Strategy Video Games63
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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Magic Rush: Heroes
Strategy 06 April 2015
Magic Rush: Heroes is a free-to-play mobile tower defense strategy game with RPG elements developed by the creators of Age of Kings: Skyward Battle, Clash of Spartan, and Age of Warring Empire. The game has optional microtransactions. In Magic Rush: Heroes we lead a group of heroes who eliminate enemies that try to get past them, much like in tower defense games. It is up to us to target the opponents and choose whether our heroes should attack, use a special ability, or a healing spell.
DomiNations
Strategy 02 April 2015
A mobile strategy game from the creators of Rise of Nations. DomiNations lets us lead one of several developing nations (including Britons, Romans, Japanese, Greek) on their quest for power and world domination. We start in the Stone Age and – as we progress and invent more advanced technologies – experience all of the most important eras of human history.
War for the Overworld
Strategy 02 April 2015
War for the Overworld is a humorous fantasy RTS and a spiritual successor to the 1997 Dungeon Keeper. It is the first game developed by the indie studio Subterranean Games. In War for the Overworld, we play as a demonic Underlord whose task is to turn his underground kingdom into a true empire of evil. Emperor Stockington and his forces will try to stop us. We will have to gradually expand our dungeons and train the monsters that dwell there.
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.
Battle Academy 2: Battle of Kursk
Strategy 26 March 2015
The first expansion to the well-received turn-based strategy game Battle Academy 2: Eastern Front from Slitherine. The expansion pack recreates the eponymous Battle of Kursk, known as the greatest armored battle in world’s history. In the summer of 1943 the Nazi Germany made a desperate attempt at regaining the upper hand on the Eastern Front, throwing in almost all of their advanced combat vehicles.
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.
Ironcast
Strategy 26 March 2015
A turn-based strategy game set in a steampunk world and inspired by both the mechanics of the Puzzle Quest series and the works of such writers as Herbert Wells or Jules Verne. Ironcast is set in an alternative version of the Victorian England, and the country has been at war with France for a decade. When the French are beginning to gain the upper hand in the conflict, a private association is founded in order to produce cutting-edge combat mechs.
Infinite Crisis
Strategy 26 March 2015
Infinite Crisis is a MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) game set in the DC Multiverse setting, with the comic book publisher's heroes and villains being the playable characters. The game was developed by Turbine Entertainment, creators of many games, including The Lord of The Rings Online. Just like in every MOBA game, gameplay in Infinite Crisis focuses on battles between two teams of players.
Etherium
Strategy 25 March 2015
A real-time strategy set in a science-fiction world developed by independent French studio Tindalos. The game focuses on a war raging in a distant part of the universe between three empires competing for access to the titular, valuable resource – Etherium. In the story campaign we choose one of the factions characterized by different abilities and weaknesses, and are given access to one of three specializations: mastery of the weather, predicting the future, or advanced espionage.
Compass Point: West
Strategy 25 March 2015
A western-themed mobile strategy game with card elements, and the first production by Finnish studio Next Games, founded by veteran developers. Compass Point: West is set in a small town somewhere in the Wild West, and your task is to help the sheriff protect the town and the locals. It is made more difficult by the fact that the area is terrorized by the henchmen of an oil tycoon called Oliver Driller, who wants to make the locals' life harder and to gain access to oil deposits.
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.
Worlds of Magic
Strategy 19 March 2015
A 4X strategy game set in a fantasy universe and produced by the Polish studio Wastelands Interactive. The production was inspired by the cult game Master of Magic from 1994, and the authors designed it as its spiritual successor. The game takes place in a multi-dimensional, procedurally generated universe, where the fierce struggle for dominance requires the use of magic and sword. The gameplay focuses on four classic aspects: exploration, expansion, exploitation, and extermination.
Hero Sky: Epic Guild Wars
Strategy 18 March 2015
A mobile strategy game by Innospark, utilizing a free-to-play model with microtransactions. Hero Sky: Guild Epics is set in a fantasy version of the Middle Ages, blending Greek and Roman myths with other belief systems. The gameplay is quite typical for the genre and your task is to develop your village and ensure its safety in the face of a possible invasion. There are two main aspects of the gameplay.
Code Name: S.T.E.A.M.
