Offworld Trading Co Comes On-World Later This Month
Offworld Trading Company [official site] is the combat-free, trading-centric sci-fi RTS from Soren Johnson, best known as the lead on the beloved Civ 4. It’s been kicking around in Early Access for a...
View ArticleWot I Think: Offworld Trading Company
Offworld Trading Company [official site], the new game from Civ IV lead designer Soren Johnson and his team at Mohawk Games, is a strategic simulation of a sci-fi Martian economy. It’s also one of the...
View ArticleOffworld Trading Company Launches Map Editor DLC
Our Adam was awfully fond of Offworld Trading Company [official site], making kissy faces as he called the real-time financial strategy game “an exceedingly intelligent game” and “one of the smartest...
View ArticleColonize An Asteroid In Offworld Trading Company’s Latest DLC
Soren Johnson’s ace outer space economy sim, Offworld Trading Company [official site], has some new DLC this week. Titled The Ceres Initiative, it adds a fresh location with some extra challenges. The...
View ArticleOffworld Trading Company Gets New CEOs In DLC
When Elon Musk reaches Mars and founds the capital city of New PayPal, we’ll all be packing our bags*. But in the meantime the closest you can get to a corporate Martian future is Offworld Trading...
View ArticleBy Jove! Offworld Trading Company expansion coming
Following a few wee DLC packs, Offworld Trading Company [official site] is getting its first proper expansion. Named Jupiter’s Forge, it’s due later in spring. The swell sci-fi economic strategy...
View ArticleSpawn Point: how to get into real-time strategy
Hello. This is Spawn Point, a new not-quite-regular feature in which we take a genre, series or other facet of gaming culture, and try to convince you to give it a shot. It might be those hero...
View ArticleRing in the Lunar New Year with Steam’s latest sale
If you go on Twitter, where every second image is of a dog being cuddled, rated, or dressed up as a Star Wars character, it’s a reasonable assumption that every year is the year of the dog – however...
View ArticleSoren Johnson on challenging the norms of 4X games
“Sid [Meier] didn’t know he was inventing a genre back in ’91 – if he had he might have been a lot more careful. He was just making it up as he went along.” That’s how genres begin. By mistake....
View ArticleFree trial weekends for XCOM 2, Offworld Trading Company, CoD WW2 & For Honor
Whatever your weapon of choice–plasma rifle, axe, M1 Garand, or raw capitalism, baby!–you may well be able to dabble in your favoured violence this weekend for free. The full versions of XCOM 2, For...
View ArticleThe 50 best strategy games on PC
An entirely objective ranking of the 50 best PC strategy games ever made, now freshened up to include our favourites from 2017 and 2018. From intricate, global-scale wargames to the tight thrills of...
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