It's a crying shame that Advance Wars isn't available on PC. We do have a fantasy twist on the series with Wargroove, the grid-based roguelike leanings of Into the Breach, and the genre-defining tension of XCOM, but they're not the same. Even the DS version of Tom Clancy's EndWar, which borrows heavily from Advance Wars, can't be played today (and I lost my copy - pain). As we kick rocks wanting to play something similar, in walks Warside, and it's definitely wearing the Advance Wars inspirations on its sleeve.
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