This 48 minute video covers off my impressions of 21 upcoming strategy, tactics, tower defence and board games which were featured in Steam Next Fest. I’ll also throw Xenonauts 2 into the mix as an impressive demo but that was one I played last year already.
This video covers:
- The Great War: Western Front
- Capes
- Kadomon: Hyper Auto Battlers
- King of the Castle
- Lakeburg Legacies
- Overboss
- Card Crawl Adventure
- Shong
- OscarWildeCard
- Takara Cards
- Gods of Defense
- Engineered to Purpose
- Ghostboy
- Flight Level
- Howl
- Spirit Interlude
- March March!
- Spirited Thief
- 志怪者
- Creeping Deck Pharaohs Curse
- Little Learning Machines
I hope it helps you find some new games to wishlist!

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