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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’.

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Theme Hospital
Theme Hospital

8.4 Game Score

In Theme Hospital the player becomes the owner of the hospital, and his task is to manage and take care of its expansion. Every important aspect of this important medical facility needs to be addressed.

PCPS1

Dune II: Battle for Arrakis
Dune II: Battle for Arrakis

8.4 Game Score

Dune 2: The Building of a Dynasty is a computer game developed by Westwood development studio, which initiated the genre of real-time strategy. The plot of the title is based on the best-selling novel by Frank Herbert 'Dune'. The player takes on the role of the leader of one of the High Rhodes and fights for Spice, an extremely valuable substance extracted from the desert planet Arrakis.

PC

The Settlers IV Mission Pack
The Settlers IV Mission Pack

8.4 Game Score

The Settlers IV: Mission Pack is an addition to the fourth installment of the popular real-time strategy cycle. Developers from Blue Byte Software studio have prepared three new campaigns, consisting of over 50 missions in total. A player can become a Mayan, Roman or Viking leader and face new challenges.

PC

The Settlers IV: The Trojans and the Elixir of Power
The Settlers IV: The Trojans and the Elixir of Power

8.4 Game Score

Official addition to the fourth part of The Settlers. Morbus and its Dark tribe, Romans, Mayas and Vikings, as well as the new side of the conflict, the Trojan tribe, are back in combat.

PC

West Front
West Front

8.4 Game Score

Western Front is a turn-based strategy game set in the realities of World War II, specializing in this genre TalonSoft studio. The player plays the role of the commander of the armies fighting on the western and north African front between 1940-1945. The creators took care of a rich selection of military units and compliance with historical facts. The game's advantage is also a scenario editor that allows you to create your own missions.

PC

RollerCoaster Tycoon: Loopy Landscapes
RollerCoaster Tycoon: Loopy Landscapes

8.4 Game Score

Double add-on to RollerCoaster Tycoon including Loopy Landscapes and Corkscrew Follies with new scenarios, types of queues to build and new amusement park landscapes.

PC

Empire Earth II
Empire Earth II

8.4 Game Score

The second installment in a popular series of real-time strategy games. The player assumes control of one of fourteen civilizations, leading it from the Stone Age and up to the era of space travel. Our goal involves developing new technologies, creating military units, and leading them in combat in order to defeat our opponents.

PC

Act of War: Direct Action
Act of War: Direct Action

8.4 Game Score

Act of War: Direct Action is an innovative strategy game that is produced by a small French developer studio Eugen Systems. We are dealing here with real time strategy, and the basic element that distinguishes it from similar titles are the spectacular battles played on the streets of many famous cities.

PC

WarCraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal
WarCraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal

8.4 Game Score

The official expansion to Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, the extremely popular RTS developed by the Blizzard Entertainment studios. The storyline of Beyond the Dark Portal is focused on the further development of the conflict between humans and orcs. Despite the destruction of the Dark Portal, a rift capable of condemning humanity to another plague of green-skinned invaders still exists in the world of Azeroth.

PC

Ground Control 2: Operation Exodus
Ground Control 2: Operation Exodus

8.4 Game Score

Continuation of the excellent tactical game by Massive studio. The authors once again offered real time and a system of clashes that focuses on commanding units and not on expanding the base. Compared to the original, the list of factions was extended and aliens joined the war.

PC

Metal Fatigue
Metal Fatigue

8.4 Game Score

Tactical RTS by Zono studio. The action takes us far into the future, to the XXIII century. The plot is about the conflict between the factions and each of them received 10 own missions in the campaign. The distinguishing feature is the possibility of conducting war simultaneously on three independent levels: the surface of the planet, in its orbit and under its surface.

PC

Pizza Syndicate
Pizza Syndicate

8.4 Game Score

A strategy and economic game in which we play the role of the head of a restaurant serving pizza and we have to transform our small business into a large, international corporation making a fortune on the sale of this dish.

PC

Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots
Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots

8.4 Game Score

Full extension of the Real Time Strategy (RTS), entitled 'A strategy for the future'. Rise of Nations. Big Huge Games development team headed by Brian Reynolds (designer of the second part of Civilization or Alpha Centauri) is responsible for the development of the add-on.

