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.
Transistor
Isometric sci-fi action RPG with real-time and planned combat
94% positive
31K reviews
War Robots
Free-to-play third-person mech shooter built around online PvP battles
60% positive
Free
DEATHLOOP
First-person shooter about breaking an assassination time loop
76% positive
30K reviews
DYNASTY WARRIORS: ORIGINS
Third-person hack-and-slash RPG with massive Three Kingdoms battles
93% positive
30K reviews
Holdfast: Nations At War
Large-scale historical shooter with chaotic battles and proximity voice chat
90% positive
30K reviews
Battle Brothers
Turn-based tactical RPG about running a medieval mercenary company
88% positive
29K reviews
HUMANKIND™
Historical 4X strategy built around changing cultures across eras
69% positive
29K reviews
Sniper Elite 3
Third-person World War II sniper action built around stealth and ballistics
82% positive
28K reviews
Counter-Strike: Condition Zero
Tactical first-person shooter with multiplayer matches and bot campaigns
91% positive
28K reviews
Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition
Historical strategy combining turn-based campaigns with real-time Napoleonic battles
92% positive
28K reviews
Sniper Elite V2
Third-person World War II sniper shooter with X-ray kill cams
88% positive
25K reviews
Squad 44
World War II multiplayer shooter built around squad coordination
74% positive
25K reviews
Forts
Physics-based 2D strategy battles built around forts and destruction
92% positive
25K reviews
Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game
Isometric post-apocalyptic RPG built around choices and turn-based combat
94% positive
25K reviews
GROUND BRANCH
Realistic tactical FPS with detailed loadouts and team-based operations
84% positive
25K reviews
Cruelty Squad
Surreal tactical FPS with corporate assassinations and multiple mission routes
96% positive
25K reviews
The Forever Winter
Third-person PvE extraction shooter beneath towering war machines
68% positive
25K reviews
Artifact
Competitive card battler fought across three simultaneous combat lanes
47% positive
Free
Marvel's Midnight Suns
Superhero tactical RPG with card-based battles and hero friendships
82% positive
24K reviews
Demonologist
First-person co-op horror about identifying and exorcising evil spirits
85% positive
24K reviews
Call to Arms
Modern warfare RTS with direct first- and third-person combat
79% positive
24K reviews
Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades
Single-player VR gun sandbox with detailed physics and sentient hot dogs
97% positive
24K reviews
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III
Three-faction sci-fi RTS with base building and giant war machines
48% positive
24K reviews
Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop
Free top-down alien shooter with classes and eight-player co-op
95% positive
Free