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.
ISLANDERS
Minimalist city-building puzzle with score-based placement on changing islands
94% positive
17K reviews
Mini Metro
Minimalist subway puzzle about keeping a growing city moving
96% positive
17K reviews
Rome: Total War™ - Collection
Turn-based Roman conquest campaigns with real-time battles and barbarian invasions
95% positive
17K reviews
Notes of Soul
Online horror matches pit survivors against a player-controlled ghost
73% positive
17K reviews
Desperados III
Isometric Wild West stealth tactics built around coordinated takedowns
97% positive
17K reviews
Tricky Towers
Physics-based party puzzle game about stacking towers with spells
90% positive
17K reviews
Gold Mining Simulator
Single-player mining simulator with machinery, deformable terrain, and business progression
72% positive
16K reviews
Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion
Real-time space strategy blending empire management with large fleet battles
93% positive
16K reviews
Bendy and the Dark Revival
First-person horror adventure through an ink-filled animation studio
92% positive
16K reviews
ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS XIV
Turn-based grand strategy where supply lines shape China’s conquest
63% positive
16K reviews
Zup! S
2D physics puzzles using explosions to position a blue ball
97% positive
16K reviews
The Escapists
Prison escape sandbox where you craft tools and dodge guards
90% positive
16K reviews
Cossacks 3
Historical real-time strategy with vast armies and economic management
82% positive
16K reviews
For The King II
Cooperative tabletop RPG across procedurally generated fantasy campaigns
71% positive
16K reviews
Turmoil
Oil-rush management game about drilling, trading, and outbidding rivals
93% positive
16K reviews
WARNO
Cold War real-time tactics with customizable NATO and Warsaw Pact forces
80% positive
16K reviews
Hitman: Blood Money
Third-person stealth action built around open-ended assassination missions
94% positive
16K reviews
Gloomhaven
Difficult card-driven tactical RPG adapted from a cooperative board game
82% positive
16K reviews
Armello
Turn-based fantasy board game with cards and a throne to claim
82% positive
16K reviews
Command & Conquer™ Red Alert™ 3
Alternate-history RTS with three factions and land, air, naval warfare
85% positive
16K reviews
Iron Harvest
Alternate-history RTS with base building and dieselpunk mech warfare
73% positive
16K reviews
The Banner Saga
Turn-based tactical RPG with consequential choices on a frozen journey
89% positive
16K reviews
shapez
2D factory automation sandbox about cutting and combining shapes
96% positive
16K reviews
Rise of Nations: Extended Edition
Historical real-time strategy spanning ancient cities to modern warfare
95% positive
16K reviews