The four-hundred-and-eleventh episode of PolyCast, “We Left the Ladder In, Right?“ is now available for streaming on ThePolyCast.net. This episode features regular co-hosts Stephanie “Makahlua”, Phil “TheMeInTeam”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan” with guest co-host TheChrisD. Topics for this episode include: News– 00h01m56s | Solium Infernum, A Turn-Based Strategy Game in Hell– 00h09m40s | From Alpha Centauri to Beyond EarthForum… Read More »
Rob from Explorminate has written a view back onto 2022, and an outlook for 2023. While he has some contenders for best game of 2022, like Warhammer: Total War, or the Humankind expansion “Together We Rule”, he is not satisfied with any bigger release last year, and puts his hopes for 2023. For this year, he is looking… Read More »
The developers of Ara: History Untold have posted 2 in their dev blog, talking about city layouts. They describe the difficulties of having procedurally generated city layouts, which also need to look appealing. Initially they cities appeared like pizzas, with repetetive sectors. They seem to have fixed this problem by definiting some basic layouts, from which the game… Read More »
The turn-based deck builder Mahokenshi has today (24.01.2023) been released on Steam.In this game you lead your samurai hero, belonging to one of 4 different houses, through a campaign on a hex-based landscape. You build up your deck of cards, to gain special abilities, with which you will slay all kinds of far-eastern themed fantasy monsters. The game… Read More »
Ara: History Untold is another hot contender for best upcoming Civilization-like game. The developers have now concluded the first alpha phase of the game, and are incorporating the feedback into the game. They have also announced that a second technical alpha will come soon. If you want to join this alpha, you first need to join the Xbox… Read More »
WarGamer.com, a site dedicated to tabletop and war games, has published a list of the best 4X games for PC.As it has to be, despite it’s age, Civilization 6 is still on the list, together with one of our other favourites, Old World. They point out Old World’s interesting order system, as well as Civ’s ever expanding scope… Read More »
We got notified via Twitter of this video above, showcasing the best mobile offline games, which you should play in 2023.A lot of these should be very interesting in case you don’t have Civ on your mobile phone, so check out this video, and discuss it with us here.
TurnBasedLovers has released a new article, “Top 10 EXCITING Turn-Based Games to play in 2023!”. The list features upcoming games for the next year (obviously). The most interesting game for the Civ community is “Ara: History Untold“, but also Mahokenshi, Songs of Conquest (already in early access) or Alliance of the Sacred Suns should be interesting for us.For… Read More »