Northgard

I haven’t tried them, but I’ve heard good things about the Civ ports

And +1 for XCOM and Northgard

XCOM EW or even Xcom2

Rusted Warfare, Mindustry

Been playing Gordian's Quest recently which might be up your alley. There's a campaign mode followed by a some new modes.

Song of Conquest is good, though more tactical than top-down RTS.

I haven't been keeping up to date with mobile games for a few years now, but I remember being really into Starbase Orion and UniWar. Wonder if they're still around?

Polytopia is my go to for a short 4x mobile game that hits all the right levels of detail.

Just remembered Battle of Wesnoth has ports for mobile/tablets as well. Exceptional turn based strategy game

If you are willing to play a game in development, we have a beta version of our game Yield! available on mobile (as well as a demo on Steam). It’s a compact 4X set in the Middle Ages, positioned between Civilization and Battle for Polytopia in complexity.

Polytopia is good, i also have Castle crush and command and conquer rivals all free and you can dip in whenever u like and nothing to maintain

• Polytopia: Civ4 like/lite, the free version does only have 4 playable tribes but is otherwise mostly the same to the paid one. Highly addictive
• Unciv: opensouce Civ5 clone, not yet fully feature complete but steady development. Runs on Java so there are Linux/Mac/Windows/Android builds, but not sure about iPhone.
• Bad North: have not played this myself but read some good reviews.

Civilization 6 great game

Warfare inc!

Rome: Total War XCOM Tropico

All good options available on iOS.

"What is the best... car, or smartphone, or coffe, or.... ets"? Can you answer at least one of these questions and be sure that your answer is correct?

"Best-worst" - isn't that pure subjectivity? Why are you asking a question that obviously has no objective answer?

Age of Conquest IV - good, amazing game, I know it. But "best".... I can't say that. Compare this game to, for example, the (legendary, timeless classic): Birth of the Empires, or Uciana. And to be completely honest, even Heart of Galaxy I personally like more. Even more I like Solaris, Andromeda: Rebirth of Humanity, or Hades Star. But this is a completely different conversation, because. these are MMO games and should not be compared to offline games. From offline strategies, I recommend trying Age of Ottoman and Demise of Nations.

I may sound silly right now, but the stormshot game was an interesting discovery for me. Initially, I brushed off her ads during the games, then I decided to give her a chance and she is quite interesting

What about Company of Heroes? :)

The battle of polytopia

I have been injecting Balatro directly into my veins the last couple months. Hitting a god run is like winning a decent amount in a scratch off. Plus it really allows you to be creative and take a different approach each and every run, not to mention the different decks and how that can entirely change your strategy.

Before that, I was hooked on a game called 1010!, there’s a bunch more popular (and worse imo) ripoffs with different grid sizes and what not. One of those perfect offline games. It’s like Tetris but you place the pieces at your own pace. They started adding power ups and I lost interest because my high score was the only thing keeping me going and it didn’t feel legit anymore, I’ll still play it when I don’t have service or WiFi though.

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Thank you all for your answers!

If you have a netflix account try Into the Breach, it also has a PC version if you don't have netflix.

Phobies is great if you like turn-based combat.

> Loved Slay the Spire, I played it to death.

then you'd love Night of the Full Moon. I played that before StS and enjoyed it tremendously. Its designed specifically for mobile devices and it runs well (unlike StS imo).

Polytopia

Rusted Warfare

Northgard is the best android available rts game

I've been enjoying Bad North (Jotunn edition, maybe?). Not amazing amazing, but good for a playthrough or two. I did get it on sale, though.

Civilization 6

Any games from the Kingdom Rush series, you can complete all levels without buying anything

Company of Heroes

Try Polytopia, its a fun and relaxing Strategy Game. It has PvP as well, but there are a lot of PvE Challenges as well.

Trese Bros have some fun games. Codex Of Victory is another good one not by them (XCom light with customizable mechs and robotic troops). Crying Sun (from the humble bundle) is also a wonderful port for mobile.

RTS warfare
company of heroes
battle of polytopia

Ticket to Earth has an interesting twist on turn based strategy. If you like Into the Breach, you'll probably get some mileage out of it. I also really like Barnard's Star, although it could do with a story mode for single player games.

Try rusted warfare

Polytopia has been my go to game for the last couple of weeks…

You can try rise in time https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.riseintime.riseintime

I play Zenless Zone Zero a lot using the bluestacks emulator and it helps me quite a bit with finding and optimizing games.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Elite_Games_Mobile/s/P9fRKjHiuq
-check my collection(of TRUE strategies, not fake SLGs or fkn farm-clickers), and choose anything Uself.