Best Strategy games on PC
Games where planning, positioning, resource use, or long-term decisions play a major role in achieving objectives, from turn-based campaigns and tower defense to survival and competitive team play.
- Planning and tactical decision-making
- Managing resources or positioning
Related: Tactical, Turn-Based Strategy, Grand Strategy, Multiplayer
8,604 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Alien Swarm
Free top-down co-op shooter with marine classes and squad tactics
94% positive
Free
Demo Drug Dealer Simulator
First-person crime simulation about building an illegal drug operation
76% positive
23K reviews
Sniper Elite 3
Third-person World War II sniper action built around stealth and ballistics
82% positive
23K reviews
Demo The Riftbreaker
Base-building action RPG with alien hordes and tower defense
89% positive
23K reviews
Forts
Physics-based 2D strategy battles built around forts and destruction
92% positive
23K reviews
Demo Bopl Battle
2D multiplayer fighter where slimes combine abilities in chaotic matches
97% positive
23K reviews
Demo Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition
Eighteenth-century grand strategy with turn-based campaigns and real-time battles
89% positive
23K reviews
Star Trek Online
Free-to-play sci-fi MMORPG with customizable captains and starships
78% positive
Free
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Asymmetrical third-person horror where victims evade a murderous family
71% positive
22K reviews
Feed and Grow: Fish
Underwater survival simulation where eating fish makes you grow larger
78% positive
22K reviews
Demo Football Manager 26
Soccer management simulation with separate in-possession and out-of-possession tactics
36% positive
22K reviews
Demo 9 Kings
Card-based strategy roguelite about building kingdoms through escalating wars
92% positive
22K reviews
Baba Is You
Single-player logic puzzles where pushing words rewrites the rules
98% positive
22K reviews
Sands of Salzaar
Open-world strategy RPG with desert factions and city conquests
81% positive
22K reviews
TerraTech
Open-world sandbox action with modular vehicle building and combat
92% positive
22K reviews
Real Pool 3D - Poolians
Online billiards simulation with solo, multiplayer, and team matches
76% positive
Free
Frostpunk 2
Post-apocalyptic city builder focused on survival, resources, and faction politics
73% positive
22K reviews
Age of Mythology: Retold
Mythological real-time strategy with base building and god powers
89% positive
22K reviews
Imperator: Rome
Ancient grand strategy about politics, populations, trade, and conquest
62% positive
21K reviews
XCOM®: Chimera Squad
Turn-based tactics with squad breaches in a human-alien city
71% positive
21K reviews
Heroes® of Might & Magic® III - HD Edition
Classic turn-based fantasy strategy with tactical battles and town building
80% positive
21K reviews
Demo 60 Seconds! Reatomized
Post-apocalyptic survival strategy built on scavenging and hard choices
94% positive
21K reviews
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist
Third-person stealth action with flexible lethal and nonlethal approaches
78% positive
21K reviews
Train Simulator Classic
Single-player train simulator with licensed locomotives and editable routes
73% positive
21K reviews