Why this shelf is short on purpose

Strategy is deliberately the shortest shelf: tower-defence layouts, turn-based skirmishes, idle and tycoon games, and a few base builders — the kind where the decision comes before the action. We keep titles that show you why you lost, because a strategy game that hides its own rules is a slot machine with a map. Anything needing an account, a tutorial longer than the game itself, or a real-money upgrade path is excluded. A session here runs fifteen minutes to half an hour, and it wants a mouse.

Every game on this shelf opens in the browser with no download. Each title has its own note on why it is here — how we choose games.