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Some turn-based games I have played this year and can recommend:
Attack of the Earthlings
XCOM: Chimera Squad
Into the Breach
Conquest of Elysium 5

My inner daemons are tempting me to reinstall XCOM2 and try out LWotC

I had more fun than I should playing CivRev on 360 recently but its held back by unexplained or poorly explained game mechanics - for example, great library and how it grants discovered techs. It does so silently, without notifying the player and doesn't grant techs discovered the turn it is built.

But overall I am happy with civilopedia. I spent a few hours reading it before even founding first city and ended up winning by a land slide on king difficulty.

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It's all fun and games until the enemy boss uses 3 different attacks in 1 turn.

>>2406437
LWotC is mostly an improvement over base XCOM2, but it's nowhere near as good as the original Long War for XCOM1 in my opinion. Everything feels a lot less coherent and changing stuff just for the sake of changing it rather than making through-out improvements to the formula.

I've been playing Menace and Cyber Knight a lot recently, though right now I'm waiting on more updates for both of them so I'm giving them a rest. Really enjoying both games, though.

I've picked up Total War Pharaoh for dirt cheap last week, so I've been playing that instead (if you count it TW turn-based, since it's only half turn-based). I don't hate it, but I can see Pharaoh wasn't a big success. Battles feel relatively slow and non-lethal compared to other modern TW games, which I guess is more realistic but I don't think it makes the playing experience better. The economy feels kinda stupid. It's a bit more complex than most TW games since you need to balance multiple resources and trade is much more important than in most TW games, but at the same time it doesn't feel like this complexity actually adds anything, since balancing it is really easy and exploiting the AI with trade is as easy as it's ever been.

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>>2406251
Anyone tried Nightmare Frontier, this sort of sequel to Rogue Waters from the same devs? I played the demo once quite a while ago and it just felt like RW without the pre-combat bombarding mini-game.

>>2406983
Looks interesting, but the whole extraction shooter angle turns me off. Sounds too much like mindless trend-chasing.

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I am playing the second Braveland game. A lot of your units in this game were enemies in the first game.

Thoughts on shadow empire?

>>2408591
The dev can go fuck himself after doubling down on the AI slop with the new DLC. It's one thing if you have an early access game, but refusing to hire an artist after having made hundreds of thousands of dollars as a solo dev is unacceptable imo.

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Anyone try this? Its on sale. Is it any good?

>>2422774
You'll be better served by red dragon, its probably cheaper too

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Tactical breach wizards. It was so good i even paid money for it! And full price too!

Cool logic-puzzle like battles where you juggle your team's abilities to win against overwhelming odds plus a pretty cool plot about stopping world war 5 from happening.
Don't be put off by the humor in the first mission, it's reddit but it gets better. Made me chuckle three or four times through the game.

>>2422774
Another anon is probably right play red dragon for a bit and let them fix up warno a bit more

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