Strategy
Game genre theme
Informal group for finding strategy sub-genres.
61
games
11platforms
See also: strategy elements
Games by year
Digital Equipment Computer Users' Society, Operations Research Office and People's Computer Company published most of these games.
This is a container group; its children are:
Three-dimensional strategy | Strategy where movement and other activities are actually in 3D space instead of 2D unlike how vast majority of strategy games are. | 1995 / 2015 | 18 games |
4X | Strategy sub-genre focusing on managing a whole empire, with full access to the whole game world at all times, management of cities of equivalent, troop movement on strategic level, multiple ways to win, and others. | 1972 / 2022 | 252 games |
Action-Strategy | A genre combination that focuses on economic supremacy and destroying the enemy's ability to fight back while maintaining high amount of fast-paced action. | 1989 / 2019 | 26 games |
Artillery game | Strategy sub-genre. Involves lobbing shots long distances with aim based mainly on angle, but often force applied to the projectile is a factor as well as external elements such as wind. | 1976 / 2016 | 164 games |
Card battle | A combat strategy sub-genre of collectible card games, involves strategic combat using cards as the primary gameplay mechanic. | 1990 / 2019 | 169 games |
God game | Strategy sub-genre where the player controls the game on large scale, often acting as a god of some sort or with no specific character, where player attempts to interact with and influence a number of autonomous individuals. | 1981 / 2018 | 118 games |
Grand strategy | A strategy sub-genre that focuses on [i]grand strategy[/i], using the entire resources of a nation to accomplish your goals. | 1985 / 2022 | 99 games |
Real-Time Strategy | Real-time strategy is a sub-genre of strategy video games in which all elements of the game are in real time and do not progress in turns. | 1981 / 2024 | 176 games |
Strategy-RPG | Hybrid genre unrelated to tactical-RPGs. (too short) | 1980 / 2018 | 21 games |
Tactical | Requires the use of tactics. Although not much different from strategy on brief glance, tactics is more involved with operation of individual units rather than squads/platoons, resource management or construction. | 1981 / 2023 | 800 games |
Tactical RPG | A sub-genre of RPGs focusing on tactical or stategic combat while having practically no personal achievements, adventuring, or such as you would in more traditional RPGs. | 1988 / 2023 | 480 games |
Tower Defense | Strategy sub-genre where player is limited to building defensive towers and has no movable defenses (or moving them is hard/detrimental) to protect something, and never goes on the offense. | 1990 / 2021 | 391 games |
Tug o' War strategy | A nameless genre that resembles a very simple single-plane strategy where one factions harvests/generates resources in one end and sends endless stream of uncontrollable troops towards the other end and hope they beat the opposition generated there. | 2009 / 2013 | 11 games |
Wargame | A sub-genre of strategy games involving warfare on tactical or strategic level. Categorized somewhat differently from their tabletop cousins, but generally refers to any strategic game focusing on waging war. | 1973 / 2020 | 839 games |