Strategy games

Street Fighter returns, Link is back and vampires run amok: 15 video games to anticipate in 2023

From space exploration and eerie late night fishing to dungeon-delving and confronting your exes, there’s lots to be excited about – including some long-awaited sequels

Keza MacDonald

29, Dec, 2022 @1:00 PM

Unsocial hours: the best video games to play in ‘goblin mode’

Draw the curtains, pull up your weighted blanket and hunker down with these cosy sims, expansive fantasies or, for actual goblins, subterranean dungeon crawlers

Keith Stuart

08, Dec, 2022 @9:00 AM

Dwarf Fortress review – a grand chronicle of inevitable disaster

A graphical overhaul offers a gentler way of playing this vast, strange strategy game of staggering intricacy

Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

06, Dec, 2022 @3:42 PM

Neon White review – an exhilarating speedrun through a celestial dreamscape

Timing is all as you wake from the dead and race towards a heavenly finish line, slaying demons en route, in this chaotic yet ingenious anime-inspired game

Simon Parkin

02, Jul, 2022 @12:00 PM

Influence, Inc review – a mesmerising dive into the world of public manipulation

Your job is to manage a digital influencing agency with commercial and political clients – and ethical challenges

Simon Parkin

05, Jun, 2022 @12:00 PM

The 10 best video games coming in 2022

George RR Martin joins forces with the makers of Dark Souls, ghosts take over in Japan and a Nintendo sequel you could be playing all year

Keza MacDonald

30, Dec, 2021 @2:00 PM

Age of Empires 4 review – bloodless battles and titanic tutorials

Relic returns with this safe but solid modern revitalisation of the classic real-time strategy series

Nic Reuben

11, Nov, 2021 @9:45 AM

Evil Genius 2: World Domination review – live out your Bond-villain fantasies

Strategy game preserves the structure and jokey vibe of the 2004 classic but adds 2021 slickness and scope

Steve Boxer

08, Apr, 2021 @9:00 AM

10 short video games to play with your partner (or housemate)

From detective missions to prison breakouts, playful puzzles to cosy diversions, here are some great games perfect for two

Keza MacDonald

05, Feb, 2021 @9:00 AM

Refreshingly modern dinosaurs and a cyberpunk cat: our games picks for 2021

An ultra-stylish trip to Gotham, a new Hogwarts adventure and a long-awaited sequel to Psychonauts lead our preview of this year’s most anticipated releases

Keza MacDonald

04, Jan, 2021 @6:00 AM