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Welcome to /vst - Video Games/Strategy
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/vst/ is a place to discuss all types of strategy video games, including both turn-based and real-ti...
Company of Heroes 3: Endure & Defy
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ryr8UF4SX4It's out (in 20 days). Thoughts? We now have italians on ...
/aoeg/ - Age of Empires General
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How does 3 more hours of comfy turtling against the AI sound, king?>>2369715
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
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Previous thread: >>2187019What are people's ideas/hopes/wants for the next DLC? Do you strive to exp...
Troubleshooter: Abandoned Children
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Raggedy Anne EditionGeneral Guide Mastery Set Effects, Mastery Drop List etc:https://steamcommunity....
The Campaign Trail
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CTS: campaigntrailshowcase.com/campaign-trail/index.htmlNCT: newcampaigntrail.com/campaign-trail/ind...
Victoria 3 /v3g/
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>passing laws is now slightly less annoyingAmazing! At this rate the game will finally be be fixed b...
ANNO 117
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So now that the dust has settled,>what went right?>what went wrong?>hopes and copes about new conten...
/EU5/ /EUV/ Europa Universalis V - NEW EXPANSION LEAKED
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lmao they just posted this on the steam page then deleted it half an hour later/r/eu5 is banning any...
Starcraft Brood War - Zerg Chad DOMINANCE Edition
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Today, reigning Champion Zerg Gigachad Park Sang Hyun, aka Soma, DOMINATED a Terrany and a Tosser, g...
/mbg/ Mountain Blade General
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True Ruler of Calradia Edition>M&B Wikihttps://antifandom.com/mountandblade/wiki/Mount_&_Blade_Wiki>...
espeepeeocracy
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Help me /vst/, my emotions, Im feeling them getting scammed away from me.>what game is itEspiocracy,...
Thread #2362662
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Timberborn finally releasedIt has redstone computers nowI'm getting wiped by back-to-back badtidesDi...
/domg/ - Dominions 6: Rise of the Pantokrator General
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Gigachad editionPost about Illwinter Game Design's Dominions series
Menace - /mengen/
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TOUGH GUYS edition
/OXCE/ Openxcom
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body cam footage edition>OXCE?OpenXcom is a free open-source game engine for the original 1994 X-Com...
TNO thread (leaks edition)
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Stop me if you heard this before but we went two more months without updates.TNO devs have taken dow...
7.62 Hard Life patches
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You've read that right, it's getting new beta branch patches for a bit since February and they're go...
Command & Conquer
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Watcha>playan>listnan>unit favanFor me it's the RA allied campaign, TD's Depth Charge and I love the...
Broken Arrow
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Roadmap revealed>One last major update of 2025, including allied bot support for skirmish>1st DLC wi...
Thread #2154626
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Why are tier 1 skeleniggas so expensive to raise in this shit game
/dfg/ - Dwarf Fortress General
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dwarven ethics editionPrevious: >>2312368Avaliable for free at https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/or...
Thread #2377400
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There's no way this is good. CA simply lacks the ability to pull this off.That being said, my Imperi...
D.O.R.F. RTS
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Dorfspeed dorfnificent dorfchads https://youtu.be/XSziQqeRc1o?si=B-EjiyJ7j5V5QeTj
Total War: Shogun 2 - Wasted Potential Edition
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>be 2026 >still no mod nor official update that allows you to convert to Ikko Ikki religion from out...
Starsector: modding shmodding
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Post modded bs. Post new mods to use. Post update i dunno
Thread #2364977
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Anything to add/change?
Thread #2378616
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why is Austrian empire the most fun nation to play in pardox games?
Thread #2367712
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Is stellaris an RTS?
Screenshots of your strategy game lands
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How fares your empire?post picture proof of your empires
RTS humour
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LOL
TOTAL FANTASY WAR - WARHAMMERED EDITION
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Total war - warhammer is on saleAny of them worth getting?Why do they still have denuvo 20 years aft...
Thread #2369286
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I unironicaly prefered it over other NuCom clones just because it didn't have the shitty action poin...
Battle Brothers
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Just want to talk about the game. Don't want the level of discussion on Reddit either. Flex your fam...
