Kurt Vonnegut's lost board game published

I'm not saying they are in any way all that similar, but if you're doubting what an 8x8 grid can do for a turn-based wargame, may I suggest Into The Breach:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/590380/Into_the_Breach/

Or a game you may have heard of called "Chess".

Half-off on Switch right now. I might pick it up.

Is it new?

There is also Godzilla Voxel Wars, which is pretty much the same gameplay as Into the Breach, if you prefer that theme. Both games are good.

It's quite fun, I played a lot of it during the pandemic. It's sort of like Advance Wars, but when you lose you can choose to send one of your leveled up characters back in time, which lets you use them again in a new game.

It's excellent! Sort of like chess but with mechs. And if chess had multiple classes of pieces with different movesets. I played well over 100 hours on switch. Each class requires a different strategy to use effectively, and it's fun feeling your way through them. Highly recommend!