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Gone are the days of coming up with key words for google searching strategy games. For the past year Zakh has been my go to when it comes to looking for games, not only because of his calm and soothing voice. Or the sense of wisdom and serenity that Zakh transmits. It is because Zakh is thorough, he investigates the depths of the internet to find that one indie game nobody knows about. Let this vast list stand as a demonstration of the volume of his work. (Sorry for the grandiloquence, I've been reading too many warhammer novels)
I've always been looking forward to the Strategy videos each year to know what is upcoming still and what is new. Stormgate and Zerospace are the two that's been on my mind for sometime. And copium, but hoping for a Red Alert 2 remaster if ever.
Zakh, if you're interested in learning more about Anvil: Empires and how it might turn out, you can also check out Foxhole, also by Siege Camp. The two games have a similar aspect of being massively multiplayer with hundreds of players battling and developing logistics lines. Foxhole has a pretty large and consistent playerbase, so I imagine Anvil will also perform quite well, in an emerging genre.
Thanks so much for all the research you put into this. There were several that made it past my lists, not surprising, considering how many are coming out in the next year or 2.
Cheers for the list, this kind of list is so helpful. By the way, there is an RTS you missed called Arcane Wilds. It just released a demo on steam. The graphics are a fairly basic but the gameplay is very good. The demo has heaps of content too. I've sunk a bunch of hours into it already lol. I feel the devs really deserve a shout out... maybe you could mention them in the future.
Glad you found it useful! And as I mentioned there's over 1000 Strategy games in development, so I basically didn't mention 1000 games here. Arcane Wilds is planning 2-4 years in early access and it hasn't begun, so even though it's a thing, it could be a 2028 game and 2026 earliest for a full release. Considering that, I'll probably only mention it for 2025 onwards if it goes into early access first.
I love that some RTS games are finally going back to the single player campaign side of things. I was never really into multiplayer aspect of these games and always preferred to play a fun campaign. As for TFC: The Fertile Crescent is that only multiplayer or will it have a single player component? That one looks interesting.
I also love campaign rts too and I'm happy developers are putting the work there. But just want to say that competitive rts is not as bad as people say. Most games are like drunk toddlers in a fist fight.
Great video as usual. Thanks for this service it's always so informative. Also I was thinking that it might be a good idea, if you put a little icon or just a little notification on the games, you have an additional video on. Like Manor Lords for example... You have at least one video on that game specifically and I think it would be a nice quality of life thing for the viewer, that doesn't require too much work on your side.
I admire your dedication for constant creation of these lists ;) this one has length of a good movie :D i'm gonna prep my popcorn and watch it tonight instead of Netflix :P
RTS player here. Mechabellum is a very fun game! I already have 100 hours in it, since I got it last august. It is my first autobattler and I love playing chess with all these different mechs. The game is still in development, but there's already enough now to really enjoy it.
What an epic year for RTS! Thank you for including me, "Nuke Them All" is an exciting indie RTS game set to launch in 2024, and we've already released the Demo, which is why we're reaching out to Steamers. It's a unique game in the style of classic golden-era RTS titles like Z, KKND, and C&C Red Alert. The primary objective is to capture flags and territories, speeding up production, upgrading factories, and ultimately destroying the enemy fort! Our demo is finally LIVE on steam! Please wishlist! The new update is live
Haha thanks for clarifying, people are still demanding Manor Lords on lists and they aren't joking, so it can be hard to tell. Glad you're enjoying it!
I think the idea of districts in CivVI came from Fallen Enchantress rather than Endless Legend. In EL, they act as kind of a sphere of influence of the city, while in FE they actually play a role you build them for. CivVI builds further on that. EL districts, I think, went on to inspire Planetfall/AoW4 system of city expansion.
Hey Zakh! Just stumbled across this, thanks so much for covering our game Songs of Silence in this huge masterlist of great games! It means a lot to us to see fans hyped about this game! And we will have even more news soon. If you're interested in more, I've send you an E-mail :)
Holy Cow, this video is really huge and has so many good games included quite awesome work! I really recommend to check out Dominions 6. Most impressive game in my opinion play it since part 2, over 20 years ago. For the RTS genre, i really liked Rise of Nation, who whas designed by the same game director who allready did Civ2 and Alpha Centauri, Brian Reynolds, but i gladly look into Age of Mythology Retold, too hope the God system stays the same in the remake, that was the most interesting part in that game as this changed what spells and units you could use, so added MASSIVE replay value, which is a key element in all strategy games to stay relevant in the long run. Xenonauts 2 is on my radar, too if i only could carve out time to play all these games... Because i still enjoy Daggerfall Unity with the DREAM mod. :P
Haha and this is when I've filtered out 1000 games. This is the top 10% and there's plenty in the 90% that's still worth checking out (of course not everything).
Nice one :) Crazy to think of there is so much going on outside AAA, but good job on doing so and filtering all, they all look really promising. btw Zakh, when is the next Morrowind Remastered episode coming out ? I love those and how you role play them. :) @@GamerZakh
@@JAmonOfficial I was really enjoying the new Morrowind playthrough but people just weren't watching, and unfortunately I gotta focus on better performing things for now because of financial reasons.
Annihilate the Spance looks like it is based on the Annihilate Everything games I played on Kongregate. Happy to see a sequel that doesn't require flash.
