Battle for wesnoth rng5/20/2023 The Top 10 Strategy Games 10 th – Age of Wonders The RNG often hurt the game but Crush Deluxe was an underrated gem for me. Soldiers at War – Part of SSI’s catalogue as they circled the drain of destruction, Soldiers at War was basically World War 2 Xcom. You’d command a squad of soldiers from a wider pool of soldiers and take part in a campaign of missions taking on German and Italians during WW2. Somewhat dated and rough around the edges, it was still a very good game at the time and somewhat went under the radar. Crying out for a remake!Ĭrush Deluxe – a hugely underrated turn-based sci-fi sports game that was somewhat like Blood Bowl but played out much more quickly and also had interesting races, a deep branching skill tree and three teams playing in each game. The series was killed by going “real-time”. Players could create huge varieties of ships, develop all sorts of technology and wage brutal wars of genocide against their rivals. Space Empires -a venerable series presented by the now-defunct Malfador Machinations, Space Empires, peaking with the excellent Space Empires 4, was a hugely modifiable and deep sci-fi 4X that offered a dizzying array of options. Unity of Command – beautifully complex, with an excellent UI, the Unity of Command series offers an excellent challenge and is a really deep WW2 simulation, though at times I do feel that the games can almost feel more like a puzzle game than a true war-game. A strange hybrid of an IF, a strategy game, and RPG, I ruled it out of the main list as, again, I think it’s more of an RPGīlood Bowl – American football but with orcs and dwarves, Blood Bowl has been brought to the computer many times with varying success and often has all the same nerve-shredding challenges of the board-game. For me, it’s just always more fun to play the game “for real” with miniatures and dice. Suzerain -a deep, detailed, and incredibly well-written RPG / strategy game about politics in a fictional cold-war country. ![]() Old World – another modern classic, this reinterpretation of the classic Civ sees the game take a much more granular and personal tone with individual rulers and dynasties modeled. You play the head of state, rather than the whole state which really adds a unique appeal to the game I ruled it out of the top ten as I think it is primarily an RPG Wildermyth – a modern classic in the making for me with charming graphics, deep storytelling and a simple but really engaging combat system, along with a map and strategic objectives. With cute pixel/anime graphics and a cliched but fun story, Warsong is a great little game Warsong / Langrisser – Released in the early 90’s on the Megadrive, Warsong is a fantasy turn-based strategy game with some RPG elements that truly felt like it was mana from heaven for a turn-based fan on console. Anyone who had half a squad blown up by an alien grenade inches from their Skyranger can attest to this! Dated now but at the time a truly inspiring game and with a brutal difficulty curve. ![]() X-Com: UFO Defence – the classic that redefined a genre, picking up from the classic Laser Squad and bringing a deep, complex and granular campaign element to the game. This was a hard list to create and many games narrowly missed the cut. So, before we get to the list proper, here are a few honourable mentions: Personal – I’ve not included any game that is a classic but I did not like it. I’ve also not included some classic games that I never played so do expect to see some all-time greats that aren’t on the list because I never got around to playing them Honourable Mentions Hybrids – I’ve made some allowances for games that have a hybrid of turn-based and real-time action but the focus of the game needs to be turn-based. Therefore, don’t expect to see any of the Total War series. Even though I’m a big fan, the game, for me, is primarily real-time. Strategy – I’ve defined strategy games as anything that has a deep strategic element of it but the game may well play out in a tactical sense. To be strategic, there’ll need to be a campaign or ongoing element so a game like Chess would never make it onto the list. Series – rather than clutter the list with multiple iterations from the same series, I’ve limited myself to just one entry for each major series. So whilst you will find Civilization in the list, I won’t have separate entries for Civ 1, Civ 2 and Civ 4. ![]() The below list of the top ten strategy games of “all time” is my own list, based on my opinion but there are a few limiting criteria I’ve placed criteria I placed on myself:
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