Come aboard this adventure through different worlds with your railroad builder Hamster friend! Help the Hamsters village to collect minerals and crystals, building crazy railways to solve the fun puzzles.

Prove to have a true Strategic Mind! Spirit of Liberty will put your strategic planning skills to the test. It’s a hardcore, turn-based, historically accurate strategy game set in WWII. Lead Finnish forces against an overwhelming threat through the Winter War, Continuation War, and Lapland War.

If you can dream it, you can build it.
Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into the thriving metropolis only you can imagine. You've never experienced building on this scale. With deep simulation and a living economy, Cities: Skylines II delivers world-building without limits.

Lay the foundations for your city to begin. Create the roads, infrastructure, and systems that make life possible day to day. It's up to you – all of it.

How your city grows is your call too, but plan strategically. Every decision has an impact. Can you energize local industries while also using trade to boost the economy? What will make residential districts flourish without killing the buzz downtown? How will you meet the needs and desires of citizens while balancing the city's budget?

Your city never rests. Like any living, breathing world, it changes over time. Some changes will be slow and gradual, while others will be sudden and unexpected. So while seasons turn and night follows day, be ready to act when life doesn't go to plan.

The most realistic and detailed city builder ever, Cities: Skylines II pushes your creativity and problem-solving to another level. With beautifully rendered high-resolution graphics, it also inspires you to build the city of your dreams.

Deep simulation.
AI and intricate economics mean your choices ripple through the fabric of the city. Remember that as you strategize, problem-solve, and react to change, challenges, and opportunities.

Epic scale, endless possibilities.
Cities: Skylines II lets you create without compromise. Now you can build sky-high and sprawl across the map like never before. Why not? Your city is you.

Cities that come alive.
Your decisions shape each citizen's life path, a chain of events that defines who they are. From love and loss to wealth and wellbeing, follow their life's ups and downs.

A dynamic world.
Pick a map to set the climate of your city. These are the natural forces you'll negotiate to expand your city amid rising pollution, changeable weather, and seasonal challenges.

Bish Bash Bots is a unique mix of casual tower defense strategy and all-out brawling action. Team up in couch co-op / online play or go it alone to save the world.

In a cartoony take on the distant future, robots have become an integral part of everyday life. But everything changes when the bots, seemingly for no reason, malfunction, revolt against their makers, and start stealing all of the world's technology.

Amongst the chaos, a rag-tag team of unlikely heroes step up to save humanity. Armed with their respective skills, our heroes have set out on a grand adventure to reset the robots and save the world. Build upgradable turrets, unlock new gadgets and bash bots with giant hammers.

Journey across the world through vibrant and colourful biomes. Use strategy to defend against swarms of robots and save humanity!

Endless Dungeon is a Rogue-lite Tactical Action game, set in the award-winning Endless universe. Recruit a team of shipwrecked heroes, plunge into a long-abandoned space station, and protect your crystal against never-ending waves of monsters… or die trying, get reloaded, and try again.

Kingdom Eighties is a new, standalone title in the award-winning micro-strategy series, Kingdom: A love letter to the nostalgic days of bike riding, summer camps, and sitting around in your pajamas on a Saturday morning in front of the TV. You play as The Leader, a young camp counselor who’ll have to protect their family and the entire town from the relentless attack of the mysterious Greed. The young neighbourhood kids will be at your side, and you’ll also find some new friends along the way: The Champ, the Tinkerer, and the Wiz will lend you their skills and support in battle.

Step into the enchanting world of Alphadia, a revitalized epic fantasy RPG series that merges the first two titles, 'Alphadia I' and 'Alphadia II', into a single, captivating adventure.

Immerse yourself in a beautifully reimagined world, where attractive characters and their enthralling journey come to life through updated graphics. Experience a richer narrative with the inclusion of cross events, bridging the stories of I and II. Choices made in one game influence the unfolding drama in the other. Unveil the elusive true ending of Alphadia II by conquering both titles and meeting specific conditions. Moreover, delve into a treasure trove of rewards, including enemy catalog, and various other exciting extras.

