Galactic Civilizations 3
Galactic Civilizations 3 is another great Strategy and Turn-based video game. The game offers wonderful Sandbox aesthetics and allows you to engage yourself into an amazing game-play spread across the galaxy. Your task is to conquer the world by Diplomacy, trade, Cultural values, and by the might of your massive military. With both Single and Multiplayer modes, Galactic Civilizations 3 lets you enjoy 4X Strategy, amazing new story-based campaigns, brilliantly engaging turn-based combats with enemies and all the great stuff. The Sandbox feature of the game allows you to enjoy amazing new maps, unique game worlds and a lot of new challenges and experience a totally different side of Strategy gaming. Galactic Civilizations 3 is one of the best games to play and enjoy.
#1 Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth
Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth by Firaxis Games is another cool video that offers a gameplay slightly similar to the popular StartCraft series games. The game provides with an amazing Turn-based Strategy and 4X game-play in which you with all the human populace are destined to travel through space and find a suitable new habitat. The event of The Great Mistake left no choice but to leave Earth and that resulted in a years long exploration, wars between countless alien races and a lot of amazing stuff. Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth lets you experience and amazing Strategy and combat filled game-play with a unique and wonderfully written story, great visuals and lots and lots of other cool things.
#2 Company of Heroes 2
Company of Heroes 2 is a popular RTS game that offers an amazingly addictive and quite immersive game-play similar to the popular Supreme Commander video game. This sequel to the original Company of Heroes lacks the allies feature and instead it takes you to the eastern frontiers in order to battle against the enemies and experience an extremely action-packed game-play ever. As usual the game sets you up into the character of a commander/lieutenant and allows you to focus on building your own base, gather up resources, and build immense man power by building and training troop units, and finally embarking on amazing journeys that will eventually lead you to huge battles against the enemies. Your task is to simply conquer the enemy bases, outposts etc. in order to eliminate the threat and to expand your reign. Every outpost and base capture awards you with points that you can use to buy more upgrades and stuff. Building, defending and occupying enemy territories are the main parts of the core game-play, so the more you are tactically strong, the more chances of success you get. The unique combat system allows you to use your amazing militaristic approach to cater with the armies, use heavy machinery, artillery, military grade vehicles and stuff to defeat your enemies and enjoy an amazing gaming experience.
#3 Sid Meier’s Civilization V
Sid Meier’s Civilization V or shortly named as Civilization V is a wonderful 4X Turn-based MMO-RTS video game by Firaxis Games. The game is based on the player who leads a civilization from Primordial times to the future on a methodologically created map. The game lets you use your skills and experiences for the Research, Exploration, Diplomacy, Expansion of the lands, Economic and technological development, Governmental and Military Conquests etc. Civilization V inherits a lot of characteristics and mechanics from Civilization IV but a slight change is the absence of a lot of expansion packs. Unlike the previous versions of the game, Battle and combat characteristics are quite changed, Cities can now defend themselves by devastating the enemies situated nearby, and a lot of military restrictions are gone. Sid Meier’s Civilization V resembles Age of Mythologies a lot, story-line and game-play is quite overhauled and the game provides with Single and Multiplayer Campaigns so you can enjoy it more. Graphics are greatly enhanced as compared to the older versions of the game. With 2 expansion packs Civilization V: Gods and Kings and Civilization V: Brave New World, this game offers wonderful visuals, a brilliant game-play etc.
