Strategy video games offer gamers the opportunity to really delve into a game’s world and characters, and discover how certain aspects of it work. Some of the best strategy titles encourage resource and people management, while others explore city building or wartime battle techniques and planning.

Many strategy games require you to play online, or at least have a steady internet connection. However, there are still plenty of great titles that you can play completely offline on mobile devices, PCs, and game consoles.

Here are 12 of the best offline strategy games worth playing.

Aven Colony is an offline construction simulation video game in which the player is responsible for developing, managing, and protecting a human colony on an alien planet. The city planning and resource management will appeal to fans of the Sim City series, while the science fiction setting sets it apart with its extreme natural elements and alien life forms.