Strategy games on PC
Strategy games center on planning, decision-making, and managing objectives. They range from turn-based empire building and tower defense to real-time warfare, city or colony management, automation, and survival.
- Long-term planning or tactical choices
- Management, warfare, or survival systems
- Turn-based and real-time formats
Related: Turn-Based Strategy, Grand Strategy, Management, Tower Defense
3,020 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
Dota 2
Free-to-play team MOBA with deep strategy and over 100 heroes
80% positive
Free
Baldur's Gate 3
Party-based fantasy RPG with turn-based combat and consequential choices
97% positive
859K reviews
Don't Starve Together
Difficult open-world survival crafting built for cooperative play
95% positive
543K reviews
Marvel Rivals
Free-to-play third-person hero shooter with destructible Marvel battlefields
76% positive
Free
7 Days to Die
Open-world zombie survival sandbox built around crafting and base defense
87% positive
401K reviews
Bloons TD 6
Cartoon tower defense with upgradeable monkeys and four-player co-op
97% positive
395K reviews
Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI
Turn-based historical strategy with expanding cities and five victory paths
86% positive
379K reviews
Hearts of Iron IV
World War II grand strategy with detailed national war planning
90% positive
377K reviews
Paladins®
Free-to-play fantasy hero shooter with customizable champions and team objectives
85% positive
Free
Schedule I
Open-world crime simulation about building and automating a drug operation
98% positive
317K reviews
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
Medieval sandbox RPG combining personal combat with army command
88% positive
298K reviews
Arma 3
Open-world military simulation built around realistic combined-arms warfare
90% positive
296K reviews
Cities: Skylines
Single-player city builder about growth, budgets, traffic, and public services
93% positive
292K reviews
Satisfactory
First-person factory builder about automating an alien open world
97% positive
280K reviews
RimWorld
Sci-fi colony sim where an AI storyteller drives survival
98% positive
247K reviews
Squad
Large-scale military FPS built around teamwork, tactics, and combined arms
81% positive
244K reviews
Factorio
Factory-building strategy game about automating production and defending your industry
98% positive
235K reviews
Slay the Spire
Single-player roguelike deckbuilder with shifting paths, cards, and relics
97% positive
219K reviews
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
Turn-based 4X strategy across history on a hex grid
96% positive
211K reviews
Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition
Party-based fantasy RPG with flexible builds and tactical turn-based combat
96% positive
206K reviews
Slay the Spire 2
Roguelike deckbuilder with changing runs and four-player co-op
61% positive
202K reviews
Balatro
Poker-inspired roguelike deckbuilder built around scoring synergies and escalating blinds
98% positive
199K reviews
Stellaris
Real-time grand strategy about building and shaping a galactic empire
86% positive
197K reviews
Once Human
Open-world multiplayer survival crafting amid monsters and polluted wilderness
79% positive
Free