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Recruiting

Activities theme

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

131
games
16
platforms

Alternate name: Unit construction

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.

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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, Electronic Arts and Tortuga Team published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows63
Linux21
Mac OS X11
MS-DOS7
Mac OS Classic4
Internet Only4
Android3
Pandora3
Nintendo DS3
X3603
PS32
PS2
PS22
Amiga1
Apple II E1
Switch1

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