Power Struggle

Power Struggle is a video game in the strategy genre and published by Personal Software Services originally released in 1989. It is currently playable on DOS.

A primitive but interesting abstract wargame from the designers of Fire Zone, Power Struggle is essentially the poor man's Empire - similar concepts and ideas, but much inferior implementation and questionable computer AI.

Choose to play as 'West' or 'East' and mobilize forces around the world to achieve a simple goal: annihilate the opposing side. The gameplay is a cross between the board game Risk and Empire: forces are mobilized from a strategic perspective, although the game zooms in on each country when combat begins. The only aspect of the game worth mentioning is the solid combination of real-time and turn-based modes: although the game is essentially turn-based, each turn is timed so that you have less than a few minutes to order your units. This phased, real-time approach works well, and foreshadows later classics that use this feature, e. g. Space Hulk.

It's worth a look for anyone interested in the history of the genre, although it doesn't have enough gameplay value to hold anyone's interest for very long.

It is possible that we have multiple downloads available when different versions exist.