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 of monsters, robots, aliens, and/or zombies walking single-file reign supreme. This is unsurprising, since much of the popularity of mobile formats is their ready accessibility to people beyond the usual audience for videogames, whereas historical strategy has traditionally been the domain of people who are shockingly geeky even by the standards of the usual audience for videogames. Fortunately, Strategy and Tactics: World War II is here to bridge that gap, and while it doesn’t have the sort of complexity found in more traditional games it does a fine job bringing the genre to a mobile format.
Strategy & Tactics: World War II hopes to bring historically-accurate tactical grand strategy to the Steam library, and it's just launched on Steam Greenlight.
Gaming on Android pulls the games that are on sale this weekend and puts them all in one convenient place.
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 Cameron’s upcoming Edwardian-era romantic drama set against the backdrop of a tragic maritime disaster somehow caused by Plants vs. Zombies). Above the surface, there are breakout hits like Great Little War Game. There are ports of popular games from other platform, like Anomaly: Warzone Earth and Greed Corp. There are Kairosoft’s management sim games. There’s the never-ending cavalcade of tower defense titles created by randomly selecting two concepts and sticking “vs.” between them.
