But if it meets its ambitions, it could be a defining game of the year. Since its announcement we've seen the release of Crusader Kings 3, Shadow Empire and Star Dynasties, meaning AOTSS perhaps won't be as unique in 2022 as when it was announced.
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Where your typical strategy game abstracts your leadership, here you'll play the full adulthood of a neo-feudal ruler as they run an empire through negotiation and macromanagement, ending with their death. That's exactly what I hoped for just months ago. KatHawk Studios summarise it as "a 5X - the 5th 'X' being 'eXist'". Alliance Of The Sacred Suns (early 2022)Īlliance Of The Sacred Suns first blipped onto our radar in 2016, promising a grand space strategy focused on characters, political manoeuvering, and detailed empire management. Some of you, though, will love it like I do. It's a lot easier to recommend Mech Engineer than it was, but it will remain a niche game that will probably get a hard time from alienated players. Kiberkrecker have even added a save system, removing a huge issue with repetition at the start, when you had a bay full of guns and engines to calibrate every time you lost a campaign, which would be often. Since September, its frequent updates have added sound effects, more music, and much better documentation.
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You have no direct control of your people, and learning how to rebuild your base, and traverse the Earth as it's terraformed, and research and manufacture and tune every weapon makes for a daunting and confusing game with an esoteric UI. Either way, let's have a look at what's in store for strategy fans in 2022, yeah? Mech Engineer (December 2021)Ĭheating a bit already, Mech Engineer is currently in early access and its full release date of "December" technically makes this a 2021 game - but it's also still in early access at time of writing, so let's just say 2022 for the sake of argument, all right? It's about mechs fighting aliens, but you're not doing that yourself.
Or perhaps it's just been a rough one and I'm very sleep deprived and don't want to think about 2021. That I've less interest in looking back over this year than I do pondering the next suggests that maybe we're in for something special in the coming twelve months. If a game's not out yet it tends to disappear from my mind, making room for a hundred other recent releases in this age of plenty. I don't know about you, but my personal "to play" list is out of control.Īnd yet, while we've had plenty to enjoy this year, it's felt like a period of build-up to something bigger. Ever a broad church, 2021's seen enough releases to keep ten of me busy, from the easy-going Legion War to the month-consuming Shadow Empire. It's been a busy, kind of mixed year for strategy games. This is The Rally Point, a regular column where the inimitable Sin Vega delves deep into strategy gaming.
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