Having grown up in the ‘90s, an era when base-building RTS games were far more prevalent than they are today, I have a special fondness for this variety of strategy game. So when a new one gets announced nowadays, the wave of nostalgia washes over me, and I take notice. That’s exactly what happened when PlaySide announced the upcoming Game of Thrones: War for Westeros RTS back at Summer Game Fest 2025. Recently, I had a chance to ride into battle waving the banner of House Stark and Lannister in an early build of the game, coming away knowing a bit more now than Jon Snow. Set in the era of the mainline series of A Song of Ice and Fire as opposed to the prequels of House of the Dragon or A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, War for Westeros has players hoist the banners and take command of some of their favorite Great Houses. These include the likes of the Starks from the North, the lions of the Lannisters, Daenerys Targaryen and her dragons, or even the frozen hordes of the Whitewalkers themselves. The build that I had a chance to check out was a bit less grand, consisting of 1v1 online and offline skirmish modes with the choices of fielding the armies of either Stark or Lannister, with
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Having grown up in the ‘90s, an era when base-building RTS games were far more prevalent than they are today, I have a special fondness for this variety of strategy game. So when a new one gets announced nowadays, the wave of nostalgia…
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Having grown up in the ‘90s, an era when base-building RTS games were far more prevalent than they are today, I have a special fondness for this variety of strategy game. So when a new one gets announced nowadays, the…
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Having grown up in the ‘90s, an era when base-building RTS games were far more prevalent than they are today, I have a special fondness for this variety of strategy game. So when a new one gets announced nowadays, the wave of nostalgia…
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