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.
FTL: Faster Than Light
Space roguelike strategy built around crew management and permadeath
95% positive
79K reviews
WARDOGS
Large-scale tactical FPS with three-team battles, vehicles, and building
79% positive
78K reviews
PlanetSide 2
Free-to-play MMO shooter built around persistent, continent-wide faction wars
80% positive
Free
Eternal Return
Top-down MOBA battle royale built around looting and crafting
77% positive
Free
Northgard: Definitive Edition
Viking real-time strategy with territorial expansion and winter survival
85% positive
69K reviews
Left 4 Dead
Co-op first-person shooter with dynamically paced zombie hordes
96% positive
68K reviews
GTFO
Four-player tactical horror FPS built around stealth and coordination
84% positive
67K reviews
Plague Inc: Evolved
Global outbreak strategy simulation about evolving a world-ending pathogen
94% positive
66K reviews
PAYDAY 3
Co-op first-person heists with stealth or all-out gunfights
46% positive
66K reviews
Bodycam
Realistic multiplayer FPS with a body-camera view and HUD-free firefights
80% positive
65K reviews
Hitman: Absolution™
Third-person stealth action built around disguises and improvised assassinations
93% positive
64K reviews
Sniper Elite 4
Third-person World War II sniper shooter with open-ended stealth missions
91% positive
63K reviews
Sid Meier's Civilization VII
Turn-based historical 4X strategy across three evolving ages
47% positive
62K reviews
Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009)
Military first-person shooter with campaign, co-op missions, and multiplayer
93% positive
61K reviews
Rising Storm 2: Vietnam
Realistic Vietnam War FPS with asymmetric 64-player battles
87% positive
59K reviews
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Turn-based sci-fi strategy balancing squad combat and base management
93% positive
59K reviews
Arma Reforger
Cold War military sandbox built around realistic tactical combat
80% positive
58K reviews
World War 3
Online tactical shooter with modern combat and customizable loadouts
54% positive
55K reviews
STAR WARS™ Battlefront II (Classic, 2005)
Star Wars shooter with class battles, heroes, and space combat
95% positive
54K reviews
One-armed robber
Free first-person heists with stealth, shootouts, and one-handed controls
91% positive
Free
Foxhole
Top-down MMO wargame driven by player-built bases and supply lines
79% positive
53K reviews
Total War: WARHAMMER
Fantasy grand strategy with turn-based campaigns and real-time battles
79% positive
52K reviews
They Are Billions
Real-time colony defense against relentless post-apocalyptic zombie swarms
85% positive
51K reviews
Call of Duty®: Black Ops II
First-person military shooter set in a near-future Cold War
86% positive
49K reviews