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
3,325 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
Counter-Strike 2
Free-to-play tactical FPS built around competitive team matches
86% positive
Free
Dota 2
Free-to-play team MOBA with deep strategy and over 100 heroes
80% positive
Free
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS
First- and third-person battle royale shooter with tactical survival
61% positive
Free
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
Competitive 5v5 tactical shooter built around breaching and destruction
82% positive
Free
Dead by Daylight
Asymmetrical horror where four survivors evade one player-controlled killer
78% positive
936K reviews
Baldur's Gate 3
Party-based fantasy RPG with turn-based combat and consequential choices
97% positive
859K reviews
PAYDAY 2
Co-op first-person heists with stealth, shootouts, and custom builds
89% positive
675K reviews
Geometry Dash
Rhythm-based precision platformer built around timing and player-made levels
93% positive
644K 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
Raft
First-person ocean survival crafting on an expandable floating home
93% 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
Counter-Strike
Competitive tactical FPS where teamwork decides objective-based rounds
97% positive
262K 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