In this game, you can…

• …get ambushed, eat a tactical nuke minutes into the fight, then rebuild your entire battle line mid-chaos and still win.
• …lead an army of thousands of rats with poison bombs, lightning cannons, and rapid-fire guns that can erase units fast.
• …play on a stitched-together mega-map where every race from both games is in one campaign with wildly different starting situations.

In this game, you can…

• …use intrigue to install your brother as an anti-pope, go to war with the pope, and make your brother the official pope for Catholics
• …seduce queens and empresses across multiple realms, then spread bastards so widely that another player can end up as your kid
• …build a secret Odin cult, drag your spouse into it, get in a tavern brawl while disguised, then die crusading for Christianity while secretly pagan

In this game, you can…

• …lay down a base blueprint and have hundreds of flying robots swarm out to build the whole thing for you.
• …turn your own pollution into a trigger for escalating alien attacks, then answer with turrets, flamethrowers, laser walls, and artillery.
• …watch one slow belt starve a whole smelter line, then chase the fix into new mines, defenses, trains, and a bigger power grid.

In this game, you can…

• …fight over a relic in co-op and settle it on the spot with Rock-Paper-Scissors.
• …take a relic that steals every item from every shop, completely changing how you interact with the run's economy.
• …buff a pet hand so it attacks for you, takes hits first, and revives at the start of your next turn if it dies.

In this game, you can…

• …build the Death Star, park it over a planet, and erase the entire world on command.
• …play as a crime syndicate and take over the galaxy with bribery, kidnapping, racketeering, and piracy instead of straight conquest.
• …target specific ship systems in space fights, like hangar bays or tractor beams, to shut down fighters or stop captures.

In this game, you can…

• …import British marines through a single foreign-trade port, buy an ironclad, and mow down elite samurai with Gatling guns and cannons.
• …grow powerful enough that allies and vassals flip on you, then fight off a coordinated dogpile ordered by the Shogun himself.
• …recruit a new general from the rank and file when leaderless troops win battles, promoting a regular soldier into command.

In this game, you can…

• …replace whole work crews with automatons that work all night and don't care about the cold.
• …sign laws that let you put children to work in mines, kitchens, and coal piles to keep the city alive.
• …build watchtowers, propaganda centers, and prisons, then run the city on fear when hope and warmth stop working.

In this game, you can…

• …make the pope your vassal, imprison him over a feast insult, seize Rome, force-convert him, and banish him.
• …create a custom religion with rules like forced nudity or ritual cannibalism, then use conversion to control and humiliate rivals.
• …start as a two-year-old empress, face near-total revolt, then grow into a famous conqueror and reformer.