Uncle Chops Rocket Shop is a game that will make you sweat. It applies a type of pressure I’ve rarely encountered in a video game. Other games will challenge your reflexes, your ability to adapt, and even your ability to think strategically. Uncle Chops Rocket Shop, however, challenges your ability to learn, and apply that learning in various scenarios under the threat of death.
These Doomed Isles identifies as a roguelike city-building deck builder, but I don’t quite agree with it. These Doomed Isles isn’t much of a city builder at all. The buildings you place and the lives of your little citizens mostly boil down to boosting or altering numbers that bear very little resemblance to running any kind of city or village. There’s no simulation going on under the hood.
Ways of War is the fifth expansion for Age of Wonders 4 and brings a touch of Eastern mythology to the game with Chinese Dragons, Jade Lions, and a new Oathsworn culture that devotes themselves to one of three decrees.
What do you get when you pit 16 heavily armed strangers against hordes of alien bugs and teamwork-centric objectives? The complete and utter chaos of Starship Troopers: Extermination.
Sometimes that chaos is full of fun and spectacle. There is something incredible about standing on a wall with your fellow soldiers firing at a tide of aliens who are more than happy to climb over the bodies of their fallen brethren to scale your defenses.