The "Strategy" game genre covers a broad range of different games and many sub-genres,
ranging from war games such as "Axis & Allies" and "Risk", to fantasy games such as
"The Lord Of The Rings", and everything in between.
Strategy games are also sometimes referred to as "role-playing" games, because the
games often require to assume a new persona and slip into another person's skin,
if only for the time it takes to play the game.
Some of the games that fall into the general "strategy games" category include:
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Age of Castles BUY NOW $19.99
In a distant realm of sword and sorcery, a great evil had swept across the land. Demons from the underworld and their evil minions poured across the kingdoms of man, until the great cities lay in ruin, and there were naught but a handful of cowering souls remaining. Choose your king, as you alone must travel to the end of the world, build a mighty castle, slay the undead hordes, and convert the people of the land to loyal subjects of your domain... in the Age of Castles! Windows download.
American Civil War: Gettysburg BUY NOW $19.99Immerse yourself in the action in American Civil War: Gettysburg and experience the grandeur of detailed 3D battlegrounds inspired by such famous conflicts as Little Round Top and Pickett's Charge. Take command of both the Union and Confederate forces as they fight their way into the heart of the northern aggressor or hold fast against the rebel invaders. Out maneuver and out flank other armchair generals in intense multiplayer action and secure your place in the annals of history. Let the battle commence! Windows download.
Brave Dwarves 2 BUY NOW $19.95The second mystical adventure for the two Brave Dwarves! Help them save Fairyland, one more time, as you fight your way through forests, dungeons and secret passages. You can play as either Frederik, the Magician or Throwald, the Warrior each with their own special powers and abilities. Collect gems, coins and other treasures to use to upgrade your weapons and strengths. With 16 unique maps to explore, Braves Dwarves 2 will not disappoint! Windows download.
Civilization II: Test of Time BUY NOW $14.99In Civilization II: Test of Time, you create a powerful civilization that will thrive and dominate. Then, embark on travels to new worlds to continue your conquests. Go where no civilization game has ever ventured. Dare to reshape history, legends, and the future. Lead the world with clever diplomacy and ruthless strength as you build, conquer, and defend your civilizations. Windows download.
Civilization III BUY NOW $29.99Civilization III is a game of epic proportions, where you match wits against some of the greatest leaders of the world in a quest to build the ultimate empire. This highly addictive journey includes exciting new features that enrich your Civilization experience. Now you can explore new pathways, employ strategies, and build and manage your empire with even more powerful tools. Windows download.
Civilization III: Conquests BUY NOW $19.99Civilization fans will be impressed with Civilization III: Conquests. In this edition of the award-winning series, you have more ways to build, more ways to fight, and more ways to rule. Discover intriguing new civilizations, units, wonders, technologies, and abilities to help triumph in nine professionally designed conquests throughout history. Compete as one of the seven new Civilizations, each with its own powerful leader, unique units, and special abilities, so you can lead your nation to its destiny. Windows download.
Civilization III: Gold Edition BUY NOW $29.99In Civilization III Gold Edition, you match wits against the greatest leaders of all time in a quest to build the ultimate empire. Strategy game fans can now enjoy this highly addictive journey of discovery with its much-improved follow-up expansion pack, Civilization III: Play the World. Together, the Gold Edition provides more ways to win, more pathways to explore, and more strategies to employ, as well as exciting online play modes. With Civilization III Gold Edition, you can enjoy unmatched strategic game play alone or against players from around the world. Windows download.
Civilization IV BUY NOW $39.99Civilization IV features gorgeous 3D graphics, loads of in-game movies, brilliant audio and music, and, most importantly, the best and most addictive gameplay of any strategy game ever created. Sid Meier's Civilization IV is a turn-based strategy game that challenges players to build and expand an empire, throughout all of human history, and become the most powerful ruler in the world. Choose one of 18 nations to lead and go head to head with some of the most famous leaders in history. You’ll battle your foes with a huge arsenal of weapons, beginning with primitive archers and warriors, then catapults, knights and frigates, and eventually with modern tanks, submarines, mobile infantry, helicopter gunships, stealth bombers, and nuclear weapons. Windows download.
Coffee Tycoon BUY NOW $19.99Coffee Tycoon gives sim games a jolt of caffeine! It's packed with awesome graphics, tons of features, and lots of fun! Start fresh with one store and customize your coffee empire from the ground up. Choose a name, logo, store design and even what city your first store is in, from New York to Seattle and spots inbetween. Coffee Tycoon is filled with dozens of charming characters, and with dozens of store upgrades and coffee recipes to customize your business, how successful it is... is up to you! Windows download.