/eu4/ - Europa Universalis IV
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Some people give it a bad rap, but I'm never upgrading. Why would I? Just feels like a good pair of ...
Heroes of Might and Magic
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Let's discuss the greatest fantasy turn based strategy series of all time.>Heroes of Might and Magic...
Nova Roma
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Is it kino? First impressions?
Thread #2356187
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What are the prettiest looking 2d rts games in your opinion (or just strategy games in general)?Why ...
Thread #2359560
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>No Distand Worlds 2 threadwhat gives? It's basically the better Stellaris
Thread #2368703
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Congratulations, brothers.
Age Of Mythology Thread
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I love this game. I like it more then AOE2. Discuss it.
Thread #2378613
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You better back this game on the kickstarter
MTW 3 Gameplay reveal
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ITS OVERhttps://youtu.be/a4UTRCabl3E?si=pKnjBgAir0i8QKja
Games where you can Unleash.
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Hello. I have played many games of strategy. But what is missing is the human cost. I want to be abl...
Rare /vst/ games thread #2
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ITT: Strategy games that no one besides (you) have played. Recommend rarities and discuss games that...
Dawn of War: Definitive Edition
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It's unfortunate that the Definitive Edition for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War completely failed to ...
Thread #2334712
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>ai creates this monstrositywhat do?
/chess/ - Chess General - A Glorious New Day - “This Year I Will Be World Champion” Edition
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>play chesshttps://lichess.org>join our team and tournamentshttps://lichess.org/team/vietnamese-bask...
Thread #2057168
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Cyber Knights: Flashpoint just got out of the EA. It's an xcom-like cyberpunk turn-based tactics.Tho...
Hearts of Iron IV / HOI4 Modding
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>half the mods posted in these threads are just teasers>they'll never be released>some of the dev te...
Thread #2255151
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The future of strategy games is here
EU4 Anbennar Thread
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Sun elf supremacy edition Previous >>2304069
Songs of Syx
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Amevian edition0.70 is live
Hearts of Iron IV / HOI4 Modding General
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TFR is dying edition——-MODDING RESOURCES———>bit dot ly 3GPdwPDGeneral Index of tutorials f...
Gates Of Hell: Ostfront/Liberation/Finest Hour
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Finest Hour is a pretty fine update, but I really have no idea how you are supposed to take out the ...
Thread #2376416
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>pick up ck3 for a few bucks with a coupon code on steam>give it a try to see if it's any better tha...
Thread #2357516
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I'm in the mood for some pre-dreadnought naval warfare. What are the best games for it?
Gostomel Heroes
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Dudes who made Syrian Heroes made a new game, anyone played it?>https://vkplay.ru/play/game/gostomel...
Best Guangdong path
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Which path is best
Tiberium Wars
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*teleports an Engineer next to your Construction Yard*why was this allowed???
Hearts of Iron IV Thread
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With No Compromise, No Surrender out in the wild, what are everyone's thought on it? What are some t...
/HTW/ Historical Total War thread
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Since /twg/ is mostly about Warhammer now, let's have this again. Talk about historical Total War ga...
Thread #2377227
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I try to make small and casual strategy about Immunity. This is game UI. Please give me feedback, ho...
FOOTBALL MANAGER 26
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it's still shit
Thread #2377910
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Token somethingit has a gun and is turnbaseHelp!
/vst/ Spring 2026
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Good evening commanders, it's time for another /vst/ divegrass thread and another season. The Spring...
Best Soundtracks
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ITT: Strategy games disproportionately remembered for their soundtracks.For me, it's the original Du...
/asd/ - Amateur Strategy Development
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An awful thread for devs and no-devs to post their awful ideas for strategy games that will never se...
WARCRAFT 3
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How come no one is ever discussing this on /vg/ other than to talk shit about orcs and how they're a...
NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION: Sphere of Influence
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shill me on this game. is it better than shogun 2?
Xenonauts 2
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Xenonauts 2 released today. Is anyone playing?
Graviteam Tactics/Combat Mission - Eternal Rivalry Edition
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Thread to discuss Graviteam Tactics and Combat Mission games.Screenshots and AAR's welcome.
