WARGROOVE

Turn-based warfare becomes unreasonably cute

Nintendo’s Advance Wars series won over a pretty big cult audience back in the early 2000s, with its mixture of easy-tofollow but still complex turn-based strategy. This success was powered by its standout pixel art, interesting leader characters and each faction’s specific battle-changing abilities. Now Chucklefish, developers of Starbound, are taking a stab at a spiritual successor to the game, since Nintendo forgot about it. Samuel Roberts

Heroesand Generals The personalities of the leaders are a big part of Wargroove’s appeal, and each of the 12 unlockable commanders have their own campaigns exploring their motivations, and presumably their relationships with each other. Advanced A d v a n c e Wa r s Wargroove has its own map editor, and will be modderfriendly, which is a key difference between Wargroove and AdvanceWars. Likewise, it can be played in multiplayer online and locally offline, too.