Rewrite history in ‘Imperator: Rome’
They’re complicated, difficult and take forever — 20, 30, 100 hours into one play-through if you’re up for it.
“Imperator: Rome”
$39.99 for PC
All-ages (but very complicated)
The grand strategy games from Paradox Interactive are some of my greatest gaming guilty pleasures. These are games where you control a country on the world stage over the course of centuries, and so unlike other guilty pleasures (cookies, cheesy horror movies, sleeping in) there’s nothing sweet and easy about a Paradox game. They’re complicated, difficult and take forever — 20, 30, 100 hours into one play-through if you’re up for it.
And I’m up for it. Whole weekends have disappeared down the grand strategy rabbit hole.
“Imperator: Rome” is the latest game from Paradox. In it you take control of ancient Rome a...