Are You Looking for Some Windows Apps for Strategy Games?

The Strategy Games emphasize skillful planning and thinking to complete objectives and achieve victory. Turn-based or real-time, grand strategy or tactical… the strategy games are as diverse as they come. To view real-time strategy selections, please keep reading to learn the 10 best windows apps for strategy games.

RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 demo

If you can build it, you can ride it in RollerCoaster Tycoon 3, a game that lets you create your own amusement park. The third installment in the RollerCoaster tycoon series features a new Coaster Cam that lets you ride the rides you design. Your rides can attract diverse characters with changing facial expressions and hundreds of animations including running, jumping, dancing, and throwing up. Customize your guests, walk around your park, and become a true roller coaster tycoon.

KChess Elite

KChess Elite lets you take complete control of your chess game. Beginners and experts alike will find plenty in this program to increase their skills and add to their enjoyment of chess. Loads of hints and help include a last-move marker, a display of the opening name from the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings, narration about the position of both players, information for beginners, a glossary of chess terms and tactics, and a tip of the day. Change the playing strength, set up the board to any layout, play a specific opening by name, choose different styles of time limits, add comments to specific moves, replicate the board to set up variations with one mouse click, and use the new Analyze mode to do a comprehensive search of a position.

Though not the king of the chess world, this program does have a handful of decent features that should entertain the average chess buff. During testing, the design of KChess Elite was a topic of much conversation and some confusion. The program interface is based on a series of very drab, gray windows which clash markedly with other, more flamboyant icons and buttons. The collection of gameboards included is varied, but many of the pieces in each design are very small and hard to distinguish. Audio options are a mixed bag. To start, KChess Elite narrates each move audibly. Although this could have been a interesting feature, especially for beginning players, the audio files hiss, and after a while we had to turn the audio off. Some positive aspects will benefit newbie chess fans. We liked that during a game, a player can opt to highlight or identify pieces that might be in jeopardy. You can play against the computer or an opponent, but not over a LAN connection or online. Also, we would have liked to see a more robust help file, perhaps with a few lesson games or tips and tricks for players to improve their skills. Overall, most experienced chess players should enjoy KChess Elite, but design flaws and limited features keep this game from the top of the list.

Pharaoh

Impressions Games, the creators of Caesar III, plunge you further back in time to the mysterious land of ancient Egypt. Pharaoh is a strategic city-building game set in Egypt of roughly 2900 to 700 B.C. Grow Egyptian villages into thriving metropolises and watch the economy and inhabitants of this exotic land come to life. Interact with your citizens. Observe their culture and habits. Raise their hopes or raze their homes. Manage your city poorly and watch it burn, be pillaged, or collapse in economic ruin. Manage it well, and ultimately the greatest Egyptian structures will be built in your honor. Your rule will span generations, until your dynasty, your royal bloodline produces a pharaoh!

Pharaoh includes many features not seen before in a city building series game, including a farming model based on the flooding of the Nile, naval warfare, giant monuments that are assembled over time, a unique dynastic progression, and variable difficulty levels. Pharaoh uses 16-bit color graphics, large maps for seamless gameplay, and a proven interface.

Strategy gamers who get a kick out of King Tut will find much to love in this ancient Egyptian adventure, which takes plenty of cues from competing titles. You are the governor of a city in the land of the pharaohs, set with the task of feeding your people and striking deals with other towns to bring in the goods your town requires. Fans of Caesar III will find Pharaoh's look and feel familiar, and veterans of SimCity too will be pleased to see the range of actions available far exceeds that modern-day adventure. Action is goal-oriented, rather than combat-oriented--you don't build your city with abandon, but follow directions to complete a certain task. Considering Pharoah was designed in 1999, its graphics are still up to snuff--most views are from a birds-eye vantage point, so you can survey your domain. Overall, this is a standard but solid civilization-building game that should please fans of ancient history.

Chess Rally

With ChessRally, you can play chess, chat, make new friends, and get expert instruction from live tutors in online Rally rooms. You also can play chess against a friend over a direct network connection (via the Internet or a local network), play a game of correspondence chess via e-mail, or play several challenging computer opponents.

For beginners and masters alike, the application offers robust graphics and sounds, fun avatars, a customizable interface with free downloadable themes (skins, chess sets, and sounds), smooth animation, a complete user's guide, and free support. ChessRally also contains full support for rated games, timed games, internationally accepted rules, computer-move suggestions, an experimenting mode, and an interactive move-history window.

This program offers just about everything a chess fan needs. If you're already a seasoned player, you won't have any trouble starting a game in just moments, but if you need some help with your moves, the game offers modest tutorial options, such as an indication of risk factors and move suggestions. The game offers a number of customization options, allowing you to choose piece style, board color, and sound effects, and which buttons to display. Our major complaint is that even when you maximize the main window, the board doesn't get any larger. This program gives you a variety of gameplay options, letting you take on a number of computer opponents or humans in person, via e-mail or in online forums. ChessRally definitely doles out a challenge to players of all skill levels. Even on its easiest difficulty setting, we had a hard time vanquishing our computerized opponent. Though it might not be an ideal way for first-timers to learn chess, all other fans of the game will find plenty to like here.