Thanks! Oh and yeah I didn't mean that was the 40k universe, but it's from devs of a 40k game and the setting is 40k-esque as it's a sci-fi future with biomechanical abominations. I meant to say 'like 40k', so fans of 40k would like this too.
@GamerZakh oh man, thanks for the reply! I've been a big fan of yours for years- in particular I discovered Frostpunk and Planet Zoo through you. You yearly upcoming games videos are a bit of a yearly tradition at this point. Thanks for all you do!
Thanks Zakh !!! What a list ! Amazing video... I hope those games won't be pushed back to 2025 but I have a bad feeling when most of those games do not have any precise release date when we are in 2024. I can't wait enough for Solium Infernum... Played the original quite a bit. (it seems this one has the "horror/hell" element toned down quite a lot though, graphically speaking) You should definitely play ARMEGGEDON EMPIRES, I was hooked even more on that one but no tutorial, only a pdf to read, a bit painful but worth it ! So many interesting titles... Keeping track of a bunch of them. There's also Moduwar, Q2 2024 Siege of Irdor, no date but 2024 most likely Ardent seas, same Cold Engine, unknown Grimstar: Crystal are the new oil! , Q1 2024 IAH: Internet War, 2024 Mythos: Build and Survive, 2024 Existence: The Outer Reach, coming soon (2024, most likely but who knows?) Dust Front RTS, thought that one to be 2024 but to be announced Agony: Lords of Hell... thought I saw 2024 somewhere And then, for a little new one I noticed during the solds "Exodus: Black Sun", set as coming soon, 2024-ish maybe? That title really came out of nowhere. Finally, I want to rage a little at Falling Frontier as that one was pushed to 2025 but trying to look for info about the game, the development seems like it is not going very well and the game would not be anything more than "an engine demo". With all this, you can make another video, right? right? Come on !!! Pretty please with a cherry on top !
@@GamerZakh City Building? Why not... I wouldn't have classed them as such but why not? What are the various reasons? You got info about them being delayed to 2025 or later? Or are most likely in development hell like falling frontier? Moduwar and Dust Front looked pretty okay for 2024 I thought. Also, I haven't heard about Sins of a Solar Empire 2 for a while now, weren't they supposed to release anytime soon? At least release on steam?
@@mesarthim640 For example, I listed Siege of Irdor in a mini city building list already. Mythos, that's been in development for many years now and no sign of it releasing, so it's not going in the main list anymore. Moduwar, another I've listed for years and even have a dedicated video 4 years ago, so it doesn't go in the main list anymore. I actually first listed Moduwar in 2018. Falling Frontier was set for 2023, then it last minute delayed to 2025, and I've listed it for many years and it keeps being pushed so I'm not listing it again until it gets a release date. Exodus: Black Sun is working on an Alpha, so it's not gonna be a 2024 game, might list it next year. Basically there's a lot of reasons for a lot of things, I could spend all day explaining the process of curating these videos. And like I say at the start of this video, there's literally over 1000 games upcoming with the 'Strategy' label on Steam. You could make infinite videos on that but I don't for many reasons.
@@GamerZakh Ah, makes sense ! Thanks for taking the time to answer :) I know what you mean with the "strategy" tag on steam, this is something that really irks me quite a bit because many of those titles do not deserve the "strategy" tag like city buildings and tactical which are totally different. Also, they should separate 4x, turn based, rts, ... into their own section instead of regrouping everything under strategy which would make searching a lot better. I get often hyped by the "strategy" tag then get very disappointed when I see it's not the genre I had hoped.
I dont know if Zakh spends more time playing Ceasars or making lists. Also you can use this video as a drinking game. You take a shot everytime he says free demo.
Upd: Classified France 44, is not that challenging. Bought it at release. At first mechanics can be a bit overwhelming (though outdated), but once you get the hang of it, it's easy to complete with highest rate of success. To get a good ending, remember to conquer most influencing sectors and recruit FFP as much as possible at the main map. Additionally the most important skill for everyone is the addition of AP. That's about it
Oh yeah I didn't mean that was the 40k universe, but it's from devs of a 40k game and the setting is 40k-esque as it's a sci-fi future with biomechanical abominations. I meant to say 'like 40k', so fans of 40k would like this too.
SimCity got updates, removed the always online requirement, and expanded city size. It even got an expansion. They basically fixed all the main problems people had with it but it was too late. People moved on to Cities Skylines. If Cities Skylines was never made, it's likely people would've come back around to SimCity. Look at No Man's Sky, Cyberpunk 2077, and so many other games that release bad but eventually pull it back. But if during the recovery time another game gets made and it's better, people no longer wait for the broken game to be fixed. Paradox saw the opening and struck, which buried SimCity forever.
@@GamerZakh So that's what happened to Sim City. I stand corrected: It committed suicide, was rushed to A&E by a kindly neighbour where it was shocked back to life, then went through months' of rehab, only to go back home and find a better game had moved into its house, whereupon it crawled into a dark alley and drank itself to death on supermarket wine.
paradox are killing [or at least reducing their fame and expenditure] their own games at the moment with cs2. Just as many are playing cs1 as they are 2 [infact 13:30 UK time, 11.4k are playing CS1 and 7.4k cs2]. Their [just like ea (TW: Pharaoh) etc.] constant poor and overpriced dlc's will kill some off too. Edit: Nice comprehensive list! Thanks. Got 8th March 2024 as the release date for Homeworld 3.
