Has anyone else noticed that 2024 has suddenly become a major year for strategy games, with several ready to duke it out for the title of Strategy Game of the Year? Oh sure, it started feeling like it would be an obvious choice with Balatro, which won over many folks and killed their productivity, and which we even declared to be the greatest strategy game of all time. In the short month and a half since we published that list, though, we saw the releases of Arco, Tactical Breach Wizards, and Shogun Showdown, which also came out to much acclaim. And next month sees yet another possible contender for the throne: The rather appropriate Thronefall, from developer GrizzlyGames, which after a successful run in Early Access with nearly a million copies sold and an "Overwhelmingly Positive" rating on Steam, is now ready for a full release, with the date announced in the trailer below.
Back to Basics
As the clip shows through a quick exploration of the gameplay, Thronefall is a minimalist strategy game (somewhat akin to one of the developer's previous games, Islanders), one with the simple setup of building a little kingdom during the day and defending it...
