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Simulation / Strategy Games
American History Lux - www.sillysoft.net
American History Lux is a campaign through the wars that have shaped American history. Beautiful hand crafted maps take you on a timeline starting with the colonization of North America up till the Iraq War, with everything in between.
The game includes scene setting music and links to detailed history on each of the wars. The 4 varied difficulty levels are meant for new prospects and experienced Luxers alike. Without delay, American History is yours to replay!
Ancient Empires Lux - www.sillysoft.net
Ancient Empires Lux takes you through all the great early civilizations of mankind. Ancient Egypt, India, China, Greece, Rome, and more are yours for the taking.
The game has a total of 58 ancient nations for you to control. You can play as just the strongest, or work cleverly to achieve victory from the humblest of starts. Hours and hours of fun are yours to be had in Ancient Empires Lux.
Armageddon Empires - www.crypticcomet.com
Armageddon Empires is a computer turn based strategy game that takes the best elements of collectable card games (don’t worry there are no cards to chase, you get them all), board games, and computer games and brings them all together to provide a unique interactive strategy war game experience. You can choose a normal size map and battle in a death match with a single AI opponent finishing within an hour or select a huge map and slug it out with the other 3 factions in a game of epic proportions.
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Astral Masters - www.astralmasters.com
The game Astral Masters combines the best features of the computer game called Astral Tournament and collection card games. Two players compete in this turn-based game. Each of them fights against the opponent casting various spells and summoning fantastic creatures to his side. You can play either against the computer (both in single games and in tournaments) or against other people.  Play alone, over a LAN network, or even over the internet!
Battle for Wesnoth - www.wesnoth.org
The Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme. Build up a great army, gradually turning raw recruits into hardened veterans. In later games, recall your toughest warriors and form a deadly host against whom none can stand! Choose units from a large pool of specialists, and hand-pick a force with the right strengths to fight well on different terrains against all manner of opposition.  Best of all, Battle for Wesnoth is absolutely free!  Single or Online Multiplayer.
Battleship Chess - www.apezone.com
Battleship Chess - Taking classic Battleship to the next level!
Launch torpedoes from destroyers and submarines, drop mines
and try to sink your enemy's battleships in this turn-based
strategy game. For 1-2 players.
Car Thief 6: Night Crime - www.maximagames.com
You are a criminal and earn your living on car theft. One day, you've found yourself deep in debt to the local loan sharks. You have to show the best of you, steal as many cars as possible and sell them to the dealer to repay it. If you won't do it in time, the loan shark's thugs will come after you.  You win the game when you clear up your debt and leave off your illegal business before you get to a prison or killed. The more cash you have in the end, the more score you gain.   (Recommended for Mature Audiences)
Crooked Money - www.maximagames.com
Become the most successful swindler in the city and leave off your business before you are caught by police or killed by your rivals to win the game.  Sell drugs, pick pockets, steal valuables or fight for territory with others gangsters to gain score. Be a hobo, a honest worker or an assassin, the choice is yours. Get to the top of your career path and leave off your business before you are caught by police or killed by the rivals to win the game.  (Recommended for Mature Audiences)
The world of Darwinia is a virtual themepark, running entirely inside a computer network and populated by a sentient evolving life form called the Darwinians.  Unfortunately Darwinia has been overrun by a computer virus which has multiplied out of control. Your task is to destroy the Viral Infection and save the Darwinians from extinction.
Introversion Software presents its third title, DEFCON, a stunning online multiplayer simulation of global thermonuclear war.  You play the role of a military Commander hidden deep within an Underground bunker. Your mission - to successfully exterminate your enemy's civilian population whilst disabling their ability to attack your own. Start by launching your battleships, subs and bombers in order to decimate your opponent's defences. Scramble together your alliances but remember only one can stand victorious.
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Democracy - www.positech.co.uk
Democracy starts with you as President (or Prime-Minister) of a modern country. The country is a run as a simple democracy where you need to get over 50% of the vote each election in order to remain in power. The object of the game is to stay in power as long as possible (there are no limits as to how many terms you may be elected president).
