A Strategy Game is a game genre encompassing
Board Games,
Tabletop Games, and
Video Games in which the player or players'
strategical and/or tactical thinking is required in order to achieve victory (in theory). The earliest strategy games are far
Older Than Feudalism, including ancient games like
Chess (invented in the 6th century) and
Go (invented in the 4th century).
Strategy Games can roughly be broken into two sub-genres:
For tropes found in Strategy Games, see
Strategy Game Tropes.
Also, see:
Strategy RPG and
Simulation Game for business sims and similar games often lumped together with Strategy Games.
