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.
Fantasy General is a turn-based strategy game published by Strategic Simulations in 1996. It is set in a fantasy world with some steampunk/high-tech elements represented with a hex map.
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Special Forces is a tactical action game with stealth elements created by MicroProse and released in 1992 for the Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS. It's the sequel of Airborne Ranger, an 8-bit game released five years earlier.
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Shadowfire, released in 1985 for the Commodore 64 and other 8-bit platforms, is a unique blend of tactical strategy and sci-fi adventure. It stood out sharply from the crowd in its era.
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The Ur-Quan Masters is a free project started in August 2002, when Toys For Bob released the partially ported sources of Star Control II for 3DO. This has been used to re-create ...
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Detroit is a turn-based managerial strategy game developed by Impressions Games and released for PC and Amiga, including an AGA version, in 1994. The title was designed by David Lester, the author of Caesar and Lords of the Realm.
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Pizza Connection is a fun business simulation created by the German company Cybernetic Corporation. It was published by Software 2000 for Amiga and MS-DOS in 1994. The Amiga version was released only in German.
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Lords of Conquest is a turn-based strategy game developed by Eon Software and published by Electronic Arts in 1986 for the Commodore 64. The same year, the Atari 8-bit and Apple II...
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Moonbase: Lunar Colony Simulator is a strategy/simulation game created by Wesson International in 1990 for MS-DOS. It was later ported to Amiga and Macintosh. As you can imagine fr...
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Herzog Zwei is a real-time strategy game developed by Technosoft and released in 1989 for the SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis. This groundbreaking title stands as one of the most influenti...
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Utopia: The New Worlds is a data-disk expansion to the sci-fi city building sim created by Gremlin Graphics. The data disk adds 10 new worlds to Utopia: The Creation of a Nation, each one with a new alien race.
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Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising is a turn-based strategy game published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance in 2003. The game developed by Intelligent Systems is the direct seq...
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Conquest, developed by Sean O'Connor and released for Windows in 2004, is a streamlined turn-based strategy game ispired to Risk. Even if it draws direct inspiration from the cla...
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Iron Lord is a strategy-action-adventure game created by Ubi Soft, initially for the Atari ST. Later it was ported to Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, Amiga, Acorn 32-bit, and other platforms.
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