Hello! I’m going to rework the way reviews are published in Strategy and Wargaming.

The reason I’m doing this is because a lot of people enjoy reading my reviews, but the issue is that those take a long time to make (1 to 2 weeks in the best of cases), and sometimes I just lose timing on a game review because I spent too much time editing it, fact-checking game mechanics, or rewriting entire sections whenever I think of a point I would like to make. Of course, this isn’t conducive to productivity, and this being a single-person enterprise, it often means that I just end up reviewing one or two games a month, at most.

My issue with that is that I play a lot of games, and I have an opinion on all of them, and would love to write about all in deep, longer format reviews. As of right now, that is unfeasible unless I stop all other types of content. I also want to give my opinions on older games, but those don’t have a lot of relevance anymore. However, I still think it’s worth having opinions laid out on them. With people constantly going back to play old titles, there might be an opportunity there.

Another reason is that I came to the conclusion a lot of people come to Strategy and Wargaming for discoverability of new titles, and this is also part of that strategy to give viewers what they are looking for, and turn Strategy and Wargaming into the go-to place where you can find out more about strategy games and then look more into them if you like what you saw.

So after much consideration, I came to a good compromise that will work like this:

1- Longer format reviews will still come out, but only for games I consider to be worth the time investment.

2- I’ll start getting into YouTube content where I’ll freestyle comment on recently released games I have played and share my opinions on them. This is inspired by the amount of positive feedback I got while doing the Critical Moves Podcast.

3- The rest of the games will get these ScoreCard Reviews. Meaning that they are shorter, straight-to-the-point reviews, very easy to read, consult, and get an immediate impression of whether the game is good or not. I know that most people only care about the conclusions of a review, so this will satisfy that, without all the unnecessary fluff. I’ll also use these ScoreCards Reviews on older games I have played, and still want to share with you what I think about them.

The format is going to be simple: a quick overview of the game, very descriptive, the genre, developer, publisher, release date, price, where you can buy it, and the review score. Then three paragraphs describing my thoughts on it. Then round up with a recommendation or not.

Of course, in-depth reviews will still be a thing, but hopefully, you’ll see where I’m going with this and support the idea. In a year from now, I hope to have one of the biggest archives of strategy game reviews on the internet, and I’ll develop a landing page where you can easily go and search for what you want with filters.

With this being said, expect to see a lot more reviews coming soon, and I’ll start this out by reviewing one of the best real-time strategy games of all time, Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition.

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