Hooded Horse Steam Sale: best strategy games to grab at a discount
Publisher Hooded Horse is currently running its first ever Steam Sale, bringing the prices of a great many excellent strategy and tactics games down. Hooded Horse has really become a household name when it comes to indie games from the strategy and tactics genres recently, publishing some superb gems and picking up highly anticipated titles for its pipeline.
We’ve looked into the catalog of discounted titles and collected the best strategy games to grab during the Hooded Horse Steam Sale in 2023 – you better strategically hide your wallet before reading on.
Against the Storm
- Off by 35%.
- Early Access.
- Find it on Steam.
This is one of the few early access games that can be recommended in a heartbeat: Against the Storm is a unique roguelike city building game that forces you to adapt from mission to mission and never overstays its welcome – where other games of the genre get dull and overwhelming as time goes on, Against the Storm focuses on the exciting early game phase of establishing a settlement and helping it grow. It’s a downright addicting formula. Just one more settlement!
Rainpunk is the new Dieselpunk.
Eremite Games / Hooded Horse
Old World
- Standard Edition off by 25%.
- Complete Bundle off by 40%.
- Find it on Steam.
If Civilization 6 wasn’t the right fit for you after Civilization 5, Old World is a fantastic alternative. Made by former key Firaxis employees, this 4X combines Civilization and Crusader Kings to add some role-playing elements into the mix. Old World also features an innovative approach to orders, making them a limited resource that really gets you thinking about the order of your actions during a turn. Paired with solid visuals and a UI from the heavens – it’s one of the early prominent adopters of nested tooltips – Old World is an easy recommendation to genre fans.
A new expansion, Pharaohs of the Nile, was recently announced for it.
Missing Civilization V? Give Old World a look!
Mohawk Games
Xenonauts 2
- Off by 25%.
- Early Access.
- Find it on Steam.
If you think that XCOM got a bit too casual over the years, then give Xenonauts 2 a look: It’s very much inspired by the original XCOM, keeping core mechanics and principles of the title intact. Its turn-based combat is lethal and intense, the base-building and character customization are fun, and there are plenty of settings to play around with to tune your experience, making it accessible despite sticking to the unforgiving roots of the genre.
You can read our Xenonauts 2 first impressions for more information on the game.
Xenonauts 2 has a classic look and gameplay feel to it.
Hooded Horse
Empires of the Undergrowth
- Off by 20%.
- Early Access.
- Find it on Steam.
Did you ever think that ants would make for the perfect faction in a real-time strategy game? So did developer Slug Disco and made this thought reality. In Empires of the Undergrowth, you lead your brave ants on a relentless quest to grow the hive – a perilous journey that sets you up to fight against all sorts of competing insects and other ant hives.
Naturally you'll have to protect your queen at all costs.
Slug Disco / Hooded Horse
Nebulous: Fleet Command
- Off by 30%.
- Early Access.
- Find it on Steam.
Imagine Battlefleet Gothic: Armada, but with actual physics – then you can kind of imagine what Nebulous: Fleet Command is all about. Customize and equip your fleet of spaceships to engage your enemies, using the three-dimensional nature of space to maneuver and land a decisive blow. All the while you need to keep an eye on the big picture, surveying the battlefield and winning the information game.
All hands: Battlestations!
Eridanus Industries / Hooded Horse
You can look forward to a lot more Hooded Horse goodness in 2024, when titles like Menace and Hexxen: Hunters arrive.
