Total War: Three Kingdoms

For a time it looked as though strategy games had sunk into a kind of deathly malaise, unsure which territory to claim next and which ones it should leave well and truly alone. Fast forward to 2020, though, and strategy games have never looked healthier, which is why we've compiled this best strategy games list of all time. Whether you want to conquer the depths…

Tagged with Bestest Bests, feature, Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, Anno 1800, Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2, BattleTech, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, Company of Heroes, Crusader Kings II, Dawn of Man, Defcon, Distant Worlds: Universe, Druidstone: The Secret of the Menhir Forest, Dune II: The Battle for Arrakis, Endless Legend, Europa Universalis IV, Frozen Synapse, FTL: Faster Than Light, Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising, Imperator: Rome, Into the Breach, Invisible Inc, Men Of War, Mutant Year Zero: Road To Eden, Neptune's Pride, Northgard, Offworld Trading Company, Sacrifice, Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, Sid Meier's Civilization VI, Six Ages: Ride Like The Wind, StarCraft II: Wings Of Liberty, Stellaris, Supreme-Commander, The Banner Saga, They Are Billions, Total War: Shogun 2, Total War: Three Kingdoms, Total War: Warhammer II, UFO: Enemy Unknown, Unity of Command, Warcraft III, Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War - Soulstorm, Warhammer 40000: Mechanicus, XCOM 2.

There's an old saying in gaming monitor circles that once you've gone ultrawide, there's no going back. Indeed, having had the vast Samsung CRG9 hogging my desk for a bit last month, I'm inclined to agree. But what do games actually look like on a screen this wide? It's one thing looking at lovely wallpapers, but another thing entirely to have a game occupy your…

Tagged with Bestest Bests, feature, Hardware, Monitors, Abzu, Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, American Truck Simulator, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Batman: Arkham Knight, BioShock Infinite, Destiny 2, Dishonored 2, Everybody's Gone To The Rapture, Far: Lone Sails, Final Fantasy XV, Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition, Firewatch, Forza Horizon 4, Frostpunk, Gears of War 5, Grow Home, Half-Life 2, Heaven's Vault, Hitman, Hitman 2, Metro Exodus, No Man's Sky, Red Dead Redemption 2, Rez Infinite, Rime, Sea of Thieves, Sid Meier's Civilization VI, Stardew Valley, Subnautica, The Long Dark, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Thumper, Tom Clancy's The Division 2, Total War: Three Kingdoms, Warframe, Yakuza 0.

Winter brings out a part of me that immediately seeks a mountain of blankets in which to burrow. Even in my seasonally confused state of Texas, the weather has tended towards the chilly and left me with little excuse not to have a kettle boiling interminably as I layer on socks and pull the biggest comforter from the top of the closet. But this presents…

Tagged with Age of Wonders: Planetfall, Civilization, Disco Elysium, Divinity: Original Sin 2, Hearthstone, Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire, Planet Zoo, Slay the Spire, Torment: Tides of Numenera, Total War: Three Kingdoms, Tropico, XCOM 2.

Usually after the Steam summer sale horror show, the Steam Charts offer us some respite in the lull between AAA releases and allow us to celebrate the successful release of a bunch of indie games. But as you'll have noticed if you've looked at 2019, nothing follows the rules of sense and decorum any longer. So it is that last week and this, we've had…

Tagged with feature, Steam Charts, Valve Index, Fallout 4, NieR: Automata, Oxygen Not Included, Playerunknown's Battlegrounds, The Elder Scrolls Online, Total War: Three Kingdoms.

Here's a fascinating fact: Steam Charts has never won an award. I KNOW. If there's nothing else that demonstrates the corruption of the entire system, it's this. High quality, groundbreaking, Woodwardian journalism, are just some of the terms I use to describe this most esteemed of columns. And yet the silverware shelf gathers dust. It's a disgrace.

Tagged with feature, Steam Charts, Valve Index, Earth Defense Force 5, Gloomhaven, Grand Theft Auto V, Killsquad, Octopath Traveler, Playerunknown's Battlegrounds, Prey, Prey: Mooncrash, Prey: Typhon Hunter, Total War: Three Kingdoms.

It's another dire old week in Chartland, with the last breaths of the Summer Sale ensuring, with the exception of spots #4 and #5, that all the usual suspects dominate. But we won't let that change us! We're better than this! We're going to have fun anyway!

Tagged with feature, Steam Charts, Valve Index, Cyberpunk 2077, Earth Defense Force 5, Grand Theft Auto V, Monster Hunter: World, Octopath Traveler, Playerunknown's Battlegrounds, Rust, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Total War: Three Kingdoms.

Yes, yes, it's me. I know, I know, but calm down. While it's obviously very exciting to have a celebrity as handsome and excellent as me writing you some Steam Charts, I'm still just a regular ordinary guy underneath it all. I leap into my trousers both legs at once, same as anyone else.

Tagged with feature, Steam Charts, Valve Index, Divinity: Original Sin 2 Definitive Edition, Grand Theft Auto V, Monster Hunter: World, Playerunknown's Battlegrounds, Rust, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Starbound, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Total War: Three Kingdoms.

If there's one thing that's guaranteed to sweep through the Steam Charts like a giant fart, it's a Steam Sale. Blowing out all the fresh, original or interesting new releases, the mid-year discount warehouse (Junction 45 off the M91) ensures it's a top 10 of games you already bought or decided you don't want to buy. So who is buying them? Baddies. You lot are…

Tagged with feature, Steam Charts, Valve Index, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, Dota 2, Grand Theft Auto V, Monster Hunter: World, Playerunknown's Battlegrounds, Rust, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Total War: Three Kingdoms.

Hello friendly people! Welcome to the always-lovely, always-cheerful soft-play-of-fun-and-hyphens that is Steam Charts! Today we're going to laugh together, learn together, and maybe, just maybe, if we're lucky, laugh and learn a little. Please, pull up a trouser, take a seat (take as many seats as you need - we have too many seats), and prepare to enjoy, laugh, and maybe even learn.

Tagged with feature, Steam Charts, Ark: Survival Evolved, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, Cyberpunk 2077, Grand Theft Auto V, Mordhau, My Friend Pedro, Playerunknown's Battlegrounds, Rust, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, Total War: Three Kingdoms.

I'm declaring it: this is the Worst Week Ever for Steam Charts. And let's face it - this is entirely your fault. If you were a better person, you'd buy better games. But instead you buy the same eight bloody games every bloody week, and then buy a game that isn't even out for over a year. A YEAR! You are awful, and you do…

Tagged with feature, Steam Charts, Cyberpunk 2077, Divinity: Original Sin 2, Divinity: Original Sin 2 Definitive Edition, Grand Theft Auto V, Hell Let Loose, Mordhau, Octopath Traveler, Playerunknown's Battlegrounds, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, Total War: Three Kingdoms.

This week: Rude swears! Writing about more interesting games than the ones you boring people keep buying! And battle advice to people who've been dead 1,800 years! It's some Steam Charts.

Tagged with feature, Steam Charts, Battalion 1944, Cooking Simulator, Divinity: Original Sin 2 Definitive Edition, Gems Of War, Grand Theft Auto V, Hell Let Loose, Mordhau, Night Lights, Octopath Traveler, Playerunknown's Battlegrounds, Reventure, Stellaris, Total War: Three Kingdoms.