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.
Frostpunk 2
Post-apocalyptic city builder focused on survival, resources, and faction politics
75% positive
27K reviews
Rhythm Doctor
One-button rhythm game about healing patients on every seventh beat
98% positive
27K reviews
Darkest Dungeon® II
Dark fantasy roguelite with party tactics and punishing stagecoach journeys
75% positive
27K reviews
Imperator: Rome
Ancient grand strategy about politics, populations, trade, and conquest
66% positive
27K reviews
Awesomenauts
Side-scrolling MOBA with three-on-three battles and customizable skills
85% positive
27K reviews
Blackwake
Team-based first-person pirate naval combat with ship repairs and boarding
81% positive
Free
Farthest Frontier
Medieval city builder with physical logistics, farming, and frontier survival
86% positive
26K reviews
Squad 44
World War II multiplayer shooter built around squad coordination
74% positive
25K reviews
Forts
Physics-based 2D strategy battles built around forts and destruction
92% positive
25K reviews
Heroes® of Might & Magic® III - HD Edition
Classic turn-based fantasy strategy with tactical battles and town building
79% positive
25K reviews
Darkwood
Survival horror with daytime scavenging and desperate nighttime defense
95% positive
25K reviews
The Riftbreaker
Base-building action RPG with alien hordes and tower defense
90% positive
25K reviews
Artifact
Competitive card battler fought across three simultaneous combat lanes
47% positive
Free
Marvel's Midnight Suns
Superhero tactical RPG with card-based battles and hero friendships
82% positive
24K reviews
Mini Motorways
Minimalist traffic strategy about drawing roads through growing cities
96% positive
24K reviews
Foundation
Gridless medieval city builder with organic roads and modular buildings
87% positive
24K reviews
Call to Arms
Modern warfare RTS with direct first- and third-person combat
79% positive
24K reviews
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III
Three-faction sci-fi RTS with base building and giant war machines
48% positive
24K reviews
SMITE 2
Third-person mythology MOBA with team fights and varied modes
55% positive
Free
Thronefall
Minimalist tower defense with daytime building and nighttime battles
96% positive
24K reviews
War Selection
Free-to-play base-building RTS spanning the Stone Age to heavy tanks
85% positive
Free
Age of Mythology: Retold
Mythological real-time strategy with base building and god powers
90% positive
24K reviews
XCOM®: Chimera Squad
Turn-based tactics with squad breaches in a human-alien city
71% positive
23K reviews
9 Kings
Card-based strategy roguelite about building kingdoms through escalating wars
92% positive
23K reviews