Strategy games focus heavily on challenging the player's ability to micro-manage their resources or characters. Strategy often overlaps with other genres however they all keep the core theme of testing the player's brain. With most strategy games, it is key to plan ahead. All players and enemies will begin with the same tools on an equal playing field

There are many notable games that focus on strategy, here are just a few:

• Pit People

• Castle Crashers; Back Off Barbarian

• Portal

• League of Legends

• Bloons TD5

There is very little room for player progression within Strategy games, often boiling down to a simple win or loss depending on their strategies. The player can progress through levels in some instances, but usually the game will simply reset with some level of difference between retries.

Most strategy games are fairly linear and have a clear objective. What makes each experience different is the player's strategy and approach to the problem or challenge. it is up to the player to create their own unique experiences within most strategy games.

Emergent Gameplay is hardly present in strategy games, however these games can achieve emergent ideology through each player's individual approach to the same problem. For example, in Pit people, a player can build their team around being aggressive on the enemy team, or use more mobile units to flank the enemies while holding a more defensive approach.

Types of Gamers:

Strategy games are often marketed towards competitive and hardcore gamers. They can feature multi-player modes such as the Pit in Pit People, where players can go head-to-head to see who has formed a more solid strategy. They often include modes to play against insanely difficult AI in an attempt to prove their ability to beat the computer. This makes them very appealing to hardcore gamers.

Gender:

Strategy games can appeal to all genders, as they often do not rely on any details that favour a specific gender and mostly focus on sheer strategy rather than characters

Age:

Strategy games typically appeal to ages 12 and up, however they generally do not feature any graphic details that would put the age rating above 7, they can be played by anyone willing to dedicate the time to learn the game.