I'm worried about stormgate.. all that funding and backing... There are going to be a lot of people with their hand out, expecting big returns from this. Then they go and make it free to play. Just sell me the damn game, sell me an expansion down the road. Maybe a few DLCs. But nope, it's F2P which means no matter what they say there are going to be massive parts of the game locked off behind nickel and dime BS that is literally designed to make you spend more than what it would be to just buy the game and any DLCs and Xpacs directly. There is no way they're concerned about player numbers and building a healthy community, this is a fantasy RTS by ex blizzard devs... It's going to pull in people even if it was a $70 box price.
Thing is you can't make AAA budget money back by selling an RTS. There just aren't as many RTS players who would pay a premium price to buy an RTS. It's why StarCraft 2 went free to play and generally free to play with microtransactions just makes so much more money than sales, which is also why Overwatch went free to play. Once it came out that a single WoW mount microtransaction made more money than all of Wings of Liberty, it became clear that just selling an RTS doesn't even come close to making enough money. AA or indie RTS sure, you can make a decent profit on those by selling. But to make back $100-300 Million dollars? You need to sell 2.3 to 7 million copies at a $60 sale price just to break even.
@@GamerZakh I know it makes more money, but it doesn't make a better game. That's my concern. Also I think the RTS genre has so much more potential than what it's been relegated too, the audience is there IMO. If we got a full fat AAA RTS with a deep and complex campaign and great replay value and maybe even a novelty game mode like some kind of roguelite RTS and multiplayer literally wasn't even an option.. I'd still pay AAA money for it. And mod support! BG3 should have proved to the industry, a good game is a good game and people will buy it. I'll reserve judgment until I see myself how they end up monetizing, but the fact it's F2P makes me significantly temper my expectations. At this point in my life, there are just too many amazing games to play and not enough time to play them all, I need to be discerning with the games I spend my time on. There is just no reason to play any game that isn't fantastic and doesn't respect your time. And F2P games typically are the worst culprits of everything I hate about modern games. We'll see.
It's not that people forgot, people born after the 90s never lived through the 90s shareware/demo era. There are adults today born after the 90s who have finished uni and are in their mid-20s.
@@GamerZakh true but still sad to see from my perspective . but i do get what u mean . fun fact im 25 but thx to my fam members i have exp the 90s through them but still see myself as a 90s kid even tho born in 1998
Barely anyone plays warno after 2 years and they started banning their long term player base who supported them over speech and political correctness. That's pretty scummy behavior to put it mildly. Save your money for Broken Arrow.
I'm not a warno player, but there are as many or more people playing it today than 2 years ago. 2 years ago, it peaked at 1200 concurrent players on Steam and dropped to 400-600 for the most of 2022. In 2023, it averaged 1100 to a peak of 1600. So far in 2024, it's averaging 1000-1300. Overall, it's only gotten more popular since 2022. About twice as many players if it's averaged.
Great job… well done. But I have to say, that was 2 hours plus of a ton of games that pretty much look all the same. Is there nothing original in this world?
Thanks! And there never was anything original. Name your favourite game and I'll tell you what it copied. Assassin's Creed was a Prince of Persia knockoff. Total War is a Lords of the Realm clone. Minecraft ripped off Infiniminer. C&C was a Dune 2 reskin. FTL is a ripoff of the Battlestar Galactica board game. Dark Souls traces back its copying of themes to Wizardry. Warcraft totally copied Warhammer. Warhammer knocked off D&D. Castle Wolfenstein is a Berzerk clone. Even Pong was a stolen game that got sued for stealing.
@@GamerZakh Frankie Goes To Hollywood on the C64 from 1985. Now that was some kind of game. Utterly original but then I guess everything was back then.
@@windyhillbomber The game based on the band? That was based on Gift from the Gods by the same developers and reused the same engine. To compare: Frankie Goes to Hollywood, 1985 The player has to find and use various objects to solve puzzles and play minigames to reach the Pleasuredome. You fill 4 attributes to become a 'full person' and you go from room to room trying to solve a murder. Gift from the Gods, 1984 The player has to go from room to room trying to avenge a murder as you solve puzzles while trying to reach Mycenae. You have to keep replenishing your stamina attribute. Not to mention, Frankie Goes to Hollywood is essentially Cluedo, where you gather clues, return to the body room, and make an accusation of who is the murderer. And Cluedo predated that game by over 3 decades.
All these one hour "strategy" (how is anything up to an hour not just "tactics"? "Strategy" means planning, u can't plan for what's happening now) is a misunderstanding of target audience and I'm guilty of that too as I'm aspiring game developer and low-time consuming settlers or Stellaris were my first ideas, but now I see we don't really want a lot of different games, we want one that continuously develops like Stellaris. To not need to relearn everything, but to discover sth new all the time. Just like Paradox games. But that's a no-go for little studios, so... I played some of these games to scratch a settlers or tycoon itch, but I'm always left lacking, like I would prefer not to understand all the mechanics but to know they are there and it's not all shallow and for nothing, u can't even hope to stay with the game as u know it's so limited u eill get bored after a month tops...
