Strategy
In strategy games, success depends on proper planning and tactical thinking. Typically, a player somehow acquires a resource (or several) that must be used to create an army, defend, and develop them. The player is tasked with defeating the opponent's army or destroying their base. Strategies can be turn-based or real-time. There is also a subtype of strategies called "wargames," where the economic aspect is absent. The player immediately receives an army and must skillfully manage it.
Years
Platforms
PlayStation 2PlayStationNintendo 64WonderSwan ColorGame Boy ColorOdyssey 2WonderSwanColecoVisionDOSPalm OSNeo Geo Pocket ColorAtari 2600
Statuses
Best Games in the Strategy genre of 2000 (Game released)
Game released: Dreamcast, PlayStation, PlayStation 3, PSP, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 → 22 December 2000
Players:
7.6/10
Steam:
80/100
Metacritic:
67/100
Dino Crisis is an action game with a third-person view. A special forces group lands on the small tropical island of Ibis with the task of finding and delivering...
Role-playing game, Simulation, Action, Strategy, Fighting, Warships / Submarines, First-person view, Third-person view, Historical
Game released: PC → 19 June 2002
Players:
9.4/10
Steam:
75/100
Metacritic:
71/100
Set in the age of sail, this role-playing game follows young captain Nicholas Sharp as he sets out across an Atlantic archipelago to make his name. He gathers a...
Game released: Dreamcast, Game Boy Color, Nintendo 64, PlayStation, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 → 1999
Players:
9.2/10
Steam:
93/100
A turn-based strategy game about teams of worms fighting across a battlefield, with victory going to the side that leaves the last worm standing. Players use more...
Action, Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Sandbox, Tanks, Post-apocalyptic
Game released: PC → 21 October 2005
Metacritic:
86/100
Ground Control — The main goal of the game is to destroy enemy troops and buildings using the terrain features and the strengths of your own army. Combat...
Game released: 3DO, Acorn 32-bit, Amiga CD32, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, CDTV, Commodore 64, CD-i, DOS, FM Towns, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Gear, Genesis, J2ME, Lynx, Mac, NES, PC-98, SAM Coupé, SEGA Master System, Sharp X68000, SNES, TurboGrafx CD, Windows 3.x, ZX Spectrum → 6 August 1994
Lemmings (1994) is a third-person strategy game with a hint of puzzle from the developers at DMA Design Limited. The main publisher of the game is Psygnosis...
Action, Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Adventure, Role-playing game
Game released: Mac, PlayStation 2, PC → 4 January 2002
Players:
8.9/10
Steam:
94/100
Metacritic:
82/100
This science-fiction action game with strategy elements is set on the Island, a vast fragment of a lost planet where three peoples collide. Kabuto, a giant created...
Role-playing game, Strategy, Third-person view, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based
Game released: Dreamcast, WonderSwan → 3 November 1999
Langrisser Millennium is a third-person role-playing game with strategy, anime/manga and fantasy elements from developers Masaya. The main publisher of the game is...
Role-playing game, Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Sandbox, Third-person view
Game released: Mac, PC → декабрь 2001
Players:
9.5/10
Steam:
85/100
Metacritic:
89/100
This fantasy real-time strategy game focuses on combat rather than resource gathering. Mana and souls are the two resources used to summon units; capturing enemy...