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.
Day of Defeat: Source
Class-based World War II FPS built around online team battles
92% positive
24K reviews
Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War
Cold War first-person shooter with campaign, multiplayer, and Zombies
79% positive
24K reviews
XCOM®: Chimera Squad
Turn-based tactics with squad breaches in a human-alien city
71% positive
23K reviews
Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™
Turn-based sci-fi 4X strategy about colonizing an alien world
61% positive
23K reviews
Age of Wonders 4
Fantasy 4X strategy with custom empires and tactical turn-based battles
81% positive
23K reviews
Dome Keeper
Roguelike mining and dome defense under constant time pressure
92% positive
22K reviews
Wasteland 3
Post-apocalyptic squad RPG with tactical combat and consequential choices
85% positive
22K reviews
Into the Breach
Turn-based mech tactics built around compact, predictable combat puzzles
94% positive
22K reviews
Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead
Tactical military simulation across large battlefields with infantry and vehicles
92% positive
22K reviews
Dungeon Defenders II
Third-person tower defense RPG with heroes, loot, and co-op
77% positive
Free
Day of Infamy
World War II first-person shooter with lethal team-based objectives
82% positive
22K reviews
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist
Third-person stealth action with flexible lethal and nonlethal approaches
79% positive
22K reviews
Marauders
Multiplayer extraction shooter with ship combat and space raids
67% positive
21K reviews
Star Trek Online
Free-to-play sci-fi MMORPG with customizable captains and starships
79% positive
Free
Operation: Harsh Doorstop
Free tactical military shooter with bots, vehicles, and community mods
78% positive
Free
Backpack Battles
Asynchronous auto battler built around strategic backpack organization
91% positive
21K reviews
Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
Post-apocalyptic turn-based tactics with real-time stealth and mutant companions
90% positive
21K reviews
911 Operator
Emergency dispatch simulation with real-time calls and resource management
88% positive
20K reviews
Wargame: Red Dragon
Large-scale Cold War RTS with land, air, and naval combat
89% positive
20K reviews
Sniper Ghost Warrior 3
Open-world first-person shooter built around sniping, stealth, and assault
67% positive
20K reviews
Mechabellum
Tactical mech auto-battler built around positioning and unit counters
84% positive
19K reviews
Battlefield 3™
Team-based military FPS with vehicles and destructible multiplayer battlefields
72% positive
19K reviews
ENDLESS Legend™
Fantasy 4X strategy with asymmetric factions and dynamic winters
83% positive
19K reviews
Dungeon Defenders
Tower defense action RPG with direct combat and cooperative play
93% positive
19K reviews