The 1-hour experiences are designed out of necessity from the audience. It's by design worse than long, endless discovery in one game, but as adults many just don't have the time to do it. Some games like Solium Infernum try to solve it by having asynchronous multiplayer, so games can take turns over weeks or even months. Others try to come up with some kind of 1-hour experience to fit a game or two after work. This is why Dota is so popular, because games are usually 30-60 minutes, but in the meta it's one long extensive discovery of a single game. It works for Dota but it's harder to come up with that loop for a turn-based 4X. It's like me and Baldur's Gate 3. I so so want to just put 500 hours into playing that, but I just do not have the time to do that. And doing it on/off at random times when I can feels like it'd be unsatisfying, so I just have not properly played BG3.
So many of these 4X games look too similar. Fuck I'm tired of turn based. I need a game like Sins that's about managing the longterm of an empire, not winning a match.
I have a 4-5 year cutoff for early access/in-dev games like that. Both of them are approaching 15 years now, I'm not gonna list them every year forever, I have listed them before though.
Thank you for mentioning us in your wonderful video! I would appreciate it if you could join our private beta demo, which we launched yesterday. RedChaosTheStrictOrder
I did split them but you didn't watch them: 1. Real-time Grand Strategy: ua-cam.com/video/h4j90PIG1MM/v-deo.html 2. Turn-based 4X: ua-cam.com/video/YDpGaYHjR5g/v-deo.html 3. RTS: ua-cam.com/video/17jlpeBuUVI/v-deo.html But I put them all together and that's when you clicked. You're showing the perfect example as to why I made this video.
out of this massive list one game i will look forward to seeing come out and thats Collapsed Galaxy 2 was hoping to see if there was any american civil war games coming out
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Industrial Annihilation apparantly renamed themselves to Planetary Annihilation: TITANS
@@petrino Planetary Annihilation: TITANS is a 2015 game that's already released, so I don't think they renamed it to that.
@@GamerZakh Now I am thoroughly confused because the game I found looks exactly like that game, and I cannot find Industrial Annihilation anywhere.
82. Survive the Fall looks like mobile garbage so I am fully not on par with your opinion, to trashcan with it.
A two and a half-hour list!? You're spoiling us buddy, but don't mind if I do sit down and watch this massive list.
Glad you're liking the lists! Thank you!
Gone are the days of coming up with key words for google searching strategy games. For the past year Zakh has been my go to when it comes to looking for games, not only because of his calm and soothing voice. Or the sense of wisdom and serenity that Zakh transmits. It is because Zakh is thorough, he investigates the depths of the internet to find that one indie game nobody knows about. Let this vast list stand as a demonstration of the volume of his work. (Sorry for the grandiloquence, I've been reading too many warhammer novels)
I'm glad you find them useful! Thank you
I've always been looking forward to the Strategy videos each year to know what is upcoming still and what is new. Stormgate and Zerospace are the two that's been on my mind for sometime. And copium, but hoping for a Red Alert 2 remaster if ever.
Hey, thanks for featuring Rogue Command!
This video looks like an insane amount of work. Thanks for putting in the work.
Oh my.... I am gonna need to make a lot of popcorn for this beast!
Hope you enjoy it!
Zakh, if you're interested in learning more about Anvil: Empires and how it might turn out, you can also check out Foxhole, also by Siege Camp. The two games have a similar aspect of being massively multiplayer with hundreds of players battling and developing logistics lines. Foxhole has a pretty large and consistent playerbase, so I imagine Anvil will also perform quite well, in an emerging genre.
You did it again Zakh!! Thanks for the support!!
Oh MAN. Person can get dizzy just looking at the list... Awesome job, I'll try to get through it today, lol!
Awesome list, amazing compilation and editing. Thanks for making my day. 2024 is surely looking great for strategy fans!
RTS making a comeback!
Thanks so much for all the research you put into this. There were several that made it past my lists, not surprising, considering how many are coming out in the next year or 2.
Yeah it's hard even for me to keep up with all the new announcements. Then filtering through everything that exists. Glad you found it useful.
now that length is a reason to finally watch on the big screen
Fantastic job of the mega list! Very much appreciated
Thank you so much! That's really kind of you
two and a half hours with timestamps!? instalike 👌
A lot of great RTS to wishlist! Lets Bring RTS back to glory in 2024!
Cheers for the list, this kind of list is so helpful. By the way, there is an RTS you missed called Arcane Wilds. It just released a demo on steam. The graphics are a fairly basic but the gameplay is very good. The demo has heaps of content too. I've sunk a bunch of hours into it already lol. I feel the devs really deserve a shout out... maybe you could mention them in the future.
Glad you found it useful! And as I mentioned there's over 1000 Strategy games in development, so I basically didn't mention 1000 games here. Arcane Wilds is planning 2-4 years in early access and it hasn't begun, so even though it's a thing, it could be a 2028 game and 2026 earliest for a full release. Considering that, I'll probably only mention it for 2025 onwards if it goes into early access first.
@@GamerZakh That sounds very reasonable. Anyway keep up the good work and looking forward to more vids! 😀
Thanks GZ- wishlists and defs. Nice compilation.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I love that some RTS games are finally going back to the single player campaign side of things. I was never really into multiplayer aspect of these games and always preferred to play a fun campaign.