PC

Shogun: Total War Warlord Edition
Shogun: Total War Warlord Edition

8.4 Game Score

Complete edition of the bestselling strategy game by Creative Assembly studio. The package entitled Shogun: Total War - Warlord Edition includes the main game released in 2000 and The Mongol Invasion expansion pack released a year later. In Shogun: Total War the player has to unite under his rule the shattered provinces of medieval Japan in an extensive story campaign, having at his disposal historical units from the Land of the Rising Sun.

PC

Railroad Tycoon II: The Second Century
Railroad Tycoon II: The Second Century

8.4 Game Score

Railroad Tycoon II: Second Century is an addition to the famous Railroad Tycoon II strategy and economic game, thanks to which we can feel like the great 20th and 21st century railway magnates.

PC

Combat Mission 2: Barbarossa to Berlin
Combat Mission 2: Barbarossa to Berlin

8.4 Game Score

Another part of the great Combat Mission strategy game: Beyond Overlord. It moves the action from the western front to the eastern front, where we can command the troops of the fighting parties in a series of battles and duels, which took place in the period from Barbaross's operation (June 1941) until the end of the war (conquest of Berlin).

PC

Darwinia
Darwinia

8.4 Game Score

Darwinia is a unique strategy game (RTS), prepared by the Introversion Software team. The main characters of the program are Darwinians, two-dimensional sprites from video games, which have to protect themselves against attacks from various viruses and worms.

PC

Hearts of Iron III: Their Finest Hour
Hearts of Iron III: Their Finest Hour

8.4 Game Score

Third expansion for Hearts of Iron III, a successful strategy game that takes us to battlefields of World War II. Hearts of Iron III: Their Finest Hour expands on spying system (offering new types of missions, including secret tasks fulfilled on the game’s main map – and introduces a special battle system that allows developing tactical plans and sharing them with friends. Major armies received new elite unites, including those specializing in invading from the sea.

PC

Populous
Populous

8.4 Game Score

Populous is an innovative strategy game from 1989, created under the responsibility of Bullfrog Productions, led by Peter Molyneux. The British product, the first representative of "god game" titles, allows you to take on the role of a deity and take care of the tribe that professes it.

PC

Age of Empires II HD: The Forgotten
Age of Empires II HD: The Forgotten

8.4 Game Score

The first official expansion for the remastered edition of the cult-classic strategy game – Age of Empires II: HD Edition, developed by Hidden Path Entertainment. The expansion is a commercial version of Forgotten Empires, a fan-made modification, and was developed as a joint effort between SkyBox Labs Vancouver and the authors of the modification.

PC

XCOM: Enemy Within
XCOM: Enemy Within

8.4 Game Score

First huge add-on to the tactical strategy game, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, released in 2012. Created by the developer team at Firaxis Games, the expansion introduces many new features to basic game. One of the most important among them is a new resource – meld, a type of microscopic, robotic organisms that can modify human genotype. This allows humans to improve their body and even integrate mechanical parts into themselves.

PCX360PS3ANDiOS

Desktop Dungeons
Desktop Dungeons

8.4 Game Score

Desktop Dungeons is a combination of economic strategy, logical game and tactical cRPG in a "roguelike" style. The action takes place in the reality of fantasy, and the player plays the role of the ruler of a small kingdom. In order for them to flourish, the king must send heroes to randomly generated undergrounds, where treasures, monsters and.... death. The title was produced by QCF Design studio.

PCANDiOS

Europa Universalis IV: Wealth of Nations
Europa Universalis IV: Wealth of Nations

8.4 Game Score

The second official DLC for the fourth installment of the popular grand strategy game series by Paradox Interactive. As the title suggests, the expansion is focused on the economic aspects of the gameplay, which manifests through the significantly expanded trading system, among other things. The players have several new economy mechanics at their disposal.

PC

Rise of Nations: Extended Edition
Rise of Nations: Extended Edition

8.4 Game Score

Remastered version of one of the cult RTS strategies, developed in 2003 by the Big Huge Games studio and at the same time another brand refreshed on behalf of Microsoft by the SkyBox Labs team. In this strategy, which combines elements of Age of Empires and Civilization, we stand at the head of one of 18 nations in order to lead our nation through the successive epochs of development - starting from prehistoric times and ending in the near future.

PC