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4Story

4Story

Battle against other players, alone or in strategic groups of up to 49 players, and take part in daily conquest wars. Winners gain access to new villages, new missions and special merchants. A huge variety of quests and dungeons.

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Age of Empires Online

Age of Empires Online

A classic RTS revamped into a classy MMO strategy game. At the beginning, you are given a Greek or Egyptian city that acts more like a MMORPG character than a regular city. There are three skill trees that players use to upgrade the economy, the military and utilities. You also store items within your capital city. To level your city up, you have to complete quests, either with friends or solo. The graphics are nice and cartoony. The quests are diversified, but the beginning of each quest is static – all you are given at the beginning of each quest is a ‘city vulgaris’ – a couple of workers and a town hall which you have to settle. The game lacks strategy for beginners, but PvP offers a real challenge, especially if you’re up against players who have purchased paid features.

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Aika

Aika

The RPG Aika includes three major PvP modes ranging from small skirmishes to 1000 vs. 1000 warfare. Within its fantastically detailed world you'll find over 1,000 quests, hundreds of monsters, and five unique nations that meet in truly epic military clashes. Form alliances, and lay siege to castles.

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Allegiance

Allegiance

After the destruction of Earth by an asteroid, warring human factions struggle for resources (specifically Helium3). This is an excellent combination of 3D first person shooter and real time strategy set in outer space. Two teams with dozens of players per side battle it out over the course of an hour or two. The commander builds bases and sets up mining operations, orders bombing runs, and allocates money. Players can switch between ship types on the fly (and even beefier ships if their commander gives them the cash). New players are encouraged to fly scout ships for a few weeks and lay down sensors to spy on enemy movements or keeping other units repaired that are mining or bombing. Good news for new players: they set up servers specifically for new players so they won’t get taken advantage of by veterans while learning the ropes.

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Alliance Warfare

Alliance Warfare

Alliance Warfare (AW) is an MMORTS, played in the browser. It takes place in the medieval Land of Endless War and has players build and expand their kingdom, create armies and strive for world domination. The game is fairly typical as strategy titles go, but the community is vibrant and open. What’s very special about AW is that it has its own radio station with DJs that actively participate in the game by dedicating songs to players and answering questions. Players complete quests, manage their cities’ resources and form alliances with others. AW offers a quite elaborate research tree with three main branches. The cash shop is quite mundane, offering commonplace buffs and even more commonplace advantages to paying players. Again, the most fun in AW is to be had from the community features and the radio station, which make the game stand out from the plethora of similar MMORTS titles.

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Ambroid

Ambroid

Strategic text-based warfare in your browser. Form alliances for support. Select opponents to attack based on a point system to get more land (and therefore the ability to build more). If your Attack Points are greater than their Defence Points, you’ve got yourself a nice match. Build buildings and units to increase your overall Power Points on your way to reach the supreme rank of General.

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Anno Online

Anno Online

Anno Online is a strategy MMO/city simulator set in the Anno universe. Players build their city and manage resources and production with the ultimate goal of becoming the richest city-state in the game world. The medieval setting and the vibrant graphics supplement the experience greatly. Quite far into the game trade routes open up and the task of satisfying the needs of your populace becomes somewhat harder. However, for a city simulator this game doesn’t offer a real challenge (as there are no disasters, foreign invasions, etc.) and after about 100 hours or so of playing it the waiting times become too long to bear. On the flip side, however, it’s pretty good for a casual game and players who just want to see stuff being built will find that Anno Online delivers well, until after they’re already quite tired with the game.

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Aragon Online

Aragon Online

Aragon Online is a browser-based multi-player fantasy role-playing war game with significant economic, diplomatic, and magical components.

Free to play indefinitely.

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Argo Online

Argo Online

Post World War 4 massively multiplayer RPG with some real time strategy elements. Pick from eight main classes with a diverse choice in subclasses. The game's style is hybrid of fantasy and themepunk design with a generous back story. The Noblian and Floresslah (steampunks and mystics respectively) are at war over control of a mineral called Earthdium to help rebuild their world. What image it should be built in however is a matter of opinion. The strategy mode of the game is called a Unit War using basic real time strategy elements with the addition of the ability for your hero to fight alongside the units you create. Unit Wars offer your character high level items and weapons. Movement is controlled with either the WASD keys or mouse clicks. There are multiple vehicles for each faction that have room for multiple passengers. And if you were curious, yes, you can even engage enemies while aboard the vehicles.

