Factorio in first-person 3D; Coffee Stain's conveyor belts.
Automate a factory on an alien planet until the biters come; the game engineers lose weeks to.
Thirty years on, a city of factions and a council; the 2024 sequel.
Run the last city on Earth around a generator and sign the laws you swore you would not; 11 bit studios.
The city builder SimCity should have been, with every citizen simulated on their own commute.
The 2021 return of the medieval RTS with documentary campaigns.
Every Warhammer faction on one Immortal Empires map; the biggest Total War.
The Second World War as a grand strategy of divisions and supply; Paradox's war game.
Grand strategy in a galaxy of your own species; Paradox in space.
Dynasties, stress and secrets; Paradox's character-driven grand strategy remade.
Earth lost; run a resistance from a flying base with timed missions.
Ages that change your civilisation mid-game; the 2025 reboot.
Districts on the map and leaders with agendas; the Civilization of the 2010s.
Arc System Works' anime fighter with rock music and the best-looking 2D in the genre.
Fatalities in 4K and a time-travel story; NetherRealm's best.
The Heat system and Jin versus Kazuya; the 3D fighter's latest.
Drive Impact, modern controls and World Tour; the fighting game of the 2020s.
MyCareer and the City; the basketball game.
FIFA under its new name; Ultimate Team and the eleven-versus-eleven.
The official Formula One game with Braking Point story mode.
The return of the car collection and the cafe; the PS5 sim racer.
Mexico as a driving festival; the best open-world racer.
The Nemesis system: orcs who remember killing you; Monolith's Tolkien.
The Batmobile and Gotham on the night it is evacuated; Rocksteady closes the trilogy.
A fifth-year student in 1890s Hogwarts; the wizarding world as an open world.
Cal five years on, Koboh and more stances; the sequel.
Cal Kestis after Order 66; a Souls-lite Star Wars from Respawn.
Indy in 1937 between Raiders and Last Crusade, in first person; MachineGames.
Pinocchio as a soulslike in a Belle Epoque city; the best non-From Souls.
Eve against the Naytiba in a ruined Earth; Shift Up's Korean action game.
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