Strategy Games
Games that oftentimes require a thorough analysis of a particular situation, action, or reaction, the strategy genre ensures that its fans can be completely locked in a state of thinking about the ramifications of their actions, planning ahead and adjusting those plans as their battles unfold.
Turn-based 4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) strategy game series where players build a thriving civilization through ages of advancements.
- Historical Game
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- iPhone
- iPad
- Steam
- Playstation
- Nintendo Switch
- Xbox
+3The Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based tactical strategy game with a high fantasy theme.
- Turn Based Game
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- BSD
- iPad
- PortableApps.com
- Steam
- Flathub
- Flatpak
+3Join "The Project" to restore humanity's synaptic-link technology after nuclear war has devastated Earth, rendering it a Warzone 2100.
- RTS Game
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- PortableApps.com
- Flathub
- Snapcraft
Set a generation before the events of the original Warcraft began, Warcraft II is a real-time strategy game by Blizzard Entertainment. Cunning, sinister, and seemingly unstoppable, the demonic Burning Legion prepare to launch their long-awaited assault on the mortal world.
- RTS Game
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Wine
Freeciv is an open-source, turn-based strategy game based on Civilization II. Inspired by the history of human civilization, the game commences in prehistory and your mission is to lead your tribe from the stone age to the space age...
- Turn Based Game
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- BSD
- PortableApps.com
- Flathub
Can you infect the world? Plague Inc. is a unique mix of high strategy and terrifyingly realistic simulation.
- Simulation Games
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- Windows Phone
- iPad
- Steam
- Playstation
- Nintendo Switch
- Xbox
+2Command & Conquer (C&C) is a real-time strategy (RTS) video game franchise, first developed by Westwood Studios. The first game was one of the earliest of the RTS genre.
- RTS Game
- Paid • Proprietary
- Windows
- Steam
- EA App
- Android
- Android Tablet
- iPhone
- iPad
- Xbox
- Playstation
+8Widelands is a free, open source real-time strategy game with singleplayer campaigns and a multiplayer mode. The game was inspired by Settlers II™ (© Bluebyte) but has significantly more variety and depth to it. Still, it is easy to get started through playable tutorials.
- RTS Game
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Free (as in freedom) open-source RTS Age of Empires engine. Written from scratch in C++, Python, Cython, Qt/QML, OpenGL/GLSL, Vulkan, ...
- RTS Game
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
OpenRCT2 is an open-source game engine recreation of the simulation game RollerCoaster Tycoon created by Chris Sawyer in 2002. OpenRCT2 uses a similar development process to .
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Flathub
Lead your clan to victory! Clash of Clans is an epic combat strategy game. Build your village, train your troops and battle with thousands of other players online!
- Tower Defense Game
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
+3OpenDungeons is an open source, real time strategy game sharing game elements with the Dungeon Keeper series and Evil Genius. Players build an underground dungeon which is inhabited by creatures. Players fight each other for control of the underground by indirectly commanding...
- RTS Game
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux
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