Updated: 8 best strategy games for PC and Mac you can play today

By Kevin Parrish

Games that only a PC can provide

Update: At number 8, we’ve added Total War: Warhammer to our list, the latest entry in a long-running tabletop franchise, perfected for the PC.

Strategy games make you think. They’re not like most shooters that offer mindless gameplay, or the adventure game that has you leaping off cliffs and driving boats.

Strategy games require your brain juices at all times to plan each move carefully and analyze what the opponent will do next – quickly. They require you to develop armies, build civilizations and gather resources in the process.

But strategy games aren’t just about the gameplay: they typically offer sprawling, geopolitical stories too that hook players and keep them focused on the campaign. That said, what makes a strategy game great is how it pulls players into its mythology and allows them to carry out missions without overcomplicating it.

Here is a handful of strategy games on the PC and Mac that achieve this balance perfectly.

1. StarCraft II

Blizzard Entertainment launched the first StarCraft sci-fi military strategy game back in 1998, and while it was extremely popular, the game wasn’t the mammoth product StarCraft II …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Gaming