

If this wasn’t surprising enough, there are actually quite a few really good strategy titles available via this service.

Essentially ‘Netflix for Games’, subscribers can download and play a whole library of titles, for free! Game Pass even has a PC version and will soon be available for mobile via xCloud. One of the big two consoles in the US is the Xbox One, and Microsoft is currently ruling the end of this current generation thanks to the Xbox Game Pass . Console strategy games are everywhere and consoles themselves can match some of the best graphics from mid-range PCs. They definitely existed – and some of them even became classics of the genre – but often hardcore strategy gamers were turned off by console’s controllers, under-performing graphics, and user interfaces which felt at best tacked on, and at worst deliberate impediments to playing the game.īut times have changed. Once upon a time, it was almost impossible to play good strategy games on consoles.
