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
2,399 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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PAYDAY™ The Heist
Co-op first-person shooter built around coordinated robberies and police shootouts
93% positive
24K reviews
BATTLETECH
Turn-based mech tactics with mercenary contracts and unit customization
83% positive
24K reviews
STAR WARS Zero Company™
Turn-based squad tactics with customizable operatives in the Clone Wars
82% positive
24K reviews
Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III
Military first-person shooter with competitive matches and open-world cooperative Zombies
48% positive
24K reviews
HUMANKIND™
Historical 4X strategy built around changing cultures across eras
68% positive
23K reviews
Sniper Elite 3
Third-person World War II sniper action built around stealth and ballistics
82% positive
23K reviews
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Operation: Harsh Doorstop
Free tactical military shooter with bots, vehicles, and community mods
78% positive
Free
Forts
Physics-based 2D strategy battles built around forts and destruction
92% positive
23K reviews
The Forever Winter
Third-person PvE extraction shooter beneath towering war machines
67% positive
23K reviews
Demo Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition
Eighteenth-century grand strategy with turn-based campaigns and real-time battles
89% positive
23K reviews
Star Trek Online
Free-to-play sci-fi MMORPG with customizable captains and starships
78% positive
Free
DEATHLOOP
First-person shooter about breaking an assassination time loop
75% positive
21K reviews
XCOM®: Chimera Squad
Turn-based tactics with squad breaches in a human-alien city
71% positive
21K reviews
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist
Third-person stealth action with flexible lethal and nonlethal approaches
78% positive
21K reviews
Demo Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era
Turn-based fantasy strategy with city building and creature armies
86% positive
20K reviews
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Age of History 3
Single-player grand strategy across history and the far future
85% positive
20K reviews
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Demonologist
First-person co-op horror about identifying and exorcising evil spirits
85% positive
20K reviews
Squad 44
World War II multiplayer shooter built around squad coordination
77% positive
20K reviews
Demo DYNASTY WARRIORS: ORIGINS
Third-person hack-and-slash RPG with massive Three Kingdoms battles
92% positive
20K reviews
Demo Dome Keeper
Roguelike mining and dome defense under constant time pressure
92% positive
20K reviews
Into the Breach
Turn-based mech tactics built around compact, predictable combat puzzles
94% positive
20K reviews
Demo Backpack Battles
Asynchronous auto battler built around strategic backpack organization
90% positive
20K reviews
Predecessor
Free-to-play third-person MOBA with vertical movement and shooter elements
70% positive
Free
Demo Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition
Historical strategy combining turn-based campaigns with real-time Napoleonic battles
91% positive
19K reviews