Shadow Empire
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Can anyone tell me why my guys are starving despite available logistic points being like 7 times hig...
How to win as britain in hoi4?
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i want to defeat germany and the ussr so i kinda need to know how to git gud at britain in hoi4
Stormgate shutting down
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tldr:-server hosting company got purchased-online services will continue until end of april-the game...
Tactics RPG's
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Final Fantasy Tactics, Tactics Ogre, and any derivatives in this thread!The Final Fantasy Tactics re...
Thread #2336283
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Strategy games aren't popular because people are idiots. They're unpopular because devs can't unders...
Tooth and Tail
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Got this game recently at a discount, it seems pretty good. An old RTS that is very simple to play w...
Thread #2324745
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>removes features from the game and replaces them with unfinished onesit's over, isn't it? we will n...
Old World
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Friend recommended this game to me. Is it any good?
Solar Expense
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so this game just released in open early access, they had a closed beta before I had it on my wishli...
Thread #2370489
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>campaigning as GDI in C&C3 (pic rel)>struggle with GDI's base defences against Nod using Scorpion T...
Total War Rome 2 is awful
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>be me, Roman with Celtic ancestry >choose the Iceni >found in Steam Workshop the 'Iceni Legionaries...
Conquest of Elysium - Chicken Pretender Edition
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Rimworld thread
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I like to think it wasn't just the anarchists that destroyed the empire. There used to be a mention ...
Planetary Annihilation: TITANS
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>industrial annihilation is dead and abandonLong live Planetary Annihilation community development!
Starcraft Brood War - Zerg Chads Edition
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ASL 21 will be taken by a Zerg Chad, indubitably. The only question is, which one? Will Soulkey retu...
Thread #2339788
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What strategy game has the best logistics mechanics?
Editing XML File in Vanilla to Fix Warmongering Penalty
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I have looked into the files in Civ 5 (vanilla, no major DLCs) to get a basic understanding of how w...
Any good Vicky 2 mods come out recently?
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/imp/ - imperator rome general
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there are dozens of us, dozens!
Thread #2193516
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This game has spoiled me as far as QoL in gaming goesI don't care if you like it or not, if you're a...
Thread #2332947
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Friends, Tropicans tell me, will it suck? I only like 3 and 4.
Thread #2377504
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is this game really the best of the series?
/gsg/ — Grand Strategy General
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If you see a gibberish post, it was made by raiders, ignore it.No, Vic 3 is not good yet. In fact it...
Solium Infernum
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Do we have a group here? The only place on this site I found that discusses the game was the /dom/ g...
DIY Unit Design
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Why has no one tried to recapture the magic of Metal Fatigue? Yes, I know there are other games wher...
Anno 1800
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now that it has been cracked, whats your excuse for not playing the BEST anno title?
Thread #2376989
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which rts game has the best chokepoint maps?i've seen some in red alert and company of heroesmy favo...
Thread #2369136
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>Total War Medieval 3 director says recreating its predecessors "would not make a good game">"Withou...
Thread #2375299
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yeah i'm the best mod of all time. how can you tell?tttttt
Port Royal 3
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Holy fuck why nobody told me about this, this shit is crack. Especially considering there is nothing...
Unpopular vst opinions thread.
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I'll start with the fact I don't like the Populus games even 3.
Thread #2373108
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Is it worth it to learn hoi2(darkest hour) or hoi3 at this moment? I found hoi4 too gamey and the ma...
Thread #2372728
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>*fixes CK3*Imagine ever doubting GODhan. They will fix EU5 too!
X4
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9.00 beta is ongoing. have they finally fixed aux ships? are torpedo bombers in a playable state at ...
EUV
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what the actual fuck?
Going Medieval
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Anyone here plays this? The game's going 1.0 in like two weeks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ueI...
TOHOTOPIA (Touhou Civilization)
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Look what I found on jewtubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdcJKMwwmSMFrom what I can tell from the...
Thread #2351331
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Devs released a space combat simulator if y'all want to see how fighting will be like
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
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W&R:SR threadDiscuss the engoodening of Early Start, get mad about feature creep and post your decre...
Thread #2110457
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Best city builder in your opinion?>Cities: SkylinesShitties of them all in my opinion. In this one y...
