Rising Empires Premium Review
4X Excellence Comes to the Tiny Screen Rising Empires is a 4X turn-based strategy game set in a fantasy world, from Hellhound Interactive. It’s one of the more ambitious entries…
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John Markley
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The Best Android Strategy Games of All Time
Android: the armpit of the gaming industry—or so we are sometimes led to believe. The worst part of sentiments like the above for those of us who work with Android…
The Best Android Strategy Games of 2014 (Fall Edition)
2014 has proven to be quite bountiful year for Android strategy fans. Quality titles are more common than ever. Some excellent PC games have received impressively faithful ports, while more…
American Civil War Review
American Civil War is a historical military strategy game about the eponymous conflict from DK Simulations, putting you in command of the Union’s armies fighting to subdue the rebellious Confederacy.…
Solarmax 2 Review
Solarmax 2 is a real-time interstellar warfare strategy game from Nico Tuason. It offers a simple and very streamlined, but ultimately quite addictive strategy experience. The premise is simple: You’re…
The Best Android Strategy Games of 2014 (so far…)
The best thing about Android gaming is that the barriers to entry for developers are all but nonexistent, allowing just about anybody to create and publish games for the platform.…
Conquest of Elysium 3 Review
Conquest of Elysium 3 is a game from Illwinter Game Design, a small Swedish developer. It’s a turn-based strategy game in a fantasy setting, where myriad factions, races, and nations…
Pacific Fleet Review
Pacific Fleet is a strategy game of Second World War naval combat. It’s less than it first appears to be in some ways, but it still has quite a bit…
The Most Hardcore Android Strategy Games Ever Made
From the visual extravaganzas that make my PC’s graphics card keel over wheezing for air to games that are mostly played via spreadsheets, from games with simple mechanics involving no…
Glory of Generals HD Review
Glory of Generals HD is a turn-based military strategy game set in the Second World War that looks impressive but fails to deliver on the promise of its graphics. The…
The Most Hardcore Android Strategy Games You Never Heard Of
The strategy genre on Android is like an iceberg: the part you see is just the tip of a much larger object beneath the surface (and also because of James…
The Best Android Strategy Games of 2013
2013 has been a pretty good year for strategy games on Android so far, with worthwhile releases in subgenres ranging from squad-based combat tactics to business management to interstellar empires.…
The Most Hardcore Android Strategy Games Ever Made
The world of Android gaming has expanded greatly in the past few years, and the strategy genre has not been left out. From turn-based military strategy games, to classic real-time…
Spaceward Ho! Review
Spaceward Ho! is a very old name in the turn-based interstellar empire strategy genre, born when the building blocks of the first atoms were coalescing from the primordial quark-gluon plasma…
The Most Hardcore Android Tablets 0f 2013
The selection of available Android tablets has grown impressively in a very short time. In the face of such variety, it can be difficult to sort the wheat from the…
Strategy and Tactics: World War II
Historical military strategy games have always been a huge part of the strategy genre on PCs but comparatively thin on the ground in the mobile strategy market, where vast hordes…
King’s League Review
The King’s League is a strategy game from Difference Games, a company with a background mostly in Flash-based titles. It’s a fun game, but its dearth of choices in the…
Vector Review
Elegant Deliverance Vector is a side-scrolling action/platformer game based on parkour, the art of rapidly and fluidly navigating past obstacles. Pioneered by French athletes drawing inspiration from the obstacle courses…
Covenant of Solitude Review
Unspectacularly Entertaining Japanese RPG releases have been disappointingly sparse on the current generation of consoles, but the genre has found new vitality on mobile platforms like the Sony PSP and…
Dream House Days Review
Unabashedly Happy! Dream House Days is the most recent in Kairosoft’s long line of mobile management simulation games. This time, the player is given the task of managing an apartment…