Commandos 3: Destination Berlin BUY NOW $19.99A game of real-time tactics that places you in command of an elite unit of Special Forces behind enemy lines. From the shores of France to the heart of the Third Reich, strike fast from land or sea with your small squad of guerrilla fighters, infiltrating hostile territories, and conducting raids to disrupt the German war machine. Commandos 3: Destination Berlin is the third installment in Pyro Studio's legendary tactical strategy series, which has sold more than three million copies worldwide. Windows download.
Cutthroats: Terror on the High Seas BUY NOW $19.99Become the Commander of a pirate ship, with a crew of scurvy knaves, a handful of cannon, and the whole of the Caribbean to plunder. Make your fortune by engaging in terror, violence, robbery and extortion. Become the scourge of the seas as a blood-thirsty pirate or raid the enemy in the name of King and country as a daring privateer - the choice is yours! Choose wisely; all of your actions have consequences in this ever-evolving epic. Windows download.
Earth 2150 Trilogy BUY NOW $19.99Earth 2150: The 21st century was supposed to herald the dawn of a new age. The wars, famines and suffering of the last 20 millennia were to become a distant, fading memory, as scientific advances brought global peace and prosperity. Then unanticipated global conflict broke out with a violence that shook the planet to its core. Devastating wars between the Eurasian Dynasty and the United Civilized States have wreaked havoc and caused mortal wounds to our planet, glaciers melted, the sea rose to a threatening level, and meteorite showers buried whole parts of the world. Windows download.
Empire Earth - Gold Edition BUY NOW $19.99Rewrite history with the ultimate strategy collection! Empire Earth Gold Edition includes the original Empire Earth, named Gamespy's 'PC Game of the Year,' and the official expansion, Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest. Empire Earth Gold is a real-time strategy game that lets you control the destiny of a fledgling civilization through 500,000 years of human history. Choose any point in time and establish a civilization to transcend the ages and dominate the earth. Each player takes control of a fledgling civilization and strives to forge the greatest of all empires. An exciting Real time strategy game in a fascinating 3D environment. Windows download.
Empire Earth II: The Art of Supremacy BUY NOW $19.99The creators of the award-winning, best-selling Empire Earth II bring you history's must-have expansion, Empire Earth II: The Art of Supremacy. With stunning graphical upgrades, new campaigns that span the ages, and more unique units & wonders, the experience is more addictive and rewarding than ever! New Civilizations, Units, & Wonders! Russians, French, plus the Masai, & Zulu of the all-new African region. Three New Campaigns! From the Pharaohs to Napoleon, relive more of mankind's greatest moments. Windows download.
Fate of the Dragon BUY NOW $19.99Based on the historical background of Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Fate of the Dragon takes you back to 184AD, to ancient Chinese history where you can relive the turbulent battles that took place. As one of Three Warlords, you must build your own regime, develop new technologies, and create a mighty army in attempt to control the Three Kingdoms and reunify China. Windows download.
Gangsters 2: The Mobster Sim BUY NOW $19.99The ultimate real time strategy gaming experience for the corrupt and criminally minded strategy enthusiast. You take on the role of Joey Bane, a young hoodlum from the State of New Temperance, who seeks revenge following his father's murder. With your own brand of organised crime, crush rival mobs and assume control of their territory in your ruthless attempt to get to the man who was ultimately responsible for pulling the trigger. Spanning over 20 missions you must build cunning, loyal and tough crews to help you work your way up the 'Family Tree'. Windows download.
Imperial Glory BUY NOW $39.99Forge the destiny of the world amid the turbulent times of the early 19th century. Lead one of the Great Empires in titanic conflicts, or achieve economic dominance backed by shrewd diplomats and resolute military. Choose to rule as absolute despot or constitutional monarch. Unleash Hussars, Lancers, Dragoons, and Imperial Guards across more than 50 battle maps - from the green fields of England, to the icy wastes of Russia, and sweeping deserts of Morocco - all in stunning, full 3D. Fight for naval dominance in breathtaking, real-time sea battles. This is an age of change - be at the leading edge of modernity or your civilization will fall by the wayside. Windows download.
Lemonade Tycoon BUY NOW $14.95Lemonade Tycoon serves up a cool lemony twist on business simulation games. Test your entrepreneurial skills to find out if you have what it takes to build a little stand into a big business. Pick the best location, check the weather forecast, tweak recipes, set prices and manage inventory. Windows download.
