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.
IXION
Space station survival city-builder with punishing resource management
79% positive
18K reviews
Predecessor
Free-to-play third-person MOBA with vertical movement and shooter elements
71% positive
Free
Peglin
Turn-based pachinko roguelike with upgradeable orbs and relics
84% positive
18K reviews
Isonzo
Team-based World War I shooter across the Italian Alps
83% positive
17K reviews
Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense
Cartoon tower defense built around upgrades, spells, and heroes
97% positive
17K reviews
Craft The World
Sandbox colony sim about building and defending a dwarf fortress
88% positive
17K reviews
Five Nights at Freddy's 4
First-person survival horror built around listening for approaching creatures
93% positive
17K reviews
Toribash
Turn-based 3D fighting where you control every ragdoll joint
88% positive
Free
ISLANDERS
Minimalist city-building puzzle with score-based placement on changing islands
94% positive
17K reviews
Mini Metro
Minimalist subway puzzle about keeping a growing city moving
96% positive
17K reviews
Rome: Total War™ - Collection
Turn-based Roman conquest campaigns with real-time battles and barbarian invasions
95% positive
17K reviews
Notes of Soul
Online horror matches pit survivors against a player-controlled ghost
73% positive
17K reviews
Desperados III
Isometric Wild West stealth tactics built around coordinated takedowns
97% positive
17K reviews
Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion
Real-time space strategy blending empire management with large fleet battles
93% positive
16K reviews
The Escapists
Prison escape sandbox where you craft tools and dodge guards
90% positive
16K reviews
Cossacks 3
Historical real-time strategy with vast armies and economic management
82% positive
16K reviews
For The King II
Cooperative tabletop RPG across procedurally generated fantasy campaigns
71% positive
16K reviews
Turmoil
Oil-rush management game about drilling, trading, and outbidding rivals
93% positive
16K reviews
WARNO
Cold War real-time tactics with customizable NATO and Warsaw Pact forces
80% positive
16K reviews
Gloomhaven
Difficult card-driven tactical RPG adapted from a cooperative board game
82% positive
16K reviews
Armello
Turn-based fantasy board game with cards and a throne to claim
82% positive
16K reviews
Command & Conquer™ Red Alert™ 3
Alternate-history RTS with three factions and land, air, naval warfare
85% positive
16K reviews
Iron Harvest
Alternate-history RTS with base building and dieselpunk mech warfare
73% positive
16K reviews
The Banner Saga
Turn-based tactical RPG with consequential choices on a frozen journey
89% positive
16K reviews