Strategy: Real-Time Strategy

A bunch of cavalry soldiers with coloured circular shields from historical wargame Strategos

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Real-time tactics game Strategos aims to outflank Total War with over 120 factions at launch

MicroProse announced as publisher

March 27, 2025 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

30 comments

A floating snowbound map full of warring mechs, infantry and planes from Grit & Valor - 1949

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Grit and Valor - 1949's real-time World War mech-stomping launches on Steam today

We already have Into The Breach at home

March 26, 2025 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

5 comments

A big fleshy space animal with huge crimson eyes and wings flying over an alien planet

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Paradox date Stellaris 4.0, a "phoenix update" to attract new players and improve performance

It's out in May alongside some fleshy frigates

March 24, 2025 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

22 comments

A large and friendly man made of rot and pain raises his fist in the air to herald the destruction of the Total War Warhammer 3 world.

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Total War: Warhammer 3's next updates will tackle "anti-player bias" and self-destructive AI

Plus more mothers for the motherland

March 17, 2025 Nic Reuben

9 comments

Artwork from Into The Breach and a large alien head from XCOM 2

Feature

The 50 best strategy games to play on PC

From tiny tactics to grand campaigns

March 12, 2025 Graham Smith

205 comments

A mass of different-sized colourful spaceships blowing each other up with missiles against the backdrop of a blue planet, from the RTS Project Citadel

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Project Citadel is a new RTS inspired by Halo Wars from former Ensemble and BonusXP devs

Last Keep join the RTS "resurgence"

March 7, 2025 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

3 comments

A wip unit cards of Cathay grenadiers from Total War: Warhammer 3.

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Total War: Warhammer 3's rework of the Kislev faction looks promising, as do Cathay's grenadiers

Bear necessities

Feb. 28, 2025 Nic Reuben

6 comments

A snowy battle scene in Command & Conquer

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EA hand Command & Conquer modders the source code for Tiberian Dawn, Renegade, Red Alert and Generals

Also, Steam Workshop support for a bunch of classic C&Cs

Feb. 27, 2025 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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A big orc on a big boar in Total War Warhammer 3.

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Total War: Warhammer 3 might finally be giving its cowardly AI some oomph

Actually I never got off my bullshit

Feb. 18, 2025 Nic Reuben

5 comments

Soldiers stand next to a tank in Company Of Heroes

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Company Of Heroes devs Relic bounce back with plans for big RTS games, smaller experiments and spiritual revivals

Dawn of more

Feb. 10, 2025 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

18 comments

A camp of Nazi soldiers is seen atop a green and grassy hill, where a garrison and radar dish stand.

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Commandos Origins plants a release date under an enemy tank, will detonate in two months time

Tick tock tick tock

Feb. 10, 2025 Brendan Caldwell

10 comments

A bald man in a yellow suit holos in, telling you to complete the mission. While you rattle bullets into hackers outside a facility.

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Supporters only | Glitchpunk is a flawed mess but kind of fun to roll in

Opportunity TWOCs

Jan. 23, 2025 Sin Vega

4 comments

A group of tanks and artillery shooting at a huge mass of purple vegetation on a desert planet in strategy game Calyx

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In creepy real-time strategy game Calyx you battle a huge mass of alien plants

Rout the sprouts

Jan. 21, 2025 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

12 comments

A winged woman with a sword battling another, elven woman in promotional art for Wartorn

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Bioshock's lead designer is making an elven real-time tactics game that looks like a painting and reminds me of Myth

Out spring 2025

Jan. 15, 2025 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

33 comments

Two huge armadas of spaceships doing battle in Annihilate The Spance

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I reckon you autobattler sickos will like Annihilate The Spance, probably you RTS nutters too

Spance! The final fronntier

Jan. 14, 2025 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

17 comments

A flappy-winged fantasy plane shooting cannon balls at a flying city in The Airborne Empire

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Flying city-builder Airborne Empire hits early access today with a new military element

Laputa shooter

Jan. 13, 2025 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

6 comments

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Hit city-builder Manor Lords has been updated with two new maps and a heap of changes

Bridging the gap to 1.0

Jan. 10, 2025 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

13 comments

A terrifyingly painted space marine model.

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Future Creative Assembly games may "require blood thematically", which sure sounds like a Total War: Warhammer 40,000 teaser

Blood is compulsory

Jan. 9, 2025 Nic Reuben

38 comments

Subnautica 2, Mushroom Musume, Sid Meier's Civilization VII and Monster Hunter: Wilds screenshots.

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Our 50 most anticipated PC games of 2025

Here's what we're excited about in what looks like a big year

Jan. 8, 2025 Graham Smith

119 comments

Artwork from Valheim, No Man's Sky and Astroneer form the header for our best survival games list

Feature

The 30 best survival games on PC

Promise me that you will never die

Jan. 2, 2025 Ed Thorn

84 comments

Screenshots from Alan Wake 2's Lake House DLC, Total Warhammer's Thrones Of Decay DLC, and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth.

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The RPS Selection Box: Nic’s bonus games of the year 2024

Games in a box? What is this, 1997?!

Dec. 27, 2024 Nic Reuben

41 comments

Promotional art for Roblox game King Legacy, or King Piece, showing a character running towards the screen holding a glowing purple weapon in their teeth.

Guide

King Legacy codes list

Codes you can redeem in King Legacy for free Beli, Gems, and more!

Dec. 23, 2024 Ollie Toms

Golgfag Maneater opens a big chest of gold in the trailer for Total War: Warhammer III Omens Of Destruction.

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Total War: Warhammer’s Rich Aldridge on roleplaying, iteration, and lessons from nearly a decade on strategy’s most ambitious series

"There's good energy" for the team right now, says game director

Dec. 12, 2024 Nic Reuben

14 comments

Title art for Band Of Crusaders, showing a bunch of knights in armour squaring off against a winged insect demon.

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Band Of Crusaders is a dark fantasy party RPG with heady overtones of XCOM and Diablo

Archdemons mount European package tour in face of local objections

Dec. 12, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

36 comments

Fighters attacking a larger capital ship in Nebulous Fleet Command

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Beautiful, brainy space RTS Nebulous: Fleet Command is getting carriers and fightercraft

Carrier update coming in January

Dec. 10, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

4 comments