Recruiting
Activities theme
Player can recruit, construct or otherwise acquire more people they can control.
131
games
16platforms
Alternate name: Unit construction
WIN 1998
SWTC 2018-07-10
WIN 2008-04
DOS 1997
WIN 1999
PS1 1998-02
WIN 2001-01-18
LIN 2008-09-11
WIN 2000-05-18
WIN 2000-11-16
NDS 2007-10-25
WIN 2010-03-16
Without this, the player is limited to whatever they're given or whoever joins them.
Mainly for strategy games, and even with them mainly for the games without base building as usually base building games have unit "construction".
This is NOT for cases where you gain military units by "recruiting" your civilian population into military. This falls into realm of unit conversion.
Mainly for strategy games, and even with them mainly for the games without base building as usually base building games have unit "construction".
This is NOT for cases where you gain military units by "recruiting" your civilian population into military. This falls into realm of unit conversion.
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Games by year
The first Recruiting video game was released in 1983.
Blizzard Entertainment, Ubisoft, Electronic Arts and Tortuga Team published most of these games.