Lamplighter’s League is a brilliant game with a heart ten times larger than it has any right to be. Every moment carried me to another place, transported me into a new body. The tactics, the meat and potatoes mechanically, are sound. Progressively challenging, deeply explorative, and full of thump. The character work will consistently surprise you with golden nuggets of development and growth. Also, and this can’t be said enough, the setting fucking rules.

XCOM Chimera Squad is my definition of a pleasant surprise. Just soldiering through quarantine on a lazy April Tuesday afternoon, across my news feed comes the improbable: a new XCOM game getting shadow dropped. Chimera squad is a $20 exploration into the ways that XCOM can, and I believe will, evolve.