A step outside the usual tabletop lane, but squarely in the wheelhouse: How Empires Work is a newly released strategy game on Steam, and I give it a first look with some early- and midgame play.
From village to empire
The pitch is a from-the-ground-up climb — you start small, managing taxes, putting down bandits, and organizing local regiments, and build outward from there. That bottom-up framing is what caught my eye; a lot of 4X and grand-strategy games start you with an apparatus already running, and beginning as a minor authority scrapping for order is a more interesting on-ramp. First look and early/midgame play here; I keep an eye on whether the systems stay engaging once the empire actually gets big.
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