Use your geometric and logic skills to fire cannons at pirate ships and sink them to the bottom of the sea.

In each level you’ll need to move the blocks strategically and change the trajectory of the cannonballs until they reach the target.

The concept is simple yet challenging, and the difficulty gradually increases over dozens of levels.


Features:
* 60 levels with increasing difficulty
* Pirate ship combat theme
* Variety of obstacles and blocks
* Simple controls including a virtual cursor option

In Asterix & Obelix: Heroes, players can experience a new Asterix adventure never seen in the comics, in a game designed to appeal to everyone. They must assemble their favourite heroes from the franchise to face the enemy in card battle!
 
It is the year 50 BCE, and the whole of Gaul is occupied by the Romans... Well, not quite all! There is one indomitable Gaulish village still holding out against the invaders. Asterix & Obelix: Heroes immerses players into an ancient Gaul once again under threat from Julius Caesar, who is set on seizing the mythical Sword of Toutatis, which according to legend has the power to subject all the Gauls to his will. They must travel across 6 iconic locations of the comic series, to recover the pieces of a mysterious map leading to this coveted sword.
 
Asterix & Obelix: Heroes is a turn-based strategy card game, in which players must form a team of 4 heroes from the 24 unlockable characters, in order to vanquish the enemies standing in their way. They can craft their own decks, drawing on unique skills from each hero, to face the plethora of battles and challenges lying in wait in each of the 6 iconic regions of the Asterix world.
 
Get ready for an all-new adventure alongside your favourite heroes to foil Caesar’s plans, by Toutatis!

Sneak, steal, and shoot your way through a world of pulp adventure in The Lamplighters League! Globetrot across a variety of exciting locales around the world and outwit your enemies in strategic turn-based combat - and, if you play your cards right, you might just save the world.

Harebrained Schemes, the creators of The Shadowrun Trilogy and BATTLETECH, bring you an all-new world set in an alternate 1930s, where a tyrannical cult called the Banished Court stands on the cusp of world domination. For millennia, all that stood between this sinister cabal and their plans was a band of heroic scholars known as the Lamplighters League.

Unfortunately, the best of the best are all gone, so now it's up to the best of the worst.

Recruit a team of misfits and scoundrels with unique abilities and unforgettable personalities, and chase the Banished Court to the ends of the earth in a mix of real-time infiltration, turn-based tactical combat, and a character-driven story of adventure and intrigue.

A turn-based RPG that is action-oriented but rewards a thoughtful approach. Discover a fantastic land populated by different animal tribes. You play Reik, a clever member of the tribe of foxes. A chain of unfortunate events involves you in a quest of vital importance to all the peace-loving creatures of the realm. You will have to leave your home village and explore the world to become strong enough to stand up to evil.

Think you have what it takes to save cyberspace? Mutant viruses have invaded its core and are threatening to destroy it. It’s up to you to take on these waves of viruses and defend the core of cyberspace in a way that prevents any of them from reaching it. But there’s no need to fret – you'll have countless upgrades and a split-personality killer drone to (more or less) help you out!

Innovative tower defense experience
CyberTD takes the classic tower defense experience and combines it with roguelite elements, creating a captivating mix. With each level-up, you'll unlock new upgrades and gain access to more options for customizing your defense according to your own unique style.

Easy to learn, tough to master
Though learning the game's simple mechanics is easy, you'll need to come up with an [b]elaborate strategy[/b] if you're looking to reach high-score territory. You'll be entertained for plenty of time in your hunt for better upgrades and tactics – and you’ll get some questionable support from a retired killer drone with two feisty personalities.

The land of Anthos was a peaceful and harmonious land watched over by the Harvest Goddess and the Harvest Sprites, who protected the inhabitants of Anthos from natural disasters such as storms, earthquakes, and the like.

However, one day many years ago, Anthos experienced a severe volcanic eruption that threatened life on Anthos itself, and the Harvest Goddess and Harvest Sprites had to use all of their remaining power to keep the people and animals of Anthos safe. This left the different villages across the land blocked off from each other. Some unfortunate souls even got trapped outside their villages, and were unable to return...

