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.
Archon: The Light and the Dark is a 1983 video game developed by Free Fall Associates and published by Electronic Arts. The concept is similar to chess, but with real-time fights between pieces to decide the winner.
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Supremacy (called Overlord in the US) is a real-time strategy game developed by Probe Software and released for the Amiga and Atari ST in 1990. In 1991 it was ported to MS-DOS and Commodore 64.
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Star Control is an action/strategy game developed by Toys for Bob and published by Accolade in 1990 for Amiga and MS-DOS. It is the first installment of the Star Control series tha...
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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, ...
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X-COM Apocalypse is the third entry into the X-COM series, developed by Mythos Games and published by MicroProse for DOS and Windows in 1997. Apocalypse utilizes the same Cityscape...
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms by KOEI is a foundational title in the world of historical strategy games. First released in Japan in 1985 for the PC-88, it was one of the earliest a...
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Warlords II is the successor to the original Warlords, and it was developed and published by Strategic Studies Group in 1993 for DOS. It later made its way onto Mac and then eventually Windows Mobile.
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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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Panzer General is a top-down, turn-based, historical battle game developed and published by Strategic Simulations, Inc and released for DOS in 1994. It was one of the first games (...
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The Computer Edition of Risk is the official conversion of the popular board game Risk, published by Virgin Games. It was released for the Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, and Macintosh, starting from 1988.
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Castles is a video game developed by Quicksilver and published by Interplay in 1991 and 1992 for Amiga, Atari ST, and DOS. Castles is a unique blend of strategy, resource management, and medieval warfare.
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Wing Commander: Armada is a turn-based 3d strategy game set in the universe of Wing Commander. It was created by Origin Systems and released in 1994 for PC MS-DOS. It's the first Wing Commander game to feature a multiplayer mode.
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Earth 2140 is a real-time strategy game released in 1997 for MS-DOS and later Windows. It was developed by Polish studio Reality Pump (then known as TopWare’s in-house team "Trans Fiction").
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