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Welcome to /vst - Video Games/Strategy
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/vst/ is a place to discuss all types of strategy video games, including both turn-based and real-ti...
Endless games
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Discuss games in the Endless universe. Endless Space 2 has recieved a community patcb that squashed ...
WARCRAFT 3
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How come no one is ever discussing this on /vg/ other than to talk shit about orcs and how they're a...
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
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W&R:SR threadDiscuss the engoodening of Early Start, get mad about feature creep and post your decre...
/dfg/ - Dwarf Fortress General
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dwarven ethics editionPrevious: >>2312368Avaliable for free at https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/or...
Hearts of Iron IV Thread
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With No Compromise, No Surrender out in the wild, what are everyone's thought on it? What are some t...
Gostomel Heroes
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Dudes who made Syrian Heroes made a new game, anyone played it?>https://vkplay.ru/play/game/gostomel...
/ckg/ - Crusader Kings General
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Long winter's nap editionPrevious >>2271392
Starcraft Brood War - Zerg Chads Edition
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ASL 21 will be taken by a Zerg Chad, indubitably. The only question is, which one? Will Soulkey retu...
TOHOTOPIA (Touhou Civilization)
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Look what I found on jewtubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdcJKMwwmSMFrom what I can tell from the...
Thread #2339788
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What strategy game has the best logistics mechanics?
Victoria 3 /v3g/
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>passing laws is now slightly less annoyingAmazing! At this rate the game will finally be be fixed b...
/EU5/ /EUV/ Europa Universalis V
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peak strategy gaming
EU4 Anbennar Thread
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Sun elf supremacy edition Previous >>2304069
Conquest of Elysium - Chicken Pretender Edition
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/imp/ - imperator rome general
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there are dozens of us, dozens!
Tooth and Tail
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Got this game recently at a discount, it seems pretty good. An old RTS that is very simple to play w...
Voyager: Across the Unknown
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Releasing in 4 days. You may not like it but this is Xcom 3.
Thread #2189263
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>the cancer that killed total war
Enemy Nations
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Hey guys, have you heard of Enemy Nations? It’s a really unique game from 1996, kind of a mix betw...
Troubleshooter: Abandoned Children
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Autistic Mechanics EditionGeneral Guide Mastery Set Effects, Mastery Drop List etc:https://steamcomm...
The Campaign Trail
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CTS: campaigntrailshowcase.com/campaign-trail/index.htmlNCT: newcampaigntrail.com/campaign-trail/ind...
Thread #2334302
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How old were you when you took the rushpill and stopped being turtler scum?
/HTW/ Historical Total War thread
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Since /twg/ is mostly about Warhammer now, let's have this again. Talk about historical Total War ga...
Naval Wargames
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Happy new years edition!Lets have us all a friendly ship design competition, post your boats! Use th...
Thread #2314265
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No one survives edition>M&B Wikihttps://antifandom.com/mountandblade/wiki/Mount_&_Blade_Wiki> BANNER...
Heroes of Might and Magic
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Let's discuss the greatest fantasy turn based strategy series of all time.>Heroes of Might and Magic...
Age Of Mythology Thread
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I love this game. I like it more then AOE2. Discuss it.
Thread #2193516
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This game has spoiled me as far as QoL in gaming goesI don't care if you like it or not, if you're a...
Thread #2324745
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>removes features from the game and replaces them with unfinished onesit's over, isn't it? we will n...
Void War sued by GW
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Because the shoulder pads (good because disproportionated shoulder pads look retarded af).I hate GW ...
Thread #2320279
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How long until Paradox abandon EU5? This was supposed to be their magnum opus.. no one wants to play...
RTS humour
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LOL
Tactics RPG's
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Final Fantasy Tactics, Tactics Ogre, and any derivatives in this thread!The Final Fantasy Tactics re...
Rimworld thread
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I like to think it wasn't just the anarchists that destroyed the empire. There used to be a mention ...
Dawn of War: Definitive Edition
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It's unfortunate that the Definitive Edition for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War completely failed to ...
