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A strategy game is a board game, video or computer game or other type of game in which the players' decision-making skills have a high significance in determining the outcome. Many games include this element to a greater or lesser degree, making demarcation difficult. more...

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It is therefore more accurate to describe a particular game as having a certain degree of strategic elements, as in being mainly based around strategic principles.

The crucial factor that separates this type of game from all others is that there is no element of chance involved. All players have equal and complete knowledge of all elements of the game. There is no physical skill required other than that necessary to interact with the game pieces.

Its benefit is the open interaction with other people. The game partners have similar starting points and evaluate how other humans may react under same conditions. So game strategies evolve with more or less spirit involved to get advantages and/or protect artfully.

Board games like

Arimaa; Checkers; Chess; Chinese checkers; Go; Nine Men's Morris (Mills);

; Mastermind;

Strategy (and tactics) are usually contrasted with luck, the outcome of luck-based games relying on probability. Games exist on a continuum from pure skill to pure chance, with strategic games usually towards the skill end of the spectrum. The word "strategy" is borrowed from a military jargon. It originally refers to a planning at a very high level and often strategy games deal rather planning in smaller scale for which a word "tactics" is used in military context.

Abstract strategy

In abstract strategy games, the game is only loosely tied to a real-world theme, if at all. The mechanics do not attempt to simulate reality, but rather serve the internal logic of the game. To win, the player must think about the problem, rather than the graphical representation of the situation. Chess, Checkers and Go are excellent examples.

Simulation

This type of game is an attempt to capture the decisions and processes inherent to some real-world situation. Most of the mechanics are chosen to reflect what the real-world consequences would be of each player action and decision. Abstract games cannot be cleanly divided from simulations and so games can be thought of as existing on a continuum of almost pure abstraction (like Abalone) to almost pure simulation (like Strat-o-Matic Baseball).

Wargame

Wargames are simulations of historical or hypothetical military battles, campaigns or entire wars. Players will have to consider situations that are analogous to the situations faced by leaders of historical battles. As such, war games are usually heavy on simulation elements, and while they are all 'strategy games', they can also be 'strategic' or 'tactical' in the military jargon sense.

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Advance Wars, Strategy, Genre
Age of Empires, Strategy, Genre
Age of Wonders, Strategy, Genre
Alpha Centauri, Strategy, Genre
Battle Isle, Strategy, Genre
Blitzkrieg, Strategy, Genre
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Colonization, Strategy, Genre
Command and Conquer, Strategy, Genre
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Dune, Strategy, Genre
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Empire Earth, Strategy, Genre
Etherlords, Strategy, Genre
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Fire Emblem, Strategy, Genre
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Hearts of Iron, Strategy, Genre
Heroes of Might and Magic, Strategy, Genre
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