As for TFC: The Fertile Crescent is that only multiplayer or will it have a single player component? That one looks interesting.
I also love campaign rts too and I'm happy developers are putting the work there. But just want to say that competitive rts is not as bad as people say. Most games are like drunk toddlers in a fist fight.
TFC dev here! We're currently hard at work on the Campaign Mode for the 1.0 release which will happen in 2024.
@@andreread5056 Great news, glad to hear that! Thanks for the reply!
Great video as usual. Thanks for this service it's always so informative.
Also I was thinking that it might be a good idea, if you put a little icon or just a little notification on the games, you have an additional video on. Like Manor Lords for example... You have at least one video on that game specifically and I think it would be a nice quality of life thing for the viewer, that doesn't require too much work on your side.
Thanks! And that's the kind of thing I miss annotations for haha, would be great if I could put an on screen link to the video on every game.
You watch Gamerzakh because of his amazing lists.
I watch Gamerzakh because of his majestic voice.
We are not the same.
I admire your dedication for constant creation of these lists ;) this one has length of a good movie :D i'm gonna prep my popcorn and watch it tonight instead of Netflix :P
You maniac! Another great reference for future game purchases.
we love this channel so much
RTS player here. Mechabellum is a very fun game! I already have 100 hours in it, since I got it last august. It is my first autobattler and I love playing chess with all these different mechs. The game is still in development, but there's already enough now to really enjoy it.
What an epic year for RTS! Thank you for including me, "Nuke Them All" is an exciting indie RTS game set to launch in 2024, and we've already released the Demo, which is why we're reaching out to Steamers. It's a unique game in the style of classic golden-era RTS titles like Z, KKND, and C&C Red Alert. The primary objective is to capture flags and territories, speeding up production, upgrading factories, and ultimately destroying the enemy fort!
Our demo is finally LIVE on steam! Please wishlist! The new update is live
What about Manor Lor.... oh, I see. Thanks! 😁
Where Manor Lord??
Joking aside, thanks for the list man, plenty of the games on the list flick my interest.
Haha thanks for clarifying, people are still demanding Manor Lords on lists and they aren't joking, so it can be hard to tell. Glad you're enjoying it!
Amazing work to collect all these in one place.
Thank you!
awesome list!
12 added to wishlist, thanks!
Thanks! Glad you found some new ones!
FYI: Zephon is now warhammer 40k. Their previous game Gladius is. It's an epic war game, with some 4x elements. Try it if you haven't!
That's some real effort Zakh! Appreciate it :)
I think the idea of districts in CivVI came from Fallen Enchantress rather than Endless Legend. In EL, they act as kind of a sphere of influence of the city, while in FE they actually play a role you build them for. CivVI builds further on that. EL districts, I think, went on to inspire Planetfall/AoW4 system of city expansion.
Thank you for your great work and insights. Much appreciated.
excellent overview
Thanks for this awesome collection!
Please do a First Person Shooter list, including Manor Lords 😅
What a mega list, thanks!
Holy moly
Hey Zakh! Just stumbled across this, thanks so much for covering our game Songs of Silence in this huge masterlist of great games! It means a lot to us to see fans hyped about this game! And we will have even more news soon. If you're interested in more, I've send you an E-mail :)
Holy Cow, this video is really huge and has so many good games included quite awesome work! I really recommend to check out Dominions 6. Most impressive game in my opinion play it since part 2, over 20 years ago. For the RTS genre, i really liked Rise of Nation, who whas designed by the same game director who allready did Civ2 and Alpha Centauri, Brian Reynolds, but i gladly look into Age of Mythology Retold, too hope the God system stays the same in the remake, that was the most interesting part in that game as this changed what spells and units you could use, so added MASSIVE replay value, which is a key element in all strategy games to stay relevant in the long run. Xenonauts 2 is on my radar, too if i only could carve out time to play all these games...
Because i still enjoy Daggerfall Unity with the DREAM mod. :P
44:25 those pesky Danes and their meddling dinosaurs!
Kingdom Under Fire: A War of Heroes (GOLD Edition) - Not a new game, but there is a remaster in work and its free on steam.
Great list.
Really appreciate the time and effort you put towards this, *and your other lists* , @GamerZach!!
Thank you!
My oh my, so many strategy games, and to think that so many people still think this genre is over ...
Haha and this is when I've filtered out 1000 games. This is the top 10% and there's plenty in the 90% that's still worth checking out (of course not everything).
Nice one :) Crazy to think of there is so much going on outside AAA, but good job on doing so and filtering all, they all look really promising. btw Zakh, when is the next Morrowind Remastered episode coming out ? I love those and how you role play them. :) @@GamerZakh
@@JAmonOfficial I was really enjoying the new Morrowind playthrough but people just weren't watching, and unfortunately I gotta focus on better performing things for now because of financial reasons.
Understandable, first things first, still I enjoy all of your content so keep it up Zakh. @@GamerZakh
Jeez this is a great big chonk of a video.
They just keep announcing new games!
Annihilate the Spance looks like it is based on the Annihilate Everything games I played on Kongregate. Happy to see a sequel that doesn't require flash.
Tempest Rising, finally. Now please someone revive the emergency series.
space gears looks like someone saw C&C4 and said "this could work"
Let's go boys! This year is definitely the year of RTS!
you missed Tactical Breach Wizards, and some other games (I mean surely there are still more obscure titles hidden somewhere)... lol...
