Game Reviews6.3/10
This Is the Police 2 Review: Four Systems, Four Bills to Pay
This Is the Police 2 review: a 2018 mix of management, visual novel and turn-based tactics set in 1987 Sharpwood, where cops are people, not pieces.
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Tag: turn-based tactics
Game Reviews7/10
Supernatural strategy game Hard West swaps dice rolls for a deck of cards
Hard West review: CreativeForge's 2015 supernatural Western tactics game trades XCOM's random hit chances for a luck system and poker-card progression.
Game Reviews7.3/10
Othercide’s sacrifices are its best trick, six years on
Othercide review: Lightbulb Crew's tactics game makes you sacrifice one Daughter to heal another, wrapped in black, white and red. Score: 7.3/10.
Game Reviews7.7/10
The Behemoth’s turn-based tactics game buries a cruel difficulty curve under its jokes
Pit People review: The Behemoth's turn-based tactics game uses hex grids, distance rules and a strange recruitment loop to make a funny, smart 7.7/10 game.
Game Reviews7.9/10
Metal Slug’s Run-and-Gun Pace Gets Rewritten as Turn-Based Chess
Metal Slug Tactics review: Leikir Studio turns run-and-gun into grid-based turn-based tactics with squad combos and base upgrades. Score: 7.9/10.
Game Reviews7.8/10
XCOM: Chimera Squad Review — A Smaller, Faster XCOM That Knows What It Is
XCOM: Chimera Squad review: Firaxis trades global resistance for one city and eleven cops. Breach mode and interleaved turns shine, but the ending dangles.
Game Reviews8.6/10
Jagged Alliance 3 Hands You a Country to Win Back, Then Makes Every Fight a Nightmare
Jagged Alliance 3 review: Haemimont Games' turn-based tactics sequel with 40 hired guns, a campaign map, body-part aiming and the country of Grand Chien. 8.6/10.
Game Reviews8.2/10
Skulls of the Shogun’s long afterlife, 13 years after it first missed its moment
Skulls of the Shogun review: 17-BIT's Advance Wars-style tactics game, its Kurokawa twist, Bone-A-Fide Edition, and ports from Xbox 360 to Switch.
Game Reviews9.4/10
Star Wars Zero Company turns debt collection into a cult manhunt
Star Wars Zero Company review: Bit Reactor's turn-based tactics squad game set in the Clone Wars' final year, with permadeath, base management and a 9.4 score.
Game Reviews8.4/10
Gears Tactics proves the cover-shooter formula survives the jump to turn-based strategy
Gears Tactics review: Splash Damage's turn-based spin-off scores 8.4/10, with three-action turns, free movement, and no multiplayer.
Game Reviews8.8/10
SteamWorld Heist’s ricochet shooting still earns its keep 11 years on
SteamWorld Heist review: the 2015 turn-based tactics shooter still lands 11 years on, thanks to manual aiming, trick shots and hat-stealing loot.
Game Reviews8.3/10
The Mario and Rabbids Crossover Nobody Asked For Became a Tactical Gem
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle review: Ubisoft's 2017 Switch tactics crossover works despite the odds, with sharp turn-based combat and weak puzzles.