Maxim Klose-Ivanov


41 games reviewed
67.2 average score
70 median score
39.0% of games recommended
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Nov 12, 2019

Unity of Command 2 is an excellent evolution of the series that retains, improves, and builds upon the already high quality of its predecessor.

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9 / 10.0 - Panzer Corps 2
Mar 17, 2020

With the release of Panzer Corps 2 and its updated graphics, improved UI, greater accessibility to newcomers and expanded player options, it’s a must-buy for any history and strategy game fan.

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8.5 / 10.0 - Kaiju Wars
Apr 27, 2022

Kaiju Wars stomps its way onto the strategy scene with its brilliant sense of style, distinct setting, and tight tactical gameplay.

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8.5 / 10.0 - Two Point Campus
Aug 4, 2022

The developers clearly did their homework with Two Point Campus and it will easily infect you with its charm, keeping you hooked on university life.

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8 / 10.0 - Warsaw
Oct 2, 2019

Warsaw is a good installment in the dungeon crawler genre with its historical theme, excellent artstyle, and atmosphere carrying the experience. However, it can feel tedious at times with the slow responsiveness of skills during combat and some grindy situations in combat.

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8 / 10.0 - Broken Lines
Feb 25, 2020

Broken Lines is a solid turn-based strategy-RPG hybrid with endearing characters, strong tactical gameplay that doesn’t overstay its welcome, and an alternate history WWII survival-mystery story filled with desperation, hopelessness, and dread

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Feb 4, 2021

A solid and historically authentic entry into a consistently engaging, if slightly safe, turn-based strategy series.

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Mar 29, 2021

Though by no means revolutionary, Evil Genius 2 is a solid, expansive, and fun lair management and defence game and a welcome return for the franchise.

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8 / 10.0 - Hero's Hour
Feb 28, 2022

While a lack of online modes may limit the game's shelf life, the excellent faction variety and snappy pace give Hero's Hour an undeniable charm.

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Warhammer 40K: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters brings back an old franchise and succeeds at making you and your Grey Knight Space Marine squaddies feel like absolute badasses.

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8 / 10.0 - The Valiant
Oct 19, 2022

A simple but engaging action tactics game with solid presentation and a neat setting that'll easily make you want to take up your sword and go questing.

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7.5 / 10.0 - Humankind
Aug 16, 2021

Humankind is a refreshing and authentic take on the historical 4X strategy subgenre, albeit with some balancing problems that keep it from greatness.

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7.5 / 10.0 - Inscryption
Oct 18, 2021

Though uneven in its middle section, Inscryption is a clever and refreshing horror-adventure card game.

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Feb 14, 2022

Though it may show the design limitations of the franchise's aging engine, Total War: Warhammer 3 is a solid conclusion to CA's foray into fantasy.

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Apr 26, 2022

Though it maintains some serious design flaws carried over from its predecessors, Galactic Civilizations 4 is an epic grand strategy game on a truly galactic scale.

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Jun 16, 2022

It may not have the same teeth or originality as the satirical film it's based on, but Starship Troopers: Terran Command is still a whole lot of exciting bug-squashing fun.

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7 / 10.0 - Crying Suns
Sep 19, 2019

Crying Suns is a solid story-driven take on the sci-fi strategy roguelite, with great atmosphere, an interesting story, and cerebral tactical combat. The experience is mired only by several bland game features, some grating repetitiveness from a lack of variety in events and dialogue, and an odd lack of personality from the officers.

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7 / 10.0 - Phoenix Point
Dec 3, 2019

Phoenix Point successfully introduces a slew of new features and mechanics that sufficiently evolve the XCOM-inspired genre of strategy games, though is brought down by some buggy, wonky, and unbalanced implementation of some mechanics.

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7 / 10.0 - Astra Exodus
Jan 30, 2020

Astra Exodus is a fairly decent 4X strategy game with some interesting ideas and a surprisingly good tactical combat system, but it’s bogged down by a lack of polish and some technical issues.

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7 / 10.0 - ICBM
Nov 17, 2020

Though conceptually simple and highly repetitive, ICBM is a neat and compact strategy game with solid design foundations and excellent multiplayer potential.

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