The latest generation of consoles has been solidified themselves as great machines to play games. Players must complete the tasks around a spaceship while an imposter lurks among the crew. The ultimate goal of the imposter is to sabotage the work of other crew members and kill each of them. On the other hand, the other players need to complete all tasks or discover and vote the imposter off the ship.
Well, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is probably more popular than any other game on the list. The unique graphics and addictive gameplay make the game very interesting and exciting. It has multiple modes ranging from team deathmatch to classic 10vs10 mode. Also, the latest version has a battle royale mode that requires strategy implementation to survive and win. If you love playing Counter Strike-type games, you will love Valorant for sure. The game has 11 characters, and each of them has its supernatural abilities.
You need to use player-specific abilities and strategies to kill other players during a match. The game is still new and has a limited user base.
Civilization is one of those mythical sagas since the good one of Sid Meier is the Artificer. It is a saga that invites us to create cities and expand our empire, both on the map and in time. It is one of those games that allow us to be engaged and spend quite good hours playing.
Hence, it is one of the best strategy games available for PC. PC players much love the Dawn of Warhammer and, it is a saga that, during the years in which StarCraft had no games or directly between the expansions, filled that gap. However, lovers of strategy games in real-time will find a great game in the three installments of the saga as there are base construction, resource management, heroes, very different units, and a lot of spectacular action.
Without any doubt, as it is one of the best real-time strategy games, and you do not need to have any knowledge of Warhammer to enjoy it. If you love technology and its complications, you probably follow benchmarks or processor performance tests.
If so, surely you have heard about this game. It was the first game developed for DirectX 12, so it juices out high-end hardware. You will experience the bloodiest period in American history, the war between north and south from The campaign depends on player actions and battle results. Historical battles can be engaged in separately. You are the general and have full control over army composition. This game is not focused on guns, as it takes us back to swords and spears and arrows.
An empire is torn by civil war and behind its borders, other factions rise. Take your armor and sword and participate in battles to defend your kingdom. Establish your rule in Calradia and create a new world from the ashes of the old. It expands the combat system and the world of Calradia. Get diplomatic and carry out decisions that have consequences in the world or just engage in battles.
Continuing in the strategy genre, we have Total War: Napoleon campaigns. This game opens up a narrative layer to the franchise. Experience 3 new episodic campaigns: Egypt, Italy mastery of Europe. Cutting edge multiplayer battles with new Napoleonic units. This new assault squad game brings significant visual and game engine improvements with special attention to player requests.
This game features new single-player style skirmish mode that players from tank combat to sniper missions. Commanders can now face each other on 1v1 to 8v8 maps. There is an extreme game mode designed for massive battles on spectacular maps. Direct control of every unit as if you are playing a third-person shooter.
Camouflage your soldiers based on the season and ambush your enemies. On number 2 we have another strategy game that enables you to take control of any nation from WW2. Your ability to lead your country is your greatest weapon. You can negotiate, wage war or invade other nations. The game presents players with a stream of meaningful tactical choices that can turn the tide of war.
Company of Heroes 2 is sequel to the highest rated strategy game of all time. Choose your commander and see first hand what his abilities can achieve. Get ready for some intense world war combat. Skip to main content. Level up. Earn rewards. Your XP: 0. Updated: 01 Apr am. Always protect your mate even if it means taking a bullet or a rocket in your sternum. BY: Adnan L. It's a liberating sandbox designed to generate a cavalcade of stories as you guide your species and empire through the stars, meddling with their genetic code, enslaving aliens, or consuming the galaxy as a ravenous hive of cunning insects.
Fantasy 4X Endless Legend is proof that you don't need to sacrifice story to make a compelling 4X game. Each of its asymmetrical factions sports all sorts of unique and unusual traits, elevated by story quests featuring some of the best writing in any strategy game. The Broken Lords, for instance, are vampiric ghosts living in suits of armour, wrestling with their dangerous nature; while the necrophage is a relentless force of nature that just wants to consume, ignoring diplomacy in favour of complete conquest.
Including the expansions, there are 13 factions, each blessed or cursed with their own strange quirks. Faction design doesn't get better than this. Civ in space is a convenient shorthand for Alpha Centauri, but a bit reductive. Brian Reynolds' ambitious 4X journey took us to a mind-worm-infested world and ditched nation states and empires in favour of ideological factions who were adamant that they could guide humanity to its next evolution.
The techs, the conflicts, the characters— it was unlike any of its contemporaries and, with only a few exceptions, nobody has really attempted to replicate it. Not even when Firaxis literally made a Civ in space, which wasn't very good. Alpha Centauri is as fascinating and weird now as it was back in '99, when we were first getting our taste of nerve stapling naughty drones and getting into yet another war with Sister Miriam.
More than 20 years later, some of us are still holding out hope for Alpha Centauri 2. Pick an Age of Wonders and you really can't go wrong. If sci-fi isn't your thing, absolutely give Age of Wonders 3 a try, but it's Age of Wonders: Planetfall that's got us all hot and bothered at the moment. Set in a galaxy that's waking up after a long period of decline, you've got to squabble over a lively world with a bunch of other ambitious factions that run the gamut from dinosaur-riding Amazons to psychic bugs.
