G is for Games for a future Police Week? If there’s a Police Week in 2026, there’s a good chance the following three titles will – assuming they’re finished – figure in it. Bharat Police looks from a distance a lot like an Indian take on This Is the Police. According to the Steam blurb developer BharatPoliceGroup intends to grapple with India’s “unique social and cultural landscape” and depict a world in which “justice is never simple” which sounds promising.
‘Coming soon’ from the makers of the moreish City Bus Manager, Global Rescue won’t be the first emergency services game to generate environments with the help of real world map data, but may well be the first to turn that data into 3D venues.
Will it be possible to play Dirty Cop Simulator as a squeaky clean law enforcer? Are games like DCS, in their own small way, helping to undermine public confidence in the police, or are they merely reflecting reality and continuing a tradition of ‘bad apple’ cop depictions that began long ago in novels and movies? Even it turns out to be dreadful, True Games’ provocative project should prompt some interesting debate.
H is for Hearts of Iron IV is the perfect beginner’s wargame…
…according to a recent article on Strategy and Wargaming! Blimey, Sir Nuno, I think we’ll have to agree to disagree on the subject of what makes wargames friendly and unfriendly.
I is for I know what I’m going to be playing next
Firefighting Simulator: Ignite slid down Steam’s shiny pole on Tuesday. Ignore a smattering of AI complaints, and early adopters seem well satisfied with this potential Firefighting Simulator: The Squad replacement. I should be ready to share some thoughts by this time next week.
J is for Judging splashdown spots in Re-Entry…
… got easier last week thanks to a new retro-burn planning tool. The latest bumper update also added finesse to lunar landing assessments (land the Eagle hard or beak first and now the sim will censure you) improved fuel consumption simulation, and enhanced the way the old blue marble and its surroundings are rendered.
K is for Kevin Toms returns
Football Manager, a 1982 chart-topper that cast an awfully long and lucrative shadow, sprinted onto Steam in August. As the ZX Spectrum FM cassette I wore out in my youth came nestled in a handwritten Memorex sleeve rather than a colourful illustration of the FA Cup, I think I owe it to Kevin Toms to actually purchase the new Windows 10-compatible version.
Being someone who loves Crusader Kings, has on/off fun with EU4 and didn’t like Victoria, I have bounced off Hearts of Iron IV multiple times, it’s a nightmare of menus and sliders and stuff that i have no idea how all of it works.
The other games on that list seem fairer. I’ve been getting into Fields of Glory 2 Medieval again recently, i just wish the campaigns were better, the enemy forces (and yours) just seem random.
I’m also going to give Ultimate General: Civil War another try, i just remember it has the ‘carry over’ of troops & Xp which i hated in the original Warhammer Shadow of the Horned Rat & Unity of Command meaning your campaign is screwed even if you don’t know it, so you have to reply the perfect battle.
Personal simple wargames are still Close Combat and Steel Panthers, more depth but still simplicity of interactions.
I have no idea why for the football manager remake they didn’t employ a gui artist for 2-3 days to make it either look partly presentable, or like the old game. Having it just text on a white screen is a ‘choice’.