Games: Real-Time Strategy

RTS — the genre's bedrock: harvesting, base, army, multitasking at the edge of human ability and that very tremor of "the main thing is not to sleep through the battle's start". Cult classics of the nineties and two-thousands, modern revivals of the formula, fantasy, sci-fi, historical epochs — all in one section. Veterans' advice: many old RTS run on weak hardware like a charm — perfect candidates for a dusty laptop. Check the multiplayer ratings in reviews if you plan battles against humans, not only campaigns.