/gsg/ - Grand Strategy General
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If you see a gibberish post, it was made by raiders, ignore it.No, Vic 3 is not good yet. In fact it...
Hearts of Iron IV / HOI4 Modding
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>half the mods posted in these threads are just teasers>they'll never be released>some of the dev te...
TNO thread (funeral crashers edition)
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As always, /tno/ updates more reliably than TNO itself.https://gofile.io/d/zAJ2RV - Full DV leak rep...
Sudden Strike and Blitzkrieg bread: Linux edition
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While I am aware that both games are different and people who like one, might dislike the other, to ...
Thread #2255151
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The future of strategy games is here
Thread #2245907
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>play>press buttons faster than the enemy>winWhy is this considered strategy and allowed on this boa...
Thread #2154626
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Why are tier 1 skeleniggas so expensive to raise in this shit game
FIRE EMBLEM THREAD
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You guys think this game is gonna be an FF6 style game with an ensemble cast or will it continue the...
Total War Rome 2 is awful
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>be me, Roman with Celtic ancestry >choose the Iceni >found in Steam Workshop the 'Iceni Legionaries...
against the storm
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Is it any good?
Thoughts on the Romance of the Three Kingdoms strategy games made by Koei?
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I almost never hear any strategy game fans mention this series but apparently it is very good?
Best TW for a complete newbie.
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I've been lurking around here and people seem to mention Total War a lot. I talked to one of the guy...
/asd/ - Amateur Strategy Development
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An awful thread for devs and no-devs to post their awful ideas for strategy games that will never se...
Thread #2336283
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Strategy games aren't popular because people are idiots. They're unpopular because devs can't unders...
What are some GOOD LOOKING /vst/ games?
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Built a new PC last month and now I want to jump into some games I'd been unable to play on my old t...
Thread #2330561
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is it any good
Space Scum demo is out
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So Battle Brothers in space demo is out.Is it good though, /vst/?Just saw the trailer, going to try ...
Disciples
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Fuck dwarfs
Anno 1800
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now that it has been cracked, whats your excuse for not playing the BEST anno title?
/eu4/ - Europa Universalis IV
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Some people give it a bad rap, but I'm never upgrading. Why would I? Just feels like a good pair of ...
Company of Heroes 3: Endure & Defy
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ryr8UF4SX4It's out (in 20 days). Thoughts? We now have italians on ...
Songs of Syx
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Amevian edition0.70 is live
Thread #2353534
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>OUR MEN ARE RUNNING FROM THE BATTLEFIELD!!>SHAMEFUR DISPRAY!!!
Thread #2316565
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Game
DIY Unit Design
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Why has no one tried to recapture the magic of Metal Fatigue? Yes, I know there are other games wher...
EU5 EUV WHAT'S GOING ON?
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I was thinking of (pirating) this game. Why are 52% of the recent steam reviews negative?
Three Kingdoms
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What's the verdict on this?
Starsector
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Previous thread: >>2322664THD edition
/oxce/ - OpenXCOM
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"Recruiting" more hybrids.>OXCE?OpenXcom is a free open-source game engine for the original 1994 X-C...
Thread #2343651
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Is there any hope for me if I want to learn and thrive in this game without resorting to outside gui...
Thread #2353269
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Comet catcher
Hearts of Iron IV / HOI4 Modding General
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TFR is dying edition——-MODDING RESOURCES———>bit dot ly 3GPdwPDGeneral Index of tutorials f...
Thread #2350772
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Finally got to related in my backlog and have to say, been having fun. What do you folks think about...
Steam Next/vst/
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its that time of the year again, recommend some demos
Is stelaris worth playing
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I can get the game with 3 DLCs for super cheap on steam. Is the game worth buying and learning? How ...
Thread #2351421
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[Good News] /ourguy/ the real city planner got to play the beta of transport autismo 3 and he says t...
Thread #2333360
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>elects to engage with about 20% of the game at best >proceeds to sit in the corner of the map doing...
