Nate Crowley
Former Section Editor
Nate Crowley was created from smokeless flame before the dawn of time. He now writes books, and tweets a lot as @frogcroakley. Each October he is replaced by Ghoastus, the Roman Ghost.
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The 50 best strategy games to play on PC
From tiny robot battles to grand historical warfare
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The Fertile Crescent review (early access): a bite-sized chunk of phenomenal RTS design
Age of pomegranates
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Why Crusader Kings 3 still feels new-chainmail-fresh after 18 months on the throne
Why bother seeing the woods, when you can check out all these cool trees
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What happens when you make a Crusader Kings 3 ruler with every stat set to max?
The Age of Men is over. The Time of Gigaknight has come.
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The death of my maxed-out Crusader Kings 3 ruler has kicked off an apocalyptic witch fight
The vast and the furious.
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Total War: Warhammer 3 review: a heavyweight RTS with transformative changes to multiplayer
War really is hell this time, but in a good way
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Jurassic World Evolution 2 review: a genetically-engineered theme park monster
Open the door, get on the floor, encounter the same frustrating design decisions as before
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Weird West is a smooth, smooth ride through a rough, rough place
Lost my damn mind in the West
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I used Planet Zoo’s new North America Animal Pack to make a grim facsimile of HBO's Deadwood
Now that’s what I call a frontier development
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Pathfinder: Wrath Of The Righteous is a CRPG belter, if you can handle your fantasy admin
Devils in the details
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The Age Of Empires 4 devs on bees, cheats, and "the John Wick of medieval cities"
Trebuchets will be capable of launching 95 kilograms of bees over 300m
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Wartales is mercenary management with Joe Abercrombie vibes
Live by the horse, die by the wolf
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Cantata is an absurd, colourful blend of Advance Wars and Dune, with production chains and tree squid
It's like nothing else in the tactics genre
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How a horse inside another horse saved the Holy Roman Empire in Age Of Empires 2
And why its Dawn Of The Dukes expansion is the best single-player content AOE2 has ever had
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I played RimWorld's Ideologies DLC and forced drifters to smoke crack and knife-fight a unicorn
It's always sunny in the outer rim
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An expert guide to Back 4 Blood's new zombie classes, which I have definitely not made up on the spot
In my head, in my hee-ee-ee-ead.
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Immersive sim Weird West wants to say yes to your every whim
Even if you just want to drag a dead wolf around
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Planet Zoo's ghastly hedge fund man actually seems quite reasonable, if I'm honest
How even cartoon villains look good in the Jeff Bezos space age
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Was Total War: Warhammer 2's Silence & The Fury DLC designed by actual Beastmen?
Help my computer is stuck on beast mode