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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

956 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.

Xenonauts
Turn-based alien defense strategy with squad combat and global management
87% positive 5,075 reviews
Hard West
Isometric Western tactics with supernatural threats and branching choices
75% positive 4,936 reviews
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin
Mission-based stealth action with multiple ways to eliminate targets
82% positive 4,911 reviews
Shadow Tactics: Aiko's Choice
Isometric stealth tactics in Edo Japan with coordinated team attacks
93% positive 4,852 reviews
Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition
Isometric cyberpunk RPG with turn-based missions in Hong Kong
87% positive 4,847 reviews
Dungeon Defenders: Awakened
Action RPG tower defense with loot and four-player co-op
66% positive 4,840 reviews
Disgaea PC
Turn-based tactical RPG about reclaiming a throne through grid battles
87% positive 4,825 reviews
Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG
Isometric sci-fi RPG with turn-based combat inside a hazardous Dome
77% positive 4,816 reviews
Strike Force Heroes
2D arena shooter with customizable soldiers and online multiplayer
80% positive 4,777 reviews
Intravenous 2
Top-down tactical shooter mixing careful stealth with customizable gunplay
95% positive 4,772 reviews
Perfect Heist 2
Multiplayer heist shooter where robbers blend into bank crowds
93% positive 4,763 reviews
Cold Waters
Cold War submarine simulation with real-time naval battles and sonar tactics
87% positive 4,741 reviews
Creeper World 4
3D real-time strategy against a physics-driven flood of Creeper
95% positive 4,731 reviews
Phantom Doctrine
Cold War turn-based tactics with spies, stealth, and investigations
74% positive 4,698 reviews
METAL GEAR SOLID 2: Sons of Liberty - Master Collection Version
Third-person stealth action split between two military infiltrations
90% positive 4,693 reviews
Surviving the Aftermath
Post-apocalyptic colony sim about building, scavenging, and surviving disasters
71% positive 4,588 reviews
News Tower
Newspaper management sim balancing Sunday deadlines, staff, and influence
94% positive 4,586 reviews
Phantom Brigade
Mech tactics with timeline planning and simultaneous real-time execution
81% positive 4,573 reviews
Esports Godfather
MOBA esports management sim with card-driven matches and changing rules
91% positive 4,552 reviews
Crying Suns
Space roguelite about commanding a fleet through a fallen empire
86% positive 4,551 reviews
Wargame: Airland Battle
Cold War real-time strategy with air and ground battles
87% positive 4,455 reviews
ATOM RPG Trudograd
Isometric, turn-based RPG searching a post-nuclear Soviet city
83% positive 4,448 reviews
NEBULOUS: Fleet Command
Real-time space fleet tactics with detailed sensors and electronic warfare
81% positive 4,435 reviews
Exoprimal
Online team shooter where powered suits battle dinosaur swarms
69% positive 4,420 reviews