Wargroove

With the announcement and subsequent lengthy delay of Nintendo Switch's Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp, fans of the turn-based strategy icon grew impatient for another slice of the same. Chucklefish, who clearly have some enormous fans of those games on their staff, dropped a rather lower-key release that franchise fans should absolutely check out: Wargroove.

A fantastical spin on the tanks-and-warplanes vibes of Advance Wars, Wargroove and its sequel tell familiar stories of the goodly battle against malevolent forces. The action takes place in a grid-based format and sees you leading troops into combat, taking advantage of your forces' strengths against the opposing units, and capturing properties to boost your funds and deploy more fighters.

There are some interesting wrinkles, though. For one thing, your chosen commander is a unit on the battlefield themselves, and though they're very powerful against a variety of opponents, you will instantly lose the match if they're defeated. They'll need to fight if they want to charge their Groove (a unique skill similar to an Advance Wars CO Power), however. For another, each type of unit can strike with a critical hit under certain circumstances (if your archers haven't needed to move before attacking for example), lending an extra layer of strategy.

With an arcade mode, the expected multiplayer and map creator options and a lengthy campaign, this is a very generous package for the price.