Strategy games have a long history; ancient games of intellect like Chess have paved the way for modern masterpieces like Starcraft.
Retro games, abandonware, freeware and classic games for PC and Mac
Strategy games have a long history; ancient games of intellect like Chess have paved the way for modern masterpieces like Starcraft.
Populous II: Trials of the Olympian Gods is a sandbox “god” game developed by Bullfrog and published by Electronic Arts in 1991 for the Amiga. It has since been ported to sever...
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Populous is regarded by many as the first 'god' game, developed by Bullfrog and published by Electronic Arts in 1989. The game was designed by Peter Molyneux, with Bullfrog creatin...
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Battle Isle is the first game of the popular series of sci-fi turn-based war games developed by Blue Byte Software. This first title was released in 1991 for the Amiga and MS-DOS a...
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Burntime is a strategy-RPG game developed and published by Max Design for MS-DOS and Amiga in 1993 for Europe and 1994 in North America. Max Design was founded in Austria by the brothers Albert and Martin Lasser and Wilfried Reiter.
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Balance of Power: The 1990 Edition is an enhanced version of Balance of Power, a strategy game developed by Chris Crawford originally for Macintosh in 1985. The new version was published five years later by Mindscape.
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Escape From Colditz is an action/strategy game with isometric graphics created by Digital Magic Software for the Amiga in 1990. A port for Commodore 64 was never completed. Based o...
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Civilization II: Test of Time is an enhanced version of Civilization II, created by MPS Labs and released in 1999 for PC. As we know, the first Sid Meier's Civilization, the turn...
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Star Control II is the sci-fi strategy game sequel to the original Star Control. It was developed by Toys for Bob and published by Accolade in 1992. Initially released for MS-DOS, it was ported to 3DO in 1994.
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Pirates! Gold is the remake of Sid Meier's award-winning Pirates! and was developed by MPS Labs and published by MicroProse in 1993. After the initial release for PC and SEGA Genes...
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X-COM: Terror from the Deep is a turn-based strategy game developed and published by MicroProse in 1995 for the PC. It is the sequel to UFO: Enemy Unknown. This follow-up to the ...
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Caesar II is a city building strategy game developed by Impressions Games and published by Sierra On-Line in 1995 for DOS and Windows. It was released for Mac in 1996. Starting in ...
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Centurion: Defender of Rome is a strategy game developed by Bits of Magic and published by Electronic Arts. Initially released for PC in 1990, it was ported to Amiga and SEGA Genesis in 1991.
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Rock Star Ate My Hamster is a fun managerial game written and programmed by Colin Bradshaw‑Jones for Codemasters. It was published in 1988 for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum.
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Age of Empires is a historical real-time strategy game created by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft on October 15, 1997, for Windows. Later it was also published for Mac OS on August 22, 1998.
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