Strategos
Strategos Games · 2026 · Strategy, Real Time Tactics, Wargame, Historical, Rome
PC
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About Strategos
Simulate Historical Battles
Simulate large scale warfare with the armies of antiquity in Strategos. With thousands of men on screen, you can recreate real or speculative historical battles between the major and minor powers of the ancient Mediterranean.Manage Complex Mechanics
Strategos is an ancients wargame with large scale formation movements and disorder, unordered charges, pursuing, evading, routing and morale shocks, fog of war, terrain effects, flanking and command and control simulations that bring a hardcore tabletop feel to digital, real-time wargaming.Command the Armies of Classical Antiquity
The armies of Strategos span nearly a thousand years of the classical period, from the Hoplites and Immortals of the Persian Wars, to the rise of the Sasanian Empire against Imperial Rome.Master Advanced Command and Control
An advanced command and control simulation encourages the player to think about the positioning and use of their generals, and when to commit them in order to balance giving orders, sending couriers, providing morale support, and fighting in direct combat.Select From a Huge Number of Units and Factions
The game contains over 250 unique units and nearly 120 unique factions, including the various Hellenic Empires, The Achaemenid Persian Empire, Rome and Carthage across different eras, Gallic, Germanic and Iberian tribes, Umbrians, Samnites and other native Italians, the major city states of ancient Greece, the Thracians, and more.Customize Battles
Custom battle options include selection of army lists, allies, units, army sizes, era, map, deployment distance and sides, difficulty, AI type/aggression, whether to use AI at all (alternative is hotseat), and optional randomization of army lists with options to filter random armies by era, importance, and whether they are steppe armies.Historical Campaigns and Reenactments
Current historical battles include Issos, Trebia, Ilipa, Magnesia, Zama, Adamclisi, Bibracte, Carrhae, and Raphia, with more to come. The text-based campaigns currently include the battles of Alexander, Hannibal, the Wars of the Diadochi, and the battles of Early Rome and the Peloponnesian War, with more to come as well.Factions:
- Abyssinian/Aksumite
- Early (Persian Wars) and Later (Alexander) Achaemenid Empire
- Aitolian
- Antigonid
- Alan
- Apulian
- Arab (Urban)
- Armenian (Tigranes and non-Tigranes)
- Athenian
- Atropatene (Early/Late)
- Bithynian
- Black Sea Greeks
- Blemmye/Nobades
- Bosporan
- Campanian
- Carthaginian (Early/Late)
- Commagene
- Caucasian
- Dacian
- Etruscan (Early/Late)
- Galatian (Early/Late)
- Gallic
- Georgian
- Germanic
- Germanic (Later) Horse/Foot Tribes
- Graeco-Bactrian
- Graeco-Indian
- Early Hoplite Greek
- Later Hoplite Greek (Major Later Hoplite Greek armies are also distinguished by city state)
- Greek Mercenary Expeditions
- Hellenistic Greek
- Hasmonean Jewish
- Illyrian (Early/Late
- Indo-Parthian
- Indo-Skythian
- Italian Tribes
- Judaean
- Kappadokian
- Kushan (Early/Late)
- Kyrenean Greek (Early/Late)
- Latin
- Libyan
- Ligurian
- Lucanian
- Lydian
- Lykian
- Lysimachid
- Maccabean Jewish
- Macedonian (Early, Alexander, Late Alexander)
- Massalian
- Meroitic Kushite
- Moorish
- Nabataean
- Numidian (Early/Late)
- Paionian
- Palmyran
- Parthian
- Pergamene (Early/Late)
- Phokian
- Pontic (Mithridates Early/Late, and Pre-Mithridates)
- Ptolemaic (Early, Mid-Early, Mid-Late, Late)
- Pyrrhic (Early/Late)
- Rhoxolani
- Roman (Tullian, Camillan, Polybian, Marian, Early Imperial, and Mid Imperial)
- Saka
- Samnite
- Sarmatian
- Sassanid (Early)
- Seleucid (Early, Mid-Early, Mid-Late, Late)
- Skythian
- Slave Revolt
- Spanish (Iberian, Celtiberian, Lusitanian, and Sertorius)
- Spartan
- Spartan (Hellenistic)
- Early Successor (Asiatic)
- Early Successor (Macedonian)
- Syracusan
- Tarantine
- Theban
- Thessalian
- Thracian (Early, Gallic, Hellenized, and Roman Client)
- Umbrian
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Its good!1 found this helpful
Only criticism I have of this game is not being able to fully customize the army you're leading, instead having to rely on rng or choosing an army from a template1 found this helpful
honestly and pleasantly surprise love total war games - got kind of sick of the turn based strategy tho, and wanted something that was mostly a battle simulator. tried "tabletop tavern" but could still just delegate and steamroll thru the game. love TW: Three Kingdoms because of the history it "teaches" Saw this in my discovery queue and said "why not" Not super detailed just yet, but just detailed enough to scratch the itch. Fun learning more about classical age warfare. The idea that orders have to be carried by courier is a really awesome touch, considering theres no way a general in the classical age should be able to instantly tell a unit across the battlefield to go attack another target. One thing that may add a lot of complexity and stress that I noticed in my first playthru - couriers were take the fastest path thru the battlefield, sometimes thru the front line completely unhindered. Id like to challenge the dev to force couriers to take more obsolete, and less dangerous paths. It would also be interesting if, for whatever reason the enemy was able to kill couriers and reduce your ability to share orders with your units on the battlefield. Couriers would then be a…1 found this helpful
Wonderful tactical RTS game. Battles feel realistic while still being exciting, and the decisions you make as the player are engaging. You won't find yourself simply selecting all your units and right-clicking on the enemy, as you might in other games of this genre. The AI reacts to most situations in a sensible way. The attention to detail given to each of the many included factions is impressive. I look forward to more refined and polished map-based campaigns.1 found this helpful
I haven't played for a while so I can't say too much but so far this game is really great. Pros: -Good graphics, and overall clean UI -Challenging battles with a courier mechanic -Many factions and units to choose from -Lots of historical battles and a few campaigns Cons: -Barebones diplomacy and campaigning outside "Move, attack" -The game is still in development -A bit hard to figure out In short, if you like battles and that stuff, go for it, if you're into intrigue and politics, I'd pass.
Strategos is one of the best RTS games to come out this decade! First of all, the sheer quantity and variety of units is something to marvel at. Over 120+ factions to choose that span 700 years of the Classical Antiquity Era with 250+ units to choose from. The battles are the most engaging you can fight in any game I've played. Each encounter hangs on a knifes edge to determine the winner, with the best strategy involving the timing of messengers and the positioning of troops. Troops recoil and push each other as skirmishers fling projectiles and cavalry crashes into each other on the flanks. The weakest part of this game are the map based campaigns. They are not as engaging or detailed as the Total War games are in the overworld campaign, but they have more unique mechanics with diplomacy and sieges to avoid making them detrimental to the game, and simulate how armies would fight on a seasonal basis. Overall, this is one of the best games to play if you enjoy ancient history and want combat more engaging and unique than most other RTS games. Also, the developer is regularly active and available to take in complaints, suggestions, and fix bugs, alongside adding new content for …
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