A game that is all about football, whilst in a way having little to do with football, the 2013 version of Football Manager warrants your attention if you're a strategy fan.
Your shields have been penetrated, your engine room is on fire and the pirates have just teleported onto your ship. You’re down to two crew members and your oxygen levels are depleting. What do you do? Soldier on bravely, or accept your inevitable defeat and then start a new game to do it all again?
Some games give you a space ship and ask you to save the galaxy. Gratuitous Space Battles gives you a fleet and lets you sit back and watch the action.
When I first started Guns of Icarus, I was mellowed by the soothing music and dieselpunk visuals. Three minutes later, I was in a state of panic, surrounded by destruction, incoming artillery and everything on fire.
Contract killer Agent 47 uses a mixture of stealth, weapons, special powers, and creative use of the environment to perform assassinations across a variety of locations.
Hotline Miami is more crazed animal than game. It's got the lean, efficient musculature of a predator in the wild, with LSD coursing through its veins and dark purposes in its heart. It wants only for you to use it to kill, beat to death, kill and kill some more. Sure there's a storyline, and some will argue that the extreme violence lurking under the retro-styled shell is merely a metaphor. But those people are wrong. This game lusts for virtual blood.