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.
Ascendancy is a sci fi turn-based strategy game developed and published by The Logic Factory in 1995 and released for DOS. It is referred to as a “4x” game, meaning explore, ex...
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War Planets: Age of Chaos is a sci-fi real-time strategy game set in the War Planets universe created by the toy company Trendmasters. The game, created by Trendmasters itself, was...
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The Settlers III is the third chapter of the famous real-time/city-building strategy game by Blue Byte. It was released in 1998 for Windows. This third chapter stands as one of th...
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Space Crusade is a computer adaptation of the 1990 Games Workshop boardgame set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. The video game was created by Gremlin Graphics and released in 199...
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1869 (also known as 1869: History Experience Part I) is a business/managerial simulation set during the golden age of clipper ships. It was created by the Austrian company Max Design and released in 1992 for Amiga and MS-DOS.
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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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Ports of Call is a business/strategy game created by Rolf-Dieter Klein and Martin Ulrich in 1987 for the Amiga. The game was ported a few years later to MS-DOS. This title is an absolute classic.
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Mech Brigade is a wargame published by Strategic Simulations Inc. (SSI) in 1985, initially for the Apple II and Commodore 64. The game is a landmark in tactical war simulation and ...
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Battle Chess is a chess game created by Interplay initially for the Amiga and published in 1988. It was so successful that it had been ported to most platforms available, including...
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Master of Magic is a fantasy turn-based strategy game created by Simtex and published by MicroProse in 1994 for MS-DOS. In this turn-based 4X strategy game, which some defined the ...
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Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, also known as Warcraft I, is the first game in the popular Warcraft series created by Blizzard Entertainment. It's a fantasy real-time strategy game (RTS) ...
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Laser Squad is a turn-based tactics video game developed by Julian Gollop with Target Games and initially released in 1988 for the ZX Spectrum. Later it was ported to the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, MSX, Amiga, and Atari ST.
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Tanktics is a strategy game created by DMA Design and published by Interplay in 1999 for Windows. In this game, you have to build tanks, pick up the different pieces with your magn...
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UFO: Alien Invasion is an entirely free and open-source game inspired by the X-COM video game series. The year is 2084, and you control a secret organization tasked with defending Earth from an alien invasion.
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