Strategy Video Games86
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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Kingdom: Classic
Strategy 21 October 2015
A minimalistic strategy game with RPG elements, which is a commercial version of a popular flash title of the same name, developed by Dutch studio noio. The player assumes the role of a king, traversing the world, who acquires new subjects by giving gold to settlers. As a result, newly recruited subjects build and develop villages, creating tools, weapons, and fortifications essential for defense against raiding trolls.
Cities: Skylines - After Dark
Strategy 24 September 2015
An official expansion to Cities: Skylines, an economic strategy game released in 2015 and developed by the creators of Cities in Motion series - Finnish studio Colossal Order. In accordance with the add-on’s title, the biggest innovation it introduces is a dynamic day and night cycle. More importantly, this is not just a cosmetic feature, because at night your citizens engage in entirely different activities, and the traffic is reduced.
Supreme Ruler: The Great War
Strategy 01 August 2017
The next installment in a series of RTS games developed by the Canadian studio BattleGoat. In this game, the player is required to manage an entire country. The game is set in the World War I period, so the player begins in 1914 and is capable of leading their country through the next hundred years. The mechanics employed in the game were based on the fundamentals of the preceding titles; as a result, the game approaches the subject of managing a country in a holistic manner.
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Strategy 31 December 1985
Turn-based strategy, which takes place in China during the Han Dynasty. The player's task is to manage his state and to unite the other regions under his rule.
Aoki Ookami to Shiroki Mejika
Strategy 31 December 1985
A turn-based strategy in which the player takes on the role of Genghis Khan, the legendary Mongol leader. Its task is to conquer the largest possible area of Eurasia and deal with the troops of the opponents.
MachiaVillain
Strategy 16 May 2018
An original economic strategy game developed by Wild Factor, also known for the acclaimed Freaking Meatbags. In the game, the player assumes the role of a fledgling owner of a shabby abode – his task is to make it into a mansion for various monsters, mutated plants, and psychopathic murderers, all taken straight from horror films.
Wooden Ships & Iron Men
Strategy 30 November 1996
Turn-based strategy game which is an adaptation of a popular board game of the same title. The game plays epic sea battles from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.
Creature Quest
Strategy 24 January 2017
Creature Quest is a mixture of a turn-based strategy and an RPG, developed by VC Mobile Entertainment. The game takes place in a fantasy world where we have to collect various creatures that have their own unique abilities. Even though we begin our adventures with only five creatures, we will be able to catch specimen of over five hundred species as we progress. We use them mostly in battles, where we decide what they should do and use their special abilities if necessary.
Heroes Chronicles: Collector's Edition
Strategy 01 December 2001
The set of four episodes (out of a total of eight) of Heroes Chronicles - a side mini-series of turn-based strategies in fantasy reality, based on the mechanics of the cult Heroes of Might and Magic III. The plot of the series created by New World Computing studio focuses on the fate of an immortal hero named Tarnum, who, seeking redemption for his earthly deeds, fights against evil in hopes of regaining the favor of the gods.
Forged Battalion
Strategy 14 August 2018
Forged Battalion is an RTS game developed by Petroglyph - a studio that specializes in this particular genre. The game is set in the near future and the plot revolves around a war between a military organization in control of the world, and a resistance group. Forged Battalion uses a lot of concepts considered typical in the genre, but it also adds new mechanics that enrich the experience. The player constructs bases, develops technologies, produces machines and battles enemies.
Forts
Strategy 19 April 2017
A real-time strategy game developed by independent Australian studio EarthWork Games. The player finds themselves in the middle of a war fought between three sides. They all are trying to gain access to the limited oil supplies. The action is presented by using a side perspective and the player is tasked with constructing the titular forts. After constructing, they must be defended. At the same time the player must focus on destroying enemy strongholds.
Total War: Warhammer II - Mortal Empires
Strategy 26 October 2017
A free expansion for the strategy game Total War: Warhammer II. The add-on was developed by the creators of the original, i.e. Creative Assemble. The Mortal Empires DLC is offered exclusively to the owners of the first two games in the series, as it introduces a third game mode, which is a joint campaign.
