Strategy Video Games31
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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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Soulstorm
7.9 Game Score
Another stand-alone expansion for the real-time strategy Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War that was released in 2004. The Soulstorm expansion adds one new story campaign for the game. It encompasses the the entire Kaurava system that consists of four planets and three moons. A conflict between nine factions starts in that area. They all intend to examine the eponymous anomaly. The expansion adds two previously unavailable factions. The first one are the Dark Eldar, corrupt pirates and slavers.
Blitzkrieg 2: Liberation
7.9 Game Score
Blitzkrieg 2: The Road to Freedom is the second official extension to Blitzkrieg 2's popular real-time war strategy (RTS). The appendix introduces two new campaigns for single player mode based on historical facts. Players have the opportunity to command the Allied forces on the Italian front or to evacuate Third Reich troops from France. Developers from Nival studio took care of a lot of changes, including a modified Enigma engine.
Advance Wars: Days of Ruin
7.9 Game Score
The next installment of the popular series of strategic turn-based games. We command armies of different types of units, trying to take control of the world devastated by the catastrophe.
Terra Nil
7.9 Game Score
An original strategy puzzle game in which we restore life to the wilderness. In Terra Nil, we irrigate the soil, restore biodiversity, and bring wildlife to refreshed areas to create self-contained, vibrant ecosystems.
Imperator: Rome
7.9 Game Score
Imperator: Rome is a large scale strategy game, in which you play as a leader of an ancient nation, starting from Athens' golden age. You have many duties, such as managing your country, developing the society, economy, and military, and maintaining relations with other nations.
Total War: Three Kingdoms
7.9 Game Score
The twelfth main entry in the Total War series of strategy games. For the first time in history, it takes the players to the ancient China, to the times when the country was split into three rival kingdoms. The title combines traits of classic RTS and turn-based strategy game.
Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
7.9 Game Score
A 3D tactical adventure game with stealth elements and turn-based combat. During the game, we control a group of mutants searching for the mythical Eden in a post-apocalyptic world.
Plague Inc.
7.9 Game Score
Original strategy game, in a realistic way to simulate the mechanisms of the spread of deadly plague. The player's task is to develop a virus and a strategy for infecting all people in the world. During the game, we have to perform mutations and look for different ways of transmitting the disease, adapting to the conditions that are constantly changing as a result of medical service reactions.
This is the Police
7.9 Game Score
An original strategy game with elements of adventure game developed by independent studio Weappy in cooperation with Team 17 Softworks. You take on the role of a chief of police who is about to retire. However, instead of safeguarding the law and order, he decides to use his authority and influence to make a fortune. To this end, the protagonist deals with the local representatives of criminal underground, while trying to keep his actions in the dark.
Surviving Mars
7.9 Game Score
A science fiction economic strategy game developed by Haemimont Games and published by Paradox Interactive. The title is a city builder in which the player must design the first human settlement on Mars. Being a manager of a space colony requires the player to take care of many matters - the survival and well being of the colony inhabitants depend on it.
Europa Universalis IV: Third Rome
7.9 Game Score
One of the many DLC packs for the fourth installment in the history-based strategy games series from Paradox Interactive, Europa Universalis. The expansion entitled Third Rome is the first of the so-called Immersion Packs, which focus on expanding specific options in individual regions of the world. In this case we are dealing with Russia, the eponymous Third Rome, a spiritual successor to Byzantine Empire.
Populous II: Trials of the Olympian Gods
7.9 Game Score
Continuation of Peter Molyneux's original strategy game, in which, playing the role of a deity, we lead a group of our subjects against the followers of another god. Compared to its predecessor, the game was set in the realities of Greek mythology, offering improved visual setting, nearly 4 times more divine powers and as many as 1000 different maps.
