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
8,603 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Xenonauts 2
Turn-based alien defense with global bases and tactical squads
80% positive
5,056 reviews
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Third-person squad shooter confronting aliens in Cold War America
67% positive
5,048 reviews
Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition
Isometric fantasy RPG about an amnesiac searching across planes
94% positive
5,032 reviews
Command & Conquer™ 4 Tiberian Twilight
Sci-fi real-time strategy with mobile bases and class-based armies
16% positive
5,016 reviews
Of Guards And Thieves
Top-down multiplayer stealth shooter pits guards against elusive thieves
85% positive
Free
Beholder: Conductor
Dystopian point-and-click simulation about policing passengers on a moving train
92% positive
5,011 reviews
The Pirate: Caribbean Hunt
Open-world pirate game with ship battles and fleet building
83% positive
Free
Pharaoh™: A New Era
Historical city builder about managing Ancient Egypt along the Nile
73% positive
4,999 reviews
Steel Division: Normandy 44
Real-time strategy commanding World War II divisions in Normandy
73% positive
4,990 reviews
Total War: PHARAOH DYNASTIES
Bronze Age strategy combining turn-based campaigns with real-time battles
77% positive
4,986 reviews
Axis & Allies 1942 Online
Turn-based World War II board game with asynchronous online matches
77% positive
4,984 reviews
Antimatter Dimensions
Idle incremental strategy with multiple layers of unlocks and prestige
92% positive
Free
Age of Wonders: Planetfall
Sci-fi 4X strategy with empire building and tactical turn-based battles
78% positive
4,973 reviews
Deducto
Office social deduction with hidden killers and proximity voice chat
89% positive
Free
Pioneers of Pagonia
Fantasy colony sim with visible supply chains and four-player co-op
81% positive
4,943 reviews
Halo: Spartan Assault
Top-down sci-fi shooter with 30 missions against the Covenant
78% positive
4,930 reviews
Demo Tavern Keeper 🍻
A fantasy tavern management sim with decorating and branching stories
94% positive
4,899 reviews
Supremacy: 1914
Real-time World War I grand strategy with massive multiplayer campaigns
74% positive
Free
Sir, We Have an Orc Problem
Tower defense against thousands of orcs, with permanent turret upgrades
86% positive
4,891 reviews
Demo DICEOMANCER
Roguelike deckbuilder where dice can change any on-screen number
96% positive
4,877 reviews
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising
Single-player RTS with four mini-campaigns and commander challenges
85% positive
4,873 reviews
Construction Simulator 2015
Open-world construction simulator with heavy machinery and cooperative jobs
79% positive
4,871 reviews
Demo Ratopia
Side-scrolling colony sim built around rat economics and survival
86% positive
4,871 reviews
Demo Hero's Hour
Fantasy strategy RPG with turn-based planning and real-time army battles
78% positive
4,868 reviews