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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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Chronicle: Runescape Legends
Chronicle: Runescape Legends

Strategy 26 May 2016

A fantasy card game which takes place in the universe of the popular browser MMORPG Runescape developed by Jagex Ltd. The gameplay focuses mostly on multiplayer modes and features unusual mechanics that turn around the rules of classic card games. In the game the player builds his own deck of cards divided into two groups: combat and adventure cards.

Crown and Council
Crown and Council

Strategy 22 April 2016

Set in Medieval realities, a free turn-based strategy by Mojang AB, the creators of the popular Minecraft. In Crown and Council you assume the role of a king who has to fight over the influence with other monarchs controlled by AI. Gameplay is turn-based and during each turn you receive a set amount of gold you can spend on actions like invading others’ lands, building ships, strengthening fortifications, and developing villages and new technologies.

Star Wars: Commander
Star Wars: Commander

Strategy 18 September 2014

Set in Star Wars, this mobile strategy game uses the mechanics of the popular Clash of Clans. During the game we support the Empire or the Rebels, and the game focuses on expanding the base, conducting research on technologies and training soldiers and sending them to the battle.

Total War: Warhammer - Call of the Beastmen
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.

8-bit Hordes
8-bit Hordes

Strategy 12 August 2016

An old-school real-time strategy game set in a fantasy world and created by Petroglyph - an experienced team popular mainly games such as Star Wars: Empire at War, Universe at War: Earth Assault or Grey Goo. 8-bit Hordes is based on the classic RTS mechanics. The game presents a conflict between the Dark Orcs and the Lightbringers. The latter are a coalition of humans, dwarves and elves. The player gathers resources, expands their base, produces units and fights the enemy forces.

Gettysburg: The Tide Turns
Gettysburg: The Tide Turns

Strategy 13 July 2017

A turn-based recreation of the battle of Gettysburg, one of the most important and bloody battles of the American Civil War. Gettysburg: The Tide Turns offers a number of scenarios, building an extensive campaign which allows the players to control the forces of the North, as well as the Confederacy. Our job is to conduct turn-based battles on the hexagonal grid covering the maps. The battles are large in scale, with the player controlling whole divisions of troops.

Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon - Vulkan's Wrath
Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon - Vulkan's Wrath

Strategy 19 March 2015

Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon - Vulkan's Wrath is the first big expansion to Warhammer: 40,000: Armageddon, a real-time strategy developed by The Lordz Games and Slitherine. This add-on expands the plot of the first game and tells the story of the second war for the planet Armageddon. Three chapters of Space Marines join the battle in its crucial moment. The expansion's story focuses on the Salamanders chapter.

W.N.C. Infantry
W.N.C. Infantry

Strategy canceled

A real-time strategy which focuses on multiplayer gameplay. W.N.C. Infantry is set in a post-apocalyptic vision of the future. We command a small group of scientists and soldiers who hid themselves from a nuclear apocalypse. Now, they come out on the surface of our devastated planet and fight for the remaining supplies. W.N.C. Infantry is characterized by its fast-pace gameplay and small scale of battles.

Crowntakers
Crowntakers

Strategy 07 November 2014

Crowntakers is a game created by the French studio Bulwark combining elements of turn-based strategy and erpega. While playing, players move to a fantastic world, which after kidnapping the king plunged into darkness and chaos. Our task is to gather a group of brave mercenaries, defeat our cruel enemies standing in our way and finally free the ruler from the hands of the evil prince.

Company of Heroes 2: The British Forces
Company of Heroes 2: The British Forces

Strategy 03 September 2015

A third stand-alone expansion for Company of Heroes 2. It was developed by the Relic Entertainment studio, creators of the base game and the two previous expansions. As in the case of the Western Front Armies add-on, developers focused mainly on the multiplayer mode and added British Armed Forces to network game. Along with it developers provided the players with 15 new units, 6 commanders with various abilities, and 8 new maps depicting historical places of World War II.

Valhalla Hills
Valhalla Hills

Strategy 19 November 2015

An economic strategy game developed by Funatics and a spiritual successor to the once popular Cultures series. The game focuses on a Viking tribe whose members, after dying on the field of glory, find the gates of Valhalla closed shut. This turns out to be the result of a dispute between Odin and his son Leko, who failed his exam in godhood. As a result, he gets sent back to Earth, along with the souls of fallen Vikings, and the player must help them get back to Valhalla.

