Deadlock: Planetary Conquest 
Tensions flare quickly in Deadlock, a colonization game focused on one crowded region of a new planet.
Category: Strategy
Deadlock: Planetary Conquest
Dinosaur Predators 
As an educational tool about dinosaurs, this game is limited by its strategic shortcomings. As a strategy game, it’s held back by its adherence to science.
Dominus
From the highest vantage point to a small dungeon, Dominus finds a plethora of ways to wage war and then never gives you the time to try them.
Econ’s Arena
This lovingly cluttered, colorful strategy game based on the classical elements needs more focus to deliver a endgame as compelling as it looks.
Freedom: Rebels in the Darkness
Muriel Tramis’s slave rebellion strategy game confronts history with a cathartic rage never encountered in games – and it came out in the 80s.
Green
The throwback environmentalism in Green makes a cute political cartoon but a very vague strategy game.
Gridz 
This game has an eye-popping design right out of the early internet age’s imagination – plus a strategy game concept that plays off the surprise of the setting.
Lemmings Paintball 
Lemmings and paintball complement each other better than you’d expect, and Lemmings Paintball‘s sloppiness is less the fault of its ridiculous concept than of its execution.
Liquid War 5
From the bones of the strategy genre comes this liquid-y war game where fighting is about filling up the right spaces.
Maze Mission Adventure Game
One of the first of William Soleau’s puzzle-lite games, Maze Mission Adventure Game is suitably fun to explore in short bursts.