Intro Strategy games continue to push strong into
this year with returning titles from existing franchises.
The genre has stayed very traditional, but developers kept the fans happy with highly
detailed games about war, science fiction, and colonization.
Let's take a look at these upcoming strategy games.
12 Battlefleet Gothic Armada � April 2016 - PC
Finally, a huge scale Warhammer game set in space on the Unreal Engine 4.
Battlefleet Gothic Armada is a real time strategy game set in the Warhammer 40000 universe.
Players will control fleets representing one of four factions and battle for control over
the Gothic sector of space.
Some of the ships are as large as 8 kilometers long.
And each faction will have its own strengths and weaknesses.
Impreium are heavily armored with a lot of torpedos and a nova cannon.
The Chaos are fast with longer range than other factions with powerful lancer weapons.
The environment plays a huge role as you can hide behind asteroids to flank enemies or
seek cover.
Ship damage is compartmental so if a certain part of the ship is damaged you lose specific
functions.
Attacking varies from firing torpedoes to boarding an enemy ship with your units.
Each ship is fully customizable in the full single player campaign.
This is the first real time strategy game built on Unreal Engine 4 and it looks beautiful.
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada will release on PC in April 2016.
11 Total War Warhammer � May 24, 2016 - PC Sega has announced Total War: Warhammer.
Finally these two great series have been merged for a new tactical strategy game.
The previous Warhammer games were real time strategy, but this one should be epic in the
Total War engine.
The trailer shows some brilliant cutscenes of characters and player types we can expect
to see in game.
This rendition of Total War will still be very similar with turn based campaign strategy
and real time tactical battles.
But of course it will have the Warhammer fantasy themes of magic, monsters, and beasts.
Sega has revealed four factions playable at launch: The Empire, The Greenskins, the Dwarves,
and Vampire Counts.
With two additional standalone expansions, it will be a trilogy of games to create the
largest Total War experience ever.
10 Ashes Of The Singularity � March 31, 2016 - PC
http://www.ashesofthesingularity.com/ In Ashes Of The Singularity, there's a war
building across the entire galaxy.
In the year 2178, humanity has expanded, but there's still conflict.
The battles take place on a large scale with thousands of units fighting in multiple armies.
Ashes Of The Singularity focus more on strategy than speed.
Everything from your attacks, to which units you build, to how you manage your economy
are crucial.
From a technical perspective, this game packs in a lot of power.
It runs on a native 64 bit engine called the Nitrous Engine and requires a minimum of four
cores to power the strategic AI enemies.
There's both a competitive and cooperative multiplayer with worldwide ranking for playing
online.
Ashes of the Singularity launches in March 2016 on PC.
09 Banner Saga 2 � Winter 2016 - PC Banner Saga returns and brings back the 2D
hand drawn art style with detailed combat animations.
Player choices further the narrative with each choice adding weight to the story.
Combat strategy has been improved.
Battle boards enhance combat and permanent character death increases the consequences
of your actions.
Banner Saga 2 releases in Winter 2016 on PC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuGlWKlYGWw 08 Dungeons 2 � April 26, 2016 - PS4
Dungeons 2 is an interesting mix of dungeon keeper underworld simulation with real time
strategy fighting in the overworld.
In Dungeons 2 you play as the ultimate evil who controls minions in order to build up
your base in the underworld.
And then take that army to the overworld to dominate humans.
The game is very tongue in cheek with numerous jokes.
There's up to 2 playable factions and 26 unique creatures in the single player campaign.
PlayStation 4 version has everything from the PC version of Dungeons 2 plus the DLC
packs Morning wood, Pixieville, A Chance of Dragons, a Song of Sand and Fire and A Clash
of Pumpkins featuring new scenarios, demon races, multiplayer maps and units.
Dungeons 2 releases on PS4 in April 26, 2016.
07 Master Of Orion: Conquer The Stars � TBA 2016 � PC
Master Of Orion Conquer The Stars is a reboot of the original 4x turn based strategy game
from 1993.
In the new game, players will lead one of 10 playable races to galactic control by exploring
the star systems while utilizing diplomacy, conquest, and technology.
All 10 races from the original game have returned and are fully voiced by award winning actors.
Players win by eliminating other opponents, winning a vote of peaceful unification, or
having the highest score during the last turn.
Currently in Early Access on Steam, Master Of Orion's launch date for the final version
is scheduled for later in 2016.
06 Stellaris � May 9, 2016 - PC http://www.stellariswiki.com/Stellaris_Wiki
Stellaris is a grand strategy game with a highlight on space exploration.
There's deep strategic gameplay with a large selection of alien races.
The game encourages discovery and interaction in space.
Each map is randomly generated and covers an entire galaxy containing thousands of planets.
There's also a high number of playable species each with their own traits and engineering
styles.
The game will have multiplayer with up to 32 players total.
Stellaris releases in May 2016 on the PC.
05 Offworld Trading Company � TBA 2016 - PC Currently in Early Access
In the year 2063, the world has gone through many changes.
There was a world wide market collpase and the government sponsored colonies have failed
on Mars.
In Offworld Trading Company you'll have to re-colonized Mars using the right resources.
Money is the main tool, not military force.
Players will have to claim resources and use them to develop them into goods for buildings
and upgrades.
Offworld Trading Company is currently in early access on Steam and the full version will
release later this year.
04 Cossaks 3 � TBA 2016 - PC Cossaks 3 is a remake of the classic from
2001.
Set in the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe, there will be 12 nations with over 70 types
of units, 100 scientific researches, and over 140 diverse historical buildings.
The game has large scale combat with up to 10,000 units in battle.
Battles feature up to 7 players online that can join together on teams or play against
cooperatively against the AI.
Cossaks 3 will release on PC later in 2016.
03 Halo Wars 2 - XB1 Creative Assembly, the team behind the Total
War strategy games, are developing the sequel to Halo Wars.
Halo Wars 2 is a strategy game set in the Halo universe.
The original title defined strategy games on consoles.
In the teaser trailer, we see the Red Team in a brutal fight against an enemy, most likely
a Brute Chieftain.
Halo Wars 2 is console exclusive to the Xbox One and is releasing sometime in 2016.
02 Blitzkreig 3 � TBA 2016 - PC Blitzkreig 3 let's you relive the biggest
battles from World War 2.
You'll have to build fortification and more advanced military developments to win on the
frontlines.
The game is multiplayer focused and in the main mode you'll attack and defend forified
areas.
The single player campaign takes you through major events from the Invasion of Poland in
1939 to the capture of Berlin by Soviet forces in 1945.
Blitzkreig 3 is currently in early access and releases sometime later in 2016 on PC.
01 Hearts Of Iron 4 � June 6, 2016 - PC Hearts of Iron IV is a World War 2 strategy
game and the sequel to Hearts of Iron III from Paradox Development Studio.
It covers the time period from 1936 to 1948, focusing on the buildup of the second World
War and the war itself.
Multiplayer will be up to 32 players and include a cooperative mode where different players
can play aspects of the same country.
Outro Strategy games favor the hardcore PC audience,
but I'm also curious to see if Halo Wars 2 will get ported to PC this time around.
I personally love the settings of all of these games because I like games that take place
in the future based around epic battles.
What are your favorite upcoming strategy games?
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