StrategyWiki is a collaborative wiki that hosts video game walkthroughs, strategy guides, and game reference material. Founded in 2005, it uses a "one game, one guide" model in which contributors collaborate on a single guide for each game.

StrategyWiki is one of several websites that provide video game guides and walkthroughs.^[2] A distinguishing editorial principle of the site is its “one game, one guide” approach, under which volunteering contributors work on a shared guide for each title instead of maintaining separate author-owned submissions. According to StrategyWiki, this model is intended to encourage collaborative editing and simplify long-term maintenance of guide content.^[3]

As of 2026, StrategyWiki reported guides for approximately 10,500 games and more than 50,000 content pages, of which roughly 850 guides were considered complete according to the site's internal staging process^[4] According to site statistics, StrategyWiki had more than 100,000 registered user accounts as of 2026.^[1] Third-party traffic-estimation services have estimated StrategyWiki's monthly audience at approximately 1.8 million unique visitors.^[5][6]

In December 2005^[7] Brandon Suit^[8] founded StrategyWiki with the goal of creating collaboratively maintained strategy guides. The project emerged during a period when many online game guides were distributed primarily as standalone text documents. StrategyWiki adopted wiki software to support structured formatting, revision history, images, and collaborative editing.^[9]

Three years later, in December 2008, Scott Jacobi officially established ABXY LLC for the purpose of owning and operating StrategyWiki as a community.^[3] ABXY proceeded to operate several other wikis alongside StrategyWiki.^[10]

Early media coverage presented StrategyWiki as an emerging alternative to printed strategy guides and established walkthrough repositories such as GameFAQs. Joystiq characterized the site as an attempt to expand upon traditional text-only guides through collaborative editing and visual content^[9], while commentary on Henry Jenkins' "MIT Convergence Culture Consortium blog" noted that disagreements over optimal strategies in video games could present challenges for StrategyWiki’s collaborative model, in which guides are jointly authored rather than individually maintained.^[11]

In July 2011, Destructoid reported that StrategyWiki had surpassed 500 guides classified as complete under its staging system.^[8]

In 2019, MakeUseOf included StrategyWiki among its recommended websites for video game guides and walkthroughs, noting its extensive collection of collaboratively maintained game guides (over 6000 games at the time).^[2]

StrategyWiki has historical links to the Wikimedia ecosystem. On April 22, 2006, Wikimedia Foundation chairman Jimmy Wales initiated a discussion regarding the scope of Wikibooks.^[12] In 2007, video game strategy guides and walkthroughs were banned from Wikibooks, although scholarly analysis of video games, or guides on the design of video games, were still allowed. Following from this decision, most guides were migrated to StrategyWiki, which at the time was seen as "an existing wiki with a compatible license".^[13][14] In early 2021, Wikibooks reversed the decision to exclude books on video games that described strategy, as it felt that it was no longer logical.^[13] Since then content from StrategyWiki has been exported to and made available on Wikibooks, e.g. the walkthrough for the game "Legend of Zelda".^[15]

As of 2026, the StrategyWiki site runs on MediaWiki, the same software used by Wikipedia. In 2024 it upgraded to MediaWiki 1.41 and enabled the Visual Editor. StrategyWiki's content was initially licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License and is currently licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0.^[16]

On March 18, 2008, StrategyWiki entered into a partnership with strategy guide publisher DoubleJump Books (now defunct) for a mutual cross-promotion. The site subsequently became DoubleJump's official wiki.^[17]

On October 15, 2010^[18], StrategyWiki became a member of the Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance, a network of independent Nintendo-focused wikis that includes Bulbapedia, SmashWiki, and Zelda Wiki.^[19] It is also part of the Square-Enix Independent Wiki Alliance.^[20]

In 2016^[21] StrategyWiki entered a partnership with PCGamingWiki for "link exchange", i.e. both sites maintain automatically generated links which link to each other's game pages.^[22]