Hand-picked collections
A catalog tells you what exists; a collection tells you what's worth your evenings. For each scroll below we played through a whole wing of the realm, discarded the merely adequate, and wrote down — in our own words — why the survivors earned their place.
Lootara carries 47 adventure games, and they are not all journeys we'd send you on. Some worlds are cardboard; some quests are shopping lists wearing a map as a disguise.…
24 gamesBest Strategy Games: Plans That Survive ContactAnyone can publish a strategy game; making the decisions hurt is the hard part. We went through Lootara's 29 strategy titles looking for the ones where losing tells you s…
24 gamesBest Monster Games: Catch Them, Train Them, Fear ThemMonster is the most two-faced category on Lootara, and we love it for that. Half of these games want you to collect creatures, name them and raise them into champions. Th…
17 gamesBest Puzzle Quest Games: Locks Worth PickingThere are puzzles you solve and puzzles you travel through. This collection is for the second kind — the 31 games on Lootara's puzzle shelf where a solution isn't the end…
24 gamesBest Simulation Games: Small Worlds, Run by YouA simulation is a quest that admits what it is: here is a small world, here are its rules, now make it thrive. This collection gathers Lootara's best-run worlds — the sho…
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