Legions of Steel
Legions of Steel

Strategy 16 July 2015

A science-fiction tactical turn-based strategy game and a virtual adaptation of a board game. Legions of Steel is set in the far future, in which the allied forces of The League of Aliens and the United Nations of Earth face rebellious robots. Although the battles go on across almost all of the universe, the most important front is an underground tunnel network, where the enemy's machine-building conveyors are located.

Heroes of Order & Chaos
Heroes of Order & Chaos

Strategy 20 June 2014

Spin-off edition of the popular mobile MMORPG Order & Chaos Online, realized in the form of a typical MOBA game, focusing on PvP and cooperation modes. Players' teams of 3 or 5 players can take part in the game, and the aim of each team is to develop its own base and level the opponent's headquarters with the ground. In the game there is also a variant of solo play.

Nobunaga's Ambition: Sphere of Influence
Nobunaga's Ambition: Sphere of Influence

Strategy 12 December 2013

Fourteenth edition of one of the longest Japanese strategic series, developed by KOEI since 1983. In the game we play the role of the feudal master of the Sengoku era, who fights in the name of the great idea of unification of a war divided country, becoming at the same time the first Japanese Shogun. The game is based on three pillars: creation, diplomacy and war.

Wages of War: The Business of Battle
Wages of War: The Business of Battle

Strategy 31 October 1996

Tactical turn-based strategy in response to the popularity of the Jagged Alliance series. In the game we are at the forefront of the mercenary organization, which for an appropriate fee willing to undertake a number of dangerous missions, commissioned by governments and private corporations. The action is shown in isometric view and takes place in turn-based system with the use of action points of individual team members.

AdVenture Capitalist
AdVenture Capitalist

Strategy 30 March 2015

An uncomplicated arcade and economic game, in which the fun is based on making further investments. For the money we earn we employ managers, improve our existing businesses, etc. All this in order to make a huge fortune.

Star Ruler 2
Star Ruler 2

Strategy 27 March 2015

A continuation of a 4X space strategy game created by the developers of the original title. Star Ruler 2 takes place in a distant future, where humanity developed a technology that allowed long-distance interstellar travel, and made a contact with other sentient species. The game has no story per se – developments in the game are shaped by our decisions and actions made by the AI. Before the game starts we have to select one of the few races that we can turn into an intergalactic power.

Basement
Basement

Strategy 11 November 2019

An economic strategy game by Belarusian studio Halfbus. The title is a full-fledged version of the free-to-play prototype created for the Ludum Dare contest. You play as a scientist, who cannot gather funds for his research the legitimate way and decides to produce drugs. After finding a suitable location, you get to work and cook small amounts of narcotics for local addicts.

Brother against Brother: The Drawing of the Sword
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.

Chain of Command: Eastern Front
Chain of Command: Eastern Front

Strategy 04 May 2005

The second part of the Chain of Command series, which is a classic RTS strategy set in the realities of World War II. According to the title of the game, this time the action takes us to the eastern front, and during the game we accompany the Russian troops on their way from Stalingrad to Berlin itself.

Chroma Squad
Chroma Squad

Strategy 30 April 2015

An oldschool, humorous strategy game from the creators of Knights of Pen & Paper from Behold studio. The game tells the story of a group of stuntmen, who after years-long career have decide to make their own TV series and hire the player as their manager. Gameplay focuses on the economic aspects and tactical, turn-based battles. We must hire actors, give them costumes and roles in each scene.

1953: NATO vs Warsaw Pact
1953: NATO vs Warsaw Pact

Strategy canceled

A classic turn-based strategy game created by Wastelands Interactive, a Polish development studio. It tells of a fictional conflict between NATO and the no-longer-existing Warsaw Pact. 1953: NATO vs Warsaw Pact takes us to the 50s, when Russian warmongering factions decided to take advantage of the state’s destabilization after the death of Joseph Stalin and wage war against the “corrupt West”.

Tropico 5: Waterborne
Tropico 5: Waterborne

Strategy 17 December 2014

The first large expansion pack to the economic strategy game Tropico 5. The expansion introduces the possibility to take advantage of waters which – although present in the series since the beginning – weren’t exploited before. The expansion features a six-level story campaign during which el Presidente is fighting for power on land and on the sea. He can use nine new buildings and units (including floating apartments and military submarines).

Space Hulk: Ascension - Imperial Fists
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.