As I mentioned, there's over 1000 games in-development under 'Strategy', so I basically didn't mention 1000 games haha
Great video!
Small note, Zephon isnt in the 40k universe. The developers just previously worked on a 40k game.
Thanks! Oh and yeah I didn't mean that was the 40k universe, but it's from devs of a 40k game and the setting is 40k-esque as it's a sci-fi future with biomechanical abominations. I meant to say 'like 40k', so fans of 40k would like this too.
@GamerZakh oh man, thanks for the reply!
I've been a big fan of yours for years- in particular I discovered Frostpunk and Planet Zoo through you. You yearly upcoming games videos are a bit of a yearly tradition at this point.
Thanks for all you do!
2,5 hours of new strategy games? NICE
YIELD looks like a graphical computer version of the handheld game ’Polytopia’ (which I can recommend)
I want a new Heroes Of Might and magic game.
But made by a competent team, with lots of items to collect, buildings and units to crate in your town.
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That's Twilight Imperium
57:28 first thought was Spyro and other old platform fames. Same saturated color palates
Barkhan feels like they were making a Dune game tried to get a Licence to put the label on it but have so far failed to acquire it.
Thanks Zakh !!! What a list ! Amazing video... I hope those games won't be pushed back to 2025 but I have a bad feeling when most of those games do not have any precise release date when we are in 2024.
I can't wait enough for Solium Infernum... Played the original quite a bit. (it seems this one has the "horror/hell" element toned down quite a lot though, graphically speaking)
You should definitely play ARMEGGEDON EMPIRES, I was hooked even more on that one but no tutorial, only a pdf to read, a bit painful but worth it !
So many interesting titles... Keeping track of a bunch of them.
There's also
Moduwar, Q2 2024
Siege of Irdor, no date but 2024 most likely
Ardent seas, same
Cold Engine, unknown
Grimstar: Crystal are the new oil! , Q1 2024
IAH: Internet War, 2024
Mythos: Build and Survive, 2024
Existence: The Outer Reach, coming soon (2024, most likely but who knows?)
Dust Front RTS, thought that one to be 2024 but to be announced
Agony: Lords of Hell... thought I saw 2024 somewhere
And then, for a little new one I noticed during the solds "Exodus: Black Sun", set as coming soon, 2024-ish maybe? That title really came out of nowhere.
Finally, I want to rage a little at Falling Frontier as that one was pushed to 2025 but trying to look for info about the game, the development seems like it is not going very well and the game would not be anything more than "an engine demo".
With all this, you can make another video, right? right? Come on !!! Pretty please with a cherry on top !
Some of those are left out for various reasons, but some of them are going into the City Building list which I haven't finished yet.
@@GamerZakh City Building? Why not... I wouldn't have classed them as such but why not?
What are the various reasons? You got info about them being delayed to 2025 or later? Or are most likely in development hell like falling frontier?
Moduwar and Dust Front looked pretty okay for 2024 I thought.
Also, I haven't heard about Sins of a Solar Empire 2 for a while now, weren't they supposed to release anytime soon? At least release on steam?
@@mesarthim640 For example, I listed Siege of Irdor in a mini city building list already. Mythos, that's been in development for many years now and no sign of it releasing, so it's not going in the main list anymore. Moduwar, another I've listed for years and even have a dedicated video 4 years ago, so it doesn't go in the main list anymore. I actually first listed Moduwar in 2018. Falling Frontier was set for 2023, then it last minute delayed to 2025, and I've listed it for many years and it keeps being pushed so I'm not listing it again until it gets a release date. Exodus: Black Sun is working on an Alpha, so it's not gonna be a 2024 game, might list it next year. Basically there's a lot of reasons for a lot of things, I could spend all day explaining the process of curating these videos. And like I say at the start of this video, there's literally over 1000 games upcoming with the 'Strategy' label on Steam. You could make infinite videos on that but I don't for many reasons.
@@GamerZakh Ah, makes sense ! Thanks for taking the time to answer :)
I know what you mean with the "strategy" tag on steam, this is something that really irks me quite a bit because many of those titles do not deserve the "strategy" tag like city buildings and tactical which are totally different. Also, they should separate 4x, turn based, rts, ... into their own section instead of regrouping everything under strategy which would make searching a lot better.
I get often hyped by the "strategy" tag then get very disappointed when I see it's not the genre I had hoped.
At last RTS games are having a comeback here.
D.O.R.F looks to me like an homage to KKND
I dont know if Zakh spends more time playing Ceasars or making lists. Also you can use this video as a drinking game. You take a shot everytime he says free demo.
Upd: Classified France 44, is not that challenging. Bought it at release. At first mechanics can be a bit overwhelming (though outdated), but once you get the hang of it, it's easy to complete with highest rate of success. To get a good ending, remember to conquer most influencing sectors and recruit FFP as much as possible at the main map. Additionally the most important skill for everyone is the addition of AP. That's about it
Thanks for the update! Always useful to see what people think of these games.
Holy mother of megalists...
Arc Seed looks heavily based on Neon Genesis Evangelion (an anime).
this video is the greatest
Manor Lords?
Uh that's a lot of information! I still pray for Warlords Battlecry 4...maybe someday...
