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
2,401 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Tribal Wars
Persistent medieval PvP strategy built around villages and alliances
72% positive
Free
Airship: Kingdoms Adrift
Open-world airship trading and combat with factories and fleets
73% positive
945 reviews
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KAISERPUNK
Alternate-history city builder with industrial supply chains and global warfare
69% positive
941 reviews
Ancestors Legacy Free Peasant Edition
Free medieval real-time strategy built around squad-based battles
79% positive
Free
Sigma Theory: Global Cold War
Turn-based spy management with diplomacy and a global research race
77% positive
936 reviews
Gomoku Let's Go
Turn-based board strategy built around making five-stone lines
88% positive
935 reviews
Tank Squad
World War II tank combat with squad commands and cooperative crews
66% positive
933 reviews
Idle Monster TD
Idle tower defense with monster teams against robot waves
73% positive
Free
Hidden & Dangerous 2: Courage Under Fire
World War II tactical shooter with a squad behind enemy lines
96% positive
929 reviews
Girls' Frontline
Strategy RPG with firearm-inspired characters and squad-based tactical battles
84% positive
Free
Halfway
Turn-based squad tactics aboard a colony ship under attack
70% positive
922 reviews
Mage and Monsters
Top-down fantasy auto battler with armies and active spellcasting
89% positive
922 reviews
Operation: New Earth
Persistent sci-fi MMO strategy with base building and territorial warfare
61% positive
Free
Rome: Total War™ - Alexander
Historical strategy expansion following Alexander's conquest of Persia
74% positive
909 reviews
Demo Mud and Blood
Top-down World War II squad tactics across procedurally generated battlefields
86% positive
905 reviews
Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter
World War II naval simulation defending convoys from U-boats
73% positive
902 reviews
The Dungeon Beneath
Tactical roguelite autobattler where party placement shapes dungeon runs
89% positive
898 reviews
Demo Dicefolk
Turn-based roguelite battles with recruitable creatures and customizable dice
89% positive
898 reviews
Necroking
Roguelite deckbuilder commanding undead armies across procedurally generated maps
82% positive
898 reviews
Mushroom Wars 2
Short real-time strategy battles with mushroom armies and hero skills
60% positive
897 reviews
World of Shooting
First-person shooting sports simulator with customizable firearms and target courses
77% positive
Free
Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware
Medieval city-building strategy with real-time defense against large enemy armies
92% positive
Free
KNIGHTS
Chess-based logic puzzles built around the knight's L-shaped movement
94% positive
890 reviews
Demo Card-en-Ciel
Turn-based roguelike deckbuilder where cards double as movement
90% positive
889 reviews