Since the Steam Game Festival: Summer Edition has so many demos in it, we’ve all run off to harvest our own little crop to recommend, picking different genres as our guiding principle.

As ever, though, the concept of “genre” has tripped me up like a rake in the dark, and left me flailing to define what connects the six games below. I guess, if there’s a unifying concept, it’s plopping buildings down. Although whether you do that from the top or the side, and whether you use those buildings to create resources, to make little fightoes to attack other buildings with, or to do a bit of both, varies from game to game. Altogether, if you like to wolf down big plates of base-building, with optional side orders of logistics and violence, there’s going to be something in this pack of treasures for you.

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