Battlestations: Midway

Battlestations: Midway is for players who like commanding sea and air forces from a higher view rather than handling a single soldier. By our assessment, its real hook is the mix of naval strategy and direct action, where you shift between fleet management, aircraft, and combat roles instead of staying in one lane. That also means it asks for more patience than a straight action game, because the interface and the switching between modes are part of the work. In practice it has the feel of an old-school hybrid: ambitious, a little clunky, and very much about juggling different jobs at once. Compared with simpler war games, it is more unusual in structure, but that structure can make it feel dated if the interface does not click. The game sits best with people who enjoy layered military control and do not mind a bit of friction.