Gear Up Einstein! History's Weirdest Battle Squad

Up to three of you can run a campaign together. You trade equipment between heroes, tune each other's builds and set up tactical combos that no single player could pull off alone. It stays social and low-friction: join up, coordinate your picks, jump into the next mission. The battles themselves play out on their own, so there is plenty of time to argue about whose tank deserves the medieval shield. Playing with company turns the whole thing into a running joke that keeps landing, and the co-op runs smoothly according to the people who have put hours into it.

Your time machine brings iconic figures from history onto your roster, each with unique perks. Einstein, Darwin, Mozart, Gandhi: the fun starts when you decide what they become. Stack the right characters and gear and the combinations get genuinely devastating. Gandhi as a tank in full plate armour with a deer hat works better than it has any right to. The game even includes short blurbs about each figure's real-world counterpart, so you learn a little between battles. The writing and the premise are funny throughout, and the humor is the point, not a garnish.

Every run plays out differently. You visit shops along your journey to buy gear that shapes each hero's power and playstyle, position your squad before battle, and watch the fight resolve automatically while your planning either pays off or spectacularly doesn't. Between missions you upgrade your headquarters, expanding your roster and developing gadgets for the next attempt. Higher difficulties are there for when the casual pace stops being a challenge.