Strategy reviews

Dog days Lose your patience in a beautiful post-apocalypse.

space race Age of Wonders: Planetfall injects fast-paced, tactical fun into the 4X's aging conquest model.

Conquered A brilliant grand strategy game full of squabbling nobles.

Indiana moans An Indiana Jones-inspired adventure that fails to tread new ground.

Heating up Making deals at the end of the world.

Groovy, Baby Wargroove sends dogs to war in their best armour.

Boozy Barbarians Walk your barbarian hordes through the gates of Rome.

Control freak Stalk the Zone in a tactics game that adds new mutations to the XCOM-like.

Cult hit This XCOM-like succeeds by embracing the weird.

COLD LOGIC It's always worth double-checking in this excellent strategy game.