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31 strategy game previews | Steam Next Fest Summer 26

45 minutes of strategy game coverage!

The penultimate Steam Next Fest Summer 26 video focuses on strategy-infused games. This includes turn-based strategy, board games, tower defence, deckbuilder, and incremental games. It’s a melting pot of sub-genres, and I have some personal standouts. Arcane Eats is a sublimely themed deckbuilder that made me hungry. Burn-9’s marketing tagline as a “reverse Metal Gear” is warranted. Sente, Flamecraft, and Flame, Forest, and Flood are three strategy board games I thoroughly enjoyed. There are plenty of others I wishlisted, too.

The games covered in this video are:

  • Burn-9
  • Sente
  • Arcane Eats
  • Flamecraft
  • Cheat Death
  • Flame, Forest, and Flood
  • Choo Choo Defenders
  • Tower Lab
  • Midgardr
  • Quanli the vastscape scroll
  • Ascenders: Beyond the Peak
  • Koromeke
  • Kingdom Rush 6: Genesis
  • Launch Them All
  • Func Key
  • ShoreTiles
  • Dicevaders
  • Endless Rails
  • Covenant Tower
  • LouveSystems’ Realms
  • Hue Factory
  • Don’t Block My Ads
  • Canvas Attack
  • Spies & Soldiers
  • The First Million
  • It’s Fine
  • Feed the Forest
  • Inkremental
  • Hole is Mine (prologue)
  • HarvestCo
  • Catnip Craze

I hope you find something juicy to wishlist. Thanks for watching the series.


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