Hooded Horse and Firesquid are delighted to announce that TactiCon has begun! Celebrating strategy games both big and small, this new Steam event highlights the brilliant and creative minds who develop these experiences, as well as gathering the players who love them all under one roof.
TactiCon runs from Thursday, September 22 through to Monday, September 26, showcasing over 100 games, and bringing together over 20 speakers from around the world to talk about the unique and challenging topics around strategy games in 2022. There will also be discounts, streams, and Let’s Plays from the wider community, as well as playable demos for recent releases and highly-anticipated upcoming titles.
Highlights include Gloomhaven, Farthest Frontier, Battle Brothers, Shiro Games’ Wartales, Firesquid’s Great Houses of Calderia, USC: Counterforce, Humankind, Going Medieval, Vagrus – The Riven Realms, Timberborn, Wildermyth, The Riftbreaker, Paradox Arc’s Across the Obelisk, Hero Hour, and the recent city-building sensation The Wandering Village, not to mention many of Hooded Horses’ own stable of strategy games, such as Terra Invicta and Sons of Valhalla.
Whether you’re a fan of real-time or turn-based tactics, grand strategy or tactical RPGs, or even deckbuilding and city builders, there is bound to be something for everyone at TactiCon. This is planned to be a regular event, so watch this space!
Anders Larsson, President of Firesquid mentioned the following about the event:
It is exciting to organize this event due to the enthusiasm of all the great developers and publishers we have interacted with! We are all united in our love for these types of games, and we want to give them a forum. If you are a developer, we want you to apply to be able to get your game in front of the fans!
Hooded Horse CEO Tim Bende added the following:
Strategy games offer some of the most engaging, the most long-running experiences in the entire games industry. TactiCon is our way of bringing this community together to celebrate not only the fans, but the brilliant minds that bring these games to life. We’re excited to be partnering with Firesquid to put on this event.
To learn more about TactiCon and the games showcased at this year’s event you can visit the official website.