11 Best-selling Strategy Games Ever

How to check the popularity of a title? The best indicator is by the number of copies sold. This time we look at strategy games.

6. SimCity 3000

Developer: EA Maxis
Year: 1999
Estimated number of copies sold: over 5 million

City builders may not be the same type of strategy as military ones, but it is hard to deny that they require plenty of strategizing. The SimCity series is a slightly forgotten classic that has been blazing the trails of this genre since the mid-1980s. SimCity 3000 is the third main installment, which introduced a lot of changes compared to its predecessor and won the players' hearts.

The first million copies were sold within six months of premiere, and in the United States, it was the second-highest-grossing production of the year after Rollercoaster Tycoon. By January 2002, SimCity 3000 reached 3.6 million units sold. In 2007, over 5 million. Considering that the game was released digitally via GOG store in 2016, the number is probably slightly higher today.

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Darius Matusiak

Graduate of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Journalism. He started writing about games in 2013 on his blog on gameplay.pl, from where he quickly moved to the Reviews and Editorials department of Gamepressure. Sometimes he also writes about movies and technology. A gamer since the heyday of Amiga. Always a fan of races, realistic simulators and military shooters, as well as games with an engaging plot or exceptional artistic style. In his free time, he teaches how to fly in modern combat fighter simulators on his own page called Szkola Latania. A huge fan of arranging his workstation in the "minimal desk setup" style, hardware novelties and cats.

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