Believing that the separated villages and people would one day be reconnected, the Harvest Goddess sent out a bottle with a letter and a magic key, then fell into a deep sleep...

Now, 10 years later, you have found the SOS the Harvest Goddess sent to the world in the form of a message in a bottle! With the help of your wacky inventor friend Doc Jr. and many others, it’ll be up to you to revive the Harvest Goddess and the Harvest Sprites, as well as reconnect all of the villages of Anthos with each other!

• Farm all around Anthos using Doc’s new and improved Expando-Farm! Easily move from place to place and farm everywhere from snowy mountains to beautiful beaches!

• Keep and raise different kinds of cows, chickens, and sheep in your barn! Find even more exotic animals to keep out in the wild of Anthos!

• Participate in a variety of contests and festivals!

• Woo 5 different bachelors and 5 different bachelorettes! Marry whoever your heart desires!

• Keep unique pets like wolves and exotic animals such as Bengal tigers!

• Collect seeds from Harvest Wisps hidden all over Anthos! Some of the rare ones only come out at certain times, so keep an eye out for them!

• Explore the wide world of Anthos on foot or on mount! Unique and unusual mounts are available as well!

• Mine deep for ore and other materials in several different mines! Watch out for falling rocks!

• Fast travel around the world using the Harvest Goddess’s Warp Statues!

• Take pictures, selfies, and more!

Terraformers is an expansive colony builder and resource management game. Explore the Red Planet, develop spectacular cities, spread life and terraform the planet with ambitious projects.

The apocalypse wasn’t the end of the world. Just the one we knew. Enter the Days of Doom, a post-apocalyptic tactical RPG roguelite that challenges players to reach Sanctuary, a place of promise and respite in a world of colorful chaos. Starting with a small cast of survivors, you’ll chart a path to reach your ultimate destination, encountering threats, including zombies, raiders, and even zombie raiders! Along the way you will need to recruit a ragtag band of heroes to protect your growing community and fight your way forward.

Discovering how to best utilize each hero's unique abilities is the key to success in Days of Doom’s turn-based combat. Attack with Pyro early in the battle, as he ignites enemies for lasting damage. Then combine the Hydromancer and the Thrasher in a one-two knockout punch. Hydromancer can set the stage with a ranged water attack, and then the Thrasher can deliver a shocking surprise to wet enemies. The odds against you may seem insurmountable, but if you use your heroes' abilities strategically, upgrade them, and add new abilities along the way, you might just make it.

No two runs are ever the same, which keeps you at the top of your game, and makes Days of Doom inherently replayable.

Welcome to Rayland. The inhabitants of this island use the energy coming from special laser beams to survive, and to transport this energy they use something called repeating cubes. Your mission is to help the inhabitants of Rayland move the energy of the transmitter, known as a Domus, through different lands by reflecting lasers to their target.

To do this, you will have to correctly position repeating cubes and rotate them so that the energy rays reach the receptacle that matches their color. Rayland 2 is a positional puzzle game played on a rotatable isometric field. Different block types and stage gimmicks must be utilized to redirect the laser beams and hit their intended targets, with challenge and complexity gradually increasing across 50 stages!

Features:

• Use the resources of each level to make reflected rays reach their target!
• Intersect rays to generate a new vector for them.
• Move and rotate the mirror-like Reflectus!
• Aim through gaps and special block types.
• Overcome a variety of brain-teasing stages!

Put your group of mercenaries together and head out to explore a dark and dangerous world, in the distant lands of Gloomhaven. Discover the adaptation of Isaac Childres' renowned board game and dive into the depths of this universe.

Play as Rai Reysend and his companions through a series of comical events and epic battles to reveal the mystery of the cosmic barriers that were created after a meteor shower. Will you be able to save the land and uncover the truth?

-Traditional turn-based combat RPG!
-Execute commands with timing to increase your attacks and defenses!
-Cast powerful magic attacks and amplify them with fun button sequences!
-Run and jump your way through various stages while finding treasures!
-Solve puzzles and complete quests!
-Meet a wonderful cast of funny characters in comical situations!
-Tons of secrets to discover!

