Games

Im not entirely sure what Im going to play just yet, but I think I will start a game of Victoria 3 (an economy-focused grand strategy game) and see if I can get back into it.

I also want to spend more time with the post-apocalyptic 4X game Zephon, from the developers of 40K Gladius. Gladius was a bit of a favorite of mine. It had tons of DLC and was really fun in multiplayer. Stay with me here, it played almost like a turn-based RTS. As weird as that sounds, it worked really well. It was a 4X with a heavy focus on warfare. That was basically all you did. In that sense, it had some of the spirit of games like Advance Wars just with a metric fuckton more unit variety and very distinct factions.

EDIT: I just realized I havent really explained Zephon itself. The game is actually pretty interesting. The production values are a whole level above Gladius. Graphics, sound, and writing are all improved. Units even have voice responses when you click on them similar to an RTS. Its still very combat focused but other than in Gladius there is actually diplomacy.

There are basically two major factions you can align with. Aliens and a Skynet-style super AI called Zephon. The cool part is the endgame scenario where the aliens and Zephon go to war against each other. You can side with one of them or try to go your own way, which is the hardest option since you end up fighting both.