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.
Forts
Physics-based 2D strategy battles built around forts and destruction
92% positive
25K reviews
GROUND BRANCH
Realistic tactical FPS with detailed loadouts and team-based operations
84% positive
25K reviews
TerraTech
Open-world sandbox action with modular vehicle building and combat
91% 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
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
Baba Is You
Single-player logic puzzles where pushing words rewrites the rules
98% positive
25K reviews
Marvel's Midnight Suns
Superhero tactical RPG with card-based battles and hero friendships
82% positive
24K reviews
Hero's Adventure: Road to Passion
Open-world wuxia RPG with turn-based battles and branching paths
84% 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
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Asymmetrical third-person horror where victims evade a murderous family
66% positive
24K reviews
Day of Defeat: Source
Class-based World War II FPS built around online team battles
92% positive
24K reviews
Amazing Cultivation Simulator
Xianxia colony simulator about rebuilding and managing a cultivation sect
86% 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
Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™
Turn-based sci-fi 4X strategy about colonizing an alien world
61% positive
23K reviews
ENDLESS Space™ 2
Turn-based space 4X with distinct factions and political management
83% positive
23K reviews