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Previews and first impressions on upcoming games in 2025-2026. We got our hands on it before you: find out what convinced us, and what didn't.

Lords of the End Times: Boris Todbringer finally arrives, and I have waited twelve years for this
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Lords of the End Times: Boris Todbringer finally arrives, and I have waited twelve years for this

Four legendary lords, the biggest DLC in the series according to Creative Assembly, and a free update that reworks the Vampire Counts.

Alexandrosse
10 min
Lugal: a survival game that asks you to invent the state, and a ziggurat to prove you deserve it
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Lugal: a survival game that asks you to invent the state, and a ziggurat to prove you deserve it

Tribe, village, city, state. A survival game crossing ten thousand years to ask a rare question: where does a king's legitimacy come from?

Alexandrosse
8 min
Solar Wave: strip the micromanagement out of a space strategy game, and do you remove the chore or the game?
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Solar Wave: strip the micromanagement out of a space strategy game, and do you remove the chore or the game?

Autonomous fleets, a living economy, thousands of ships. A design gamble that is not playing on Stellaris's pitch.

Alexandrosse
7 min
The Lantern of the Laughless Saint: we were there 24 years ago, so allow us to be demanding
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The Lantern of the Laughless Saint: we were there 24 years ago, so allow us to be demanding

An open world RPG that invokes Morrowind in its very trailer. The playtesters, for their part, do not all agree.

Alexandrosse
8 min
We Are So Dead: never play with a ouija board, and if you do not believe me, try this one
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We Are So Dead: never play with a ouija board, and if you do not believe me, try this one

One player starts dead, sees everything, and can only communicate by spelling on a board their friends keep misreading. Brilliant and cruel.

Alexandrosse
5 min
Red Tape Rampage: the mad optimiser in you will fire entire teams, and the game is counting on it
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Red Tape Rampage: the mad optimiser in you will fire entire teams, and the game is counting on it

A satirical incremental where paperwork becomes progress and mass layoffs are an owned game mechanic.

Alexandrosse
5 min
Security 51: another Papers Please, except the real question here is not who you let in
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Security 51: another Papers Please, except the real question here is not who you let in

The bureaucratic stamp meets SCP paranoia. Its real find: you are also responsible for what leaves the bunker.

Alexandrosse
6 min
Silent Shark: if submarine games have not evolved in twenty years, it is not this game's fault
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Silent Shark: if submarine games have not evolved in twenty years, it is not this game's fault

Hydrophone, stadimeter, torpedo data computer and thermal layers. A deep simulator from a solo developer, and a disappointment worth reframing.

Alexandrosse
7 min
The Merchant's Eden: probably the cutest city builder of the year, and it hides a tower defence
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The Merchant's Eden: probably the cutest city builder of the year, and it hides a tower defence

A medieval town around a central marketplace, in a soothing minimalist style. Except prosperity attracts berserkers.

Alexandrosse
5 min