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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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Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics
Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics

Strategy 04 October 2018

A turn-based strategy game with RPG elements taking place during WWII. The players fight Nazi troops that control beings from other dimensions, inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft.

PCXONEPS4Switch

Hearts of Iron IV: Man the Guns
Hearts of Iron IV: Man the Guns

Strategy 28 February 2019

Hearts of Iron IV: Man the Guns is an expansion to a strategy game developed by Paradox. This is not a standalone DLC, as it requires the base game to work and it expands the naval aspects of the game by implementing new options for designing and upgrading ships. Moreover, the game introduces new sea routes.

PC

Victory at Sea: Pacific
Victory at Sea: Pacific

Strategy 14 September 2018

Victory at Sea Pacific is a real-time marine strategy developed for PCs. It allows you to play out sea battles that took place in the Pacific during World War II.

PC

Feral Blue
Feral Blue

Strategy 22 October 2019

A mix of a sailing ship simulator and economic strategy embedded in an alternative, postapocalyptic vision of the colonial era - on Earth after the flood. In Feral Blue the player takes on the role of a sailor who gradually climbs along the career ladder, trading with coastal cities, taking part in sea battles and finally building and developing his own settlements.

PC

Armored Brigade
Armored Brigade

Strategy 15 November 2018

A realistic real-time strategy set in the period of the Cold War. The game delivers enormous battlefields inspired by true locations, authentic vehicles, weapons from that historical period, and dynamic artificial intelligence. The weather and terrain conditions play a crucial part in each battle.

PC

Field of Glory II
Field of Glory II

Strategy 12 October 2017

Developed by Byzanthine, Field of Glory II is the second installment of the virtual adaptation of a popular war game. The players get to command ancient armies of one of over 40 factions and compete in turn-based battles imitating those featured in the original board game. The game offers many battle options – players can compete against the AI and other players via the multiplayer mode.

PC

Necromunda: Underhive Wars
Necromunda: Underhive Wars

Strategy 08 September 2020

A turn-based RPG title based on a tabletop wargame Necromunda by the team at Specialist Game – the division of the famous company Games Workshop. The game by Rogue Factor studio tells the story of gangs competing for a control over the Underhive.

PCXONEPS4

Smite Rivals
Smite Rivals

Strategy canceled

An online battle game with MOBA and card game elements. Players find themselves in a fantasy world where deities from different mythologies clash with each other. Each of them has its own deck of cards that allows you to summon not only various units but also special buildings. The title is distributed in a free-to-play model with microtransactions.

PCANDiOS

Command & Conquer: Red Alert - Retaliation
Command & Conquer: Red Alert - Retaliation

Strategy 28 August 1998

Stand-alone addition to Command and Conquer real-time strategy: Red Alert. The production includes content offered by Counterstrike and The Aftermath add-ons for personal computers. In addition, the title offers film interludes never before available.

PS1

Hearts of Iron IV: Death or Dishonor
Hearts of Iron IV: Death or Dishonor

Strategy 14 June 2017

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.

PC

Warcraft II: The Dark Saga
Warcraft II: The Dark Saga

Strategy 31 August 1997

Console version of Warcraft II real-time strategy: Tides of Darkness, including tasks from Beyond the Dark Portal. The production allows the player to lead the forces of people or orcs in a bloody war of domination over the land of Azeroth. User tasks include building a base, collecting raw materials, developing an army and destroying enemy forces. The console edition contains many improvements compared to the version released for personal computers.

PS1

Bloons TD 5
Bloons TD 5

Strategy 15 November 2012

Tower defense production, in which the player's task is to defend the monkey's land against the temptations of the title Bloons. In the course of the game, we set up various units along the paths taken by the opponents - as the game progresses, we obtain the necessary funds to expand the army in our hands and to introduce various improvements.

PCXONESwitchANDiOS

Empires Apart
Empires Apart

Strategy 29 March 2018

A multiplayer real-time strategy. The players are taken to the Middle Ages and build a thriving society, gather resources, provide the army with technology, and fight other nations.

