Build castles for peasants!
Castles is a strategy game that is based around expansion offered to you as an equation of building castles. As the title suggests! You find a place to build, at first trying to make do with your very limited budget, and then, slowly trying to expand as you gain more and more resources. But of course, you can't just build castles and only castles; there are churches to build, there are stables and housing for the peasants, the work force without which the castles would crumble in a heartbeat. And, of course, at the tip of the iceberg, there are the military forces and the work forces of the game, which add money to your treasury, give you the work force to keep building and expanding. It's, in a way, like a prototypical Settlers, similar in some ways graphically and controls wise, but, you know, just the game that sort of tried to piece together the idea, but never ran with it completely. But it's definitely a fun game, and it combines a large scale map, on top of which you sort of try and see what needs to get done where, and then you've got your small scale building oriented map, which is delivered in a cool isometric kind of production, that allows you to create walls and to select your units more easily. Yes, it is not too much of a strategy in terms of the military action, but it works. Easily works!