Dominios 6 why play 16-bit game graphic megadrive 1990, when we have Totalwar and strategygame 2025 ?
Because apparently people hate the new Totalwar.
Man how much time did this one video take???
Pretty sure Zephon is not set in Warhammer 40k unless i missed something
Oh yeah I didn't mean that was the 40k universe, but it's from devs of a 40k game and the setting is 40k-esque as it's a sci-fi future with biomechanical abominations. I meant to say 'like 40k', so fans of 40k would like this too.
so twilight imperium almost. in 1 hour.
And what about Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic?
Thats a city building game.
are there really going to be 92 strategy games coming out this year?
There's likely to be 1000 strategy games coming out this year, I didn't mention 90% of them.
Infection Free Zone not even mentioned? :(
It's in the tower defence list.
ok, thanks I'll check! Do you have access to super early access of IFZ?@@GamerZakh
Paradox didn't kill Sim City, Sim City committed suicide.
SimCity got updates, removed the always online requirement, and expanded city size. It even got an expansion. They basically fixed all the main problems people had with it but it was too late. People moved on to Cities Skylines. If Cities Skylines was never made, it's likely people would've come back around to SimCity. Look at No Man's Sky, Cyberpunk 2077, and so many other games that release bad but eventually pull it back. But if during the recovery time another game gets made and it's better, people no longer wait for the broken game to be fixed. Paradox saw the opening and struck, which buried SimCity forever.
@@GamerZakh So that's what happened to Sim City. I stand corrected: It committed suicide, was rushed to A&E by a kindly neighbour where it was shocked back to life, then went through months' of rehab, only to go back home and find a better game had moved into its house, whereupon it crawled into a dark alley and drank itself to death on supermarket wine.
@@earlofdoncaster5018 Haha at some point the metaphor breaks down
@@GamerZakh Just don't mix those metaphors.
ZEPHON has no steam demo
Ah sorry they must've ended it, but it's likely they'll have another and footage of that demo will be around.
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still no xcom3 😭
paradox are killing [or at least reducing their fame and expenditure] their own games at the moment with cs2. Just as many are playing cs1 as they are 2 [infact 13:30 UK time, 11.4k are playing CS1 and 7.4k cs2].
Their [just like ea (TW: Pharaoh) etc.] constant poor and overpriced dlc's will kill some off too.
Edit: Nice comprehensive list! Thanks. Got 8th March 2024 as the release date for Homeworld 3.
I'm worried about stormgate.. all that funding and backing... There are going to be a lot of people with their hand out, expecting big returns from this. Then they go and make it free to play. Just sell me the damn game, sell me an expansion down the road. Maybe a few DLCs. But nope, it's F2P which means no matter what they say there are going to be massive parts of the game locked off behind nickel and dime BS that is literally designed to make you spend more than what it would be to just buy the game and any DLCs and Xpacs directly. There is no way they're concerned about player numbers and building a healthy community, this is a fantasy RTS by ex blizzard devs... It's going to pull in people even if it was a $70 box price.
Thing is you can't make AAA budget money back by selling an RTS. There just aren't as many RTS players who would pay a premium price to buy an RTS. It's why StarCraft 2 went free to play and generally free to play with microtransactions just makes so much more money than sales, which is also why Overwatch went free to play. Once it came out that a single WoW mount microtransaction made more money than all of Wings of Liberty, it became clear that just selling an RTS doesn't even come close to making enough money.
AA or indie RTS sure, you can make a decent profit on those by selling. But to make back $100-300 Million dollars? You need to sell 2.3 to 7 million copies at a $60 sale price just to break even.
@@GamerZakh I know it makes more money, but it doesn't make a better game. That's my concern. Also I think the RTS genre has so much more potential than what it's been relegated too, the audience is there IMO. If we got a full fat AAA RTS with a deep and complex campaign and great replay value and maybe even a novelty game mode like some kind of roguelite RTS and multiplayer literally wasn't even an option.. I'd still pay AAA money for it. And mod support! BG3 should have proved to the industry, a good game is a good game and people will buy it. I'll reserve judgment until I see myself how they end up monetizing, but the fact it's F2P makes me significantly temper my expectations. At this point in my life, there are just too many amazing games to play and not enough time to play them all, I need to be discerning with the games I spend my time on. There is just no reason to play any game that isn't fantastic and doesn't respect your time. And F2P games typically are the worst culprits of everything I hate about modern games. We'll see.
so sad to see people get happy about a FREE DEMO i remember the day that was standaard so sad that we forgotton so many things
It's not that people forgot, people born after the 90s never lived through the 90s shareware/demo era. There are adults today born after the 90s who have finished uni and are in their mid-20s.
@@GamerZakh true but still sad to see from my perspective . but i do get what u mean . fun fact im 25 but thx to my fam members i have exp the 90s through them but still see myself as a 90s kid even tho born in 1998
@@GamerZakh btw kingdom wars they do rehash of the same game over and over see there track record
Barely anyone plays warno after 2 years and they started banning their long term player base who supported them over speech and political correctness. That's pretty scummy behavior to put it mildly. Save your money for Broken Arrow.
