Strategy Games to Play Unblocked

Hold the line

Tower defense fans have a few choices. Canvas Tower Defense offers four turret types and three neon maps, with waves that keep coming until your defense breaks, which turns each game into a test of how long your turret layout can hold. Elematter adds an elemental layer, where four tower types match up against four kinds of enemy over twenty waves and four boss fights. Hex Formation lays its path out on a hexagon grid with three tower types, ten waves and ten lives to spare.

Boards that take a lifetime

Go needs only two rules about surrounding space and capturing stones, yet it plays on 9x9, 13x13 and 19x19 grids for a reason. Hex asks you to link your two sides of a diamond board before your opponent links theirs. Hnefatafl, a Viking-era game, gives the sides different goals: the king runs for a corner while the attackers try to trap him.

Game of the Amazons is less known but very sharp. Each turn you move a piece like a chess queen and then fire an arrow that burns a square, until one side cannot move at all. Shogi and Xiangqi bring the Japanese and Chinese takes on chess. Nine Men's Morris and Surakarta are lighter, but still punish careless moves.

Build and grow

Compact Conflict hands you a fresh random map to conquer, with temples that boost troops and faith. Evolving Civilization starts with a single cell and grows into a town with jobs and research. IsoCity is a relaxed isometric town builder with no money or timer.

Hel's Trial takes a different route, with turn-based fights in an underworld hall where your health and your attacks share one pool of soul power. Spending too much on offense leaves you fragile, so every move is a trade. It is a good fit if you like puzzles as much as battles.

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