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Artifact

Artifact

"Artifact is the Multi-Player, Persistent World, Real-Time Strategy game from Samu Games. Build an empire from a single city. Search the world for the Ancient Artifacts and claim them for your own. Then do your best to hold on to them to win the game. Finding is only half the battle... "

Free, with option to pay for additional features.

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Asgard Heroes

Asgard Heroes

Asgard is calling out for heroes. Travel to alien worlds through Stargates. Rebuild pyramids to colonize new planets. The website provides detailed help materials and a wizard-based introduction to help get you started.

Free to play indefinitely.

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Astro Empires

Astro Empires

A free massively multiplayer game of space strategy. Build your bases and spaceships, research new technologies, fight battles, make alliances, and much more...

Free, with option to pay for additional features.

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Astro Lords

Astro Lords

Astro Lords is an MMORPG/Strategy set in a sci-fi universe. Players control an asteroid, construct and upgrade buildings and fight with others to gain control over the Oort cloud. The game can be played on iOS, Android and desktop devices.

Players might be positively appalled by the lack of character customization, but that is more than compensated by the fact that eventually you can move your base, perhaps towards the members of your alliance, or the enemy if you feel you can gain an edge. The combat has players duke it out in turn-based combat with spaceships in the vast void. It takes quite some skill and provides ample entertainment, because the fights involve dodging slow-moving projectiles (there are lasers too!) and hiding behind asteroids. You’ll either hate it or love it, but it must be said it’s highly original.

Astro Lords is definitely a promising title, but the strategy elements could very well be executed better. The skill tree, huge as it is, confuses the player, because it inevitably makes you wonder if you’re looking at a spreadsheet. Even though Astro Lords doesn’t push players into buying anything, progress is quicker with pockets full of premium currency.

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Atlantica Online

Atlantica Online

Reclaim your ancestral land of Atlantis. All the features of a traditional RPG such as Runescape, with an innovative tactical turn based combat system. Features mercenaries, a government system, guilds, and a mentorship system that rewards you for adventuring with new players.

Free, with option to pay for additional features.

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Bang! Howdy

Bang! Howdy

You are a Cowboy or Indian, trying to win games in the Indian Trading Post and Cowboy Town, so you can buy gold to get train tickets, clothing and more. Form your own gangs with other players.

Free, with option to pay for additional features.

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Batheo

Batheo

Strategic conquest, hero gathering and city building. Batheo uses a map-based narrative to guide you to defeat NPC heroes in order to advance you to the next map (while being able to recruit the defeated heroes). You prepare your armies and then watch the battle unfold on its own -- how well you do depends on how well you've prepared, so gathering, refining, and training are essential elements in the game. Paying for extra gold doesn't hurt much either.

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Battle Dawn

Battle Dawn

Battle Dawn is an MMO strategy game, played in the browser. Players start their colonies on three game worlds – Earth, Mars, or ‘Medieval fantasy’ - and each of them has a number of servers. Battle Dawn plays quite differently from other browser-based games, as the game is round-based. Players must form alliances, rally troops, spy or even nuke their opponents in order to capture the ten relics present on each world map; once it’s done, the server gets reset. The game has a peculiar interface, reminiscent of older games like Deus Ex or Unreal Tournament, rather than strategy MMOs. The soundtrack is awesome, too. Battle Dawn is slow in terms of leveling and upgrading your colony, but those interested in it will lose hours upon hours fighting to take control over their world.

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Battle Dawn Galaxies

Battle Dawn Galaxies

Battle Dawn Galaxies is a turn based strategy MMO, played in the browser. The sci-fi setting, the ‘empire management’ and other things seem quite similar to those of other games, but Battle Dawn Galaxies should be noted for a number of interesting features – namely, that players have to have mixed armies for any military success; the game is alliance-based, and these alliances have a member cap of 14; players can be conquered by other players, but that doesn't mean you cannot revolt against the conquering armies. The user interface is nice and some ambient songs accompany the game pretty well. Overall, Battle Dawn Galaxies is definitely one of the most interesting new strategy titles, but the game’s strong points can be overshadowed by the limited available information and the rather low player count.

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Battle For Wesnoth

Battle For Wesnoth

Battle for Wesnoth is a 2D turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme. Use 200+ unit types with diverse and distinguishing abilities. Choose from sixteen races and six major factions. Customize units, compose maps, and write scenarios or campaigns. Fight in epic multi-player battles.

Free to play indefinitely.

