Strategy Video Games77
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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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.
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.
New World Empires
Strategy 15 June 2016
Developed by Bytro Labs, New World Empires in an browser MMO game featuring a free-to-play model. In the game the players have to build their own Empires from the scratch, starting with a small country under their rule and a certain amount of money to spend in order to develop their realms. The gameplay builds on four main aspects – economy, exploration, research, and military.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links
Strategy 11 January 2017
Virtual adaptation of a popular card game developed by Konami. The original has been created by Kazuki Takahashi for his manga. Just like in the manga, Yu-Gi-Oh: Duel Links focuses on Yugi Muto and his friends Joey Wheeler and Mai Valentine, along with his rival Seto Kaiba. We are given over 700 cards representing monsters, spells, and traps, with our objective being to become the King of Games. We achieve this through winning duels, and with each victory we level up our character.
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.
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.
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.
Monopoly Plus
Strategy 26 November 2014
Another digital adaptation of the popular board game developed cooperatively by Engine Software and Ubisoft with Nintendo Switch in mind. The gameplay is based on the formula known from the board game original. We move tokens by as many fields as we roll on the dice. While playing, we trade real estates and build houses and hotels that provide us with income since any player has to pay rent if they step into another player’s property.
Tank Warfare: Tunisia 1943
Strategy 01 May 2017
A strategy game developed by Graviteam, a developer known from numerous games offering a believable tank warfare experience. The action takes place between 1942 and 1943 during the Tunisian Campaign which was an Allied attempt to defeat Axis forces stationed in North Africa.
The Elder Scrolls: Legends - Heroes of Skyrim
Strategy 29 June 2017
The Elder Scrolls: Heroes of Skyrim is an expansions to the The Elder Scrolls: Legends card game from Bethesda Softworks. The expansion introduces over 150 new cards with characters and monsters from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, with Aela the Huntress, J’Zargo, Delphine, and dragons Alduin and Paarthurnax being among them. Heroes of Skyrim, however, introduces not only new cards, but also new gameplay mechanics.
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.
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.
Tooth and Tail
Strategy 12 September 2017
An arcade real-time strategy game by Pocketwatch Games, featuring old-school pixel art visuals. The action of Tooth and Tail takes place during an animal revolution, modeled to the conflicts of the turn of 19th and 20th century, where several factions comprised of different animal species fight to the death. Gameplay mechanics resemble classic RTS productions—their foundations lay in resource gathering, base building, and tactical combat.
Narcos: Cartel Wars
Strategy 06 September 2016
A mobile strategy game based on the Narcos television series. Many characters known from the series appear in the game. Narcos: Cartel Wars is available for free but contains optional microtransactions. Similarly as in the case of the television series, the game takes place in Columbia during the 70s. The player assumes the role of a boss of a small drug cartel and tries to transform it into a powerful criminal empire.
Battle Champs
Strategy 11 February 2015
A mobile strategy game and a debut production of the Japanese studio BlazeGames. Akihiko Yoshida, art director of such hits as Final Fantasy Tactics or Bravely Default, was involved in its development. Battle Champs bears a resemblance to the famous Clash of Clans — the player’s task is to gather resources, build a settlement, and then defend it from other participants’ attacks. Apart from regular combat units, giants play an important role in Battle Champs.
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.
Kingdom: New Lands
Strategy 09 August 2016
An improved version of the old-school, minimalistic strategy game, Kingdom, that was released in 2015 by two independent developers nicknamed noio and Licorice. Similarly as in the original game, in the new title the player assumes the role of a king who travels through the world and uses his wealth to gain new subjects and expand his domain. As the game progresses, the king gains access to new craftsmen as well as production and military buildings.