Anno 1404
We write the year 1404 and the emperor is sick. Only the horizon promises healing so Lord Richard Northburgh attempts the journey to the unknown lands in the south known only as the Orient. Following with a small ship, only a few supplies and a handful of loyal man is the player. Looking for a destiny in these uncharted waters, he will find new lands, new cultures, new allies, new friends and new challenges.
Year: 2009
Developer: Blue Byte Studio
Genre: Strategy
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Anno 1503
1503 A.D.: The New World is, like its predecessor, a 2D-strategy game where the player colonizes a new world. The first important part is the constructing of several buildings which are used for different means, e.g. residences or plant facilities. There he needs to ensure a logical arrangement to reach short production cycles and the population’s satisfaction. With preceding time there demands grow which force the player to expand and build more respectively more effective buildings.
Year: 2003
Developer: Max Design
Genre: Strategy
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Anno 1701
The main challenge of 1701 is to build up a settlement from simple pioneers up to aristocrats. You need to construct and manage a blossoming economy and supply your inhabitants with special buildings and goods. Pioneers need almost nothing and aristocrats want access to all the available goods, slowly introducing the learning curve.
Year: 2006
Developer: Related Designs
Genre: Strategy
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Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura
Arcanum is a role-playing game similar in concept and many gameplay principles to Fallout. It is set in a unique world, which can be described as mixture between Tolkienesque fantasy, steampunk technology and elements of British and North American culture of the 19th century: dwarves may carry molotov cocktails, and a half-orc protagonist can travel by train between Victorian-like cities.
Year: 2001
Developer: Troika Games
Genre: Role-Playing
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Baldur’s Gate
Baldur’s Gate is a role-playing game that uses the rule set of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D). Set in the universe of Forgotten Realms, the game is the first part of the saga that lets the player explore various towns, wilderness areas and dungeons, undertake many side quests, and find companions for the long journey.
Year: 1998
Developer: BioWare Corporation
Genre: Role-Playing
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Baldur’s Gate 2
Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn is a party-based role-playing game using the AD&D rules. The basic gameplay is similar to that of its predecessor: the player navigates a party of up to six active combatants over isometric environments, conversing with non-playable characters using branching dialogue, and fighting enemies in real-time, free-movement combat that can be paused to issue specific orders to the characters.
Year: 2000
Developer: BioWare Corporation
Genre: Role-Playing
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Dawn of Man
Dawn of Man is a survival/city-builder from the creators of Planetbase. The game starts in the Stone Age, and takes you up to the Iron Age, spanning more than 10,000 years of human prehistory.
Animals were a vital source of food and resources for ancient humans. Use their meat to feed your people and their skin and bones to make clothing and craft the tools you will need to stay alive. Confront Mammoths, Woolly Rhinos, Ancient Bison, Megaloceros, Cave Lions and other species that roamed the earth at the time.
Year: 2019
Developer: Madruga Works
Genre: Strategy
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Desperados III
Desperados III is a story-driven, hardcore tactical stealth game, set in a ruthless Wild West scenario. In this long-awaited prequel to the beloved classic Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive, John Cooper will join forces with the runaway bride Kate, the shady hitman Doc McCoy, the giant trapper Hector, and Isabelle, a mysterious lady from New Orleans.
On Cooper’s quest for redemption, his adventures lead him and his gang from rural towns, over swamps and riverbanks, and finally to a dramatic showdown worthy of Wild West legends.
Year: 2020
Developer: Mimimi Games
Genre: Strategy
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Diablo
Long ago a secret war raged between Heaven and Hell, each using humanity as its pawns. While the Prime Evils of Hell were engaged in war their lesser lieutenants conspired to overthrow them. They mutinied suddenly with the combined forces of Hell, overwhelming the three Primes. Stripped of their power, they were banished to the mortal realm.
Human agents of Heaven, upon discovering this, found the three Primes and sealed them within gemstone prisons, each of them sent to a different corner of the earth and kept under guard to prevent them from escaping.
Year: 1996
Developer: Blizzard Entertainment
Genre: Role-Playing
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Diablo II
Like its predecessor, Diablo II is an action role-playing game. The player may choose between five available characters classes: Amazon (a rogue-like class with ranged attacks), Necromancer (can summon undead and inflict status ailments), Barbarian (a powerful melee fighter who can dual-wield weapons), Sorceress (offensive spellcaster), and Paladin (fights with shields and can cast support spells).