Thread #2367989
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I don't want Medieval 3.I want Empire 2.
Noble - Family Tree Simulator
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Crusader Kings but fully played from the family tree layer. If anything, its actually a pretty decen...
/oxce/ - OpenXCOM
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Outfitting time>OXCE?OpenXcom is a free open-source game engine for the original 1994 X-Com: UFO Def...
Thread #2372180
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it should've been the first multiplayer extraction RTS.
Thread #2357188
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>Blood Bowl franchise>20+ years and still haven't gotten a good AI for solo playI'm praying to the A...
Thread #2364349
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>4 on the floorwhat did he mean by this?
Thread #2372506
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Any other genre that peaked years ago? Pic related, peak RTS.
Dyson Sphere Program
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No thread for this game? I just picked it up during sales and it truly scratched the right itches fo...
/aoeg/ - Age of Empires General:
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CANNONEER edition Prev >>2355287
Terra Invicta
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Release edition is out!Who you playan?
Heart of the Machine
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How did they manage to make a game this bad?
Thread #2373828
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>game hits just the right itch of a long form Majesty-like>gets fucking deleted twice off of steam d...
Hearts Of Iron IV / HOI4 Modding
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TFR teaser edition, DOWN with the NWONow with baking!——-MODDING RESOURCES———>bit dot ly 3G...
Thread #2372990
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Has anyone played this? Is it worth it?https://store.steampowered.com/app/3266580/Apes_Warfare/
What happened?
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I've been completely out of the loop on what happened to PM for the last couple of years. More or le...
Dominion of Darkness - Dark Lord Simulator
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For some time now, with your help, I have been creating my game - an RPG/strategic Dark Lord simulat...
/civgen/ - Civilization general
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lusty strong female leaders tempting me on semen retention day 27 editiongot that itch to play some ...
Thread #2365351
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strategy game where i can feel like military genius reinhard von lohengramm from legend of the galac...
Thread #2361431
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>one has fun but mediocre AI that's approachable no matter what>one has a braindead AI on easy and a...
FIRE EMBLEM THREAD
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You guys think this game is gonna be an FF6 style game with an ensemble cast or will it continue the...
Thread #2366965
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Let me guess, you need more?
Thread #2343721
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Mogs AoE
Thread #2372086
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does this mod hold up to the lategame?I want to play this til the revolutionary era. has anyone trie...
What would you change about pic related for a possible sequel?
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Space combat would honestly be easy, make it somewhat like homeworld with full 3d positioning but st...
Civilization series' scenarios
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Which Civ has the best scenarios and more important, does anyone even plays them?
Command Modern Operations
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Anybody been playing this? I got it recently and it's by far the best matrix title. I only wish it h...
Thread #2370062
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*saves strategy gaming*
Empire at War: are Sith not that good?
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All guides i find online write that Darth Vader is one man army super unit that can take planets in ...
Thread #2367710
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I have almost 5k hours in Victoria 2 and over 1000 in CK2. I can safely say no other grand strategy ...
The Guild - Europa 1410
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cautiously optimistic this timealso whats wrong with 3? was it really THAT shite?
The American Indian Wars
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Any American Indian wars kino on the /vst/ market?I know about the Cossacks in the Americas and, of ...
Endless games
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Discuss games in the Endless universe. Endless Space 2 has recieved a community patcb that squashed ...
Starsector
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Oldsplitter editionwhich mods do you use anons?>>2358367 prev thread
/EU5/ /EUV/ Europa Universalis V:
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ESTABLISH THE PERSIAN EMPIRE edition
Ghost Master
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Is the remaster (Resurrection) as bad as the fans of the original Ghost Master (Polish people) say?
Thread #2365015
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>Sir, I... just want to say I'm sorry.>No need, Captain. I'm humbled to have served with you.>Thank ...
Thread #2369345
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What's the most cancerous mix of gameplay mechanics you can name?
The Campaign Trail
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CTS: campaigntrailshowcase.com/campaign-trail/index.htmlNCT: newcampaigntrail.com/campaign-trail/ind...
/ckg/ - Crusader Kings General
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Long winter's nap editionPrevious >>2271392
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