Strategy Video Games8
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’.
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Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
Strategy 2024 (early access since 15 March 2019)
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic is a city builder by 3Division. It tasks us with managing, expanding and leading a fictional Soviet republic to a bright future.
F1 Manager 2022
Strategy 30 August 2022
F1 Manager 2022 is a management strategy in which we lead a Formula 1 team, taking care of all aspects of its functioning. The game was developed and published by the British studio Frontier Developments, known for many economic strategies.
Lakeburg Legacies
Strategy 20 July 2023
A strategy game with RPG and life sim elements. Lakeburg Legacies has us building a village and matchmaking villagers to ensure a steady flow of competent descendants.
Bounty Train
Strategy 16 May 2017
Bounty Train is an economic strategy developed by a small Canadian studio Corbie Games. The game takes place in USA during the second part of the 19th century. We play as a soon-to-be railroad magnate and our job is to accomplish the tasks we are given that focus on transporting cargo. We begin by piecing our train together and hiring employees: from train drivers controlling our engine to gunmen who will guard our precious cargo from robbers.
Sea Power: Naval Combat in the Missile Age
Strategy 2024
Sea Power: Naval Combat in the Missile Age is a strategy game from the Triassic Games studio, moving us into the 1970s and 1980s. Our task is to lead an aircraft carrier strike team in a campaign taking place in the Atlantic Ocean.
Total War: Warhammer III - Thrones of Decay
Strategy 30 April 2024
Thrones of Decay is an expansion for Total War: Warhammer III, divided into three smaller packages (bought separately or together). This add-on features three new legendary lords, as well as new types of units, including new legendary heroes.
XCOM: Chimera Squad
Strategy 24 April 2020
Spin-off a series of tactical turn-based strategies. In the XCOM: Chimera Squad, we take control of the squad consisting of people and aliens, whose task is to keep order in the metropolis known as City 31. The action takes place 5 years after XCOM 2.
Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition
Strategy 15 October 2020
A refreshed and improved version of Age of Empires III, a game from 2005 that was the third installment in the series of best-selling real-time strategy games. The new version was developed by Forgotten Empires, a studio that also created remastered editions of the first and second games in the series. Most of the changes are related to the graphics and interface – they were adapted to modern computers and displays. This enabled the game to support 4K resolution.
Age of Mythology
Strategy 31 October 2002
A strategy taking place in antiquity permeated with Greek mythology. We play the role of the leader of one of several civilizations and we take care of its development. The specificity of the game means that we often fight against mythological creatures and enter into deals with gods. In terms of gameplay, the title has all the features of the Age of Empires series - economic, military or even technological.
Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight
Strategy 16 March 2010
The fourth major installment of the legendary strategy game series which dates back to 1995. It was created by the Los Angeles division of EA that has been developing the series for a few years now. The game continues the storyline of its predecessors and focuses on the desperate struggle between GDI and Nod to stop the spread of Tiberium which threatens the planet with absolute sterilization.
Total War: Shogun 2
Strategy 15 March 2011
Seventh main installment in the popular series of strategic games and the sequel to Shogun: Total War. Once again, the action takes place in the 16th century in feudal Japan. You take control of one of the clans and begin making efforts to be honored with the privilege of ruling the whole country as the new shogun. To accomplish that goal you need to manage diplomacy, military operations and economical development of your territories.
Jagged Alliance: Back in Action
Strategy 09 February 2012
A complex remake of the iconic game Jagged Alliance 2, developed by Coreplay. The game builds on a non-linear campaign that takes the players to a fictional country of Arulco ruled with an iron fist by Queen Deidranna, who came up with a scheme and deprived Enrico Chivaldori - the player’s employer - of his rightful crown. As one might easily guess, the player is tasked with ending this reign of terror and shooting the usurper down in flames.
Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome
Strategy 31 January 1998
An expansion for Age of Empires, a popular strategy game developed by Ensemble Studios. The expansion introduces four new civilizations (Rome, Carthage, Palmyra, and Macedonia) and additional battle units, including armored elephants, battle chariots, camel riders, slingshooters, as well as galleys armed with burning projectiles.
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II
Strategy 19 February 2009
A sequel to the popular real-time strategy game by Relic Entertainment, set in the cult Warhammer 40,000 universe, where over a dozen feuding factions fight a bloody war. In the story campaign, we can assume control of the armies of four sides of the conflict: humans (Space Marines), Orks, the Eldar, and the Tyranids. Contrary to its predecessor, in Dawn of War II we have a much larger freedom in terms of playing and can determine the order of conquest.
Age of Empires: Definitive Edition
Strategy 20 February 2018
A refreshed version of Age of Empires, a real-time strategy game that debuted in 1997. Microsoft, the company responsible for the new version, focused not only on improving the graphics so that they now support 4K resolution, but on recording a new version of the symphonic soundtrack as well. The title contains the contents of the basic version of the original game and of the Rise of Rome expansion pack. The single player scenarios were expanded with new narrative features.
Sid Meier's Civilization VII
Strategy TBA
Sid Meier’s Civilization VII is the seventh installment in the iconic series of 4X turn-based strategies. The player must, once again, lead a civilization through millenia of development.
Headquarters: World War II
Strategy 11 April 2024
Headquarters: World War II is a turn-based war strategy game that focuses on recreating The Battle of Normandy. The game takes a realistic approach to its subject matter and offers both single player and multiplayer modes.
Stellaris
Strategy 09 May 2016
A real-time space strategy with RPG elements developed by Paradox Interactive – the creators of such renowned series as Europa Universalis or Crusader Kings. The game is played in a procedurally generated interstellar space, where your job is to build a galactic empire. A the beginning of the game you choose one of the 7 playable races that differ in appearance, skills, and ethics.
Anno 2070
Strategy 17 November 2011
Another installment in the popular series of economy strategy games developed cooperatively by Related Designs, the creators of the franchise, and the legendary Blue Byte studio under the watchful eye of Ubisoft. The fifth entry in the series, contrary to the previous ones, takes the players to the future, to the eponymous year of 2070, when climatic changes drastically raised water levels around the world, forcing humankind to move to higher ground.
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Dark Crusade
Strategy 09 October 2006
A stand-alone expansion for the strategy game Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War developed by Relic Entertainment. The basic novelty introduced in Dark Crusade expansion are the two new factions. The first one are the humanoid robots known as Necron. They are a faction of undead killing machines. The second new faction is the Tau Empire. They are technologically advanced and have remarkable skills in diplomacy.
Heroes of Might and Magic V: Tribes of the East
Strategy 12 October 2007
The second official expansion pack for the fifth installment of the Heroes of Might and Magic series. The base game was released during the spring of 2006 and it was developed by the experienced Russian studio Nival Interactive. The expansion adds another episode to the war against demons that takes place in the world of Ashan. Orcs play a decisive role in bringing an end to the conflict.
Company of Heroes 3
Strategy 23 February 2023
Company of Heroes 3 is the third installment of the popular series of tactical real-time strategies set in the realities of World War II. This time the campaign focuses on Italy and North Africa.
Warhammer: Mark of Chaos
Strategy 14 November 2006
A fantasy real-time tactics game by Black Hole Games, and a part of the Warhammer universe created by Games Workshop. Its main element is a complex story campaign centered on the war with the Hordes of Chaos, shown from four different points of view, those of the four sides of the conflict: the Empire, the High Elves, the Hordes themselves, and the rat-like Skaven.
Banished
Strategy 18 February 2014
Banished is a real-time economical strategy game, the first one developed by Luke Hodorowicz, the founder of the independent studio Shining Rock Software LLC. The player controls a small group of people exiled from their home country, who are trying to settle down in a new place and create the foundations of a powerful kingdom. The task calls, first and foremost, for ensuring the survival of a small society, and then managing its development.