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MY T here have been few battles, but because the extremely
moments over the last
slick Frozen Synapse came out in
2011, a year before XCOM, and was
ten years where I’ve
been far from a grid
just as impressive. It didn’t quite have
TURN duking it out turn by turn. There the same impact, however. XCOM is
full of little soldiers
a reimagining of a series that was
was a lull, certainly in attention,
already acclaimed, but with a more
after the ’90s, but then XCOM:
Squads are also smaller, but more
Enemy Unknown came along and lit cinematic and character-driven bent.
a fire under the genre, arguably customisable, making the loss of any
How turn-based tactics kicking off the decade of turn-based of them devastating – a trend that’s
tactics games – a title I’d never have largely been continued.
won the decade. imagined it earning at the start. we talk about games. If you want to
XCOM has even changed the way
By Fraser Brown I say ‘arguably’ not because there is describe the broad strokes of a
any doubt that this has been a turn-based tactics game now, you can
fantastic decade full of smart, tactical just say it’s ‘like XCOM’ and people
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BOS S K E Y
INTO THE
1 BRE ACH CLOSES A tepid showing is
The developers of
Gears of War creator
closed out with the
20 FTL release one of the Cliff Bleszinski announcement of
shutters his studio
Diablo Immortal. The
most tightly designed
strategy games ever after the failure of reveal goes down like a
made. It’s so good it Lawbreakers and an lead balloon, creating
wins our Game of the abortive attempt at a a rift between the
Year award. battle royale game. studio and its fans.
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