Too Long; Didn't Read
Indie developers Strategy Forge S.A. deliver a new take on the 4X strategy genre, Punk Wars. Punk Wars blends steampunk, steelpunk, atompunk, and dieselpunk aesthetics into one game. The more I played it, the more my eyes glazed over. Punk Wars dropped the ball with a pretty abysmal selection of units. The most prominent victim of Strategy Forge’s design choices is the main map, which is graphically uninteresting due to its sole use of brown as basically the only color.