Year: 2000
Developer: Blizzard Entertainment
Genre: Role-Playing
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Dungeon Siege
Dungeon Siege is a role-playing game sharing many similarities with Diablo. It is heavily combat-oriented and emphasizes item-gathering and gradual building up of the protagonist for purely battle-related purposes. The game’s linear progression is determined by quests that send the protagonist to newer areas. Combat is handled in a point-and-click fashion; when the player character fights alone, it resembles the action-based fights of Diablo.
However, other characters may join the party as well, at which point combat flows in real time, somewhat similarly to the semi-automated party battles of Ultima VII.
Year: 2002
Developer: Gas Powered Games
Genre: Role-Playing
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Dungeon Siege II
Dungeon Siege 2 is a Real-Time Hack-and-Slash Role-Playing Game (RPG) which uses a rotatable third-person perspective camera. The player may control up to 1-6 hero’s and pets, although the size of the party is limited by the game difficulty. The first out of 3 levels of difficulty - Mercenary, limits the party to only a maximum of 4 party members. In order to advance in level, the player must first finish the game in each mentioned level difficulty.
The player may create a new hero or use a pre-generated hero. Races available for new heroes are: Human, Elf, Dryad and Half-Giant.
Year: 2005
Developer: Gas Powered Games
Genre: Role-Playing
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Fallout
Fallout is a role-playing game that utilizes a character development system called S.P.E.C.I.A.L., an acronym formed from the first letters of the game’s basic character attributes: Strength, Perception, Endurance, Charisma, Intelligence, Agility and Luck. In addition to having these attributes, the protagonist can also learn and improve skills, as well as acquire traits and perks.
Skill points are awarded when the player character levels up; traits are assigned during character creation, while perks are obtained every three character levels.
Year: 1997
Developer: Interplay Productions
Genre: Role-Playing
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Fallout 2
The sequel to Fallout starts eighty years after its predecessor. When the First Vault Dweller was forced from his home, he walked north until he found some new friends and founded a tribe in a suitable place. But some years after his death, the tribe is dying. The Elders decide that one of the tribe members, the “Chosen One”, must find the salvation, a universal tool called G.E.C.K. (short for “Garden of Eden Creation Kit”). Sadly, the hero’s only clue are the ancient disks the Vault Dweller has left, and the only equipment are his clothes and PipBoy.
Year: 1998
Developer: Black Isle Studios
Genre: Role-Playing
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Fallout Tactics
Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel is essentially the combat portion of the original Fallout series, with a new campaign, graphical polish, a set of random encounters, and a world map. The emphasis is on squad tactics and tactical combat, though your characters will grow like in any RPG.
After the great war, the wasteland is inhabited by a wide variety of mutated species… And one force of order and justice: the Brotherhood of Steel.
Year: 2001
Developer: Micro Forte
Genre: Role-Playing
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Heroes of Annihilated Empires
Heroes of Annihilated Empires mixes of two separated genres; the real time strategy games and the RPG likes, all together in a medieval fantasy world, loaded with elves, dwarves, ents, dragons…
In its RTS part, you must build a base, gather resources, and train diverse units in the barracks, all with their own capabilities and weaknesses. One of the features that make HoAE different from other RTS counterparts is the huge amount of units you can collect, which is made possible by the use of sprites instead of 3d models.
Year: 2006
Developer: GSC Game World
Genre: Role-Playing / Strategy
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Homeworld
Homeworld is a 3D strategy game where you control a mothership and a fleet as you harvest resources, conduct research, and build up your fleet that can vary from small, fast, and nimble scouts to lumbering heavy cruisers. Move your camera in full 3D (up/down/around) and issue full 3D movement orders. Specify 3D formations for your ships, employ cloaked vessels to ambush enemy or employ salvage vessels to capture enemy ships, or defend against them with prox sensors and mines.
Year: 1999
Developer: Relic Entertainment
Genre: Strategy
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Homeworld 2
Long after you returned to Hiigara in the first game, the imperialistic Vaygr, armed with the third hyperspace core (you have the second) and the false idea of their own divine origins, are intent on enslaving and destroying your homeworld and your people.
Homeworld 2 continues the Homeworld saga four thousand years into the future. Control a large space fleet in real-time 3D graphics, using a brand new engine and new interface improvements.