Depths of Peril - www.soldak.com
Depths of Peril is a single player action role-playing game (rpg) with strong strategy elements. You play as a faction leader protecting the barbarian city, Jorvik, by destroying threatening monsters and completing quests. At the same time, you compete with rival factions to see who will rule the city. Barbarians choose their leaders by fighting to the death!  As a faction leader, you must deal with rival factions through diplomacy, trade, and in time, war!
Empire of the Gods - www.lonelytroops.com
Empire of the Gods is an original puzzle game with absorbing gameplay set in mystical Ancient Egypt. Enjoy beautiful graphics and an amazing score which whisks you back several centuries to the times when people built huge, unbelievable monuments. Work your way up from a small tribe to a flourishing Empire along the Nile. Build the large pyramids which tower above vast cities, win the Gods' favour and become the mightiest Pharaoh.
Empires & Dungeons - www.nielsbauergames.com
Fight for the crown  in this addictive fantasy strategy and roleplaying game mix.  Hire an army and crawl cursed dungeons for legendary treasures.  This strategy-roleplaying game combines the most addictive elements from both genres. You have to build a castle and wage war on the battlefield as well as exploring dungeons and train your hero. From the creators of Smugglers 3.
Galcon is an awesome high-paced multi-player galactic action-strategy game. You send swarms of ships from planet to planet to take over the galaxy.
* it's arcade action Risk with planets!
* multi-player network game for up to 12 players with teams
* 15 different single player missions against 7 different computer players
* attack planets with thousands of swarming ships!
* net ranking of all net players
Hacker: Evolution - www.exosyphen.com
You play the role of a former intelligence agent, specializing in computer security. When a chain of events sets off worldwide, leaving critical service disabled, you assume the role a computer hacker to find out what happened and attempt to stop it.
When a stock market, a central bank, satellite uplink and transoceanic fiber optics links crash, you know this is more then a simple event. Something big is behind all this, and you have to figure out what is it.
Harvest: Massive Encounter - www.oxeyegames.com
In this 2D fantasy you take on the role as the base commander of a space colony far, far away, and must use five building types in a creative way to efficiently expand and defend it. Build power plants, mineral harvesters and defense towers and make sure they have sufficient energy to fend off endless hordes of evil aliens. The game offers a vast array of possible strategies with these simple rules, and will compel you to try new and better base designs every time.
I of the Enemy - www.enemytechnology.com
I of the Enemy (IOE) is a unique experience of sci-fi wargaming and innovative gameplay for single player offline or up to 8 opponents battling over the internet or a LAN.
Assess your strengths and probe your enemy's. Hit him where he is the weakest, but don't sit and wait for the counter-punch! Maneuver warfare is the key!  IOE includes an intriguing storyline with many unexpected twists, taking place in a highly developed game universe.
Kingdom Elemental - www.chroniclogic.com
KE:Tactics takes core game play elements from real-time strategy, tactics, and role-playing games and combines them into a game that is painfully easy to pick up and play without committing your entire life, unless you have no life...in which case you may not find Kingdom Elemental to be an adequate substitute.
Kudos is a turn based strategy game where you control someone's life. You decide where they work, who they hang out with, and what they do to relax. Do you want to be an alcoholic saxophone playing taxi driver? or maybe a reclusive but brilliant astrophysicist. Kudos is not about flashy graphics or high polygon counts. Kudos is about exploring areas of gameplay you haven't seen in mainstream games. Hopefully, Kudos is pretty original.
Kudos: Rock Legend - www.positech.co.uk
Rock Legend is a turn-based game, in some ways similar to the gameplay of Kudos. Each turn of the game represents a single day, and it's up to you to decide how the band spends their time. Some of the activities you will need to spend time on include songwriting, rehearsals, auditions, publicity events, practicing individual instruments, and of course, recording your latest album.
