Oh, and you can always see what your enemies will do on their next turn.
Each battle unfolds on an 8x8 sized grid, lasts five turns, and - with only occasional exception - gives you control of no more than three basic units. Why should you play it? Tactics and strategy games often take a "more is better" approach, with huge battles, tons of combatants, and stats stats stats everywhere. What is it? A turn-based tactical roguelike from the developers of FTL that sets brief mecha-versus-kaiju battles on chessboard playing fields. I'll be playing this game on and off for years.
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Plus it's only gotten better with age thanks to free DLC like a New Game+ mode, more items and weapons, and store improvements. There's something about Will, the unassuming main character who moonlights as an adventure, that makes you want to root for him. Moonlighter controls well, looks and sounds great, and I found myself surprisingly invested in its story. Everything leads into everything else, so you're constantly hungry for more.
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The cycle of exploring dungeons to get loot, selling that loot back at your store, and using the profits to upgrade your gear and your store to get even better at looting and selling is incredibly engrossing. Why should you play it? Moonlighter is two games in one - a shopkeeping sim and a Zelda-esque action RPG - and both are exceptional. What is it? An isometric action game where you spend your days running a shop in a small village, and your nights as an adventurer crawling through randomly generated dungeons. How many of these beauties have you played? 25. So without any further ado, here's our final list of the best games of 2018. That's how we got to this ultimate 25 best games of 2018. The process was applied to all games in the long list, allowing us to create a focus-group-style average ranking. We added up all the scores, and the game with the most overall votes, but lowest average score became our number one. Every member of the team then voted on their top 25 of that list, ranked from 25th best all the way down to their ultimate number one (so your #1 game received a score of 1, your #25 game received a score of 25 etc). The GamesRadar team then submitted every, single, game they thought should be on the long list, which eventually was filled with around 50 games. Sorry Spyro: The Reignited Trilogy and Diablo 3 on Switch. TLDR: we included it, since the game underwent significant retooling during 2018 via regular updates, and - let's be frank - excluding gaming's biggest cultural phenomenon felt absurd) and anything that was a remaster or a re-release didn't count. Only games that came out in 2018 were eligible, (although Fortnite was a cause of much debate, originally debuting in late 2017, but not hitting its stride until early 2018. How did we do it? Firstly, we set some baseline rules.