Pocket Tanks

If you like games such as Warheads SE and Worms Armageddon, you will have a blast with this game. Pocket Tanks is designed to be the fastest game of artillery you'll ever play, with all the excitement of lobbing projectiles over a mound of dirt without the complicated details found in most artillery games. Select your angle and power, then fire a very unique arsenal of weapons at your opponent. Games are won based on points for good aiming. It is fun for the whole family. Version 1.3 includes LAN Game support, for playing a game on two separate computers through a local area network.

Taking a page from the popular Worms series, this well-designed game puts a rocket in your pocket so you can take out other enemy tanks. While the game is enjoyable, however, it doesn't hold up in terms of design against other similar games. The game menu is too clever, for one. Each time you select a menu option, your choice "animates" and flies across the program window. This process takes so long, however, that during testing we got bored. Overall the program window is well designed, with large, easy-to-read buttons. Unlike Worms, there is no voice-over during the action, which we missed. That said, the background music is very entertaining. To play, select a weapon in turn with your opponent, choose the angle of your shot and how powerful you want the shot to be, and the fire away. The simplistic graphics don't necessarily take away from the enjoyment, yet there's no option to play online or over a LAN, just against another player on the same machine in a "hot-seat" situation. If you like Worms, this game may appeal, but it's not at the top of the list.

Sid Meier's Civilization VI

Civilization VI offers new ways to engage with your world: cities now physically expand across the map, active research in technology and culture unlocks new potential, and competing leaders will pursue their own agendas based on their historical traits as you race for one of five ways to achieve victory in the game.

Key features: Expansive empires: see the marvels of your empire spread across the map like never before. Each city spans multiple tiles so you can custom build your cities to take full advantage of the local terrain. Active research: unlock boosts that speed your civilization's progress through history. To advance more quickly, use your units to actively explore, develop your environment, and discover new cultures. Dynamic diplomacy: interactions with other civilizations change over the course of the game, from primitive first interactions where conflict is a fact of life, to late game alliances and negotiations. Combined arms: expanding on the one unit per tile design, support units can now be embedded with other units, like anti-tank support with infantry, or a warrior with settlers. Similar units can also be combined to form powerful corps units. Enhanced multiplayer: in addition to traditional multiplayer modes, cooperate and compete with your friends in a wide variety of situations all designed to be easily completed in a single session. A civ for all players: civilization vi provides veteran players new ways to build and tune their civilization for the greatest chance of success. New tutorial systems introduce new players to the underlying concepts so they can easily get started.

Stellaris

Explore a vast galaxy full of wonder! Paradox Development Studio, makers of the Crusader Kings and Europa Universalis series presents Stellaris, an evolution of the grand strategy genre with space exploration at its core. Featuring deep strategic gameplay, a rich and enormously diverse selection of alien races and emergent storytelling, Stellaris has engaging challenging gameplay that rewards interstellar exploration as you traverse, discover, interact and learn more about the multitude of species you will encounter during your travels. Etch your name across the cosmos by forging a galactic empire; colonizing remote planets and integrating alien civilizations. Will you expand through war alone or walk the path of diplomacy to achieve your goals?

Zeus: Master of Olympus

Attracting a hero to your city to defeat a monster is just one of many goals that you may be asked to achieve as you make your way through the adventures in Zeus: Master of Olympus. An adventure may begin in the Greek wilderness, where you will be asked to establish a city from whatever scant resources the rocky landscape has to offer. Then, you may need to establish a colony on more fertile shores to ensure that your city receives the supplies it needs to sustain itself. Once the colony is established, it's back to the parent city, where you might build a sanctuary to a god of your choosing, conquer another city, or fend off a monster. A god might even ask you to undertake a quest to retrieve a mythical item, such as Hermes' Winged Sandals or the Golden Fleece. From there, who knows? Maybe you'll need to establish another colony, or maybe you'll need to continue building the parent city.

GunboundWC Spanish

Whether you are a new gamer looking for fun or a former Gunbounder looking for something better, come try out the new Gunbound Revolution. In the game of Gunbound, players ride legendary mobiles into battle against each other. Players take turns firing shots at their opponents while compensating for terrain, winds, and the influence of the Londean moons. Beware, for the moons of Londe can enhance the capabilities of your mobile and those of your opponents. Version 639 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

Zoo Tycoon demo

Zoo Tycoon puts you in charge of your very own zoo. You'll be challenged to design, build, and manage a vibrant place where your animals and guests are happy. You have more than 40 different animals to choose from, including chimpanzees, camels, and tigers. This demo version lets you play a couple of tutorial scenarios and gives you a free play map where you can build a zoo from scratch, using several different types of building materials and terrain types with up to four popular animals, including Thomson's gazelle, a giraffe, an African lion, and Bengal tigers.