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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’. more

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Star Trek Timelines
Star Trek Timelines

Strategy 25 July 2017

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.

March of the Living
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.

Kingdom Wars 2: Battles
Kingdom Wars 2: Battles

Strategy 04 March 2016

Set in a fantasy setting, a real-time strategy being another installment in the series started in 2011 with a MMORTS game – Dawn of Fantasy (later re-imagined as a free-to-play game Kingdom Wars). The plot in Kingdom Wars 2: Battles takes us to the land plunged into the chaos of war between humans, elves, and orcs. With the advent of the undead, the fourth powerful race, the divided parties need to join their forces and together face the new, dreadful enemy.

Victory and Glory: Napoleon
Victory and Glory: Napoleon

Strategy 17 March 2016

A turn-based strategy game set during the Napoleonic Wars, developed by Glenn Drover, a renowned board games designer. We assume the role of the famous French emperor, who faces a coalition of over a dozen European countries led by the British, in six varied scenarios that take place between 1800 and 1813. The gameplay mechanics of Victory and Glory: Napoleon combine classic strategy, card, and board game elements.

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.

Warcraft: Armies of Azeroth
Warcraft: Armies of Azeroth

Strategy canceled

A fan-made remake of the cult classic Warcraft III, a game originally developed and released by Blizzard Entertainment in 2002, by WCR_Team. The title is available as a free modification powered by the StarCraft II engine; to run it, the free Starter Edition of the game is sufficient. Warcraft: Armies of Azeroth faithfully recreates the story of the original game, which tells of the war between Humans, Orcs, the Undead, and the Night Elves that takes place in the land of Azeroth.

Life in Bunker
Life in Bunker

Strategy 25 February 2016

A post-apocalyptic economic strategy in which the player is tasked with managing a small society living in a fallout shelter. The world in Life in Bunker is procedurally generated and player has access to four underground floors. Thanks to that, as the game progress, the bunker can be expanded not only horizontally, but vertically as well. The people living inside the facility represent one of six professions and have individual character traits.

Lost Frontier
Lost Frontier

Strategy 19 October 2018

A turn-based strategy game for mobile devices, set in the American Old West. It was developed by the Mika Mobile studio and takes the player to a land combining the Wild West with occultist ideas. Such a combination gave plenty of room to the creators, when it came to writing the scenarios and inventing the virtual weapons. The game focuses mainly on turn-based battles during which, the player can command over twenty different types of units.

Total War: Attila - Age of Charlemagne
Total War: Attila - Age of Charlemagne

Strategy 10 December 2015

The second major expansion for Total War: Attila, the installment that takes us to the medieval Europe during the Charlemagne period. The add-on provides a new, extensive story campaign that offers 52 provinces to conquer, 8 factions to lead, and over 300 previously unavailable units.

Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy
Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy

Strategy 04 June 2015

A science-fiction strategy game and a continuation to Star Hammer Tactics. The Vanguard Prophecy is set in the 22nd century, when humanity ultimately left the dying Earth in search of a new home in space. However, after reaching the planet Novus, it turns out that fighting will be necessary to settle in this new home. The game offers an extensive campaign comprised of 60 story missions. Apart from the campaign, a single player skirmish mode was included.

SpongeBob Diner Dash
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.

30 Years' War
30 Years' War

Strategy 03 September 2015

A turn-based strategy game, developed by The Headquarter – a Spanish studio known for Espana 1936. This time, the authors enable us to take part in the Thirty Years’ War, a 17th century conflict between Protestant countries of the Holy Roman Empire, supported by other European nations (e.g. Sweden, Denmark, France, Scotland, or England) and the coalition led by Catholic Habsburg dynasty.

Pike and Shot
Pike and Shot

Strategy 17 October 2014

A turn-based strategy developed by Byzantine Games and The Lordz Games Studio. The game takes the players to 16th and 17th century Europe, an age when melee weaponry began to be slowly replaced by firearms. We can take part in three conflicts: Italian Wars, Thirty Years’ War, or the English Civil War. In all, we are given 10 historical battles, in which we control forces the size of a battalion and larger.

XO
XO

Strategy 02 December 2019

A space strategy inspired by the TV Show Battlestar Galactica, The Lost Fleet series of novels by John Hemry, and the video game FTL: Faster Than Light. In a distant future, the player assumes the role of a captain of the last remaining ship from a destroyed armada and hunted by a mysterious enemy. XO is played in real time, but the game offers an option of active pause. In battles the ships' movements are limited to two dimensions, but their behavior is simulated by an advanced physics engine.

StarDrive 2: Sector Zero
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.

Europa Universalis IV: The Cossacks
Europa Universalis IV: The Cossacks

Strategy 01 December 2015

The seventh large expansion to Europa Universalis IV, a strategy game released in 2013 by the Paradox studio. As the title suggests, one of the expansion's main novelties is the presence of a new ethnic group – the Cossacks, who played an important role in the base game as well as in the history of several Eastern European nations.

Wargroove 2
Wargroove 2

Strategy 05 October 2023

Wargroove 2 is the second installment in a series of turn-based tactical strategies inspired by Fire Emblem and Advance Wars. Once again, it takes place in a fantasy realm of Anaria, where we can once again follow the story or face other players.

Death Roads: Tournament
Death Roads: Tournament

Strategy 15 November 2023

A combination of a turn-based strategy, card game, roguelike and... a racing game. Death Roads: Tournament takes place in postapocalyptic America, the players participating in a crazy race from the west to the east coast.

Crusader Kings III: Tours & Tournaments
Crusader Kings III: Tours & Tournaments

Strategy 11 May 2023

Crusader Kings III: Tours & Tournaments is the second major expansion to the third installment of the Crusader Kings series. It allows our medieval rulers to head out adventuring or participate in knight tournaments.

Stellaris: First Contact
Stellaris: First Contact

Strategy 14 March 2023

An expansion to the space strategy game Stellaris, developed by Paradox. Stellaris: First Contact focuses on titular first contacts with pre-FTL civilizations, introducing new origins and ethics, an updated observation system and cloaking technology.

NecroCity
NecroCity

Strategy 26 October 2023

NecroCity is an RTS combining features of a city builder and a tower defense game. The player creates undead cities and defends them from enemy forces by creating armies and building automated defensive structures.

Victoria 3: Voice of the People
Victoria 3: Voice of the People

Strategy 22 May 2023

The first major expansion to Victoria 3, a strategy game from 2022. The biggest new feature in Victoria 3: Voice of the People are social agitators swaying our citizens to their cause, which we can work alongside or try to silence.

Total War: Warhammer III - Forge of the Chaos Dwarfs
Total War: Warhammer III - Forge of the Chaos Dwarfs

Strategy 13 April 2023

Forge of the Chaos Dwarfs is a large expansion to Total War: Warhammer III. It introduces the titular playable race, new units and new mechanics.

Total Tank Generals
Total Tank Generals

Strategy 30 March 2023

Total Tank Generals is a strategy game set during World War II. The gameplay consists of turn-based battles on maps composed of hexagonal tiles. Though the player mostly uses armored vehicles, they can also call in air support for many different purposes.