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Recruiting

Activities theme

Player can recruit, construct or otherwise acquire more people they can control.

132
games
17
platforms

Alternate name: Unit construction

StarCraft: Brood War (Windows)
StarCraft: Brood War
WIN 1998-12-18
Warhammer: Battle March (Xbox 360)
Warhammer: Battle March
X360 2008-09
Heirs to Skull Crag (Macintosh OS Classic)
Heirs to Skull Crag
MAC 1993-05
Braveland (Mac OS X)
Braveland
OSX 2014-03-17
WorldShift (Windows)
WorldShift
WIN 2008-06-21
AirMech Strike (Windows)
AirMech Strike
WIN 2018-03-31
Sheltered (Windows)
Sheltered
WIN 2016-03-15
Warhammer: Mark of Chaos – Battle March (Windows)
Warhammer: Mark of Chaos – Battle March
WIN 2008-05-16
Homeworld (Windows)
Homeworld
WIN 1999-09-01
X-COM: Apocalypse (MS-DOS)
X-COM: Apocalypse
DOS 1997-07-15
Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat (Windows)
Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat
WIN 1995-11-11
Sacraboar (Windows)
Sacraboar
WIN 2009-11-06
See also: hirelings (in case player can "recruit" people they meet)

Contrast:
* No recruiting
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.

Popular tags

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Parent group

Strategy elements

Games by year

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The first Recruiting video game was released in 1983.

Blizzard Entertainment, Ubisoft and Electronic Arts published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows 64
Linux 21
Mac OS X 11
MS-DOS 6
Mac OS Classic 4
Internet Only 4
Nintendo DS 3
X360 3
Android 3
Pandora 3
PS2 2
PS3 2
PS 2
Amiga 1
3DO 1
Apple II E 1
Switch 1

Most common companies

Blizzard Entertainment9
Ubisoft8
Electronic Arts6
Tortuga Team5
Ronimo Games4
Interplay4
Winged Pixel3
Data Realms3
Carbon Games3
Sierra3
Full Control3
SSI3
Team17 Digital3
Sierra On-Line2
Isotx2