A bizarre 2026 strategy game swaps a boss fight for a surreal musical performance

Summary

A games writer says Titanium Court, a strange game that looks like a ZX Spectrum title and reads like a postmodern Shakespeare adaptation, is one of their favourites of 2026. The game mixes strategy with match-3 puzzling, rearranging battlefields by matching tiles before sending tiny lo-fi fairy armies into battle. During a late-night run, while the writer was recovering in hospital, the game offered to skip a boss fight they had already won in favour of a musical performance. The performance featured a pixellated singer-songwriter who talked at length about Pacific salmon mating habits before playing a guitar song accompanied by crude images of leaping fish.

Timeline

1. The Guardian

   4 Nov 2026, 15:00 UTCSource ↗

   The Guardian reports that Titanium Court, a bizarre strategy and match-3 game, is one of the writer's favourites of 2026, and describes how the game offered a surreal musical performance in place of a boss fight during a late-night run.