Games·IGN·26 jan 2022

The Best Strategy Games of 2021

Loop Hero is unquestionably a strategy game, but it’s also a delightful test of the limits of what strategy games ought to look like. There are cards and maps, terrain and enemies and stats and all the trappings you’d expect, but Loop Hero asks the player to arrange them in a, well, loop, reminiscent of roguelites, and then lets you play it almost like an idle game. The combined result is a slowly building cycle that is incredibly hard to step away from, and so easy to take for “just one more loop” as you guide the hero around the circular, ruined world he’s trying to rebuild. - Rebekah Valentine