Total War: Medieval III
After nearly two decades of waiting, Creative Assembly is finally returning to its historical roots with the ultimate medieval sandbox, Total War: Medieval III. Built on the studio’s next-generation Warcore engine, this massive sequel delivers unprecedented visual fidelity, battle scale, and an ambitious, dynamic campaign map stretching across medieval Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. The whole medieval shebang is here: You’ll navigate dynastic politics, religious crusades, and feudal vassal systems before commanding thousands of knights, siege engines, and archers in visceral, real-time tactical battles. Designed as the ultimate historical “what-if” playground, Total War: Medieval III promises the kind of deep historical immersion and empire-building freedom that will ruin your sleep schedule for years to come.
War Company: Fortress Europe
Fusing large-scale operational hex-map planning with detailed, real-time tactical combat, War Company: Fortress Europe is a WWII wargamer’s dream come true. Developed by BROKE PROTOCOL, this systemic strategy title drops you into Western Europe where logistics, supply lines, fuel, and ammunition dictate whether your advance succeeds or stalls out. When enemy battalions collide on the 3D campaign map, the game seamlessly transitions into intense, squad-level real-time tactical engagements where terrain destruction, ballistics, suppression, and morale govern the fighting. With persistent unit experience, fatigue, and losses carrying over throughout the campaign, WARCOM: Fortress Europe is set to deliver an insanely deep, unforgiving WWII simulation that will keep you pondering over a war map late into the night.
LEGO Skylines
This one came out of nowhere, and it’s one of the best things ever! The ultimate crossover between creative brick-building and urban management is finally happening with LEGO Skylines, published by Paradox Interactive. Swapping complex, stress-inducing urban collapse for a cozy, highly customizable city-building experience, this title lets you construct a living brick metropolis from prefabricated modular sets inspired by real LEGO pieces. You’ll manage infrastructure like electricity, water, power, and donut supply chains while keeping your yellow minifigures happy and healthy. Balancing accessible play with optional deep logistical systems, from traffic flow to public services, LEGO Skylines is already shaping up to be one of the bigger hits once it releases. A match made in heaven, indeed.
D.O.R.F.
Crafted by two independent developers in their spare time using a heavily modified version of the OpenRA engine, and designed with the goal of emulating the feel of classic 90s and early 2000s RTS games, D.O.R.F. Real-Time Strategic Conflict delivers raw, high-octane 2.5D isometric tactical mayhem. Set in a dystopian future, you’ll pick from three radically asymmetric factions to construct elaborate industrial bases, mine complex multi-tiered resources, and unleash crazy units like multi-turret tanks, bomb-dropping zeppelins, and psychic warriors across land, sea, and air. Featuring physics-based vehicle ramming, visceral line-of-fire destruction, and zero hand-holding, D.O.R.F. captures that hyper-addictive, fast-paced RTS action that will completely wreck your sleep schedule.
Metropolis 1998
If you miss the golden era of 90s simulation games like SimCity 2000, or just the simpler life at the time, then Metropolis 1998 is a retro pixel-art city builder designed to completely take over your life and let you obsess over every single detail. What makes this title stand out is its absurd level of granularity: instead of abstract stats, every single citizen, car, and worker is fully simulated in real time with individual routines, jobs, and daily paths. You aren’t just zoning districts, but you can slice open buildings layer-by-layer to design custom indoor layouts down to individual furniture placement, manage realistic traffic flow, and optimize complex power grids. With its nostalgic 2D isometric aesthetic, deep real-time economics, and micro-management freedom, it’s a terrifyingly addictive time-sink for simulation purists. There’s a demo if you want to play it right now!
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