When it comes to the best mobile strategy games, we’re living in a golden age. Whether in terms of the remasters of classics like Company of Heroes or strikeout new IPs, like Bad North, reinventing classic game formats. What is true for strategy, will always be true, and so it often represents a realm with elegant simplicity at its heart. Look at Bad North and you’ll see how that ancient strategic simplicity compliments the medium of mobile perfectly.
But if scale is also what ye crave, mobile in all its great versatility can give you that. Titles like Plague Inc. or Rebel Inc. offer strategy on par with PC games, in short, because they are PC games! And as technology improves, the sky is truly the limit in terms of what strategy can accomplish, when paired with mobile as a platform. If you want to upgrade your on-the-go experience, check out our guides on the best portable gaming consoles and on the best iPhone for games to find your new favorite travel companion.
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