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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.

Jagged Alliance: Rage!
Turn-based jungle tactics with outnumbered mercenaries facing dehydration
51% positive 506 reviews
Ash of Gods: The Way
Turn-based tactical card battles with changing rules and story choices
80% positive 506 reviews
Capes
Turn-based superhero tactics built around coordinated powers and positioning
70% positive 506 reviews
No Creeps Were Harmed TD
3D tower defense with maze building and movable player weapons
89% positive 501 reviews
Etherlords II
Fantasy RPG with tactical card battles across five campaigns
83% positive 500 reviews
Close Combat - Gateway to Caen
World War II tactical wargame spanning battles and campaigns near Caen
70% positive 495 reviews
Picklock
Single-player stealth game about planning heists and selling stolen goods
86% positive 494 reviews
Romance of the Three Kingdoms XII with Power Up Kit
Historical strategy about rival warlords and real-time army battles
74% positive 493 reviews
Worbital
Real-time space strategy with planetary artillery and shifting gravity
89% positive 485 reviews
Winter Falling: Battle Tactics
Real-time medieval army tactics with pausable battles and campaign decisions
90% positive 485 reviews
Darkwind
Post-apocalyptic turn-based car combat with gang management and permadeath
52% positive Free
Braveland Heroes
Turn-based fantasy tactics with squad building and online duels
54% positive Free
Polaris Sector
Space 4X strategy with custom ships and hands-on battles
72% positive 476 reviews
Horizon
Turn-based space strategy with alien diplomacy and tactical ship combat
59% positive 475 reviews
Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes - Definitive Edition
Turn-based match-three strategy with troop combos and hero upgrades
81% positive 472 reviews
Grotesque Tactics: Evil Heroes
Turn-based fantasy tactics with antiheroes and RPG parody
62% positive 469 reviews
Night is Coming
Colony survival strategy with nighttime monsters and temporary settlements
63% positive 469 reviews
Star Wolves
Mission-based space strategy RPG about leading a bounty hunter crew
84% positive 466 reviews
Space Reign
Space combat strategy with direct ship control and fleet commands
74% positive 460 reviews
Close Combat: The Bloody First
Real-time World War II tactics with a US infantry company
53% positive 459 reviews
Evolings
Turn-based creature collector where each run reshuffles the map
77% positive 459 reviews
Making History: The Great War
Turn-based World War I grand strategy with economic management
76% positive 454 reviews
Attack of the Earthlings
Turn-based stealth tactics as aliens resisting corporate human invaders
83% positive 454 reviews
Boat Crew
Pacific War PT boat combat and crew management across an open campaign
89% positive 451 reviews