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Strategy games. Victory depends here on player’s strategy and tactics. Main task is to control resources (e.g. troops, civil workers) in order to defeat an enemy or achieve some other goal. The gameplay can be turn-based or in real time (RTS). Specific types of strategy games are economic games and so called ‘tycoons’. more

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Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics
Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics

Strategy 23 November 2018

A turn-based strategy game with RPG elements taking place during WWII. The players fight Nazi troops that control beings from other dimensions, inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft.

Damnview: Built from Nothing
Damnview: Built from Nothing

Strategy 2025

Unusual production with the open world, which is a two-dimensional simulator of.... a citizen of the city. Our task is to survive in an unfriendly, capitalist environment. Instead of fighting, the title offers, for example, the possibility of running a taxi or working in a shop. Elections and friendships are of great importance.

Bomber Crew
Bomber Crew

Strategy 10 July 2018

Bomber Crew is a hybrid of a strategy game and a simulator, with some additional RPG elements. Developed by Runner Duck, the game allows the player to assume the role of a WWII pilot commanding a bomber crew. During the game, one has to complete numerous missions, which involve eliminating strategically important military targets and providing reconnaissance behind enemy lines.

Monopoly Plus
Monopoly Plus

Strategy 26 November 2014

Another digital adaptation of the popular board game developed cooperatively by Engine Software and Ubisoft with Nintendo Switch in mind. The gameplay is based on the formula known from the board game original. We move tokens by as many fields as we roll on the dice. While playing, we trade real estates and build houses and hotels that provide us with income since any player has to pay rent if they step into another player’s property.

Kingdom: Two Crowns
Kingdom: Two Crowns

Strategy 11 December 2018

Another incarnation of a minimalistic real-time strategy with RPG elements, developed by an independent studio called noio. Like in the original Kingdom for PC Windows and mobile devices, in Kingdom: Two Crowns, the player assumes the role of a king tasked with taking care of his loyal subjects and providing for them. Unlike the original release, in Kingdom: Two Crowns the player can enjoy both single player and cooperative game modes.

Bad North
Bad North

Strategy 28 August 2018

A real-time strategy game, in which you control a group of Nordic people, whose realm has been invaded by the Vikings.

Space Hulk: Ascension
Space Hulk: Ascension

Strategy 20 April 2018

A refreshed and enhanced version of Space Hulk, a turn-based strategy game created by Full Control, which builds upon a popular board game experience. The game offers 3 campaigns comprising over 100 missions, during which the players get to lead Space Marine Terminators to battle against Tyranid Genestealers. When compared to the original installment, Space Hulk: Ascension features a much more elaborate array of options, allowing the players to command their squad.

Kingdom: New Lands
Kingdom: New Lands

Strategy 09 August 2016

An improved version of the old-school, minimalistic strategy game, Kingdom, that was released in 2015 by two independent developers nicknamed noio and Licorice. Similarly as in the original game, in the new title the player assumes the role of a king who travels through the world and uses his wealth to gain new subjects and expand his domain. As the game progresses, the king gains access to new craftsmen as well as production and military buildings.

Necromunda: Underhive Wars
Necromunda: Underhive Wars

Strategy 08 September 2020

A turn-based RPG title based on a tabletop wargame Necromunda by the team at Specialist Game – the division of the famous company Games Workshop. The game by Rogue Factor studio tells the story of gangs competing for a control over the Underhive.

XCOM 2: War of the Chosen
XCOM 2: War of the Chosen

Strategy 12 September 2017

An expansion to XCOM 2 developed by Firaxis Games. Its story focuses on the titular Chosen – a new type of agents working for ADVENT, who try to capture the leader of the XCOM group. To achieve this, those merciless specialists kidnap his followers and torture them to gather valuable information. They are so effective that they can even affect the strategic layer and destroy our global operations.

Battle of the Bulge
Battle of the Bulge

Strategy 25 August 2017

Developed by Shenandoah Studio, turn-based war strategy is the first installment of Crisis in Command series, created mainly for mobile platforms. The production focuses on a realistic recreation of the famous offensive in the Ardennes, which took place at the turn of 1944 and 45 and was the last major operation of the German army on the Western Front of World War II.

Halo Wars 2: Awakening the Nightmare
Halo Wars 2: Awakening the Nightmare

Strategy 26 September 2017

A large DLC for Halo Wars 2, a science fiction RTS game, created by 343 Industries in cooperation with Creative Assembly. The story of this expansion, called Awakening the Nightmare, takes place a few months after the events of the original game. The story focuses on the Banished fighting for survival against the Flood. The gameplay is the same as in the original game. Besides a completely new story campaign the expansion also adds, e.g. two commanders and two new multiplayer maps.