Lux Delux - www.sillysoft.net
Lux Delux is a game of strategy and domination inspired by the board game Risk. Control your armies to conquer and hold strategic countries on the map. The object of the game is simple: Take over the entire world!
Lux features over a hundred different maps, challenging computer opponents, simple network play, a player ranking board, and much much more. Try it now, because taking over the world is fun!
Choose one of ten different characters and start dueling your opponents in a battle of skill, tactics and wits with over 50 spells to choose from!.  Summon mighty creatures to your aid and waste other mages with dreadful curses.
    * unique skills for each of the playable characters!
    * an epic soundtrack by Rob Westwood!
    * gather experience and develop your mage the way you like!
    * collect Insignias for your most outstanding achievements!                           Review!
Master of Defense - www.master-of-defense.com
Master Of Defense is a wonderful strategy game that lets you assume the role of a brave hero, who has been chosen to save the ancient kingdom from the hordes of monsters. The challenge of the game is to ward off relentless attacks of monsters and prevent them from capturing people in your castle.  For all its seeming simplicity, Master Of Defense is fun to play and doesn’t grow stale in a short while. You will discover 5 diversely-themed locations and a wide array of monster types. Creatures range from big-headed thingies to mutated animals to flying insect-like monsters.
Multiwinia: Survival of the Flattest - www.introversion.co.uk
Welcome to Multiwinia: Survival of the Flattest – the ultimate retro-arcade multiplayer experience! Choose from a selection of six hilariously fun, action-packed game modes, set in one of the most beautiful game environs you will ever set eyes on.
Challenge your opponent to a game of stick-man slaughter and witness devastating digital-war unfold. It’s fast, it’s furious and only the flattest will survive!

Ready to rebuild a kingdom or two? Oasis is a fast-paced strategy game that can played in minutes instead of days. Spend your time wisely before the barbarians smash your cities to rubble.  Explore the desert and build an empire! Oasis is a fast-paced but challenging strategy game, designed to be played in minutes instead of hours.
Spend your turns wisely, develop your kingdom carefully, or watch the barbarian hordes smash it to rubble!
Outpost Kaloki - www.ninjabee.com
Race against time to save the princess in Outpost Kaloki, a humorous space station tycoon game! Solve challenges, entertain visiting aliens, keep your ratings high, and rake in the money on your way to fame and glory.
Pocket Tanks - www.blitwise.com
The fastest game of artillery you'll ever play. Pocket Tanks is designed to be easy to learn, and fun to master. All the excitement of lobbing projectiles over a mound of dirt without all the complicated details found in most artillery games. Select your angle, power, and fire over 30 distinct weapons at your opponent. There is an innovative Weapon Shop to keep the game moving fast and a Target Practice mode for experimenting with all the weapons "no holds barred!"
Play a greedy trader, an ambitious bounty hunter or a ruthless pirate and attack whole planets in this sci-fi trading game.  In the third part of the  award winning Smugglers series you can play a greedy trader, an ambitious bounty hunter, a ruthless pirate, a mix of those or one of  many other professions. Backed up by a crew of different kinds of crewmen (like droids or mercenaries) you can visit more than 75 planets in 25 systems in your attempt to gain favors with one of the four factions in the known galaxy.
Starship Kingdoms - www.apezone.com
Head to head combat with Starships and technology.  Gather your forces and conquer all the stars in the kingdom.  Play online or against various computer players. The King has died without producing an heir. The Star Kingdom has fallen apart, with most of the worlds declaring their independence. Only you and one other noble house have declared their right to the throne. Take control of one of the houses and fight for your right to become the next Star King ... but watch out for the Indies ... they might decide to join the losing side at the last minute!
Starship Tycoon - www.positech.co.uk
Starship Tycoon puts you in charge of an interplanetary shipping company, you compete against AI controlled firms to survive in the cutthroat world of space commerce. Configure and upgrade your starships, hire and fire the crew, smuggle illegal goods, and wage price wars against your competitors.You can play either in a mission-based or freeform 'sandbox' mode. You can run your company any way you like, from keeping the staff happy and well paid right down to running on cheap fuel, smuggling illegal cargoes, and bribing the customs officials.
