Strategy games on steam?

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Hello!
I'm looking for a new strategy game to purchase on Steam. I've completed every Command and Conquer, I've completed Starcraft, and I've completed every Total War title. So, what are your recommendations on great strategy games? I'd prefer if they were like the games I've completed, I mean, I've bought many strategy games to be let down by their dullness and over complication. I play games for fun, not fuel for thought.

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Civ 5. Was on sale a few days ago though.

[Dezerte]

Super Commander 1 & 2 are in sort of the same vein, but more large-scale battles. I'd also want to recommend Sins of a Solar Empire, a Space RTS/4X game. It plays sort of like Homeworld, but add in some more 4X elements (large tech trees to research).

[Krawu]

Civ 5. Was on sale a few days ago though.

Civ 5 is very different from the games he described which are (somewhat) micro-heavy RTS games where the Civ series, while completely awesome, is macro-heavy and turn-based.

Supreme Commander is a good one, it's like Command & Conquer beefed up to a larger scale than Total War. He might also enjoy the newly released HD-Edition of Age of Empires II, which is hands down one of the best strategy games ever made or AoE3.


The Empire Earth series is also worth a look, even though I'm not sure it's available on Steam. There's a crapton of awesome games not on Steam, to list some:

Dune games (by Westwood Studios, try Emperor: Battle for Dune)
Warcraft 3
Total Annihilation
Earth series (Earth 2150, 2160 and 2170)
Rise of Nations
The Warhammer ones, not sure what they were called

Most of these can be had for 5 bucks or less. For now I'm out of ideas, but keep 'em coming, people.

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Civ 5 is very different from the games he described which are (somewhat) micro-heavy RTS games where the Civ series, while completely awesome, is macro-heavy and turn-based.

Supreme Commander is a good one, it's like Command & Conquer beefed up to a larger scale than Total War. He might also enjoy the newly released HD-Edition of Age of Empires II, which is hands down one of the best strategy games ever made or AoE3.


The Empire Earth series is also worth a look, even though I'm not sure it's available on Steam. There's a crapton of awesome games not on Steam, to list some:

Dune games (by Westwood Studios, try Emperor: Battle for Dune)
Warcraft 3
Total Annihilation
Earth series (Earth 2150, 2160 and 2170)
Rise of Nations
The Warhammer ones, not sure what they were called

Most of these can be had for 5 bucks or less. For now I'm out of ideas, but keep 'em coming, people.

Hm? Total War is turn-based.
I'll give Age Of Empires a look, I've heard a lot of praise for it.
Edit: Is age of empires 3 any good? It's half price and it's got some good reviews.
Edit 2: I've just watched some videos of Civ 5, it looks a lot like Total War, I think I could get used to the mechanics.

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Hm? Total War is turn-based.

Its more of a mix of it, the politics part is turn based but the actual battles is RTS.

[Krawu]

Hm? Total War is turn-based.
I'll give Age Of Empires a look, I've heard a lot of praise for it.
Edit: Is age of empires 3 any good? It's half price and it's got some good reviews.
Edit 2: I've just watched some videos of Civ 5, it looks a lot like Total War, I think I could get used to the mechanics.

Well, if you count in the world map part, Total War has similarities with Civ, but is only came to me when you said so, since I play those games for the awesome battles
Age of Empires 3 is a really cool game and it's on sale currently, but personally I'd still go for the second installment, this might only be nostalgia though. I you want your games to have good graphics go for 3, otherwise 2.

You said you played all Command & Conquer games, but since they tend to be forgotten a lot, I'l still go ahead and recomment C&C 1, 2 (Red Alert) and the REAL C&C3 (Tiberian Sun). All of those are freeware now, so if you missed out on one of them, be sure to try it.

[Jakexe]

Company of heroes is a must buy if you haven't got it already.

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Well, if you count in the world map part, Total War has similarities with Civ, but is only came to me when you said so, since I play those games for the awesome battles
Age of Empires 3 is a really cool game and it's on sale currently, but personally I'd still go for the second installment, this might only be nostalgia though. I you want you games to have good graphics go for 3, otherwise 2.

You said you played all Command & Conquer games, but since they tend to be forgotten a lot, I'l still go ahead and recomment C&C 1, 2 (Red Alert) and the REAL C&C3 (Tiberian Sun). All of those are freeware now, so if you missed out on one of them, be sure to try it.

Great, I'll give them a look.
I've played them all, really good. Red Alert was a personal favourite of mine. I think I'll go with CiV 5, it looks refreshing and new. Age of Empires looks too similar to Empire: Total War, and I'm looking for something different. Thanks for the advice, all.

[Krawu]

Great, I'll give them a look.
I've played them all, really good. I think I'll go with CiV 5, it looks refreshing and new. Age of Empires looks too similar to Empire: Total War, and I'm looking for something different. Thanks for the advice, all.

If you want to try the Civ games, check out FreeCiv. It's basically a fan-made (extremely well done) rip-off of the Civ series, but it's more like the first 4 parts and does still have some weaknesses in the diplomacy AI.

[Mikael123]

I can recommend Company of Heroes. Great World War II RTS game.

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age of empires HD releases soon on steam

[Remilia]

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