Rogue Hex

Buy on sale. Fun but shallow. Great for a potato. I like the concept but it is basically a mobile game on PC. RNG is key and if you fail to get a key tech that lets you exploit a key resource you will be screwed. Nevertheless, the game is pretty easy if you are familiar with 4x games at all. I feel like the Roguelite element needs a ton of work for it to truly be considered as one. It is entirely possible that I have just played till I won and then found no reason to continue but I found no reason to keep playing once I won. With most Roguelikes, the games are hard enough to require many rounds and different strategies thus providing a reason to play again. Here I felt like I stumbled into victory by simply taking on as many camps as possible.

I really like this game. Think this as civilization game, without civilizations, instead your entire run is to fend off or eliminate barbarians. Without the barbarians being obnoxious pieces of bleep overspawning zealots.. IF you do your job well and do not over zealously expand and keep killing their scouts. There are some random mechanics with random tech draws every era with generous re-roll mechanics. However, it's well enough balanced, that I end up doing upped challenge runs without using re-rolls and it doesn't seem boring if you are fan of civ style games. If you really know what you are doing you can do something really really satisfying, you seldom get to do these days in civ games : Nuke the map. Oh boy nukes are good in game, I absolutely love them, there's even time travelling if you want it. If you just want to win with every leader, the game is not that large, but if you keep upping the challenge ( beat one before, you get new one), there's decent amount stuff to do chasing achievements. There are also charms to boost future runs and they really help, but like tech re-rolling they aren't needed unless you really go overzealous. Currently my absolute favorite "play while you listen podcasts and news" game.