The methodical empire building is a big improvement over its fantastical predecessors, benefiting from big changes to its structure and pace, but just as engaging are the turn-based tactical battles between highly customisable units. Stick lasers on giant lizards, give everyone jetpacks, and nurture your heroes like they're RPG protagonists—there's so much fiddling to do, and it's all great. Set in an alternate 's Europe, factions duke it out with squishy soldiers, tanks and, the headline attraction, clunky steampunk mechs.
There are plenty of them, from little exosuits to massive, smoke-spewing behemoths, and they're all a lot of fun to play with and, crucially, blow up. Iron Harvest does love its explosions. When the dust settles after a big fight, you'll hardly recognise the area. Thanks to mortars, tank shells and mechs that can walk right through buildings, expect little to remain standing.
The level of destruction is as impressive as it is grim. To cheer yourself up, you can watch a bear fight a mech. Each faction has a heroic unit, each accompanied by their very own pet. All of them have some handy unique abilities, and yes, they can go toe-to-toe with massive war machines.
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 's cosmic battles are spectacular. There's a trio of vaguely 4X-y campaigns following the three of the Warhammer 40K factions: The Imperium, Necron Empire and the nasty Tyranid Hives, but you can ignore them if you want and just dive into some messy skirmishes full of spiky space cathedrals colliding with giant, tentacle-covered leviathans. The real-time tactical combat manages to be thrilling even when you're commanding the most sluggish of armadas.
You need to manage a whole fleet while broadside attacks pound your hulls, enemies start boarding and your own crews turn mutinous. And with all the tabletop factions present, you can experiment with countless fleet configurations and play with all sorts of weird weapons.
Viking-themed RTS Northgard pays dues to Settlers and Age of Empires, but challenged us with its smart expansion systems that force you to plan your growth into new territories carefully. Weather is important, too. You need to prepare for winter carefully, but if you tech up using 'lore' you might have better warm weather gear than your enemies, giving you a strategic advantage.
Skip through the dull story, enjoy the well-designed campaign missions and then start the real fight in the skirmish mode. Mechanically, Homeworld is a phenomenal three-dimensional strategy game, among the first to successfully detach the RTS from a single plane.
If you liked the Battlestar Galactica reboot, or just fancy a good yarn in your RTS, you should play this. Thanks to the Homeworld Remastered Collection , it's aged very well. The remasters maintain Homeworld and its sequel's incredible atmosphere, along with all the other great bits, but with updated art, textures, audio, UI—the lot. Everything is in keeping with the spirit of the original, but it just looks and sounds better. The different factions are so distinct, and have more personality than they did in the original game—hence Soviet squids and Allied dolphins.
They found the right tonal balance between self-awareness and sincerity in the cutscenes, as well—they're played for laughs, but still entertain and engage.
Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak sounded almost sacrilegious at first. Over a decade since the last Homeworld game, it was going to take a game remembered for its spaceships and 3D movement and turn it into a ground-based RTS with tanks? And it was a prequel? Yet in spite of all the ways this could have gone horribly wrong, Deserts of Kharak succeeds on almost every count. It's not only a terrific RTS that sets itself apart from the rest of the genre's recent games, but it's also an excellent Homeworld game that reinvents the series while also recapturing its magic.
Only Total War can compete with the scale of Supreme Commander 's real-time battles. In addition to being the preeminent competitive strategy game of the last decade, StarCraft 2 deserves credit for rethinking how a traditional RTS campaign is structured.
Heart of the Swarm is a good example of this, but the human-centric Wings of Liberty instalment is the place to start: an inventive adventure that mixes up the familiar formula at every stage. In , Blizzard finally decided to wind down development on StarCraft 2 , announcing that no new additions would be coming, aside from things like balance fixes.
The competitive scene is still very much alive, however, and you'll still find few singleplayer campaigns as good as these ones. Most notable today for being the point of origin for the entire MOBA genre, Warcraft III is also an inventive, ambitious strategy game in its own right, which took the genre beyond anonymous little sprites and into the realm of cinematic fantasy.
The pioneering inclusion of RPG elements in the form of heroes and neutral monsters adds a degree of unitspecific depth not present in its sci-fi stablemate, and the sprawling campaign delivers a fantasy story that—if not quite novel—is thorough and exciting in its execution.
Shame about Warcraft 3: Reforged , it's not-so-great remake. Some games would try to step away from the emotional aspect of a war that happened in living memory.
Not Company of Heroes. Age of Empires gave us the chance to encompass centuries of military progress in half-hour battles, but Rise of Nations does it better, and smartly introduces elements from turn-based strategy games like Civ. When borders collide civs race through the ages and try to out-tech each other in a hidden war for influence, all while trying to deliver a knockout military blow with javelins and jets. It was tempting to put the excellent first Dawn of War on the list, but the box-select, right-click to kill formula is well represented.
In combat you micromanage these empowered special forces, timing the flying attack of your Assault Marines and the sniping power of your Scouts with efficient heavy machine gun cover to undo the Ork hordes. The co-operative Last Stand mode is also immense. If you need a 40K fix, we've also ranked every Warhammer 40, game. Like an adaptation of the tabletop game crossed with the XCOM design template, BattleTech is a deep and complex turn-based game with an impressive campaign system.
You control a group of mercenaries, trying to keep the books balanced and upgrading your suite of mechwarriors and battlemechs in the game's strategy layer. In battle, you target specific parts of enemy mechs, taking into account armor, angle, speed and the surrounding environment, then make difficult choices when the fight isn't going your way.
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