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StrategeryCurrent Version: 3.5.3

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Strategery, Macworld's 2009 App Gems Award winner for Best Strategy Game, has been completely overhauled for version 3.1! "There is no game I play on my iPhone more than Strategery," writes Lex Friedman.

Strategery is a fast-paced game of world domination, designed and built from top to bottom for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. Play against the computer or your friends in an epic battle of strategy and risk.

"Strategery offers depth that can—and will—claim hours of your time."
- Macworld

"My latest iPhone gaming habit is Strategery"
- Slate Magazine

"Lots of fun and the gameplay has a great feel."
- Daring Fireball


FEATURES

• Challenging game of offensive and defensive strategy
• Play for a couple minutes or a couple hours (it's pretty addictive)
• Four difficulty settings, ranging from "Easy" (for the strategically impaired) to "Brutal" (risk being humiliated)
• Online battles with push notifications and random matchmaking!
• Pass-and-play multiplayer (up to 5 players)
• Automatically saves your game to resume later
• Randomly generated maps (four sizes) make every game a unique challenge
• TONS of gameplay options to tailor the game to your preferences
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Strategery Review

Strategy game is simple-looking but exquisite

by Lex Friedman, Macworld.com

Strategery, a $2 iPhone game from iDrinkApp.com that plays a lot like Risk, looks exquisite. That’s a high compliment, particularly for a game whose main interface consists of a bunch of colorful dots, but it’s more than earned. Great attention to detail and particularly crisp text make the game a delight to look at. The gameplay itself isn’t too shabby either.

Strategery
You control the blue countries, and your armies are blue dots. On your turn, you tap any country you control that has at least two armies, and then tap an adjacent nation you wish to attack. Each army involved counts as one die, and if the sum of all the dice your armies roll is greater than the sum of your enemies — well, get ready to plunder. You’ll immediately take ownership of their land … but if the final dice score was close, expect to lose some armies in the process.

You can choose to end your turn whenever you’d like, and you score bonus armies for each adjacent country under your control.

Strategery wisely lets you speed up when your computer opponents play, so you don’t spend a lot of time waiting to go again. And if you’re a preferences junkie, Strategery is heaven: You can choose from 4 levels of difficulty, three map sizes, play against 0 to 4 human opponents (sharing your iPhone), and a smattering of other gameplay settings. You’re able to make Strategery play you want it to, and that’s the hallmark of a great game. (Update: As noted in the forum thread for this review, there’s a free lite version of Strategery in which some of the game’s advanced options are disabled.)

If you like turn-based strategy games, you’ll enjoy playing Strategery. It’s attractive, quick to play, and charmingly addictive.

Strategery is compatible with any iPhone or iPod touch running the iPhone 2.x software update.

[Lex Friedman is a Macworld contributor with his own blog.]

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