I'm not a warno player, but there are as many or more people playing it today than 2 years ago. 2 years ago, it peaked at 1200 concurrent players on Steam and dropped to 400-600 for the most of 2022. In 2023, it averaged 1100 to a peak of 1600. So far in 2024, it's averaging 1000-1300. Overall, it's only gotten more popular since 2022. About twice as many players if it's averaged.
Great job… well done. But I have to say, that was 2 hours plus of a ton of games that pretty much look all the same. Is there nothing original in this world?
Thanks! And there never was anything original. Name your favourite game and I'll tell you what it copied. Assassin's Creed was a Prince of Persia knockoff. Total War is a Lords of the Realm clone. Minecraft ripped off Infiniminer. C&C was a Dune 2 reskin. FTL is a ripoff of the Battlestar Galactica board game. Dark Souls traces back its copying of themes to Wizardry. Warcraft totally copied Warhammer. Warhammer knocked off D&D. Castle Wolfenstein is a Berzerk clone. Even Pong was a stolen game that got sued for stealing.
@@GamerZakh Frankie Goes To Hollywood on the C64 from 1985. Now that was some kind of game. Utterly original but then I guess everything was back then.
@@windyhillbomber The game based on the band? That was based on Gift from the Gods by the same developers and reused the same engine. To compare:
Frankie Goes to Hollywood, 1985
The player has to find and use various objects to solve puzzles and play minigames to reach the Pleasuredome. You fill 4 attributes to become a 'full person' and you go from room to room trying to solve a murder.
Gift from the Gods, 1984
The player has to go from room to room trying to avenge a murder as you solve puzzles while trying to reach Mycenae. You have to keep replenishing your stamina attribute.
Not to mention, Frankie Goes to Hollywood is essentially Cluedo, where you gather clues, return to the body room, and make an accusation of who is the murderer. And Cluedo predated that game by over 3 decades.
All these one hour "strategy" (how is anything up to an hour not just "tactics"? "Strategy" means planning, u can't plan for what's happening now) is a misunderstanding of target audience and I'm guilty of that too as I'm aspiring game developer and low-time consuming settlers or Stellaris were my first ideas, but now I see we don't really want a lot of different games, we want one that continuously develops like Stellaris. To not need to relearn everything, but to discover sth new all the time. Just like Paradox games. But that's a no-go for little studios, so... I played some of these games to scratch a settlers or tycoon itch, but I'm always left lacking, like I would prefer not to understand all the mechanics but to know they are there and it's not all shallow and for nothing, u can't even hope to stay with the game as u know it's so limited u eill get bored after a month tops...
The 1-hour experiences are designed out of necessity from the audience. It's by design worse than long, endless discovery in one game, but as adults many just don't have the time to do it. Some games like Solium Infernum try to solve it by having asynchronous multiplayer, so games can take turns over weeks or even months. Others try to come up with some kind of 1-hour experience to fit a game or two after work. This is why Dota is so popular, because games are usually 30-60 minutes, but in the meta it's one long extensive discovery of a single game. It works for Dota but it's harder to come up with that loop for a turn-based 4X.
It's like me and Baldur's Gate 3. I so so want to just put 500 hours into playing that, but I just do not have the time to do that. And doing it on/off at random times when I can feels like it'd be unsatisfying, so I just have not properly played BG3.
I would not call a 1 hour game a grand strategy. Sounds boring.
It sounds boring until you only have 1 free hour in the week to play any video games at all haha
So many of these 4X games look too similar. Fuck I'm tired of turn based.
I need a game like Sins that's about managing the longterm of an empire, not winning a match.
StarSector, 0 A.D.
I have a 4-5 year cutoff for early access/in-dev games like that. Both of them are approaching 15 years now, I'm not gonna list them every year forever, I have listed them before though.
Dominions weakest part its lack of units. Stellaris Nexus is just dumb ass idea.
Thank you for mentioning us in your wonderful video! I would appreciate it if you could join our private beta demo, which we launched yesterday.
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Demake = we are too lazy to make a proper game
2.5 hrs...? roflmao! no thanks!
I uploaded them separately too in 20-40 minute sections. This is everything combined.
real time is not what most of these are my friend split the real time and turned based if you want the channel to grow.
I did split them but you didn't watch them:
1. Real-time Grand Strategy: ua-cam.com/video/h4j90PIG1MM/v-deo.html
2. Turn-based 4X: ua-cam.com/video/YDpGaYHjR5g/v-deo.html
3. RTS: ua-cam.com/video/17jlpeBuUVI/v-deo.html
But I put them all together and that's when you clicked. You're showing the perfect example as to why I made this video.
The perfect comeback
no i ment put them in different videos i did watch it all@@GamerZakh
@@timothyevans5557 But they are in different videos already?... I don't know what you're asking for.
This is one long video with cross genres, seperate it thats all im saying.@@GamerZakh
who has the money for all these game? lol
Some rich people, most would pick 1-3 to play not all of them. Money isn't even the limiting factor, most would never have time to play everything.
Dinolords looks awesome
God damn so many cool games ... I'll go broke :
The perpetual problem lol
Excellent list, thanks for putting this togethr!
Holyshit 😳
we like multiplayer rts, single player im not even intresting.
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amazing video, 2024 will be the year of the RTS!
out of this massive list one game i will look forward to seeing come out and thats Collapsed Galaxy 2 was hoping to see if there was any american civil war games coming out