Strategy Video Games50
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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No Plan B
Strategy 03 April 2024
No Plan B is a strategy game in which you create complex tactical action plans for special forces, and then have to passively watch as they are executed, without the ability to correct your orders. The game was developed by the one-man studio GFX47.
Hearts of Iron IV: No Step Back
Strategy 23 November 2021
The next expansion to the fourth main installment of the Hearts of Iron series. No Step Back focuses on the Eastern Front of World War II, increasing the ability to command countries such as Poland, the USSR and Estonia.
Arms Trade Tycoon: Tanks
Strategy 06 February 2024
A simulation game in which we design and sell tanks from the World War I era to the present day. Arms Trade Tycoon: Tanks gives you many options to design your machines and see how they perform in battle.
Agony: Lords of Hell
Strategy 2024
RTS set in a universe known from Agony game. In Agony: Lords of Hell we stand on the side of King Nimrod trying to take total control over hell. During the game we gather followers and resources, build structures and put up a powerful army.
Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes - Definitive Edition
Strategy 20 July 2023
Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes - Definitive Edition is a remastered, content-enhanced version of Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes, a warmly received hybrid of a turn-based strategy, an RPG and a puzzle game.
Rule the Waves 3
Strategy 18 May 2023
A complex strategy game, being more of a realistic naval simulator. It is the first installment in this series by Naval Warfare Simulations to release on Steam.
Hello Exo
Strategy October 2024
A strategy sim tasking us with colonizing an alien planet. The gameplay of Hello Exo consists of two layers - aboard a colony ship and the planet humanity is to call their new home one day.
Space Cats Tactics
Strategy 24 July 2023
A space turn-based strategy with RPG elements, in which we play as a feline spaceship captain. Space Cats Tactics is inspired by FTL: Faster Than Light from 2012, tasking us with exploring space and facing many enemies.
Train Valley World
Strategy 2024
An economic sim with puzzle elements, tasking us with building and managing railway networks. Train Valley World has us setting down railways and sending out trains in both singleplayer and multiplayer.
D.O.R.F. Real-Time Strategic Conflict
Strategy October 2024
An RTS and a tribute of sorts to iconic real-time strategies from the 1990s. D.O.R.F. Real-Time Strategic Conflict is set in an alternate future, having us play as one of three factions during a world war.
Play of Battle
Strategy 2026
A cross between an RTS and a grand strategy game. Play of Battle has us leading our chosen country during the years 2008-2025. The player must make strategic decisions and lead their troops on the battlefield.
Romance of the Three Kingdoms 8 Remake
Strategy 2024
The remake of a popular 2003 turn-based strategy by Koei Tecmo. Romance of the Three Kingdoms 8 Remake has us playing as the leader of a dynasty, warring against others to unite China under their rule.
Airborne Empire
Strategy 2025 (early access since September 2024)
A spin-off of Airborne Kingdom and a cross between a strategy game and an RPG. Airbore Empire tasks us with governing a floating city, completing quests for other settlements and fighting off invaders and plunderers.
Worshippers of Cthulhu
Strategy 2025 (early access since September 2024)
A city builder game set in the Cthulhu mythology, in which we govern cities inhabited by worshippers of The Great Old Ones. Worshippers of Cthulhu has us expand the cities, organize ceremonies for the gods, sacrifice non-believers and populate new territories.
Age of Mythology: Tale of the Dragon
Strategy 28 January 2016
A DLC, created by Skybox Labs in cooperation with Forgotten Empires studios, to Age of Mythology: Extended Edition – a remastered version of the classic RTS game from Ensemble Studios. The expansion, named Tale of the Dragon, doesn’t change much in basic game mechanics, which remain the quintessence of real-time strategy with a complex economic aspect.
StarDrive 2: Sector Zero
Strategy 08 March 2016
The first major expansion for StarDrive 2, a space 4X strategy game by Zero Sum Games. Sector Zero brings, first and foremost, larger galaxies (up to 4 times bigger), new missions, technologies, and racial traits, as well as two additional victory conditions based on scientific and historical approach. The gameplay itself does not deviate significantly from what we have seen in the original. The developers introduced two new mechanics, though.
Godus Wars
Strategy 03 February 2016
An improved version of Godus – the spiritual successor of the Populous series which was a real-time strategy in which the player could assume the role of a god. The game was created by 22 Cans, a studio founded by Peter Molyneux, the creator of such series as Dungeon Keeper, Black & White and Fable. In Godus Wars player assumes the role of one of four playable gods who use their powers and abilities to secure welfare and safety of their followers.
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.
Worms W.M.D
Strategy 23 August 2016
Another major installment in the bestselling turn-based strategy game series that focus on a humorous rivalry between the eponymous worms. In Worms WMD, the basic gameplay principles remain unchanged, and the players still have to eliminate the opposite team using a number of more or less unconventional weapons. The participants make their moves in turns and their actions are limited by a time limit.
Party Hard
Strategy 25 August 2015
A brutal action game in retro style, developed as a commercial edition of a project for Global Game Jam. The title was created by an independent studio PinoklGames from Ukraine. During the game you assume the role of a man who is clearly dissatisfied with his neighbors disrupting the quiet night hours and decides to seek revenge against them. Instead of calling the cops, the protagonist joins one of the night parties in order to brutally murder every guest.
Brother against Brother: The Drawing of the Sword
Strategy 16 April 2015
A turn-based strategy game developed by Western Civilization Software. As the title suggests, the game focuses on the American Civil War, during which brothers often had to turn against each other when the Confederate States declared war upon the northern states, devastating the United States of America.
Space Hulk: Ascension - Dark Angels
Strategy 15 April 2014
The third DLC for Space Hulk: Ascension, which, along with the two previous expansions (Imperial Fists and Salamanders), was developed by Full Control. In this add-on, the players get to control an elite Space Marine faction – The Dark Angels chapter, whose main objective is to eliminate the Tyranids preparing a full-scale assault on the planet of Corinth from the space hulk orbiting around it. The story campaign includes twenty new missions.
Space Hulk: Ascension - Imperial Fists
Strategy 18 December 2014
The first DLC for Space Hulk: Ascension, a game developed by Full Control. The Imperial Fists expansion delivers a completely new faction: the titular Imperial Fists chapter, as well as a story campaign tailored to the Fists, adding 15 new missions to the entire experience. The main objective is to retrieve an ancient imperial spaceship from the hands of Genestealers.
Call of Duty: Heroes
Strategy 12 November 2014
A spin-off to the Call of Duty series. It is a free-to-play strategy game created mainly for mobile devices. As the title suggests, the game focuses on the characters featured mainly in the Modern Warfare and Black Ops subseries. Thus the player meets the old acquaintances, such as Captain Price, 'Soap' MacTavish or Mike Harper. In terms of the mechanics, the game was inspired by social strategies, such as Clash of Clans.