Acroama: Company of Strays

An excellent tactical game with the same cinematic feel as the Star Wars Jedi games.

Getting tactical with the boys.

Star Wars: Zero Company is a big hit with critics, who are praising the tactics game for its XCOM-like action.

We're halfway through 2026, and so far, Capcom is on a roll. Resident Evil: Requiem, Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection, and Pragmata have all been hit games, while other titles like Street Fighter 6 continue to do well with post-launch content. So what's Capcom's secret? According to the company itself, having a team-first mentality instead of auteur-driven games is one of its keys to success. "In the game industry, when a title becomes a series, it often ends up depending heavily on a particular developer, becoming what you'd call an individual-driven title," COO Haruhiro Tsujimoto

I’ve been an XCom fan for years, and while we haven’t got a new one in a while, Star Wars Zero Company seems like the perfect substitute. It’s in the Star Wars universe, which is awesome, and putting it in the middle of the Clone Wars makes it the perfect setting for a tactical game like this. And while I’ve been having a blast with it so far, it’s plagued with a lot of the same performance issues as Halo Campaign Evolved had about a month ago. At the time of writing, my time with Zero Company has been a bit of a nightmare, filled with crashes and frame drops. I’m sure that, over time, the gam