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Warside
Warside is a new game that cuts to the core of what made classic turn-based tactics games so great. A great story mode campaign, unique Commanders with totally different playstyles, awesome Battle Powers, and a wide variety of terrain and units. Choose your Commander, assemble your forces, and battle your way to victory. Warside is a love letter ...
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While it’s almost 20 years since the world saw a brand new Advance Wars game (putting aside the seemingly great 2023 remake), a huge variety of indie game devs, likely spurred on by childhood nostalgia, have happily rushed to fill the spritely turn-based military void. Amidst the Wargroove’s, Tiny Metal’s and Into the Breach’s of the world comes Warside, a hardy but underbaked experience whose core gameplay engine may be revving well, but is let down by the rest of the chassis.
Warside’s single biggest flaw is that it fails to do anything to step out of the shadow of Advance Wars in any meaningful way. Without its own personality it is, ultimately, not as memorable as it should be, but that cross-play multiplayer and the fact that you don’t need your gaming group to all own Switches to enjoy playing together does save it. For not just locked to PC, but by the time it comes to consoles, I expect it will have a pretty dedicated following.