Turn-Based Gaming Never Gets Old - "Just One More Turn" (Ep.72)

Описание: It's Turnbased Thursday Fest week, and Al, Sid, and Jack are leaning in hard. This episode is a full deep dive into the turn-based genre: what makes it so compelling, why "just one more turn" became gaming's most universal phrase, and whether turn-based has quietly replaced RTS as the dominant strategy genre in 2026. The conversation covers Football Manager as a closet tactics game, Worms as a gateway to strategy, the surge of roguelikes and deck builders, why indie developers keep choosing turn-based over real time, and the debate that will never die: is Total War turn-based or RTS?

Come for the strategy chat, stay for Sid trying to wiggle out of naming his favourite turn-based game.

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Timestamps:
00:00 - Welcome and Turnbased Thursday Fest
01:04 - "Just one more turn" - what game do you think of?
02:03 - Football Manager as a turn-based game
03:55 - Why turn-based appeals: time to think, complexity without pressure
06:04 - Mechanics that only work in turn-based
09:04 - Turn-based as an umbrella: grand strategy, 4X, tactics, RPG
10:24 - Endless Legend and borrowing from Paradox
11:14 - Menace and the tactics subgenre
12:14 - Sid's favourites: Endless Space and Galactic Civilizations
14:06 - The roguelike and deck builder surge (Slay the Spire 2)
17:23 - Jack's favourite: Worms W&D
19:12 - Worms as an introduction to strategy
20:18 - The puzzle element in turn-based games
23:52 - Procedural maps and replayability
24:02 - History: turn-based predates RTS by nearly a decade
26:29 - Why turn-based has outlasted RTS
33:33 - If you lose in turn-based, it's your fault
34:08 - The Total War debate: turn-based or RTS?
37:38 - Sid's controversial verdict on Total War
39:14 - Total War Warhammer 40K speculation
40:34 - Outro and community CTA

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Critical Moves examines strategy games through weekly Friday episodes and Monday news updates. Six hosts across multiple continents analyze recent releases, forgotten classics, and industry developments without the typical podcast theatrics. We cover real-time strategy, 4X civilization builders, turn-based tactics, and hybrid games that blur genre boundaries.