Ashes of Singularity
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What's up with the game?It just released a demo yesterday and nobody talks about it. All the videos ...
Thread #2343721
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Mogs AoE
Warhammer Mark of Chaos
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This game is way better than any of the 3 total war games
Total War 3 Kingdoms thread
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I didn't remember how ugly 3 Kingdoms looks, how can people enjoy it unironically?I swear, even in 2...
/trb/ - Football Manager
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Are you sticking with 26 or going back to FM24?
CK2 hate thread
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Post pics or greentexts about stuff that happened in your campaign that make you ragequit or give yo...
Best RTS mod coming through
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ANNO 117
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So now that the dust has settled,>what went right?>what went wrong?>hopes and copes about new conten...
/aoeg/ - Age of Empires General
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prööööööö editionPrevious >>2319314
Hearts Of Iron IV / HOI4 Modding
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The kino dropping with 1.1 will be beyond our comprehension. Unfortunately webms can’t have audio ...
Rare /vst/ games thread #2
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ITT: Strategy games that no one besides (you) have played. Recommend rarities and discuss games that...
Thread #2332732
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What's the best way to play warcraft III in the year 2026?
Thread #2352043
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What is your favorite custom campaign for Warcraft 3?
Jagged Alliance 2 PWC simulator
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Is there ever going to be a tactics RPG that actually understands why Jagged Alliance 2 still embarr...
Empire at War: are Sith not that good?
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All guides i find online write that Darth Vader is one man army super unit that can take planets in ...
GDP numba up games
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What's the best economic game? I want to see number go up. I tried Democracy 4 and that game is tras...
Solium Infernum
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Do we have a group here? The only place on this site I found that discusses the game was the /dom/ g...
Thread #2351331
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Devs released a space combat simulator if y'all want to see how fighting will be like
Thread #2351490
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fuck this unbalanced piece of shit fucking modFUCKING SUCKS
Thread #2327957
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War in Spain is out now. Anyone played it? Is it a prototype for War in the Mediterranean or a WitP2...
Menace /MenGen/
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Fresh Menace Thread - Heavy armor editionHow is your diverse crew of women, people of colour and cra...
Debut of my Game - openstates.net
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Hey anons! I'm posting this here because I want to get word out to the proper autist userbase that I...
Thread #2338986
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When you start a new civ game (or any of its clones), all decisions are meaningful. The game lets yo...
Any fans of Knight of Honor 2?
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I've been trying to enjoy EU5 but it's been pissing me off, for various reasons, so I've gone back t...
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
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just finished a round of Alpha Centauri. seems as good an excuse as any to create a thread about it>...
Thread #2332947
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Friends, Tropicans tell me, will it suck? I only like 3 and 4.
Shadow Empire
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Can anyone tell me why my guys are starving despite available logistic points being like 7 times hig...
Thread #2327307
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how do fix mental omgea
Graviteam Tactics/Combat Mission - Eternal Rivalry Edition
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Thread to discuss Graviteam Tactics and Combat Mission games.Screenshots and AAR's welcome.
Terra Invicta
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Release edition is out!Who you playan?
The Guild - Europa 1410
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cautiously optimistic this timealso whats wrong with 3? was it really THAT shite?
Unpopular vst opinions thread.
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I'll start with the fact I don't like the Populus games even 3.
Games only you played
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Played a demo of this game a long time ago and it kicked my ass since I was a stupid child back then...
Rise of Nations
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...Anyone still playing it?Campaign maps were fun. I can see where the devs cut corners (all of sout...
Broken Arrow
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Roadmap revealed>One last major update of 2025, including allied bot support for skirmish>1st DLC wi...
/dfg/ - Dwarf Fortress General
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goonicorn editionPrevious: >>2298043Avaliable for free at https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/or as a...
Command & Conquer
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Watcha>playan>listnan>unit favanFor me it's the RA allied campaign, TD's Depth Charge and I love the...
Sid Meier's Colonization
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play the original? or the Civ IV spinoff? or Imperialism I (or Imperialism II)? I did play the origi...
