If you have between 20-30 years like me, you probably played a bunch of strategy games. The early 90s was the golden age of the genre. Games like AoE, Warcraft, Warhammer, HoMM, Civ, etc would came out every year with big campaigns. Any 90s kid probably spent hundred of hours playing those titles and their scenarios (dota, asymmetrical 4x1s and TDs just to name a few) online.

I was talking to a friend that looking at the strategy tag on steam right now is just sad. A bunch of titles that although great have no resemblance to strategy at all, like the thousand of management/simulation games included. The real strategy games are old/hd remakes or new indie titles that could hit mainstream status.

With that said, in 2016 CIV 6 was the top game by revenue. Paradox got 5 games in the top 100 most sold game on steam. Starcraft and TW: Warhammer sold really well, AoE2HD had thousands of people playing every day and to top it all of, in 2017 for the first time in I don't even know how many year, 2 AAA RTS (DoW3/Halo Wars 2) will be released!

One of my new year's resolution is to play more strategy games and get more people to do the same. Therefore, I'll be doing some strategy games giveaways! I'm not sure for how long nor how many. Don't expect any CIV6 copies, I'm not that rich. xD

To start, here's a copy of one of my favorite games of all time. I spent countless hours playing this game.(I actually prefer the GOG + HD patch version instead of this HD remake on steam, but we're on steamgifts and no GOGgifts yet).

I'd also like to find more people to play those games. If you want to play more of those kind of games, let's get together to do some multiplayer matches! (should I put this thread on the let's play together category?)

Ok, after some encouragement, I've decided to create a group focused on strategy games, so we can play together, share news and create GAs for strategy games. Tell me if you want an invite!

LVL 1 - HoMM 3 HD

TL,DR: Strategy games GAs! 1 GA/month. January GA ending in less than a week. Let's see if we can break a 1000 entries for a strategy game!

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Favorite kind of strategy game?

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Real Time Strategy (Age of Empires, Warcraft...)
4X (GalCiv, Master of Orion...)
Real Time Tatics (Warhammer: Dark Omen, World In Conflict...)
Turn-Base Strategy ( CIV, HoMM...)
Turn-Based Tatics (X-COM, Jagged Alliance...)
Grand Strategy (EU4, CK2...)
Management Strategy ( Knights and Merchants: The Shattered Kingdom, Constructor...)

I love strategy games and i really recommend KKND 2. That was the gem of my childhood.

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Awww man! All those old good strategy games! :) Took really a lot of of time back in the days!

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Thanks! Those old memories.

RPGs and strategies with strong tactics component (explicit or hidden in longer term mechanics) are my favourite.
Also played quite some C&C and similar RTSs, but mostly for a nice settings (sci-fi, post-apoc: Tiberian suns, dunes, KKNDs), as in the strategy sense they all are mostly aggressive expansion (well most RTS are). I don't like too much micro-controlling, turn-based is rather more convenient and combinable with tea and cakes ;3

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I totally forgot about C&C when I was wrinting this thread. Shame on me xD Tiberian sun was my favorite when I was a kid. I've used the brotherhood of nod's symbol as my steam avatar for years before doges.

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Stronghold Crusader <3

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All I want is Warcraft 4, with a map maker just like WC3's and a custom game browser just like WC3, then my life will be complete.

Also Metal Fatigue, Emperor Battle for Dune, and Empires: Dawn of the Modern World need remakes/reboots and the old games need to be on GOG

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(:

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bump!

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I like both RTS and TBS. Don't mind Tactics games like Valkyria or Fire Emblem but I'm not great at them.

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I like xcom very much.

Original sin is a RPG game with strategy battle, good story game but the battle is not that attractive to me.

Shadowrun series I had bought and played one of it, good story and decent playing system, but I feel it's story is very short! Anyway, it has workshop, maybe can make it different, but, I didn't try it....

Well, I have those games, but they are cheap and good game to give away.

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All of them?

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the correct hidden answer!

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I really loved the first two HoMM games (plus Expansions), but I found HoMM 3 to be too difficult. It's a shame, as I owned all of them up to HoMM 6.

I preferred the Age of Wonders series, as it was hard, but not as hard as the AI in HoMM 3 was.

This is sort of a hybrid, but I loved Fallout: Tactics.:)

There is a game called Royal Bounty HD that gives me the classic HoMM vibe. I haven't played it yet, however. I think there is also the King's Bounty series (I bought the complete pack on Steam).

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I remember my first RTS games i ever played, it was AoE2 and Warcraft 2... Ah old times. <3 I wish someday i might see Warcraft 1 - 3 campaings remake in SC2, since i very doubt for Warcraft 4. ;/

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Bumpity bump:D!I liked Age of Mythology back in the days!

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dwnq

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If anyone wants the game files to play Metal Fatigue, hmu on Steam I can send them to your email (since the game is old, not very well known, and no longer distributed, but it's such a gem)

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BUMP !

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i voted Grand Strategy (EU4, CK2...), i mean...look at my play time

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I love Rise of Empires, probably the only strategy that I genuinely enjoyed.

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bump!

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Bump for strategy!! I love AOE series and ceaser 4, spent countless hours playing those when I was little. I only played campaigns and not Multiplayer because internet at that time was not affordable for my parents. I am still mostly into single players and haven't delved into multiplayer games

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Yes, i love strategy games or more precisely, RTS, some years after my birth in the 90s, I got my hands on a Sega genesis\megadrive and Dune:The Battle for Arrakis made me fell in love, building bases, building units, exploring maps, collecting resources, utilising special weapons, rolling with tanks, waging war on enemy bases and see them turn to rubble, accompanied by fantastic music, I loved it enormously and much, much later on Command & Conquer, Red Alert, KKnD, Commandos, State of War, Heroes of Might and Magic, Warcraft 2, Starcraft sealed the deal. I like turn based tactics like XCOM otherwise thats pretty much it to my extent of liking strategy games. I'd play Civilisation 5 with my friend to bond with him though. Can't wait for Age of Empires IV, hope to see Red Alert 4 come sometime soon,wish I had my pc now, I want to play RA3 with the public and AOE3 with my brother if it's possible with the cracked version.

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