Strategy Bucket List

Chess-like bug tactics played with no board (2001).

The original deck-building card game (2008).

Play Mancala, a traditional board game with ancient origins in Africa and the Middle East.

Engage in the strategic and immersive world of Warhammer table-top gaming

Complete the classic turn-based strategy game Heroes of Might & Magic III

Build a city of critters and constructions

Collect gems and build your jewelry empire

Complete the epic dungeon crawling campaign

Vehicles and buildings on hand-drawn 2D maps, and crafting a weapon mid-turn from what you picked up.

The 2023 game that summons the heroes of every earlier Fire Emblem as rings you equip.

A galactic map of real-time land and space battles, with the Death Star able to remove a planet from it.

A Polish turn-based tactical horror game in a Silesian town that NATO would rather nobody looked at.

Transport Tycoon Deluxe rebuilt as open source and still patched: bigger maps, better trains, no bankruptcy screen.

Two generations across a continent, with children who inherit their parents’ skills and weapons.

The tournament release of Armageddon - the same rules, the wormpot and online play built in.

One city, two alien factions and a real-time mode; the last X-COM the original team made.

Three named alien hunters who remember your fights, plus three resistance factions to answer them.

Monkeys throwing darts at balloons; the tower defence game that turned into a twenty-year series.

The 1997 sequel: the ninja rope, the Holy Hand Grenade and a level editor to draw your own island.

Ike’s mercenary company in a war between humans and laguz; the GameCube entry the series is still writing about.

Religion and espionage return, and combat is rebuilt around the hex map the base game shipped with.

The Third Tiberium War, the Scrin arriving mid-story, and full-motion video with a real cast again.

Great Generals, vassal states and six warlike scenarios; the first of the two expansions Civ IV is now sold with.

The expansion that ends the Tiberian Sun story, with CABAL turning on both sides.