grand strategy game

plural grand strategy games

1. A type of advanced strategy wargame in which players must devise their own grand strategy by controlling a territory's military movements and using its resources. The genre, which includes both tabletop games and video games, differs from the similar 4X genre in imposing asymmetric starting conditions (i.e., some territories begin with a stronger military or more resources).

   […] and World Empire, a Risk-style computer grand-strategy game published in 1991.

   2013, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Greig de Peuter, Games of Empire Global Capitalism and Video Games, unnumbered page

   2 more examples

   As [Marc James] Carpenter (2021) prompts us to consider of one popular grand strategy game, “will a seasoned Europa Universalis player who succeeds at the enormous challenge of pushing back colonial invaders playing as the Cherokee gain an appreciation of Cherokee sovereignty, or an arrogant assumption that colonial conquest could have been avoided with superior strategy?"

   2021, Kristine Levan, Steven Downing, Crime, Punishment, and Video Games, page 91

   Crusader Kings II is a grand strategy game set in medieval Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

   2022, Jere Kyyrö, “Particularizing the universal: Medievalist constructions of cultural and religious difference in Crusader Kings II”, in Reima Välimäki, editor, Medievalism in Finland and Russia: Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Aspects, page 138

   Synonyms: GSG, map game