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.
Chris Crawford’s Eastern Front (1941) is a wargame released in 1981 for the Atari 8-bit family. It is widely recognized as one of the earliest examples of a truly sophisticated computer wargame for home systems.
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Castles II: Siege and Conquest is a strategy game designed and developed by Quicksilver Software for the Macintosh, Amiga, and DOS. The game was released for MS-DOS and later porte...
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Hill Street Blues is the official videogame of the critically acclaimed TV series with the same name, which aired on NBC from 1981 to 1987. The game was created by Krisalis and rel...
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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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Millennia: Altered Destinies is a space strategy game designed by Ian Bird and published by Take-Two in 1995. Bird is the creator of Deuteros: The Next Millennium and Millennium: Return to Earth.
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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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Rise and Fall: Civilizations at War is a historic real-time strategy game developed by Stainless Steel Studios and Midway Games and published in 2006. In 2008 a free version of the game was released supported by the US Air Force.
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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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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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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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Battle Chess II: Chinese Chess is a strategy game that was developed by Interplay and published by Electronic Arts in 1990 for the Amiga and MS-DOS. The beginning of chess can be t...
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