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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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Tharsis
Tharsis

Strategy 12 January 2016

A turn-based science fiction strategy game developed by Choice Provisions studio. The game tells a story of the first manned mission to Mars, where humanity hopes to find the key to saving their civilization from extinction. A few days after the launch, the spaceship gets damaged and the crew’s moods begin to darken. To make things worse, the crew receives a signal indicating that they might not be the first people sent to this planet.

PCPS4Switch

Punch Club
Punch Club

Strategy 08 January 2016

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.

PCXONEPS4SwitchANDiOS3DS

Pixel Starships
Pixel Starships

Strategy 06 January 2016

A mobile strategy game, developed by SavySoda studio, in which we command the crew of a spaceship. The action of Pixel Starships is set in the distant future, when mankind mastered the technology necessary for unhampered interstellar travels. We assume the role of the captain of a spaceship setting out on an expedition to unexplored regions of space, and our task is to discover new planets and races, and above all, to keep the ship's crew alive.

PCANDiOSWWW

SteamWorld Heist
SteamWorld Heist

Strategy 10 December 2015

Another game by independent Swedish studio Image & Form, set in the universe of SteamWorld, which combines elements of Steampunk and Western genres. The game is set in the distant future, where a powerful cataclysm forced the remaining inhabitants to flee into space on steam space ships. The player becomes a captain of a group of robo-pirates who are trying to survive in this post-apocalyptic reality by raiding and plundering enemy bases and ships.

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Total War: Attila - Age of Charlemagne
Total War: Attila - Age of Charlemagne

Strategy 10 December 2015

The second major expansion for Total War: Attila, the installment that takes us to the medieval Europe during the Charlemagne period. The add-on provides a new, extensive story campaign that offers 52 provinces to conquer, 8 factions to lead, and over 300 previously unavailable units.

PC

Wars of Napoleon
Wars of Napoleon

Strategy 03 December 2015

A turn-based strategy game set during the Napoleonic Wars. The game was developed by AGEOD, a developer considered to be an able strategy game maker. The game offers four different scenarios set within different periods of Napoleon's rule. These include the so-called Grand Campaign (1805-1815) and a few smaller ones: Austerlitz (1805), Battle of Jena (1806), and Waterloo (1815). The battles are fought on the strategical level, so the player controls entire armies instead of individual soldiers.

PC

Big Fest
Big Fest

Strategy 02 December 2015

A free-to-play music festival simulator from Sony Computer Entertainment, released exclusively for Sony consoles. In Big Fest, the players are given the task of planning and organizing an open-air festival. Our duties include things like deciding on all infrastructural details, e.g. location of the stage and food stalls. We can also decide what music will be played, choosing from a vast group of independent performers available on Jamendo.

PS4PS3PSV

Europa Universalis IV: The Cossacks
Europa Universalis IV: The Cossacks

Strategy 01 December 2015

The seventh large expansion to Europa Universalis IV, a strategy game released in 2013 by the Paradox studio. As the title suggests, one of the expansion's main novelties is the presence of a new ethnic group – the Cossacks, who played an important role in the base game as well as in the history of several Eastern European nations.

PC

Clash of Queens: Dragons Rise
Clash of Queens: Dragons Rise

Strategy 27 November 2015

A free-to-play, mobile real-time battle game that uses microtransactions. The player is taken to a fantasy world, which was plunged into a crippling conflict. The player can assume the roles of both a prideful queen and a knight that fights to defend her. The player's goals are to expand their kingdom, research technologies, enlarge the army and send the troops to battle. Apart from regular soldiers, the player can recruit battle mages, powerful dragons and other creatures.

ANDiOS

1944 Burning Bridges
1944 Burning Bridges

Strategy 26 November 2015

A mobile turn-based strategy game developed by team at HandyGames studio, recreating major military operations of the World War II, like the allied landing in Normandy. We can play as either United Nations or Axis, with each faction having different units and equipment, not to mention missions and their objectives. Gameplay takes place on maps, covered in hexagon grids, based on historical battlefields, with turn-based battles resembling those from classics of the genre, e.g.

ANDiOS

Decisive Campaigns: Barbarossa
Decisive Campaigns: Barbarossa

Strategy 24 November 2015

The third part of the strategy game series launched in 2010, which recreates key military operations of World War II. This time, the developers from VR Designs studio concentrated on the titular Operation Barbarossa, the German offensive against the Soviet Union, described as one of the most important military operations carried out by the Axis, whose failure greatly contributed towards the final defeat of the 3rd Reich in the war.

PC

Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes
Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes

Strategy 24 November 2015

A mobile turn-based strategy game developed by EA Capital Games, the creators of the web-based Heroes of Dragon age, among other titles. Our task in Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes is to collect famous characters from the Star Wars universe and fight battles with subsequent opponents. In the game, we create teams of heroes of both the light and dark side of the Force with each of them having different unique attacks and abilities.

