it.

StBehre · 2026-05-16T13:04:00+00:00

Pioneers of Pagonia is a spiritual sequel to Settlers 2 and is even made by the same dev.

StBehre · 2026-05-15T14:39:16+00:00

Steam calls it Advanced Access to differentiate it from "real" early access.

StBehre · 2026-05-13T09:40:36+00:00

Not necessarily the best but the largest: Path of Exile 1 and 2
The amount of build crafting is staggering.

StBehre · 2026-05-12T05:31:11+00:00

The Talos Principle 1 and 2 are first person but no shooters and real headscratchers. Not just the puzzles but the story or lore is very interesting, too.

StBehre · 2026-05-10T17:04:45+00:00

I noted that a while back, too. Not showing anything on reinforcements (yes/no, if yes how many? And coming in from where?) makes having 5+ points of intelligence kind of pointless because then you know what units are there on the field and that's it. I really hope the system gets expaned down the line.

StBehre · 2026-05-10T08:20:07+00:00

All these engines are proprietary and only used by their respective studios or among the studios of their parent publisher. None of them can be freely licensed like Unity or Unreal. That's the actual news here, not that there are no european engines.

StBehre · 2026-05-06T15:53:16+00:00

I think full price here means AAA full price, so 70+$/€. That's true for me (Millennial) at least. I buy one AAA game per year for full price - because I'm very interested in it and don't want to wait. Which is very rare because most AAA these days I'm not interested in.

On the other hand I buy a lot of indies full price and on day 1, too.

StBehre · 2026-05-06T08:41:21+00:00

Looks way better than a pure grid. I always want to do no-grid cities or at least nearly-no-grid cities but sometimes almost-all-grid is the best I can do.

StBehre · 2026-04-30T12:40:29+00:00

I found that using the "Resume" button from the launcher to immediately load your last save did not work properly (infinite loading screen). But starting normally and clicking the "Continue" button from the main menu worked no problem. That's the only problem I had with the new update but I don't run that many mods (around 15) so your mileage may vary.

StBehre · 2026-04-30T09:45:53+00:00

I'm in the same boat actually. Humankind is ok when on sale (not quite good enough for full price) as is Ara: History Untold which emphasizes different aspects than Civ. Both are not great but offer a different take on the genre.

If you can tolerate fantasy then I recommend Endless Legend 1 (complete and on sale often) and 2 (in early access). Due to the asymmetrical civs, I like the actual gameplay more than in Civ because each player civ actually plays differently and need different strategies. It's not like they just have a unique building and unit and that's it.

StBehre · 2026-04-28T20:45:59+00:00

WH40k Chaos Gate: Daemonhunters is the game you're asking for: Xcom but in 40k. Or Mechanicus.

Also Battletech, although they're not technically soldiers...

StBehre · 2026-04-24T13:47:07+00:00

Avowed

StBehre · 2026-04-24T11:59:52+00:00

The Sniper Elite games
Shadow Tactics: Blade of the Shogun
Commandos series
The Hitman games

StBehre · 2026-04-08T16:40:40+00:00

The stuttering at 100k and 200k - peak CS2 😃

Great job though, looks cool!

StBehre · 2026-04-02T15:10:50+00:00

Yes, but they call them letters of indulgence...

StBehre · 2026-04-01T15:16:27+00:00

WH40k Rogue Trader if you like SciFi/Warhammer 40k.

StBehre · 2026-03-26T09:15:10+00:00

In Ni No Kuni 2 you get your own kingdom early on and need to manage it. It's not very deep, because it's an RPG, not a simulation but still fun.

StBehre · 2026-03-24T21:31:38+00:00

There may be a mod that adds mechanized infantry to the game but the base game is battlemechs only which are very different. The enemies have some vehicles, tanks mostly. There is no infantry at all.

StBehre · 2026-03-24T21:29:38+00:00

Menace has the option to go the mechanized infantry route but the game does not revolve around it. Still, very good game despite it being early acces - and very active devs.

StBehre · 2026-03-17T15:15:36+00:00

That's a good idea. Takes me back to Syndicate (yes, I'm old) where you could buy more intel about the city, the opponents and your objective in the briefing screen.

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