The General

The General is a freeware turn-based strategic game developed by Russian team NewGame Software. In this game, you take the lead of a country striving for territory and compete with other countries, developing science, hiring generals and armies and fighting battles. The game has a minimalistic economic system, which is quite suitable for the game concept. It has mainly a text interface, but features a strong AI.

Game modes include single-player, hot seat and multi-player. Also, the top scores of the game are collected and stored on an Internet server.

The current version of the game is 4.5h.