Strategy 13 March 2015
Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. is an original mix of action game and a turn-based strategy developed by the Japanese studio Intelligent Systems. The game is set in a steampunk world. Action in Code Name: S.T.E.A.M takes place in the 19th century London invaded by aggressive creatures from outer space. During our adventures we control a four-person unit of soldiers which is a part of the elite S.T.E.A.M formation. Our job is to fend off the invaders. Combat is turn-based.
Sid Meier's Starships
Strategy 12 March 2015
Another entry in the strategy game series created by the legendary developer Sid Meier. In a way it us a continuation to the Civilization franchise, especially Beyond Earth, to which it is connected with its story. What is different is that this time we leave our planet’s surface and focus on managing a fleet of vessels in space. We lead an expedition with a task to save a distant civilization from doom, which requires protecting certain planets and eliminating things that threaten them.
Automation: The Car Company Tycoon Game
Strategy 12 March 2015
Automation: The Car Company Tycoon Game is the debut of Camshaft Software. The game combines elements of strategy and simulation and casts the player in the role of a car-production company's owner. The game begins in 1946 and ends in 2020; the player's main goal here is to transform their company into a car industry giant. The gameplay as such is based on two pillars.
Cities: Skylines
Strategy 10 March 2015
An economic strategy game belonging to the popular genre of city builders. This one was created by the Finnish studio Colossal Order, creators of the Cities In Motion series. The game is a response to the popular SimCity franchise from Maxis Studios. In contrast to the previous titles from the Finns, this one is not limited to public transportation, letting you build up a whole virtual metropolis from scratch.
Vietnam '65
Strategy 05 March 2015
Developed by Johan Nagel in cooperation with Slitherine Strategies, Vietnam ’65 is an unusual turn-based strategy game set in the period of the Vietnam War. The action of the game takes place in 1965 in the Ia Drang Valley, located near the border with Cambodia, where the American government dispatched a powerful military support in order to prevent the unification of this part of the country under a single, communist flag.
Europa Universalis IV: El Dorado
Strategy 26 February 2015
Another DLC for the fourth installment of the popular Europa Universalis grand strategy game series. As the title suggests, the expansion takes us to the age of discoveries, although it presents the events of the period from a quite different perspective.
Heavenstrike Rivals
Strategy 25 February 2015
A turn-based strategy game that uses the free-to-play business model with optional microtransactions. It was developed by Mediatonic, the creators of Surgeon Simulator, under the supervision of Square Enix. Heavenstrike Rivals takes the players to an unusual fantasy land that floats between the clouds. Its safety is protected by a Guardian, who is chosen every six centuries by the divine Seven Sisters.
Homeworld Remastered Collection
Strategy 25 February 2015
Homeworld Remastered Collection is a remastered edition of the space strategy that wast first developed in 1999 by Relic Entertainment. The game was rejuvenated by Gearbox Software, studio known for the game series Borderlands and Brothers in Arms. We follow the history of Kushan, a forgotten race that was attacked by an alien civilization and almost entirely wiped out. However, over six hundred thousand of Kushans survived in the hypersleep chambers of a gigantic Mothership.
Pocket God vs. Desert Ashes
Strategy 24 February 2015
A turn-based strategy game created by the indie developer Nine Tales Digital. The game combines the universes known from two games - Desert Ashes and Pocket God. The gameplay is divided into two segments. The first one allows you to overlook a map of the fantasy world and move your units on it. When you encounter an enemy you are moved to a battlefield where you lead your men to battle in which each of the sides uses their abilities alternately.
Space Hulk: Ascension - Salamanders
Strategy 24 February 2015
The second official DLC for Space Hulk: Ascension - a turn based science-fiction strategy game created by Full Control as an attempt to translate the popular Space Hulk board game, set in the Warhammer 40K universe, into a video game setting. This time around, the players get to control a new Space Marine faction – the Salamanders chapter. The new story campaign includes twenty missions, in which the Salamanders attempt to retrieve the precious Tomes of Fire and punish those who profaned them.
Ageod's To End All Wars: Breaking the Deadlock
Strategy 24 February 2015
The first official expansion to Ageod’s To End All Wars – a strategy war game developed by AGEOD with advanced strategy game players in mind. The add-on introduces five new scenarios that take place in the years 1915-1918. The biggest one, i.e. Grand Campaign 1916-1918, lets you follow the events from the critical year 1916 to the end of the war. Interestingly, you are free to change the course of the conflict according to your vision and strategy.