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Battle Forge

Battle Forge

Battle Forge is a card-based RTS with magnificent graphics. Sell or trade units. Collect cards representing buildings, units and spells. PvP or PvE. Play any scenario without purchasing upgrades.

Free, with option to pay for additional features.

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BattleCell

BattleCell

A Google Maps-based warfare strategy game where millions of players begin and only one player conquers the world. Expand, ally, attack and dominate.

Free, with option to pay for additional features.

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Big Farm

Big Farm

Big Farm is a casual farming simulator played in the browser. Players start managing a farm and plant fields, sell harvest as well as manage expenses, all to grow their farm.

The gameplay mainly consists of harvesting, planting, reaping and selling produce. From time to time players can construct new buildings such as houses for workers, new fields and mills for making flour. Gold, the premium currency, can be acquired without paying but it’s an arduous task without doing so. New players are guided by quests which award money and experience. The graphics are nice and the quest givers can be quite funny.

Big Farm is a casual title with all that entails. It’s well-written and can be fun if Farmville doesn’t quite hit the mark for you. At higher levels of play, however, Big Farm becomes increasingly greedy as it just requires so much gold to do anything at all.

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Blitz 1941

Blitz 1941

MMO tank simulation based on the German-Soviet conflict during World War II. Choose from over sixty German and Russian tanks to level up and do battle with. Max out your one-on-one fighting skills or participate in cooperative matches with 200 other tanks.

Free, with option to pay for additional features.

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Botbattle

Botbattle

"Botbattle is a worldwide arena for building your own bots and watching them destory other bots online. The goal at Botbattle.com is to advance bot programming technology and teach programming methods using a fun mutiplayer game."

Free, with option to pay for additional features.

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Business Tycoon Online

Business Tycoon Online

In this business simulation game, you start off as a small private company in Liberty City. You choose from over 100 different kinds of businesses, and with the help of private investors, guilds, the media, and your attractive secretary, you can grow your business into a major multinational corporation.

Free, with option to pay for additional features.

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BZFlag

BZFlag

A multiplayer 3D tank battle game.

Free to play indefinitely.

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Caesary

Caesary

A city-building and military strategy game set in the age of ancient Rome. Contains a unique colonization system and familiarizes game players with historical elements of the time period. Players begin the game as a Consul to the Roman Empire with a city under their command to develop.

Free, with option to pay for additional features.

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Call of Combat

Call of Combat

Set in WWII, each player controls 4 infantry soldiers in battles involving up to 120 soldiers on each side. Using rifles, machine guns, grenades and your wits you must defeat the enemy and survive.

Free to play indefinitely.

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Call of Gods

Call of Gods

A turn-based online RPG/strategy game, played in the browser. Its game world is not unlike that of Warcraft, with Protoss from StarCraft somehow present, too. You start off with either a warrior or a mage from your faction, and there are three factions -- elves, humans, the undead -- to choose from. You then get access to a castle where you can train troops to conquer territories and expand your ‘nation’, but you’ll get to PvP after quite a while. Call of Gods has nice graphics and a pretty big game world for a browser-based game. The skill and trade systems are there, but don’t bring much new on the table.

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Castle Empire

Castle Empire

See The Settlers Online. Castle Empire is a browser-based MMO strategy game developed by Ubisoft. You start with a town center, construct buildings, gather resources, explore the map and attack lawless robbers once you’ve reached level 17. There are nine troop varieties and numerous resource types that players can use to their advantage. Castle Empire has plenty of social features – for example, you can add friends and send them goods – and this is handy because the game can get tiring after the initial power-leveling is finished. Later in the game players can equip their explorers with minerals which allow them to search for adventures (these always end in a big battle with great rewards).

The graphics are nice, and the game runs smoothly on older computers too. PvP is yet to be implemented. Altogether, if you already like this kind of strategy game, Castle Empire is a completely harmless time waster – but definitely not anything groundbreakingly original.

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Castlot

Castlot

Castlot is a browser-based MMO strategy game set in 6th century Britain – the time of King Arthur and his knights. Players choose between two factions and are introduced to the fine points of the game with an interactive tutorial. Castlot’s story is definitely a strong point: players will often find themselves wondering what’ll happen next. The other features aren’t that good, though: bland RPG elements do little to add to the game’s overall value; Castlot is centered on battles, and players will be surprised at how boring these battles can be. Furthermore, the long wait times (which can only be reduced through the cash shop) have made experienced players infamously refer to the game as ‘Cashalot’. Not that it’s all bad to be fair: community features are excellent and so are some strategy elements like the ability to set traps, etc. The bottom line – it’s a diverse game that can be fun, but mostly isn’t.