#4 Civilization VI
Civilization VI combines the elements of Turn-based Strategy, Historical, Single and Multiplayer 4X video game created by Firaxis Games and published by 2K Games. It is the sixth marvelous entry in the series of Civilization and offers enhanced gameplay, mechanics, and features. The game takes place in the historical-themed world and allows the player to lead his civilization from an early settlements and become a super power using one of different condition such as technology superiority, military power, and diplomacy leadership. In the beginning, you can start from a small tribe and your task is to explore the world, find new cities, build shelters, buildings, recruit your army, research new technologies, gather resources and train your force to defend your empire. Control the entire planet by defeat other players or AI-controlled Characters across different periods of development. Gather resources to survive longer, and conquer the land of other players to loot their resources. Civilization VI includes core features such as Expansive Empires, Active Research, Dynamic Diplomacy, Combined Arms, Enhance Multiplayer, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#5 Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth: Rising Tide
Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth: Rising Tide is a Downloadable Content Pack for the Turn-based Strategy and 4X video game Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth. The expansion pack introduces new features such as water gameplay, revamped diplomacy system, hybrid affinities, and exploration system. It supports both Single and Multiplayer modes developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K Games. The game features several dimensions to aquatic gameplay. Unlike previous titles, aquatic-based cities can be moved. The player can take on the role of the protagonist and the primary task is to create units to defend his empire and make strategies to take down enemies. The player can explore the environment from isometric view and can create his army to face off enemies. In the beginning, the player needs to colonize the ocean by creating floating settlements and harvesting resources. Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth: Rising Tide offers prominent features such as Colonize the Ocean, Dynamic Leader Traits, Four new Factions, New Artifact System and more. Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth: Rising Tide is the brilliant game to play and enjoy.
#6 Civilization 4: Colonization
Civilization 4: Colonization is a remake of the Turn-based Strategy video game Colonization developed in 1994. The game introduces four playable European Nations such as Netherlands, France, England, and Spain and it enables the player to select his favourite one and jump into the battle where the player must effort to dominate the new world in the period 1492-1792. The ultimate task of the player is to create his colony and recruit an army, then announce independence from his mother country and battle against military forces that the mighty king sends to take down the rebellion. To establish and expand the city, the player must balance negotiations with multiple groups such as colonist from the home country, natives of the Americas, other Colonist from across the land. During the plot, the player can assemble his army and command on the battlefield to take down enemies to score the points, loot resources and claim their lands to expand his colony or city. The game introduces the trade and economic system when the player makes finished sells and goods in Europe. Civilization 4 Colonization Improved Diplomacy, Conquer Homeland and Establish a New Nation, Endless Replay, and more. Try it out, and you’ll like it.
#7 Civilization VI: Rise and Fall
Civilization VI: Rise and Fall is a first Downloadable Content Pack for the 4X and Turn-based Strategy game Civilization VI, developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K Games. The DLC pack comes with new features such as Leaders and Civilizations. The concentrate of the game is to include mechanics that emulate the potential for the rise of civilization and then collapse due to several factors. In the game, the player can be modified in how he deals with these turns in his civilization. The DLC pack introduces global areas, triggered when the competing civilizations reach to the required target. The game is about creating an empire to stand the test of time, and the DLC brings new strategies, choices, and challenges for the player as he leads a civilization through the ages. During the game, the player can establish a golden age for his civilization to become the best leader for all ages. Civilization VI – Rise and Fall includes prominent features such as the Great Ages, New Leaders and Civilizations, Governors, Enhanced Alliances, New Global Content, and more. Try it out, and you’ll like it.
#8 Wargame: Airland Battle
Wargame: Airland Battle features both Single-player and Multiplayer modes developed by Eugen Systems and published by Focus Home Interactive. The game deals with Real-time Tactics and Strategy elements, and it takes place in the European setting during the Cold War in the year 1975 to 1985. It is the sequel to Wargame: European Escalation, released in 2012. There are several playable factions available, including Warsaw Pact, East Germany, NATO, and more. The player starts the game by selecting his different units from the sub-factions in order to unlock new units or improved variants as advances through the game. Each country in the game has a set of units, reflecting their military doctrine. The game has four campaigns that the player can play alone or co-op with other players. The turn-based section of the game of four campaigns is set on the map of Northern Europe. Engaging gameplay in solo play, Wargame: Airland Battle is even more impressive online. It features multiplayer modes, where up to twenty players can do battle simultaneously.