SERIOUSLY?

Can you outsmart these strategy games?

Will you take on the challenge and test your tactics?

These games demand careful tactics on the battlefield and clever strategy off it – if you can combine the two, you’ll be unstoppable.

Clash of Clans

Build a beautiful base, with carefully placed barracks and fortifications as far as the eye can see. Then watch with glee as other players fall headfirst into your traps, before you wreak havoc on their headquarters in return. This has been one of the App Store’s most popular games for years, and with good reason: revenge is glorious. As are your soldiers’ moustaches.

A well-planned base is truly a thing of beauty. Tremble, ye fools, before my masterwork!

State of Survival

Zombies are never an easy fight: you’ve got smarts, but they’ve got numbers. You’ll need to move your squad members into position and deploy power-ups (such as zombie-baiting bombs) at just the right moment to survive these tense battles, before taking time out to fortify your homestead against the horde. With the right upgrades, you might even save the world.

This looks like a lot of zombies, but it’s just a petit hors d’oeuvre compared to the giant buffet of brain-hungry undead to come.

Clash Royale

Clash Royale has the strategic depth of chess, the quick rhythm of tennis and the colour palette of a children’s birthday party. For every tactic in this PvP tower defence game, there’s a countermeasure – we’ll never tire of seeing the opposition drop a Giant in the sure belief that they’ll take out our tower only to turn the tables by unleashing a Skeleton Army in its path. So satisfying!

Behind its bright and breezy looks, this is one of the most deviously designed strategy games in history.