When it comes to tactical strategy games, careful planning and consideration is a must. Otherwise, your next move may very well be your last. The past ten years have seen plenty of games in 🎉the genre being released, while adding new strategic elements and in-game dynamics that need to be accounted for.
We continue our "Best of the Decade" coverage with TheGamer News Team's T𓆉actical Strategy Games of the Decade!
Scott Baird - XCOM 2
The hardest thing for any strategy game to accomplish is to keep the player interested and coming back for more in a long game. The most impressive aspect of XCOM 2 is its incredible pacing, as the game has just the right amount of improvements to enemy difficulty 🦋ratio to ever prevent things from going stale. Slowly building up your resistance movement against the alien menace is a task that constantly challenges the player and keeps things exciting to the end.
Bella Blondeau - Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Tactical strategy went a bit more mainstream this decade, thanks to stellar games like X-Com: Enemy Unknown and Mario + Rabbids. But after tripping out the gate with Awakening and Fates, then recovering a bit with Echoes, Fire Emblem reemerged as the de facto champion with Three Houses. There's not exactly a word to describe how satisfying it was, training your students, managing five million meters, then throwing them all on the battlefield and realizing that your decisions could end their lives forever. This was the best the series had been since Path of Radiance, and arguably the best it's ever been.
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Eric Switzer - Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle
Purists be damned, Mario + Rabbids is the most accessible tactics games and still the most fun. It is exceptionally forgiving, but not without significant challenge. Mario + Rabbids is a game that has no business existing, but somehow it manages to be a standout tactics game and the best way to introduce new players to one of the coolest game genres there is🥃.
Jamie Latour - Into The Breach
Robots, time travel, and failure, Into The Breach brings together all the important things in my life. It's basically a strategy roguelike where you try to keep your pilots alive so they can use giant mechs to take down an invading alien🤪 force. You will die over and over, forcing you to sacrifice your team to keep the mission alive and live to fight another day. It's pretty dark when you think about, but it's also a ton of strategic fun.