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: Turn-based went out of style for a while, though never totally died out and with the growth of the indie game, turn-based made a return to the main-stream, which peaked when Firaxis released the new updated version of XCOM in 2012, on PC and Xbox and, eventually a wide array of formats. Turn-based strategy games have been around for a very long time, at least as long as the computer itself with chess, the classic and one of the oldest strategy games around represented on many a computer.Īs computers have gotten more advanced, so strategy games advanced too with more and more complex and detailed games coming out, modelling a wide array of subjects.ĭuring the eighties, there was a renaissance of turn-based strategy with SSI famous for its strong catalogue, featuring conversions of many Avalon Hill board-games, as well as many original creations.
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