[Link] Kainga is a city-building game that’s also a deadly roguelike

Read: 15/11/2021 www.pcgamesn.com

Kainga: Seeds of Civilization is a city builder. It’s also a roguelike. You build up a civilisation in an ancient world full of mysterious monsters and enemies, you probably die, and you take what you’ve learned from the process into a new run.

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[Link] Command & Conquer: Red Alert remains one of the most intense and imaginative strategy games ever made

Read: 6/11/2021 www.pcgamer.com

For more of Command & Conquer's past, and a look back at the whole strategy genre, check out our beefy history of the strategy game, from 1972 to now. Released in November 1996, Command and Conquer: Red Alert was developed in just 14 months. That's a staggeringly short turnaround for a game.

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[Link] RTS Is Beginning To Solve The ‘Absent Endgame’ Problem

Read: 27/10/2021 www.kotaku.com.au

A quick game’s a good game, they say. Apparently “they” never heard of Neptune’s Pride 2. But while there’ll always be a place for long, deep, thoughtful gameplay, it’s becoming more and more important to respect the players’ time.

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