PC

Aven Colony
Aven Colony

Strategy 25 July 2017

A city builder strategy game developed by the independent studio Mothership Entertainment. The player arrives at the planet Aven Prime, assuming the role of the founder of one of one of the first extraterrestrial colonies. His tasks include expansion and settlement of new areas, taking care of the settlement’s technological infrastructure and the morale of its inhabitants, as well as fighting dangerous fauna and results of extreme weather conditions.

PCXONEPS4

Worms (1995)
Worms (1995)

Strategy 29 November 1995

A turn-based strategy-arcade game in which two title teams are facing each other and the aim of each is to defeat the opponent through the elimination of all members of his team. The game takes place on randomly generated two-dimensional maps, and during battles worms use a variety of weapons and accessories.

PCPS5PS4PS1

Abandon Ship
Abandon Ship

Strategy 22 October 2019

A sandbox naval strategy game set in golden age of sailing ships. Players assume the role of a captain who leads his crew for far away expeditions. An open world lets them decide which missions to take and how to develop their career. There is a main storyline to discover, in which the players try to foil the plans of a mysterious cult that wants to bring the apocalypse.

PCSwitchANDiOS

Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation

Strategy 03 November 2016

A standalone expansion for the well-received real-time strategy game entitled Ashes of the Singularity. It was developed by the independent studio Stardock Corporation. The DLC comes with two story campaigns that let us lead the Substrate faction and the PHC forces. Both parties, present in the vanilla game, received new units, a wider variety of buildings, and more items and machines that can be summoned from the orbit.

PC

Nobunaga's Ambition
Nobunaga's Ambition

Strategy 31 December 1983

A turn-based strategy in which players play the role of Shingen Takeda or Nobunaga Ode to attempt to conquer the central regions of Japan during the Senegalese period. The game takes place in a turn-based system, focusing on state management, building an efficient economic system, exposing an invincible army and conquering areas belonging to hostile clans.

PC

The Hacker 2.0
The Hacker 2.0

Strategy 12 January 2017

The Hacker 2.0 is a sequel to the 2012 The Hacker. Both games were developed by Angry Bugs. The game takes place in a not so distant future and has a retro-futuristic feel to it, inspired by the 80’s film and book representation of cyberpunk. We play as a hacker who has to break into well-protected computer systems in order to gather top secret data and sabotage them. The game has two primary aspects of gameplay. Missions themselves are presented in the form of a turn-based tactical game.

iOS

Warbands: Bushido
Warbands: Bushido

Strategy 15 September 2017

A board game taking place in Japan during the feudal period and the debut production of Russian developer Red Unit Studios. Warbands: Bushido is a board game enabling us to assume the role of one of the daimyo ruling provinces of Japan during the Sengoku Period. The quest to gain power and influence will involve battles of large military forces, as well as espionage and convert assassinations.

PCANDiOS

Pikmin 4
Pikmin 4

Strategy 21 July 2023

The fourth installment of the Pikmin series created by the legendary Shigeru Miyamoto. Players control small groups of tiny charming aliens lost on an alien planet.

Switch

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

Marvel Avengers Academy
Marvel Avengers Academy

Strategy 04 February 2016

A mobile economic strategy game, created by TinyCo studio, in which we manage a school for superheroes from the Marvel universe. Our task in Marvel Avengers Academy is to educate a new generation of heroes, so even though we meet well-known characters like Loki, Hulk, Black Widow, Iron Man or Captain America, they all are much younger, less experienced, and burdened with all the typical problem of a teenager.

ANDiOS

Populous: The Beginning - Undiscovered Worlds
Populous: The Beginning - Undiscovered Worlds

Strategy 30 November 1998

Official add-on to Populous: The Beginning, the third installment of the so-called 'god games' series launched in 1989. The plugin doesn't make any changes in gameplay mechanics, offering 12 completely new missions for single- and multiplayer fun.

PC