Minion Masters
Minion Masters

Strategy 24 May 2019

Set in the Forced universe, a simplified real-time strategy with card game elements. The title by Danish BetaDwarf Entertainment features quick multiplayer battles, in which you battle the enemy with loads of units and try to defeat their main character. By drawing cards from a customized deck, you place units – mobile ones, along with defensive and production structures - on a small battlefield and observe the outcome. In contrast to other real-time strategies, you do not give commands.

Tropico 5: Waterborne
Tropico 5: Waterborne

Strategy 29 July 2016

The first large expansion pack to the economic strategy game Tropico 5. The expansion introduces the possibility to take advantage of waters which – although present in the series since the beginning – weren’t exploited before. The expansion features a six-level story campaign during which el Presidente is fighting for power on land and on the sea. He can use nine new buildings and units (including floating apartments and military submarines).

Tropico 5: Espionage
Tropico 5: Espionage

Strategy 30 September 2016

Espionage is the second add-on to the fifth game in the Tropico series currently owned by Haemimont Games. Surveilling the public, controlling the secret services and the army are some of the expansion's main new features. Espionage introduces nine new buildings to the game, among which we will find the Spy Academy, Mechanized Garrison, Dungeons, and Security Checkpoints. They will all come in handy in the new single player campaign, The Maltese Toucan.

Aven Colony
Aven Colony

Strategy 25 July 2017

A city builder strategy game developed by the independent studio Mothership Entertainment. The player arrives at the planet Aven Prime, assuming the role of the founder of one of one of the first extraterrestrial colonies. His tasks include expansion and settlement of new areas, taking care of the settlement’s technological infrastructure and the morale of its inhabitants, as well as fighting dangerous fauna and results of extreme weather conditions.

Battlestar Galactica Deadlock
Battlestar Galactica Deadlock

Strategy 08 December 2017

A space strategy set in a popular universe created in a 1978 TV series. Developed by Black Lab Games, Battlestar Galactica Deadlock gives us an opportunity to assume control of the Colonial Fleet and to take part in a war against the Cylons - a race of man-made cybernetic machines that have rebelled against their creators.

Chroma Squad
Chroma Squad

Strategy 19 May 2017

An oldschool, humorous strategy game from the creators of Knights of Pen & Paper from Behold studio. The game tells the story of a group of stuntmen, who after years-long career have decide to make their own TV series and hire the player as their manager. Gameplay focuses on the economic aspects and tactical, turn-based battles. We must hire actors, give them costumes and roles in each scene.

Warhammer Quest
Warhammer Quest

Strategy 24 February 2017

Turn-based strategy game from Rodeo Games studio created on the basis of a figurative system of the same name. Players guide the daredevils through randomly generated underground in search of fame and wealth. During their adventure, however, a lot of dangers and enemies await them.

Punch Club
Punch Club

Strategy 31 March 2017

A boxing manager game with RPG and tycoon elements, created by Lazy Bear Games studio from Russia. The plot of Punch Club (also known as Video Hero Super Story) tells a story of a boy whose father was brutally killed. Twenty years later, the hero decides to become the best fighter in the world and find out who was responsible for his father’s death. Apart from fighting, the player needs to take care of the character’s everyday activities.

Heroes of Normandie
Heroes of Normandie

Strategy canceled

A tactical turn-based strategy game set during World War II; it was developed by Cat Rabbit studio, supported by the Slitherine company. Interestingly, the game is a virtual adaptation of a popular board game which came out in 2014. The game is set just after the D-Day, when the Allies landed in Normandy. Three playable armies are at the player's disposal - the Americans, the British and the Germans.

Bloons TD 5
Bloons TD 5

Strategy 03 March 2017

Tower defense production, in which the player's task is to defend the monkey's land against the temptations of the title Bloons. In the course of the game, we set up various units along the paths taken by the opponents - as the game progresses, we obtain the necessary funds to expand the army in our hands and to introduce various improvements.

Planetbase
Planetbase

Strategy 03 May 2017

A strategy game in which players have to create an extraterrestrial colony from scratch. As its managers, they must ensure not only constant access to food, drinking water and life-giving oxygen, but also the safety of the settlers - sudden weather, sunshine and meteorite rains can be a threat.

Mordheim: City of the Damned
Mordheim: City of the Damned

Strategy 18 October 2016

A tactical RPG with turn-based combat set in the popular universe of Warhammer. The game is a debut project of the Canadian studio Rogue Factor, founded by veterans of the video game industry. This title is based on a classic tabletop battle game Mordheim, which, in contrast to most of the games set in this universe, did not feature grand battles but small clashes of individual units. The game is set 500 years before the Warhammer’s main story, in the titular Mordheim City.