Project Highrise
7.9 Game Score
An economy simulation strategy game developed by SomaSim and inspired by the 1994 Sim Tower by Maxis. The action of Project Highrise takes place in modern times, and the player assumes the role of the manager and the architect of a skyscraper under construction. The production isn’t fully realistic since the building is erected in stages so that the completed floors can be used by inhabitants and workers, providing us with the money necessary to complete the construction of the remaining levels.
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III
7.9 Game Score
Developed by Relic Entertainment, the third installment of the real-time strategy set in a dark science fiction world. The action of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III once again takes us to the popular universe created by Games Workshop. During gameplay you can lead one of the three available races: Space Marines, Eldars, and Orks. Each of them has unique heroes, units, buildings, and abilities.
Syrian Warfare
7.9 Game Score
A tactical real-time strategy, taking place during the civil war in modern Syria. The game skips some of the typical RTS elements, such as resource gathering and base development. Instead, the main emphasis was placed on tactical maneuvers of land and air forces – including building assaults, using smoke grenades, air drops, air strikes, etc. Before each mission, we need to choose adequate units, with only occasional support from allied units during the mission.
Halo Wars: Definitive Edition
7.8 Game Score
An remastered edition of the realm-time strategy game by 343 Industries, originally released in 2009 for Xbox 360 only. Halo Wars: The Definitive Edition is a spin-off of the popular shooter game series Halo, and it's set 20 years before the events of the first installment, when humanity fights against the Covenant Empire, which considers our kind to be an insult to their gods and species.
Hearts of Iron IV: Death or Dishonor
7.8 Game Score
A second DLC for the real-time strategy game Hearts of Iron IV. Created by Paradox Development Studio, the Death or Dishonor add-on focuses on four European countries, namely: Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, which after the outbreak of the WWII were caught between the hammer and the anvil – the Third Reich and the USSR.
Age of Empires IV
7.8 Game Score
The fourth full-fledged installment in the famous series of real-time strategy games. The saga is considered as one of the most important in the history of the genre. Contrary to previous games in the series, which were developed by the now defunct Ensemble Studios, Age of Empires IV was developed by Relic Entertainment, a studio that created series like Company of Heroes and Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War. The mechanics of Age of Empires IV are faithful to its predecessors.
Anno 1800: Console Edition
7.8 Game Score
Another installment in the popular economic strategy game series published by Ubisoft and developed since 2011 by Blue Byte Software - Ubisoft's subsidiary studio known for working on The Settlers series. Like the previous installments in the Anno series, set across various centuries of human history, in Anno 1800, the player assumes the role of a steward tasked with establishing a prosperous metropolis.
Frozen Synapse: Prime
7.8 Game Score
Refreshed version of the tactical strategy of 2011, in which we lead an army of rebels who want to crack down on the governments of a powerful corporation. The game takes place in a synchronous turn-based system, where players make their moves at the same time. Compared to the original version, virtually all of the mechanics and bindings of the game were created anew to make it even more tactical and visually attractive.
Emergency 2016
7.8 Game Score
An expanded edition of Emergency 5, a simulation strategy game by Sixteen Tons Entertainment. In the game, we assume control of specialized emergency services yet again, including the fire department, the police, ambulances, and technical services, and our task is to neutralize the effects of accidents, natural disasters, and other threats that happen in four German cities: Berlin, Cologne, Munich, and Hamburg. Compared to the basic version of the game, the gameplay mechanics remain the same.
Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift
7.8 Game Score
Official continuation of the game "Final Fantasy Tactics Advance". Again we visit the land of Ivalice, participating in a large number of fights, played on hexed boards.
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Birth of the Federation
7.8 Game Score
Star Trek: Birth of Federation is a 4X strategy that focuses primarily on exploration, expansion, exploitation and extermination. This title is set in the realities of the best-selling sci-fi series Star Trek.
Scorched Earth
7.8 Game Score
Scorched Earth is a simple strategy game in which the player takes command of an artillery unit and tries to eliminate all competitors on the board with the help of several dozen types of missiles.