Best Strategy Games
1,169 Strategy games, ranked by the Rank and Play community.
Football Manager 2024
Released: Nov 6, 2023
Critic rating: 84.0 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Simulator, Sport, Strategy
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Progress never stops when you're pursuing footballing greatness.
Stronghold
Released: Oct 19, 2001
Critic rating: 81.9 / 100 • 201 votes
Rating: T
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Simulator, Strategy
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Stronghold is a historic real-time strategy game developed by Firefly Studios.
Pokémon Omega Ruby
Released: Nov 21, 2014
Critic rating: 81.3 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure
Platforms: Nintendo 3DS
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
During your adventure, you will battle Team Magma in Pokémon Omega Ruby and Team Aqua in Pokémon Alpha Sapphire.
Stronghold Crusader
Released: Jul 31, 2002
Critic rating: 80.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Simulator, Strategy
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Stronghold: Crusader is the successor to Firefly Studios's 2001 game Stronghold.
Planescape: Torment - Enhanced Edition
Released: Apr 11, 2017
Critic rating: 79.8 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
"Discover an incredibly rich story and a unique setting unlike anything else in fantasy.
Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30
Released: Mar 1, 2005
Critic rating: 91.5 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Shooter, Simulator, Strategy, Tactical
Platforms: Xbox, Wii, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, PlayStation 2
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Based on a true story.
Worms World Party
Released: Apr 6, 2001
Critic rating: 80.0 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Strategy
Platforms: N-Gage, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation, Game Boy Advance, Dreamcast
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen
Worms World Party is an artillery game, which is a type of Turn-based strategy game.
Tabletop Simulator
Released: Jun 5, 2015
Critic rating: 81.8 / 100 • 111 votes
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy, Indie, Card & Board Game
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), SteamVR, Mac
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Tabletop Simulator is the only simulator where you can let your aggression out by flipping the table!
Planet Coaster
Released: Nov 17, 2016
Critic rating: 82.8 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Simulator, Strategy
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
Planet Coaster is a construction and management simulation video game.
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel
Released: Sep 26, 2013
Critic rating: 81.6 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation Vita
Game modes: Single player
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel is the sixth installment in the main Trails series, serving as the beginning to the Erebonia arc.
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 - Yuri's Revenge
Released: Oct 9, 2001
Critic rating: 81.7 / 100 • 141 votes
Rating: T
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Strategy
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
The game begins with a presidential briefing in the White House concerning Yuri and how he has begun his take over of the world through mind control.
Tropico
Released: Apr 21, 2001
Critic rating: 82.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Simulator, Strategy
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
As the newly instated dictator of an obscure Caribbean Island, you will build a path of progress for your sapling nation, overcoming poverty, strife and other evils.
Railway Empire
Released: Jan 26, 2018
Critic rating: 85.0 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Simulator, Strategy
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
In Railway Empire, you will create an elaborate and wide-ranging rail network, purchase over 40 different trains modelled in extraordinary detail, and buy or build railway stations, maintenance buildings, factories and tourist attractions to keep your travel network ahead of the competition.
Terraria
Released: May 16, 2011
Critic rating: 81.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Platform, Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Google Stadia, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Linux, Nintendo 3DS, Windows Phone, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Wii U, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Terraria is a 2D sandbox action-adventure game with platforming and role-playing elements.
The Settlers III
Released: Nov 30, 1998
Critic rating: 81.7 / 100 • 62 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Simulator, Strategy, Tactical
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
The gods may be crazy!
Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Tag Force 3
Released: Dec 28, 2008
Critic rating: 81.6 / 100 • 21 votes
Genres: Strategy, Card & Board Game
Platforms: PlayStation Portable
TAG FORCE is back in the hot third installment featuring cards up to the Crossroads of Chaos Set.
The Oregon Trail
Released: Dec 3, 1971
Critic rating: 81.6 / 100 • 29 votes
Genres: Simulator, Strategy, Adventure
Platforms: HP 2100, CDC Cyber 70
Game modes: Single player
The Oregon Trail is a computer game originally developed by Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger in 1971 and produced by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) in 1974.
The Isle
Released: Dec 1, 2015
Critic rating: 81.6 / 100 • 40 votes
Genres: Fighting, Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)
The Isle is intended to be a gritty, open-world survival horror game.
Darkwood
Released: Aug 17, 2017
Critic rating: 79.8 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Google Stadia, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Darkwood is a unforgiving survival horror with a procedurally generated, open world.
SoulCalibur III
Released: Oct 25, 2005
Critic rating: 83.3 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Fighting, Strategy
Platforms: PlayStation 2
Soulcalibur III is a fighting game produced by Namco as a sequel to Soulcalibur II and the fourth installment in the Soul series.
Puyo Puyo Tetris
Released: Feb 6, 2014
Critic rating: 84.4 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Puzzle, Strategy, Arcade
Platforms: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Nintendo 3DS, PC (Microsoft Windows), Wii U, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen
"Two puzzle game juggernauts collide as Tetris, one of the largest-selling and recognized brands in gaming history, and Puyo Puyo from SEGA have combined to create a fun-to-play, fast-paced, competitive party game like no other!
Teardown
Released: Apr 21, 2022
Critic rating: 83.3 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Puzzle, Simulator, Strategy, Indie
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Prepare the perfect heist in this simulated and fully destructible voxel world.
Aliens: Dark Descent
Released: Jun 20, 2023
Critic rating: 84.0 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Strategy, Adventure
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One
Game modes: Single player
Drop into the gripping journey of Aliens: Dark Descent, a squad-based, single-player action game in the iconic Alien franchise.
Natural Selection 2
Released: Oct 30, 2012
Critic rating: 85.0 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Shooter, Puzzle, Real Time Strategy (RTS), Strategy, Indie
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Multiplayer
Natural Selection 2 is an immersive, multiplayer shooter that pits aliens against humans in a strategic and action-packed struggle for survival.
Top Spin 4
Released: Mar 15, 2011
Critic rating: 73.8 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Simulator, Sport, Strategy
Platforms: PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen
The game features licensed professional players, venues and equipment.