Any good Vicky 2 mods come out recently?
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Thread #2057168
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Cyber Knights: Flashpoint just got out of the EA. It's an xcom-like cyberpunk turn-based tactics.Tho...
War of Dots
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>mogs HOI4>mogs total war>entirely free on steamyou're playing the most fun game of 2026, right anon...
OpenTTD
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OpenTTD 15.0 released!https://www.openttd.org/news/2026/01/01/openttd-15-0
Thread #2326944
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what do we think of it?
The Campaign Trail
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last one died ):
Tiberium Wars
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*teleports an Engineer next to your Construction Yard*why was this allowed???
Thread #2323713
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this is releasing in two days. we hyped or not? prince of macdeon (THE PRINCE) also has a gameplay v...
Starcraft Brood War - Soulkey Avenged Edition
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In less than 24 hours, Park Sang Hyun, also known as Soma, will defeat Bisu, qualifying for the ASL ...
menace
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How is your diverse crew of women, people of color and cranyon eating marines doing?Is your PC overh...
Godsworn
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>Godsworn is a classic mythological RTS. Experience an epic fantasy retelling of the Baltic Crusades...
Civilization series' scenarios
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Which Civ has the best scenarios and more important, does anyone even plays them?
Thread #2323607
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The great debate
Rogue State Revolution
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Is it any good?>Greetings your Excellency. Time to rebuild, reform and prepare for new challenges in...
Strategy of Lilly
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Anyone played this? Seems interesting and it's on sale
Thread #2323994
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Is it worth it to start with rts games in 2026? Never played one before.
Hearts of Iron IV / HOI4 Modding
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This has to be one of the worst focus tree layouts in a mainstream mod.Now with baking!——-MODDIN...
Thread #2321282
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Just played through the Songs of Conquest campaigns.Hero progress carries over between missions whic...
Grey Goo
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I liked it. What went wrong?
/aoeg/ - Age of Empires General
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How are you holding up AoE2 chads? Excited for the Mapuche? I'm really looking forward to Bolas Ride...
TW Shogun 2 videos are kino
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Modern Japan with the Oda emblem is kinoThey should put lots of videos into Medieval 3
Thread #2323427
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ohhhhso THAT's what she means when she says she "needs to find a mousehole"
Thread #2331833
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Rate the new snow wasteland recruits.The SVOLblader (my 20th gen daughterfu with no exclusivity clau...
Thread #2334712
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>ai creates this monstrositywhat do?
Strategy Games to hone political sense
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Greetings. I am looking for strategy games, preferably grand strategy, that will help hone my politi...
Thread #2342838
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Are there any truly great strategy video games out there today? Since largely migrating to board gam...
The Touhou Empires
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New demo out until the 17th. Anyone interested in trying it?https://store.steampowered.com/app/17612...
Crisis in the Kremlin
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Crisis in the Kremlin:The Cold War(2025) ThreadNew small updateAnyone had any particularly fun runs?...
Thread #2327844
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POV: You've been banned from my park.You will never get to return to this land of wonder. Jealous? Y...
Thread #2110457
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Best city builder in your opinion?>Cities: SkylinesShitties of them all in my opinion. In this one y...
Great Battles of History vs Field of Glory
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Which way, young man?
/eu5g/ - Europa Universalis 5
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Iron ore editionAKA waiting for v1.1 to get fixed edition
Thread #2329596
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On one hand it's great we had so many episodes of King's Bounty, on the other hand, I wished we had ...
Thread #2134850
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Paradox can't help themselves. eu5 is done.
Fall of an Empire
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Hi guys. What do you think about this upcoming 4X Grand Strategy game? Unlike similar titles, you al...
Thread #2327267
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>game predicts isis
Thread #2312877
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I am making a game suspiciously resembling EU4, what realism features, mechanics and other misc thin...
Theotown thread
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I just think it's neat.
Menace
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It's real major...
EU4: Anbennar
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I love the Jadd editionPrevious thread: 2167441
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