Top 10 most anticipated tactical best strategies games of 2022

While Epic Games is "pumping" Unreal Engine 5 to its best, improving all sorts of "nanites" and "lumens", many gamers are waiting for games that will surprise you not with graphics but with tasks for the mind. The success of Age of Empires 4, which at its release on Steam alone, has gathered over 70,000 gamers at its peak, proves this. In this top, we have collected ten exciting strategies released (or maybe not, the coronavirus has its design) in 2022.

Dune: Spice Wars

• Release date: 2022
• Developer: Shiro Games
• Platforms: PC

A 4X-element strategy game from the creators of Northgard based on Frank Herbert's famous Dune universe, which is once again riveted by everyone's attention. For this, let's say thanks in unison to the director Denis Villeneuve and his excellent film adaptation.

In Dune: Spice Wars, the player will have to lead one of the factions (at the time of publication of the article, House Atreides and House Harkonnen were announced) to fight for spice. Excuse me, Comrade Major! Fight for s-n-e-ts-i-y. Dune fans know that it is the most valuable resource in the universe. It slows down aging, expands consciousness, and makes interstellar travel available. The game will have war, politics, economics, construction, and everything that fans of 4X-strategy will love.

The exact release date is unknown, but the developers have warned that Dune: Spice Wars will be released in Early Access first.

Total War: Warhammer 3

• Release date: February 17, 2022
• Developer: Creative Assembly
• Platforms: PC

The game that Henry Cavill will take a vacation for will grow a beard, forget about training, and may even stop walking Kal-El, his dog. A big fan of the Warhammer universe is undoubtedly waiting for the outcome of the trilogy's history from the Total War series.

The events of the final part of the strategy will unfold in the Realm of Chaos, which is ruled by four Destructive forces: the Plague God Nurgle, the Lord of excesses Slaanesh, Tzeentch Changing the ways and the god of bloodshed and carnage Horn. Fortunately, some are trying to resist these forces—their goal: to defile the world. For example, the steadfast Kislev was inspired by the Slavic peoples and the Great Katay's large empire.

Despite the imminent release, there are not many details of the game. However, we should expect the familiar Total War gameplay with many units on the battlefield, well-thought-out political and economic aspects. The developers assure that the trilogy will end as epic as possible in terms of narrative, the number of playable races, new game features, and more. In addition, the developers promise that sooner or later, they will combine the cards and factions from the previous parts, as they did in Mortal Empires. The authors also humbly note that the map will be extensive, about twice the Eye of the Vortex size. 

Homeworld 3

• Release date: Q4 2022
• Developer: Blackbird Interactive
• Platforms: PC

The original Homeworld came out in 1999 and struck gamers on the spot. It is strange to say this, but in 2022 Homeworld 3 can be met with approximately the same surprise: wow, in our time of "gridlock" and "donatilok" strategy is released in space! The 3D approach in the area, wow!

As before, gamers are waiting for the endless expanses of space, dozens of ships, ample opportunities for the manifestation of their tactical ingenuity. You can attack from above, below, from the flanks, frontal, and then admire the colorful battles with full ballistics simulation. The authors promise the most intelligent AI that will teach pilots to share important tactical information with the player at the end of the battle. An exciting single-player campaign and fun multiplayer, of course, are included.

Expeditions: Rome

• Release date: January 20, 2022
• Developer: Logic Artists
• Platforms: PC

Let's not grumble and say that this is more a role-playing game than a strategy in the usual sense of the word. But tactical turn-based battles are present here, so there is nothing to blame us for! Rome is a sequel to the Expeditions series of games. As before, the player can create his character, whose fate will affect the story. You can conquer the whole world from Greece to Gaul through negotiations or bloody battles.

Upgrade the hero and his companions, take part in exciting and fierce battles. You can use various character skills, get or create your weapons and armor, and make decisions that affect the development of the story and the ending. The previous games in the series, Viking and Conquistador, were very popular with gamers, so Rome has high hopes.

