Fit check
Is Trickery&Strategy worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Historical strategy players who want battlefield command alongside state administration
- Players who prefer deliberate, turn-based warfare with extensive planning
- Fans of political intrigue who want advisers, officials, espionage, and character stories
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a short, focused tactics game may find its combination of warfare, administration, and court systems too broad
- Players wanting fast-paced combat may not enjoy the deliberate turn-based battles and detailed planning
- Players requiring fully translated English text may be affected by the stated 70% translation completion
Our take on Trickery&Strategy
The game places historical strategy inside a wider system of state administration and personal intrigue. Battlefield decisions sit alongside population management, official appointments, court relationships, assassination threats, and plots against enemy commanders, rather than serving as the sole structure for expansion.
What is Trickery&Strategy?
Play as a newly crowned king during China’s Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods.
The game combines turn-based battles on a hexagonal world map with internal affairs, historical events, espionage, character stories, and court management. Armies use formations, morale, energy, armor, terrain, and specialized units including archers, chariots, scouts, and halberd soldiers. Tactical actions include ambushes, night attacks, fire, rockfalls, charges, and attacks that push enemies into water. Outside combat, appoint officials, manage population groups, taxes, food, materials, and military supplies, recruit advisers, develop the ruler’s abilities, accommodate door guests, and pursue plots against enemy commanders. Harem interactions, assassination attempts, and historical stories add further personal and political systems.
How Trickery&Strategy plays
- 01Hex-grid warfare
- Battles take place on a world map of hexagonal spaces with turn-based planning.
- 02Military stratagems
- Available tactics include ambushes, night attacks, fire, rockfalls, charges, and terrain-based attacks.
- 03Army formations
- Formations change movement, combat, defense, concealment, or the army’s response to orders.
- 04Internal affairs
- Officials manage population groups, tax rates, food, materials, military supplies, and social productivity.
- 05Character schemes
- Counselors can analyze enemy weaknesses and support plans such as getting a commander drunk.
- 06Ruler development
- Harem activities and martial training affect the ruler’s command, force, intelligence, politics, and charm.
Trickery&Strategy compared to similar games
Old World leads an empire through multiple generations and emphasizes marriage, heirs, and long-term legacy, while this game focuses on China’s Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, hex-grid warfare, official administration, and military stratagems. Xenonauts uses turn-based combat with small persistent squads against alien invaders, whereas this game combines kingdom management with historical armies, officials, and political plots.
Trickery&Strategy: platforms & release
Is Trickery&Strategy worth it?
It is worth it if: historical strategy players who want battlefield command alongside state administration. Skip it if: players seeking a short, focused tactics game may find its combination of warfare, administration, and court systems too broad.
Where can I download Trickery&Strategy?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Trickery&Strategy's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Trickery&Strategy on?
Windows only.