PCANDiOS

Thea: The Awakening
Thea: The Awakening

Strategy 20 November 2015

A turn-based strategy game, combining elements of survival, card game, and a gamebook. You arrive at a dark fantasy world, strongly inspired by the Slavic mythology, after the apocalypse. As one of eight Slavic deities, you take care of a small village. You control each villager separately, exploring the dangerous realm, gathering resources, crafting items, and facing various dangers.

PCXONEPS4Switch

King Of Glory
King Of Glory

Strategy 20 November 2015

A mobile MOBA game that is a clone of the famous League of Legends. The game consists of clashes between two, five-person teams. Players take on the role of powerful heroes and their task is to destroy the enemy base.

ANDiOS

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

Strategy 19 November 2015

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.

PCXONEPS4

Valhalla Hills: Definitive Edition
Valhalla Hills: Definitive Edition

Strategy 19 November 2015

An economic strategy game developed by Funatics and a spiritual successor to the once popular Cultures series. The game focuses on a Viking tribe whose members, after dying on the field of glory, find the gates of Valhalla closed shut. This turns out to be the result of a dispute between Odin and his son Leko, who failed his exam in godhood. As a result, he gets sent back to Earth, along with the souls of fallen Vikings, and the player must help them get back to Valhalla.

PCXONEPS4

Hard West
Hard West

Strategy 18 November 2015

An original turn-based strategy game set in a universe that combines elements of a Western and fantasy setting. The title was created by Polish developer CreativeForge Games, consisting of creators of such franchises like Call of Juarez and Dead Island. The game is set in the 19th-century Wild West. Already troubled by lawlessness, the land gets stricken by a series of supernatural phenomena.

PCXONEPS4Switch

Wizards and Wagons
Wizards and Wagons

Strategy 12 November 2015

A mobile economic strategy game with elements of tower defense, set in a realm combining characteristics of the Middle Ages with fantasy elements, developed by the Touch Dimensions studio. The story of Wizards and Wagons begins where most productions of this type usually end: when the world-threatening evil was finally defeated, it's time to make some money! Player plays the part of a traveling merchant who is trying to make a fortune on trade that comes back to life after the long war.

iOS

Battle Ages
Battle Ages

Strategy 12 November 2015

A real-time strategy game distributed by using the free-to-play model. The game was developed by DR Studios and it allows the player to lead a civilization through various stages of evolution, since the Stone Age, through antiquity, medieval and renaissance, to the final years of the 19th century. At first the player assumes control of a simple settlement which then expands its size and adds new buildings.

XONEPS4ANDiOS

Mobile Strike
Mobile Strike

Strategy 11 November 2015

A free-to-play (with optional microtransactions) mobile war strategy game developed by Machine Zone, the studio known for Game of War: Fire Age. Arnold Schwarzenegger himself is the face of Mobile Strike. The game features an armed global conflict set in the near future. Gameplay focuses on multiplayer experience, which is split into two major layers.

ANDiOS

Star Wars Battlefront Companion
Star Wars Battlefront Companion

Strategy 10 November 2015

Star Wars Battlefront Companion is a mobile app accompanying the online shooter from EA DICE. After logging onto their Star Wars: Battlefront accounts players can get mobile access to a wide database, including their statistics, character progression, and game scores. The app also lets you view online ranks and discuss with other players on the forum, as well as use your mobile device to display a map while playing the game.

ANDiOS

StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void
StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void

Strategy 10 November 2015

The third chapter of StarCraft II trilogy that came out as a sequel to Blizzard’s bestselling science-fiction RTS. The last episode of the story is devoted to the most mysterious race in the StarCraft universe – the Protoss. You assume the role of the commander of this technically advanced faction, which went through significant evolution as compared with the first game released in 1998.

PC

Krosmaster Arena
Krosmaster Arena

Strategy 09 November 2015

A video game adaptation of a board game of the same title, set in the universe of the popular MMORPGs Wakfu and Dofus. Just like its two predecessors it was developed by the French company Ankama. The title expands on the ideas known from the original, while combining elements of a board game, tactical turn-based strategy, and RPG. Gameplay focuses on spectacular duels of the most famous warriors from both of the aforementioned games.

PC

Mini Metro
Mini Metro

Strategy 06 November 2015

Minimalistic, in terms of visuals, logic strategy game designed by an indie developer from New Zealand, Dinosaur Polo Club. Mini Metro is a project that originated as a prototype created for the 48-hour Ludum Dare contest. The game puts you up against a challenging task of designing and building a subway network in a dynamically developing metropolis. The game features randomly generated maps.

PCSwitchANDiOS