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Three Moves Ahead

Three Moves Ahead 607: The Strategy Games of Steam Next Fest 2024

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

Strategy, Strategy Games, War, Games & Hobbies, War Games, Games, Video Games

4.8532 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Len, Jon, and Mike Williams sit down to discuss the strategy and strategy-adjacent demos that caught our eyes in Steam Next Fest. Jon played 50 (!) of them, and several were actually good! Also like, where are all the aliens, for real though?

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0:00.0

Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, The Worlds, The Universes,

0:06.9

at least the Galaxy's Best Strategy Game Podcast.

0:11.5

You know, I think I want to start humble and then I go too big,

0:15.4

and then I kind of bring it back in a little bit.

0:17.7

You know, maybe the Andromeda Galaxy has a better strategy game podcast.

0:23.1

We don't know yet.

0:24.6

But probably statistically the best one that exists in our part of the universe right now,

0:32.1

you know, per the like the flashing bulb theory that advanced civilizations don't don't really stick around very long for

0:39.8

reasons that are becoming increasingly apparent anyway i'm len i'm your host i'm rambling go ahead

0:46.7

i feel like there's a cardishev three civilization out there with a dyson sphere covering every star in

0:52.1

their galaxy and they probably have one podcast about strategy games.

0:56.6

It's really good.

0:58.0

Yeah, because it's, yeah.

0:59.2

No one listens to it.

1:01.1

I mean, if you're that technologically advanced, having one podcast, come on.

1:07.3

There's got to be, I mean, that's pure nerd central.

1:11.7

There's got to be something.

1:12.4

It's really hard to make a good podcast.

1:14.6

Yeah.

1:16.2

Well, they've got, they've got strategy games that like take place in like end dimensional

1:21.8

space where like we wouldn't even get it.

1:25.0

It would, you know, I think, I think that's the solution of the Fermi paradox is that you

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