Remember how fun Advance Wars: Portrait of Ruin was in co-op? It's not often that you find a turn-based strategy game that's so easy to play AND also supports the co-op. That's why we're pumped for Warside, the upcoming strategy game for Steam from Lavabird and First Break Labs (makers of Cthulhu's Reach). It plays a lot like Advance Wars, and we're dying to play it with friends.
Features:
Intuitive turn-based gameplay with a familiar feel for fans of the classics. 14 playable Commanders, each with unique passive skills and Battle Powers. Control 30 unit types. Simultaneously battle over land, air, and sea with ground forces, aircraft, and naval units. Faction unique units with mechanics specific to each faction. Single-player campaign with over 30 missions. Forest, desert and snow environments, plus the toxic wastelands. Challenge friends and foes with multiplayer battles. Local and internet play are supported. Design your own maps with the built-in mission editor for both single and multiplayer.The game's store page doesn't go into detail about its 2-player local and online co-op support, but it seems that two players will be able to team up against the AI in skirmishes. The actual campaign is single-player. There's a demo that's quite fun solo, so I'm feeling good about the full game. The developers just need to add a button to end turn (instead of making us press Start to choose it from the menu), and I wish the character portraits used a more Japanese style.
Warside will arrive on Steam on Monday, April 14. Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch versions are due later in 2025.