New games - which games have you added to your collection recently?

[Quintillus]

With the holidays coming up, I thought it might be fun to see what new games we are all giving a chance. If it winds up being fun, create a thread for it!

The ones that made the cut for me:

- Ara: History Untold. Of the new history-spanning 4X's, it's the one I paid the least attention to during development, but it seems to have found its feet and a good reception. So, I'll be trying it this winter!
- Old World: Wrath of the Gods. I'm back up to having all the Old World expansions! The dynamic map aspect of it - with shifting ocean lines and varying mountain navigability - sounds particularly interesting to me, even as I might keep just as much of a wary distance from volcanoes as I tended to in Civ III.
- Clanfolk. I've been wanting a new base building game for a while, and the reception to this one seems to be very positive. So, it's off to the Highlands to build a village.

There might be a couple more that I'll pick up in December, we'll see. Memoriapolis and EU5 are on my radar. Played a bit too much EU4 in 2024 and early 2025 though, so I'm ready for more turn-based strategy games. Elemental: Reforged also looks interesting (but I should really play Fallen Enchantress first), and at some point I'm sure I'll want to try Endless Legend II, it's just a question of when.

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

I got Old World, Endless Legend and Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War, none of which sadly run well on my laptop. I might play them when I get the desktop this semester break, but I'll probably be playing too much of Kenshi.

I did play Endless Legend and Old World last break, I liked the first, not so much the latter. I got the Warhammer game for free, played a little of it on my laptop, very punishing even on the easiest difficulty, my armies just got wiped out every time they ventured away from my capital, what little I played of it was fun, but my laptop's jankiness dissuaded me from giving it more time

 

[Civinator]

So still at early access, I have much fun with Elemental: Reforged - but most fun with CCR, a new Civ 3 mod that will be released in time for Christmas.