Starships Unlimited - www.apezone.com
From Starship design to galactic exploration, fight or ally with alien races and conquer the galaxy.  A turn-based strategy game of star empires and starships. Build starships and explore the stars. Find ancient alien artifacts. Meet alien races and trade with them, ally with them or fight them. Build up your worlds and defend them against other alien civilizations. Be the first to conquer the galaxy!

Strategist - www.oxeyegames.com
As a newly graduated Strategist, you find yourself involved in a plot of global proportions.
Mastering the arts of battlefield will become your number one priority in your search for your friend Ricks.  Meet Commander Lincoln and other important characters in this strategic adventure!    * 30+ Missions!  * 5 Campaigns!  * Internet Play!  * Create your own maps and scenarios!

When the controversial animal testing lab Cyrus Life Sciences is invaded by heavily armed animal rights extremists, the international anti-terrorist Taskforce is called in to take care of the situation... but all is not as it first seems...
As a Taskforce Commander, you will control your elite squad of soldiers to fight exciting and terrifying enemies. You will fight on levels that are different each time, complete a large variety of objectives in day or night vision conditions, and play any completed mission at any time as a single game.
Trash is a Real-Time Strategy game (RTS game) based in a post-apocalyptic future. The surviving humans and mutants battle for control of the primary resource, trash.
Features
    * Game design encourages coordination with teammates
    * Supports huge games with up to 24 players
    * Five types of trash resources
    * Internet lobbies for in-game matchmaking and stat tracking
Tribal Trouble - www.tribaltrouble.com
A bunch of clueless Viking raiders have stranded on a group of tropical islands - much to the annoyance of the local Natives. Help the tribesmen settle their disputes in this fast paced realtime strategy game.
    * Battle your computer or test your skills against other players online
    * Help out the Vikings and Natives in the campaign - lots of challenging missions
    * Frantic tribal warfare - up to 6 players and 1500 units at the same time
    * The game is easy to grasp and offers several levels of difficulty
You play an Uplink Agent who makes a living by performing jobs for major corporations. Your tasks involve hacking into rival computer systems, stealing research data, sabotaging other companies, laundering money, erasing evidence, or framing innocent people.  You use the money you earn to upgrade your computer systems, and to buy new software and tools. As your experience level increases you find more dangerous and profitable missions become available. You can speculate on a fully working stock market (and even influence its outcome). You can even divert money into your own accounts.
Urban Legend is an isometric turn-based squad-based strategy.  Action takes place in 2127. The future of humanity is not bright (and we all know it). Do you dare to reveal the shocking mystery of the 22nd century? Do you, punk?  Features: * Turn-based strategy combat;* Guileful and deadly dangerous AI;  * Genuine pixel handmade graphics; * Thrilling storyline based on some conspiracy theories and actual facts; * Mercenaries for hire and wide choice of futuristic weaponry; * Cyberchips implants to improve your soldiers; * Different types of terrain including abandoned city districts and laboratories.
War on Folvos - www.lonelytroops.com
War on Folvos is a new turn-based strategy game set amid a dark, twisted future. Lead your army to victory through several stirring battles set to a vivid background story. You will command an entire army consisting of various military units, and will need to master large battlefields in order to emerge victorious. Become the one true Commander...
Wierd Worlds: Return to Infinite Space - www.digital-eel.com
Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space is a grand space opera that will take you from a down and out starship captain to an amazing intergalactic hero whose renown travels light speed ahead of you! Set in a randomly generated universe of endless possibilities, this single-player experience will let you explore new worlds, meet exotic aliens, discover black holes, witness the deaths of stars, encounter drifting space hulks that promise untold riches or untimely death, and much, much more! And all this happens in under thirty minutes or less!