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Chain of Command

Chain of Command

Real-time multiplayer tactical wargame set in Normandy during World War II, pitting American troops against German troops. Players command four soldiers in various short actions, generally along with a larger team of other players.

Free to play indefinitely.

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Company of Heroes

Company of Heroes

Complex and detailed RTS set during WWII. Depending on which faction you choose and which expansion you play, you can command a host of different units including specialized infantry, armored assault vehicles and air support. The game supports campaigns, closed games with buddies (even via LAN), and auto-matching and ranking systems to play against new opponents. The original game was succeeded by two standalone expansions that play well with each other:

  • Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
  • Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor

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Conquest of Champions

Conquest of Champions

Conquest of Champions (CC) is a collectible card game that features vibrant aesthetics along with a new, strategic spin on the classic CCG gameplay.

CC features three factions—elves, dwarves, and the undead—each having two controllable, battle-thirsty heroes and of course a separate card pool. Players get introduced to the nuts and bolts, but not every nook and cranny, of the gameplay during the six-stage tutorial, and then jump right into action. The combat system cannot be fully described here, but it must be said that it allows for a plethora of strategies as there are two bases plus one hero to annihilate, so sacrificing the main hero for minerals, or utilizing the terrain with counterintuitive moves (like in chess, really)—both are entirely doable in CC. Furthermore, players AND their cards can level up, providing a nice touch to the already fun mechanics.

CC looks like a keeper. Players don’t have to buy anything to have a shot at winning; the game seems complex (and intense!) enough to warrant at least a few hours of play; and of course the client both looks and plays quite stunningly.

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Cosmic Encounter Online

Cosmic Encounter Online

A one to four player game where humans actually have their brains augmented with alien intelligence. As an alien with a unique cosmic power, you use a blend of strategy, cunning, and diplomacy to defeat or collude with opposing aliens and build colonies across the galaxy.

Free, with option to pay for additional features.

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Cultures Online

Cultures Online

Cultures Online is a strategy game with RPG elements, set in the age of Vikings. The game is played in a web browser. You can play as a Viking or an Asian; both races have unique buildings and characters. CO has nice, sketchy graphics, an interesting user interface, and an above-average soundtrack. There are six types of resources; the ‘ideas’ resource is cool, as it stacks up, allowing you to research stuff when you’ve logged in after some time. PvP is optional, and the game doesn’t deliver much in the PvP aspect. There are plenty of quests available for leveling your character and acquiring gold and resources. Cultures Online might be an interesting game for an evening or two, but, as PvP is optional, it lacks the competitive aspect that makes browser-based games so interesting.

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Damoria

Damoria

Gather stone, wood, and ore to build, develop and expand. Castle building is key to providing safety for yourself while establishing your foothold in your region (especially before joining an alliance). Some different tactical units in this game from the standard infantry, horsemen and siege weapons. Use spies to infiltrate enemy castles and populate your castle with a healthy supply of them to protect yours. Use senators to convince enemy populations to revolt. Strong player diversity world-wide.

Free, with option to pay for additional features.

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Dark Age Wars

Dark Age Wars

Dark Age Wars is an ‘empire building’ MMO released in 2008. It is set in the Middle Ages, and the player, a squire (historically it would mean the player is 14 to 21 years old) takes over an empty but resource-abundant city and tries expanding it and turning it into an empire. The graphics and the overall interface are quite good and play nicely off of the game’s setting. The game features some nice twists, such as players being able to take over the papacy, but the overall gameplay adheres to the genre’s canon. Dark Age Wars is played in a ‘burst manner’, with players having to wait for long periods of time while upgrading, constructing buildings or conducting research. Overall, Dark Age Wars provides a solid strategy experience and should be preferred by players who like logging in and playing a little each day.

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Dark Elf

Dark Elf

Dark Elf is a multiplayer strategy game set in the realm of The Lord of the Rings. Conquer neighboring lands, build fortresses and magic towers, cast spells and train your heroes. Defeat the Dark Elf who rules this world.

Free, with option to pay for additional features.

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Dark Orbit

Dark Orbit

Discover strange new worlds and be on your guard for mysterious aliens. Team up with your allies to gain wealth and power. Build up your spaceship from a space dinghy to a feared battle cruiser. Monthly battles for up to $10,000 in real-world cash for the last man standing.

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