Building in strategy games is about survival, logistics, and foresight, creating a functional and resilient digital society. Games like Planetbase, Evil Genius 2, and Oxygen Not Included make ...

Perfection is hard to reach, but these open-world games with great base-building are probably the closest we've got to it.

Pete Schuler is a lifelong gamer turned English professor. Continuing to merge his love of literary analysis with gaming, Pete is a writer, professor, musician, gamer, and reader. He hails from the ...

JRPGs have many staples that originated in the 1990s. Most feature a fixed protagonist with personality, backstory, motivations, and dreams of their own. The player doesn't create their character, ...