Top Tips on Finding and Playing Free Online Strategy Games

Free online strategy games are the biggest blessing to bored people ever since Tetris launched. Imagine not having to experience a painfully boring day ever again, as long as you have a reliable PC and an Internet connection. Aside from giving you something to do, online strategy games also help you develop your strategic and decision-making skills as you play on, such that aside from having fun, you also develop a sharper, more analytical mind the more hours you spend playing. And the best thing about strategy games is that the game consequences differ with the decisions that you make along the way. This way, you get to play each session differently, depending on your actions.

There are a lot of strategy games available these days, many of them catering to gamers with specific interests. These include war games, turn-based games and, not forgetting, military games. On any given day, you can choose from your favorite game genre, and play as long as you want. Unfortunately, sometimes taking your pick is difficult, what with the many choices for strategy games that you can play online for free.

Choosing the more exciting game for you is all about being sure of what types of games you feel like playing, and where you can find these types of games. To begin with, some of the things that you may need to consider include whether you want casual games or action-packed ones, or if you want plain games with simple goals that you can finish in a jiffy or complicated ones that you need to log in long hours for. You may also want to decide on what milieu you would like to play in-war or military, modern or futuristic.

Let us say you have decided on what type of game you want. Where then do you start searching? You can try logging on to your favorite gaming sites to see if they have game choices that you can play for free. Certain gaming sites have "specialties," and usually offer only those games that fall under these specialized categories.

If you find nothing in your favorite online games websites, the next place to go to are the search engine sites. Think of your keywords very well. Try the game genres as your keywords and see where they point you to. Explore the possibilities. There are many interesting jewels that could be hiding in the piles of search results. Take your time and try anything that sounds interesting. Better yet, if you don't have time to surf and play, use the bookmarking function of your search engine and come back to explore some more when you get the time.

Of course, online games are better played with friends. So when you strike gold, make sure to tell your friends about it. Schedule a day and hour when you can all log in and play together. This way, you multiply the joy of the gaming experience as many times over as your number of friends.

Iain Key is a video game developer and fan of Free Online Strategy Games.

His website, http://www.FreeOnlineStrategyGames.co.uk is a collection of some of the best online strategy games available for free to play now.