Best Tactical games on PC
These action, strategy, and simulation games emphasize planning, positioning, timing, and adapting decisions as situations change.
- Planning and situational decision-making
- Careful positioning and timing
Related: Strategy, Shooter, Multiplayer, FPS
2,193 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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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
DEATHLOOP
First-person shooter about breaking an assassination time loop
75% positive
21K reviews
XCOM®: Chimera Squad
Turn-based tactics with squad breaches in a human-alien city
71% positive
21K reviews
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist
Third-person stealth action with flexible lethal and nonlethal approaches
78% positive
21K reviews
Demo Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era
Turn-based fantasy strategy with city building and creature armies
86% positive
20K reviews
Squad 44
World War II multiplayer shooter built around squad coordination
77% positive
20K reviews
Demo DYNASTY WARRIORS: ORIGINS
Third-person hack-and-slash RPG with massive Three Kingdoms battles
92% positive
20K reviews
Demo Dome Keeper
Roguelike mining and dome defense under constant time pressure
92% positive
20K reviews
Into the Breach
Turn-based mech tactics built around compact, predictable combat puzzles
94% positive
20K reviews
Demo Backpack Battles
Asynchronous auto battler built around strategic backpack organization
90% positive
20K reviews
Predecessor
Free-to-play third-person MOBA with vertical movement and shooter elements
70% positive
Free
Demo Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition
Historical strategy combining turn-based campaigns with real-time Napoleonic battles
91% positive
19K reviews
Mechabellum
Tactical mech auto-battler built around positioning and unit counters
82% positive
19K reviews
Day of Infamy
World War II first-person shooter with lethal team-based objectives
84% positive
19K reviews
Call to Arms
Modern warfare RTS with direct first- and third-person combat
80% positive
19K reviews
Crysis Remastered
Sci-fi first-person shooter with stealth, vehicles, and open-ended combat
77% positive
18K reviews
Day of Defeat: Source
Class-based World War II FPS built around online team battles
90% positive
18K reviews
Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game
Isometric post-apocalyptic RPG built around choices and turn-based combat
94% positive
18K reviews
Battlefield 3™
Team-based military FPS with vehicles and destructible multiplayer battlefields
71% positive
18K reviews
Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense
Cartoon tower defense built around upgrades, spells, and heroes
97% positive
18K reviews
Age of Wonders 4
Fantasy 4X strategy with custom empires and tactical turn-based battles
79% positive
18K reviews
Wasteland 3
Post-apocalyptic squad RPG with tactical combat and consequential choices
84% positive
18K reviews
Marvel's Midnight Suns
Superhero tactical RPG with card-based battles and hero friendships
80% positive
18K reviews