Most gamers that consider themselves experienced or hardcore dislike casual titles like those found on social networking platforms. The complaint is often that they are too simple or shallow and don't offer enough challenge. Yet it seems like gamers should be thankful for these types of titles, as they introduce a new crowd of people to a concept that would otherwise be foreign to them. Stormfall: Age of War, for example, sports the graphical style one would expect from a game aimed at the most serious of gamers. Does the play style hold the same or is this a beauty that is only skin deep?
Yarr! Set sail, me hearties! Etc.Is your heart no longer stirred by the dialect of salty dogs? Then you may be suffering from Pirate Overexposure, an extremely common Internet affliction. There's no definite cure, but the complex and compelling world that's laid out in DotMMO's social strategy game Pirates: Tides of Fortune might help sway you back to the ranks of the buccaneers.
Strategy games on Facebook have, to a certain degree, ossified around the time-consuming Travian formula of manufacturing resources, building armies, and battling other players for dominance and territory. Only variations in the GUI skin and the theme sometimes separate these games, which otherwise use a very standard interface. Total Domination: Nuclear Strategy is a take on this type of game that clearly wants to shake up some aspects of the formula, particularly the tendency toward Spartan, near-identical user interfaces.