My eyes hurt. This is due to several circumstances: firstly, Frozen Synapse 2 has a beautiful neon crispness that I can still see when I shut my eyes. Secondly, I appear to activate the part of my brain that makes excellent tactical decisions via squinting. And finally, my eyes are sore because I've stayed up far too late playing brilliant matches of tactical shooter chess against people across the globe.

I’m a sucker for tactics games and cyberpunk settings. Frozen Synapse 2 combines both into a cerebral, moody management game full of corporate politicking and high tech squad battles. While the game can be glitchy and has rough edges, the core experience nails everything I want in a cyberpunk game.

Last week was all about swinging from rooftops and paratrooping out of the skies. This week, the drawcard is exploring underground and below the water line - and discovering what happens when nicking artifacts from tombs goes badly wrong.

Also, there's a Danger Mouse game out this week.

Been looking to scratch that turn-based tactics itch lately? Frozen Synapse 2 might be your thing.

Given that Frozen Synapse was one of the more intelligent strategy games over the past decade, I figured it's probably worth reminding you all that the sequel is looking pretty good.

Mode 7 games popped up a little while ago with a trailer showing some very Frozen Synapsey combat for Frozen Synapse 2, and showed off a large city that you could do missions in. We had also previously known that it would be an "open world" game -- but now we have the first in a series of developer updates, and we can finally see what the game is going to be like.

2011's Frozen Synapse was a very good turn-based tactics game, one of the pioneers of the genre's current Golden Age. Now we're getting a very big sequel.