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Strategy Games You Can Think About All Day
Games where the better plan wins. The deep classics anchor the shelf: Chess, Go (capture-style, the cleanest way in for new players), Checkers, Reversi, Backgammon and Gomoku, plus the other great chess traditions in Xiangqi, Shogi and Janggi.
The abstract corner is where strategy fans find new favorites: wall off the maze in Quoridor, break the king out in the Viking game Hnefatafl, connect coast to coast in Hex (a game with no draws, ever), twist quadrants in Pentago, form mills in Nine Men's Morris, and try the asymmetric hunt of Bagh-Chal, where four tigers face twenty goats. Amazons and Battleship round out the set.
Real-time planners get Tower Defense: place, upgrade and sell towers through escalating waves, with a boss at the end. Every opponent here plays honestly at easy, medium and hard, every board highlights your legal moves, and nothing needs a download. Pick one game and go deep: strategy games repay the second hundred matches more than the first.
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Go (Capture)
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Checkers
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Reversi
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Backgammon
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Gomoku
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Xiangqi
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Shogi
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Janggi
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Quoridor
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Viking Chess
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Hex
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Pentago
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Nine Men’s Morris
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Bagh-Chal
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Amazons
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Strategy Games: frequently asked questions
Which strategy game has the best computer opponent here?
Chess offers the widest difficulty range. Among the abstracts, Quoridor and Hnefatafl put up a genuinely thoughtful fight on hard.
What is the easiest strategy game to learn?
Reversi or Gomoku: each has one placement rule and still produces deep games. Capture Go is the friendliest entry into the Go family.
Are these strategy games free with no download?
Yes. Everything plays free in the browser with no install and no account. Signing in is optional and only adds leaderboards.
Is there a strategy game with no luck at all?
Most of them. Chess, Go, Hex, Quoridor, Reversi and the other abstracts have zero randomness: if you win, you outplayed the opponent. Backgammon adds dice on purpose.