Middle-earth: Shadow of War - The Mobile Game
Strategy 26 September 2017
Middle-earth: Shadow of War for mobile devices is a strategy game based on the free-to-play business model with optional microtransactions. In spite of identical title as the action adventure game published on PC and consoles, it is an entirely separate project. The plot, however, is somewhat similar and focuses on the war between Sauron and a Ranger known by the name of Talion, who shares his body with Celebrimbor - an elven wraith.
Total War: Warhammer - Realm of The Wood Elves
Strategy 08 December 2016
A large add-on for Total War: Warhammer, introducing a new playable race: Wood Elves. In order to introduce the new faction, a playable mini-campaign was added, in which the new race fights against Bretonnians, and repels the invasion of army of beastmen led by Morghur. The new race is led by two legendary leaders: an immortal half-god Orion, and one of the eldest of the treefolk, Durthu.
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.
A-Train Classic
Strategy 14 December 2016
Another installment in a popular Japanese economic strategy game series created by ARTDINK. A-Train Classic returns to the roots of the series. In the game, the player assumes the role of a president of a train company that deals with municipal transport. Among one’s duties, there are train and bus construction, planning routes and connections, as well as purchasing real estates like hotels, stadiums, and factories.
TransRoad: USA
Strategy 09 November 2017
An economic strategy developed by an in-house team of Deck13 Interactive. The player takes control of a newly established trucking company specializing in road transport of various goods throughout the area of United States, represented by an extensive three-dimensional map. The game itself begins after the choice of a starting location, the first truck and a trailer, and the employment of a skeleton crew.
Wargroove
Strategy 01 February 2019
Wargroove is a turn-based strategy inspired by Advance Wars and the Fire Emblem game series. It was developed by Chucklefish. The game is made of twelve story campaigns, in which we can play as one of a dozen or so heroes, each of them leading their own military units. As we play, we move around the game map (we observe the action from a bird's eye perspective), gather resources, manage our army, and fight with our opponents. Exploration, both on land and sea, plays a crucial role in the game.
Automation: The Car Company Tycoon Game
Strategy 12 March 2015
Automation: The Car Company Tycoon Game is the debut of Camshaft Software. The game combines elements of strategy and simulation and casts the player in the role of a car-production company's owner. The game begins in 1946 and ends in 2020; the player's main goal here is to transform their company into a car industry giant. The gameplay as such is based on two pillars.
Duskers
Strategy 18 May 2016
A strategy with roguelike elements, taking place in a post-apocalyptic science-fiction world. In Duskers, the player assumes the role of a drone operator, a survivor from a catastrophe that apparently annihilated every other person and changed the space into a cemetery full of dangerous monsters and other hazards. The player’s task is to discover the secret behind the tragedy and acquire the items necessary for survival.
Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
Strategy 01 April 2021
A grotesque strategy game from the developers responsible for such curious projects as Square Brawl and Clustertruck. Totally Accurate Battle Simulator allows the players to control an army of colored humanoids. We spend our money on infantry, archers, pikemen, or siege machines, such as ballistae and catapults.
Endless Legend: Tempest
Strategy 14 October 2016
Another paid DLC for Endless Legend, a turn-based strategy 4X game from Amplitude Studios released in September 2014. The main feature of this add-on is a new playable faction in form of Morgawr – an aquatic race specializing in naval battles and animal control. Like previous sides of the conflict, Morgawrs have unique buildings, units, technologies and characters.
Risk: Urban Assault
Strategy 02 August 2016
A turn-based strategy game which expands the concept of the popular board game. The title was developed by Zoë Mode (the creators of the first installment, titled simply Risk) as a contract for Ubisoft. Risk: Urban Assault takes place in a post-apocalyptic world of future in which five metropolises are fighting for control over the remains of natural resources: New York, London, Paris, Hamburg and Shanghai. Each of them has different approach to war and various weaknesses and advantages.
Nobunaga's Ambition: Sphere of Influence - Ascension
Strategy 24 March 2016
A turn-based strategy game developed by Koei Tecmo. The action of the title takes place in Japan during the Sengoku era (years 1467-1573). Similarly as in the previous installments of the series, the main part of the game are the story campaigns in which the players can learn about the history of various actual people such as Yukimura Sanada, Masamune Date or Ieyasu Tokugawa. More than two thousand of playable characters appear in Nobunaga's Ambition: Sphere of Influence – Ascension.