Strategy games have a long history; ancient games of intellect like Chess have paved the way for modern masterpieces like Starcraft.
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Strategy games have a long history; ancient games of intellect like Chess have paved the way for modern masterpieces like Starcraft.
Master of Orion II: Battle At Antares, the sequel to Master of Orion, is a turn-based 4x space empire game designed by Steve Barcia and Ken Burd. The popular strategy game was developed by Simtex.
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Defender of the Crown II is the sequel to the original Defender of the Crown. It was developed by Sachs Enterprises and published by Commodore Electronics in 1993 for the Amiga CD32.
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Syndicate, released by Bullfrog Productions in 1993, is a landmark in real-time tactical games. The game blends strategic squad management with a gritty cyberpunk setting that remains iconic to this day.
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Defender of the Crown is a strategy game created by Cinemaware and released in November 1986 for the Amiga. Designed by Kellyn Beck, this title is one of the first and most influential Amiga games ever.
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Master of Orion is a 4X science fiction turn-based strategy game developed by SimTex and published by MicroProse in 1993 for Dos and Mac. This title pretty much invented 4X (explore, expand, exploit, exterminate) as a genre.
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Sid Meier’s Alien Crossfire, released in 1999 as an expansion to Alpha Centauri, is a turn-based strategy game developed by Firaxis Games. While it carries Sid Meier's name, the ...
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Horde: The Northern Wind (in Russian, Orda: Severnyi Veter) is a fantasy real-time strategy game developed by 7th BitLabs. It was published by Buka in 1999 for Windows..
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Lords of the Realm II is a strategy meets resource management computer game developed by Impressions Games and published by Sierra On-Line in 1996. It is the second game in the series started with Lords of the Realm.
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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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Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun is a real-time strategy game developed by Westwood Studios. Electronic Arts released it for Windows in 1999. The expansion Firestorm was released the following year and was declared freeware in 2010.
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Sid Meier's Civilization is one of the most popular strategy games of all time. It was created by Bruce Shelley and Sid Meier alongside MicroProse. The game was released in September 1991 for MS-DOS, Amiga, and Atari ST.
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Railroad Tycoon II is a railroad simulation and strategy game developed by PopTop Software and released for Windows in 1998. As you can imagine, the game is a management game focused on building and operating a railroad empire.
Year: 1998 Genre: Simulation
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Lords of the Realm is a turn-based strategy game developed and published by Impressions Games in 1994. Initially released for the Amiga and MS-DOS, it was ported to Windows three years later.
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