Year: 2003
Developer: Relic Entertainment
Genre: Strategy
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Homeworld: Cataclysm
Homeworld: Cataclysm is a stand-alone expansion for the Real-Time Strategy Homeworld. It includes a new race called “The Beast”, an alien sort of biomechanical parasite that “converts” any other units that come in close proximity to such “infected” Beast units.
There are also new units available, such as the Mimic, a fighter that nearly perfectly imitates other units and objects (even such as asteroids); a Ramming Frigate, which rams itself into hostile ships, and many more new units also.
Year: 2000
Developer: Barking Dog Studios
Genre: Strategy
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Pharaoh
The fourth in Impressions Games’ city building series, Pharaoh takes place in ancient Egypt. Take on the role of a family and follow it through Egypt’s dynasties, perform well and one day you might become pharaoh! This is a SimCity-like game, but offers much more. Manage trade, immigration, farming and the military, all while building grand monuments.
Year: 1999
Developer: Impressions Games
Genre: Strategy
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Planescape: Torment
Planescape: Torment is a role-playing game that uses a heavily altered variation of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Second Edition rules. It is set in the Planescape, the exotic AD&D setting which is composed out of various “planes” of existence, with unique characteristics to each. The game features the party-based, “real-time-with-pause” Infinity Engine combat system, which was previously employed in Baldur’s Gate.
Year: 1999
Developer: Black Isle Studios
Genre: Role-Playing
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StarCraft
In the distant future, a small group of human exiles have been doomed to fight for survival on the edge of the galaxy. Through military strength, espionage, and deceit, a unified Terran government has maintained an uneasy peace. But a previously unknown species, the Zerg, has started overrunning their colonies. Furthermore, a second alien species, the enigmatic Protoss, became intent on stopping the Zerg. The time for war has come!
Year: 1998
Developer: Blizzard Entertainment
Genre: Strategy
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StarCraft: Brood War
With the demise of the Overmind on the Protoss home world at the end of the original game, the Zerg are left leaderless. In an attempt to regain control, a number of cerebrates merge to form a new Overmind. Kerrigan, a human/Zerg hybrid however wants to take control of the Zerg herself. The Protoss are evacuating what is left of their people from their ruined home world. Meanwhile the United Earth Directorate (UED) have learned of the recent developments in the sector.
Year: 1998
Developer: Blizzard Entertainment
Genre: Strategy
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Torment: Tides of Numenera
Torment: Tides of Numenera is the thematic successor to Planescape: Torment, one of the most critically acclaimed and beloved role-playing games of all time. Torment: Tides of Numenera is a single-player, isometric, narrative-driven role-playing game set in Monte Cook’s Numenera universe, and brought to you by the creative team behind Planescape: Torment and the award-winning Wasteland 2.
You are born falling from orbit, a new mind in a body once occupied by the Changing God, a being who has cheated death for millennia. If you survive, your journey through the Ninth World will only get stranger… and deadlier.
Year: 2017
Developer: inXile Entertainment
Genre: Role-Playing
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Wasteland 2
Wasteland 2 is the sequel to the 1988 title Wasteland. The game lets the player take control of a squad of rangers, in an attempt to explore the surrounding world, solve quests and defeat enemies. Just like the original game it is a post-apocalyptic turn and party based RPG with tactical combat. Throughout the story, the player encounters enemies, quests, and different puzzles. The game lets players choose their own way to approach any situation they encounter, with skills, items and quests having an important impact on the surrounding world.
Year: 2015
Developer: inXile Entertainment
Genre: Role-Playing
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Wasteland 3
In Wasteland 3 you take command of a squad of Desert Rangers, lawmen and women in a post-nuclear world, trying to rebuild society from the ashes. More than a century after the bombs fell, you’re fighting a losing battle to keep your beloved Arizona alive. Then the self-proclaimed Patriarch of Colorado radios, promising aid if you’ll do a job he can only entrust to an outsider—rescue his land from the ambitions of his three bloodthirsty children.
Wasteland 3 is a squad-based RPG, featuring challenging tactical turn-based combat and a deep, reactive story full of twists, turns, and brutal ethical decisions that will keep you hooked.
Year: 2020
Developer: inXile Entertainment
Genre: Role-Playing
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Zeus: Master of Olympus
After Pharaoh, Impressions Games took its city building series into Ancient Greece, land of Zeus, Ares and his dragon, and many other mythological figures. The most important change to the core of the previous games is how dwellings are built and improve. Instead of allocating single tiles of land the player can choose between building common and elite housing.
Year: 2000
Developer: Impressions Games
Genre: Strategy
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