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If you love strategy games you already know why they are so addictive and if you are not in love with strategy games yet, you are possibly wandering on the wrong side of the internet. There are a lot of strategy games out there, both free-to-play and paid ones and while some of them are focused on graphics and effects, some of them are cartoon-ish yet mind-boggling. We play strategy games because we love challenges that we can solve, defeating an army with your own tactics or playing God and controlling an entire civilization, sounds great right?
Strategy games are focused less on graphics and effects and focused more on brainstorming puzzles and plot twists. This is why strategy games can be so addictive because the urge to play is totally connected to how fast and easily you want to solve the problem and move ahead with the storyline and not because you like the gun. The player is more connected with the storyline, mechanics, mind-boggling puzzles than just the game-play. Here are 5 top strategy games that will leave you puzzled and keep you busy for a long time.
Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos
No game has ever told a fast-paced epic fantasy story like the way Warcraft has. Reign of Chaos and it’s expansion Frozen Throne is considered one of the best strategy game of all time. This game is the gateway of the time when Warcraft fully bloomed and gave birth to a new era of strategy games. Thanks to the custom maps and experiments, during that, Icefrog came up with Defense of the Ancient or Dota which gave birth to a new genre and later Valve created the megahit, e-sport giant DOTA2. Frozen throne expansion custom map aka DOTA is still known as the most complicated MOBA game ever created.
Minimum System Requirement:
CPU SPEED: 1 GHz processor
RAM: 1 GB RAM (64-Bit 2 GB RAM)
OS: Windows® 7 / Windows® 8 / Windows® 10 64-bit (latest service pack)
VIDEO CARD: DirectX video card with 800 x 600 resolution
FREE DISK SPACE: 1.3 GB available hard drive space
Total War: Warhammer 2
If you love fantasy driven storyline with fantasy based gameplay and plots then you will love Warhammer 2. Warhammer is literally a perfect fantasy-based strategy game. Breath-taking campaigns of exploration, expansion, and conquest across a fantasy world. The game also brings you turn-based civilization management and real-time strategy battle with thousands of troops and monsters under your command.
The game has 2 halves. One is a turn-based open-world campaign and the other half is entirely based on intense, tactical, real-time strategic battles on the landscape of the new world. The game even offers a multiplayer mode. Play, as you wish, dive deep into a campaign, experience the change in the game every time you play or challenge the world with your custom unit.
Minimum System Requirement:
OS: Windows 7 64Bit
Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo 3.0Ghz
Memory: 5 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 460 1GB | AMD Radeon HD 5770 1GB | Intel HD4000 @720p
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 60 GB available space
Sid Meier’s Civilization V
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and play God!
Civilization V is probably the best game of the Civilization series. One military unit per tile was probably one of the best changes that were introduced to the game. The Turn-based strategy game is back again. Rule the world by establishing and leading a civilization from the beginning to the space age. Fight wars, be diplomatic, invent new technologies, go head-to-head with world-renowned leaders and build the greatest empire the world has ever seen.
Ultra realistic graphics and lush green landscapes for you to explore, battle over and claim. Compete against players from all over the world or in LAN. The game runs on a large variety of computers and laptops, from high-end to low-end. A new hex-based gameplay grid opens up exciting new combat and build strategies. The City States become a new resource in your diplomatic battleground. An improved diplomacy system allows you to negotiate with fully interactive leaders.
Minimum System Requirement:
OS: Windows® Vista SP2/ Windows® 7
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 64 2.0 GHz
Memory:2GB RAM
Graphics: 256 MB ATI HD2600 XT or better, 256 MB nVidia 7900 GS or better, or Core i3 or better integrated graphics
DirectX®: DirectX® version 9.0c
Hard Drive: 8 GB Free
Sound: DirectX 9.0c-compatible sound card
Total War: Attila
Total war brings you turn-based strategy game with real-time tactics. The multi award-winning PC game series brings you the latest installment – Attila. Attila casts players back to 395 AD, an apocalyptic time at the very dawn of the dark ages.
“Against a darkening background of famine, disease and war, a new power is rising in the great steppes of the East. With a million horsemen at his back, the ultimate warrior king approaches, and his sights are set on Rome…”
The game mechanics and new features were explained on steam,
Apocalyptic destruction mechanics
Wield the ferocious power of fire in battle to burn buildings and defenders, or wipe entire cities and regions from the face of the earth with raze mechanic.
Legendary start position
Playing as the Western Roman Empire you will begin with vast territories under your control, but weakened by political in-fighting and threatened on all sides by enemies, your dominance will quickly become a struggle to survive.
Overhauled game mechanics
The improved core gameplay and UI through the latest optimized and modified Total War game mechanics, including politics, family tree, civic management, and technological progression.
Outstanding visual fidelity
Improvements and optimizations to both campaign and battle visuals create a chilling vision of a looming apocalypse and the ruin of the civilized world. With breath-taking scale, atmosphere and improved graphical performance, witness the end of days and the rise of a legend.
Minimum System Requirement:
OS: Windows Vista*
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 3 GHz
Memory: 3 GB RAM
Graphics: 512 MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT, AMD Radeon HD 2900 XT or Intel HD 4000
DirectX: Version 10
Storage: 35 GB available space
Additional Notes: PC integrated graphics chipsets require 64 bit Windows, e.g. Intel HD series.
