Small rules, limitless depth
Chess has six pieces. Threes has one move. The best strategy games hide an ocean of depth behind a rule you learn in ten seconds.
Strategy doesn't mean complicated. Chess is six piece types. Threes is "slide and combine." 2048 is one rule you understand instantly and then spend a month trying to master. The magic trick of a great strategy game is depth that you discover, not depth that's explained to you in a 40-minute tutorial.
That's the bar for the Strategy category on Remix — easy to start, impossible to fully solve. And because creators here aren't boxed into one engine or genre, the design space is wide open: stacking, merging, routing, timing, whatever the idea demands.
Tower Blocks is the perfect example — one input (tap to drop), and a skill ceiling that humbles you fast. The all-time merge classic, 2048, still posts a 99% rating because the math under that simple grid never runs out.
One rule in. A limitless game out.