Frostpunk 2

• Release date: unknown
• Developer: 11-bit studios
• Platforms: PC

The prominent dark horse of our collection. But forgetting about it would be wrong, although the details about Frostpunk 2 are monstrously few.

It is known that the sequel will take place 30 years after the snow catastrophe. The frosts did not go anywhere and even intensified. People are looking for new energy sources after the end of the coal era. Now they are fighting for oil (Frostpunk: There Will Be Blood - giving the developers a subtitle!).

As before, players must build a settlement that can do more than successfully extract energy and take care of people. "Don't forget about humanity," ask the developers, who promise to add a new layer to the sequel Frostpunk that has changed all aspects of the game, including politics, society, and workflow.

Company of Heroes 3

• Release date: 2022
• Developer: Relic Entertainment
• Platforms: PC

Continuation of the series of strategies, which in Russia is usually associated with the scandal around the second part, the withdrawal from sales and the BadComedian review. Italian politicians will have to think about blocking the game because the developers are moving the theater of war to the Mediterranean.

Relic promises to shake up the streak. The studio will add a dynamic global map, which will give freedom of choice as part of the campaign. The authors will also provide access to several factions, including elite units: the US-Canadian Special Forces, the Venerable Gurkhas of the British Commonwealth, and others. It would help if you also counted on many vehicles, improved AI, and incredible destructibility. Relic vows that the entire map can be razed to the ground.

Victoria 3

• Release date: unknown
• Developer: Paradox Development Studio
• Platforms: PC

Another Paradox project from a series of "exciting contour maps". Imagine that you have a window with information, in which a link to a term opens another window with information, in which you can see a definition, clicking on which will open the bottom of a window with information ... And there are windows with numbers about the economic and political state of the country, the mood of society and the state of the world stage ... In general, like Europa Universalis, Crusader Kings and Hearts of Iron, Victoria is a complex but damn addicting series of games.

 It is difficult to explain to gamers unfamiliar with the genre what awaits them.

In Victoria 3, the authors are allowed to take control of any of the dozens of countries in the world from 1836 to 1936. Unlike other Paradox games, it focuses less on war and conquest of neighboring countries and more on economic and industrial development.

Starship Troopers - Terran Command

• Release date: March 31, 2022
• Developer: The Artistocrats
• Platforms: PC

A tactical real-time strategy game that draws inspiration from Paul Verhoeven's poignant movie Starship Troopers. Of course, we remember and know that the picture itself was based on the novel by Robert Highline, but the first trailers and screenshots of the game suggest that it was on the film adaptation that the developers most often looked back.

Gamers will have to defeat insect-like aliens known as arachnids. Controlling the squads of the United Civil Federation, players will shoot at nasty beams, set them on fire, and do everything so that one of the characters joyfully exclaims, "It is afraid!".

The developers promise an exciting storyline campaign, dozens of units with unique skills, building and base management elements, a bunch of weapons, and many, many, many insects.

Two-point campus

• Release date: 2022
• Developer: Two Point Studios
• Platforms: PC

The revival of Theme Hospital, popular in the nineties, was successful. The strange ailments of the patients at Two Point Campus have been cured. It's time to develop the series, rightly decided Sega and introduced the Two Point Campus.

Get ready for even more madness and fun because now you have to build not a hospital, but a whole university campus, where you can train chefs, knights, magicians, rockers, in general, anyone except representatives of critical professions. Hire wacky professors, plan silly courses, and bake huge pies that will get covered in your local newspaper.

Songs of Conquest

• Release date: second quarter 2022
• Developer: Lavapotion
• Platforms: PC

A game that will pinch the hearts of Heroes of Might and Magic 3 fans. One glance at the screenshots or the trailer is enough to understand what the developers are inspired. As in the legendary "Heroes", in Songs of Conquest, we have to stomp on the global map, collect resources to rebuild our kingdom, and, of course, fight a lot, a lot.

The authors promise four factions, a campaign, multiplayer, and even a level editor! The description won't sell you the game - watch the trailer and follow the news if you've been dreaming about the new Heroes 3 for years.

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