Welcome to an epic RPG world in which the town you build can grow from humble hamlet into a mecca for the land's most ambitious adventurers!

The enterprising warriors that stop by your blossoming burg will defeat monsters and earn you money. Conquering dungeons and clearing out hordes of monsters will bag you loot to stock your shops. And if your hamlet flourishes, adventurers will want to set up house and settle down!

Build your own resort and propel it to success with but a touch of the finger in this one-of-a-kind simulation! Rooms, restaurants, arcades, and baths--position each facility to lull your guests into hot spring Nirvana and skyrocket your establishment to fame! Craft the perfect Japanese garden from lanterns, pine trees, azaleas, and more--you'll need it all if you want to attract VIPs like pop stars and novelists.

Sho, a young man who spends his days in an exploitative company in modern Japan, is reincarnated into a parallel universe as Shaw, due to an accident!

While the job given in his new life is 'Unemployed' and hardships continue with a bad luck party, one day he acquires the ultimate job as a Sage, suddenly becoming the strongest with ultra rare passive skills!

Aiming for the long-awaited mellow life he finds himself in a battle to defeat the Overlord after meeting the Hero Viola.

With exceptional passive skills that for example can change the future by returning before Game Over, get rid of enemies in turn-based battles by summoning spirits or managing mana plants, or even use the skills of monsters!

Complete quests and raise the guild rank so you can challenge deeper dungeon or other adventuring parties, too! With other elements such as a battle arena and the dungeon where treasure chests are automatically generated, your adventure against the Overlord's Army will surely be an unparalleled quest to finally gain a calm, modest life!

Not all heroes are born, many are forged by the finest Hero School – yours. Build and manage your very own hero academy within this simulation-RPG genre blend! Nurture a unique, ever-growing roster of students and fight in strategic turn-based-combat as you experience a narrative spanning over ten years.

A STORY SPANNING TEN YEARS
Uncover the truth behind an ancient dragon awakening to wreak havoc across the world of Valthiria. Can you revive the academy and unite kingdoms to rid the world of evil?

YOU’RE IN CONTROL: CREATE & MANAGE YOUR OWN HERO SCHOOL

CURATE A CURRICULUM FOR YOUR STUDENTS
Allocate students time across multiple different classes to shape them into heroes. Your leadership in the classroom will influence how students behave on quests!

PLAN, FORECAST, EXECUTE, IN STRATEGIC TURN-BASED COMBAT
Select your party for each quest and take your students out for in-field experience as you fight Valthiria’s monsters in turn-based-combat.

ALL WORK, NO PLAY?
The students can’t always be studying or getting in-field experience, right? Take part in swimming, fishing, eating and snowman building competition across the seasons!

The King's Bounty turn-based tactics series returns with King’s Bounty 2! In addition to the tactical depth fans expect from its combat, immerse yourself in the fantasy world of Antara with a whole new, non-linear narrative and deep RPG mechanics that give weight to your every decision.

The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.

Take control of a construction and demolition company. Destroy various structures. Invest the money you earn on your own construction projects and then earn rental profits.

- A variety of machines
- An open world full of quests
- Advanced demolition system
- Invest, build and earn
- Manage employees
- Repair broken equipment

Best Xbox Series X|S Strategy Games

Ranked games, page 22 of 29

Hamster on Rails

Strategic Mind: Spirit of Liberty

Cities: Skylines II

Bish Bash Bots

Endless Dungeon

Kingdom Eighties

Alphadia I & II

Pirates on Target

Asterix & Obelix: Heroes

The Lamplighters League

Of Blades & Tails

CyberTD

Harvest Moon: The Winds of Anthos

Terraformers

Days of Doom

Rayland 2

Gloomhaven

Another Crusade

Dungeon Village

Hot Springs Story

Isekai Rondo

Valthirian Arc: Hero School Story 2

King's Bounty II

Bloons TD 6

Demolish & Build Classic

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