2014 wasn’t the strongest year for strategy games, but there were still a few good gems out there. With the power of handheld devices growing better strategy games are capable on those devices thus we are seeing them creep up on the PC in terms of sheer quality and complexity.

Civilization: Beyond Earth

Beyond Earth may not have wowed everyone like Civ V did, but what was here was a great change from the normal Civ formula. Having quests and an overall streamlined formula to the Civilization series is just amazing here. This is Civilization almost at its finest, but not quite the amazing spectacle past games have been.

Runner-Ups

Smite

Tropico 5

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