Tactical fights and strange worlds

Many of these games hand you a crew, a deck or a settlement and ask you to think a few moves ahead. Chivalry 2 drops you into loud sword sieges where positioning matters, Rogue Waters turns ship raids into shove-filled deck battles, and The Stone of Madness makes you combine five prisoners to sneak out of a monastery. Around them you will run viking villages, recruit arena fighters, steal briefcases as spies and abduct humans for martian guests, mostly through planning, timing and careful use of small teams.