Lemonade Tycoon 2 BUY NOW $19.95Lemonade Tycoon 2 juices up business simulation & takes to the streets of New York! It's jam-packed with awesome graphics, tons of customer types, lots of equipment upgrades, & 19 different locations. The challenge of selling lemonade has never been so sweet! Find out if you can dominate the lemonade biz in New York City. Windows download.
Magnant BUY NOW $19.99Build, train, search, and destroy! Deploy an army of Red Ants and fight for your territory and your colony! Magnant is a world where red ants have taken control over the planet by having developed a state of the art technology. In Magnant, armies of Ants are capable of building advanced weapons, buildings, boats, flying machines, and more. They are capable of using scorpions, butterflys, beetles, and other insects for buildings special weapons and abilities. Test your real time strategy command skills through unique campaign levels and deploy some special ants for fighting against other players. Windows download.
Nemesis of the Roman Empire BUY NOW $19.99In the height of its glory Carthage was the greatest power in the ancient world. With trade routes throughout the entire Mediterranean there was no other nation to dispute its strength. Goods, gold, and slaves poured in to the majestic city – the source of its might. Countless mercenary armies were constantly bought to ensure that all who threatened Carthage or its interest would be dealt with. However, another Empire was also on the rise. The city of Rome too had begun to gain strength. The Romans soon decided openly to challenge their Carthaginian rivals. The time of the Punic Wars had begun. Windows download.
Operation Victory BUY NOW $19.99Operation Victory is a historical turn-based strategy game of tactical action that puts gamers in beautifully rendered environments and at the heart of some of the most challenging missions in World War II. The player commands a team of soldiers fighting in varied and spectacular locations, such as the French port of Dieppe, the Mediterranean island of Sicily, out in the Atlantic Ocean, or deep within German-occupied territory. Operation Victory provides an in-depth, compelling and interactive tactical-warfare game experience appealing to both novice and veteran gamers. Windows download.
Praetorians BUY NOW $19.99Your destiny awaits you on the battlefield. As a Roman General on a quest to forge an empire, you will be transported back to the dusty battlefields of Egypt, the frozen lands of the Gauls, and finally to the heart of the Empire itself, Italy. Your quest will be no easy task as the lands you seek to conquer are heavily defended by thousands of powerful troops. Command the forces of 3 civilizations - the disciplined Romans, the ferocious Gauls, and the religiously fanatical Egyptians. Windows download.
Styrateg BUY NOW $19.95Discovery this amazing strategy adventure in the heart of a medieval world! Explore a uniquely balanced mixture of adventure, action and investigation in a great RPG environment. Complete more than 60 quests through 20 unique levels, using the heaps of magical items found along the way. Immerse yourself in the themed musical score and take on the world of Styrateg today! Windows download.
The Road to Baghdad BUY NOW $19.99Command your troops on the Road to Baghdad as they engage in key scenarios based on the recent conflict 'Operation Iraqi Freedom.' Engage the enemy in intense, pulse-pounding combat in the deserts of Iraq. Your soldiers run, shoot, throw grenades, and dive for cover as you execute your strategy in real time. Use smoke to obscure your movement, machine gun fire to suppress the enemy, and much more. Call for artillery fire, helicopter support, and air strikes to ensure the success of your mission. Play single player or face off against each other through the Internet, LAN, modem, or serial connection. Windows download.
Tradewinds 2 BUY NOW $19.99Amass a fortune by buying and selling goods in this fantastic seafaring game of chance, skill and adventure! Earn enough gold to upgrade your ship and engage in land and sea battles. Trade magic weaponry and mysterious artifacts as you encounter a fascinating new world and discover uncharted ports. Two game modes and over sixty hours of gameplay await you in your quest to dominate the high seas! Windows download.
Wik & The Fable of Souls BUY NOW $19.95Download the latest game taking the internet by storm! Wik and the Fable of Souls has over 120 jaw-dropping levels, enchanting atmospheric music, stunning effects and never-before-seen game play. This is a delightful game featuring superbly detailed graphics that will keep you spellbound with amazement. Download and discover the mystery of Wik! Windows download.
World War II: Frontline Command BUY NOW $19.99An action strategy title set within the era of World War II that will appeal to all levels of PC gamers and war enthusiasts. The game opens with the player dropping paratroopers into Europe to disrupt the entrenched Axis forces ahead of the main invasion forces set to land on D-Day. Players must take command of their forces and turn the tide of Axis aggression while conquering fortress Europe, using a vast amount of authentic infantry, vehicles, and weaponry. Windows download.
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