Strategy Video Games87
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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Firefight
Strategy 08 June 2014
A tactical real-time strategy set in the realities of World War II, modelled on the cult PC series Close Combat. Despite the relatively simple setting, the production puts great emphasis on realism and is characterized by an advanced physical engine and artificial intelligence of the units.
D&D Lords of Waterdeep
Strategy 21 November 2013
Electronic adaptation of the popular board game Wizards of the Coast. The game is designed for up to 5 players, who play the role of title lords, competing for influence and power in Waterdeep - a city known for its Forgotten Realms universe.
LEGO Creator Islands
Strategy 18 October 2013
LEGO Creator Islands is a strategy for younger audiences. The task of the players is to build an islet archipelago, and the game focuses on bringing joy from constructing new buildings, and not on putting before the user any difficult tasks to complete.
Deception IV: The Nightmare Princess
Strategy 26 March 2015
A Japanese strategy/action game in which the player joins the forces of evil. They are tasked with constructing complicated traps to eliminate the good heroes who are trying to kill the daughter of the Devil. Deception IV: The Nightmare Princess is an improved version of Deception IV: Blood Ties. It was enriched with an additional campaign, playable female characters, a level editor and small technical improvements.
Sigma Theory: Global Cold War
Strategy 21 November 2019
A turn-based psychological thriller game with political, espionage, and science-fiction elements.
Twilight Struggle
Strategy 13 April 2016
A digital adaptation of the strategy board game created by American company GMT Games. Twilight Struggle takes place during the Cold War and the player assumes the role of a leader of one of the two empires – USA or USSR. The game is played in turns on a global map. The rivaling sides are playing with cards that trigger events beneficial for one, either, or neither side of the conflict.
March of the Living
Strategy 20 April 2016
A two-dimensional retro game that combines elements of real-time strategy, roguelike action game and survival. The title was developed by an independent developer known as Machine 22 and the team at Creaky Corpse (authors of the browser MMO game Dead Frontier). March of the Living employs the popular zombie apocalypse theme.
Crush Your Enemies
Strategy 13 July 2016
A humorous real-time strategy by Vile Monarch, established by the co-creators of Sleepwalker’s Journey and This War of Mine. Crush Your Enemies invites you to a magical world of Generia, inhabited by brave knights, noble elves, and likeable dwarves. You are the leader of evil barbarians, who have decided to invade Generia and brutally reduce the number of its inhabitants.
Iron Marines
Strategy 14 September 2017
Set in sci-fi realities, a casual RTS game by Ironhide Game Studio from Uruguay, primarily known for the popular tower defense series, Kingdom Rush. In Iron Marines you assume the role of a commander leading his space soldiers into dangerous battles against insectoid Aliens. The game features a wide arsenal of weapons and powerful battle mechs that you gather during gameplay.
SpongeBob Diner Dash
Strategy 04 January 2007
A fun strategy and arcade game based on the cartoon SpongeBob Kanciastoporty. During the game we play the title character, who has to serve guests arriving to eat something in Mr. Krab's restaurant.
Star Trek Timelines
Strategy 14 January 2016
Created by Disruptor Beam studio, a science fiction strategy RPG set in the popular Star Trek universe. The plot revolves around strange anomalies that cause alternative realities and timelines to mix, thus allowing you to meet characters from all Start Trek films and TV series. You assume the role of a ship captain traveling through the galaxy to explore new planets and undertake important missions.
Democracy 3: Africa
Strategy 12 April 2016
A standalone expansion to the third installment in the Democracy series, which debuted in 2013 through the efforts of Positech Games, the studio that developed previous entries in the franchise. Unlike the main games, Democracy 3: Africa takes us to Africa, where we take the role of a leader of one of ten countries, facing completely new challenges due to different nature of living in that region.
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.
Battleplans
Strategy 25 May 2016
Mobile real time strategy game from C4M Productions. Its story takes us to unique fantasy land, surely filled with magic and sentient races, but in terms of development it is far behind even medieval times, with numerous societies in form of primitive tribes’ settlements. We play as chief of one such settlement, trying to gain new terrains for our people while also fending off attacks of barbarian nation called Skulls.
Ancient Battle: Alexander
Strategy 11 April 2014
Historical turn-based strategy dealing with the subject of Alexander Macedonian conquests. The Hunted Cow studio title is distinguished by its significant expansion and attention to detail, which will appeal to all history fans.
Battle Islands
Strategy 12 December 2013
A social free-to-play strategy set in the realities of World War II. The action of the game takes place in 1942 on one of the tropical islands of the South Pacific, where a platoon of soldiers, commanded by the player, hits during a war turmoil. The game consists in constant expansion of the base and recruitment of more units, and then attacking other players' islands in order to take over the resources they have accumulated.
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.
Hegemony III: Clash of the Ancients
Strategy 25 August 2015
The third installment in the strategy game series set in antiquity, started in 2010 by Longbow Digital Arts. The action takes place in the distant past and to the rise of Rome, when armies of the Greeks, Gauls, Romans, and Etruscans fought fierce battles for control of the Apennine Peninsula. While playing, we can either experience the entire path of Rome to hegemony in the ancient world as it happened or try to change history by leading one of the remaining nations.
Dual Gear
Strategy 29 July 2020
Dual Gear is a futuristic tactical game by the Thai Orbital Speed studio, which focuses on clashes led by moss troops - piloted combat robots. The player's task is to manage a team of pilots and moss equipment and command them in numerous missions.
Total War: Warhammer - Call of the Beastmen
Strategy 28 July 2016
The first large DLC expansion to Total War: Warhammer, another installment of the renowned series of strategy games developed by Creative Assembly. The expansion titled Call of the Beastmen allows the players to take control of a completely new playable faction of Beastmen in a new story campaign dedicated to them. The titular race of humanoid beasts was created due to mutation of humans under the influence of Chaos. The Beastmen have a very aggressive way of fighting.
Particle Fleet: Emergence
Strategy 30 September 2016
An unusual real-time strategy game developed by independent studio Uncle Cracker. The action in the game is presented from a top-down perspective. What makes Particle Fleet: Emergence different from other titles is the fact that the enemies have a form of a mass created from hundreds of particles flooding the screen. Their actions are controlled by an advanced physics engine which ensures that the particles correctly envelope the encountered objects.
Zombie Anarchy
Strategy 26 October 2016
A real time strategy game from Gameloft studio, set in post-apocalyptic world where humanity has been decimated by a plague that turns infected into blood-thirsty zombies. We take control of group of survivors trying to not only survive for a few more days, but also to discover the truth behind the mysterious illness. Zombie Anarchy is based on two pillars. The first one is managing our base, which acts as both shelter and storage for necessary resources.
Total War: Warhammer - Realm of The Wood Elves
Strategy 08 December 2016
A large add-on for Total War: Warhammer, introducing a new playable race: Wood Elves. In order to introduce the new faction, a playable mini-campaign was added, in which the new race fights against Bretonnians, and repels the invasion of army of beastmen led by Morghur. The new race is led by two legendary leaders: an immortal half-god Orion, and one of the eldest of the treefolk, Durthu.
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.