What is a strategy video game?

What is a strategy video game?

Strategy games started out as basically war games. I mean they're directly descended from companies like Avalon Hill that used to make games like Stalingrad; where it would come in this big box, and there would be maps, charts, and troop movements. There was no action in the context of the game, it was simply, "I'm sending this army here to fight your army," and the computer will figure out who wins. It's not - I'm not aiming a gun at you and shooting. So that's how strategy games started, and they've since evolved and of course chess is a strategy game. So basically a strategy video game is any game where the action is abstract and symbolic. Chess is the perfect example, as you've got pieces which each represent certain powers and each piece has the ability to make certain moves. It's very much the same in computer and video games.