Best Strategy Games
1,169 Strategy games, ranked by the Rank and Play community.
Halo Wars 2
Released: Feb 21, 2017
Critic rating: 76.7 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Strategy
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen
After decades adrift and declared “lost with all hands,” the brave crew of the UNSC Spirit of Fire are mysteriously awoken above an ancient Forerunner haven known as the Ark.
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
Released: Aug 25, 2022
Critic rating: 76.3 / 100 • 25 votes
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure, Indie, Visual Novel, Card & Board Game
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Mac, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative life sim with card-based battles.
Coromon
Released: Dec 21, 2020
Critic rating: 82.5 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Fighting, Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Coromon is a modern monster taming game with retro pixelart.
SWAT 4: The Stetchkov Syndicate
Released: Feb 28, 2006
Critic rating: 82.3 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Shooter, Simulator, Strategy, Tactical
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
The Stetchkov Syndicate expansion adds seven new single player missions revolving around the Stetchkov family, an Eastern European crime syndicate and new multiplayer content, amongst other features.
Shapez
Released: Jun 7, 2020
Critic rating: 76.2 / 100 • 28 votes
Genres: Puzzle, Simulator, Strategy, Indie
Platforms: Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac
Game modes: Single player
Shapez is a game about building factories to automate the creation and combination of increasingly complex shapes within an infinite map.
Supreme Commander
Released: Feb 16, 2007
Critic rating: 76.3 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Simulator, Strategy
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360, PlayStation 2
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
For a millennium, three opposing forces of humanity--the Cybran Nation, the Aeon Illuminate and the United Earth Federation--have fought a bitter and bloody war over conflicting and unwavering systems of belief.
Worms 3D
Released: Oct 31, 2003
Critic rating: 80.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Platforms: Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, PlayStation 2
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Join the party as worm battles ensue across 3D worlds.
Reigns: Her Majesty
Released: Dec 6, 2017
Critic rating: 83.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy, Adventure, Indie, Card & Board Game
Platforms: Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac
Game modes: Single player
Reigns: Her Majesty is the revolutionary sequel to the smash swipe 'em up hit Reigns.
Dawn of Discovery
Released: Jun 23, 2009
Critic rating: 72.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Simulator, Strategy, Adventure
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Dawn of Discovery (Known as "Anno 1404" in Europe) is a city-building and economic simulation game with real-time strategy elements.
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners
Released: Jan 23, 2020
Critic rating: 84.3 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Shooter, Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Meta Quest 2, PlayStation VR2, Windows Mixed Reality, PlayStation VR, SteamVR, Meta Quest 3, Oculus Rift, Oculus Quest
Game modes: Single player
Saints & Sinners is a game unlike any other in The Walking Dead universe.
Pokémon Conquest
Released: Mar 17, 2012
Critic rating: 74.0 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Platforms: Nintendo DS
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Pokémon Conquest is a strategy game set in the Ransei region.
This War of Mine: The Little Ones
Released: Jan 29, 2016
Critic rating: 76.1 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Simulator, Strategy, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox One
Game modes: Single player
This War of Mine: The Little Ones explores the hardships of wartime survival as seen from an entirely new perspective; that of a child.
Suzerain
Released: Dec 4, 2020
Critic rating: 72.0 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, PlayStation 5, Mac, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Assume the role of President Anton Rayne and guide the nation of Sordland.
Icey
Released: Nov 17, 2016
Critic rating: 76.9 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Fighting, Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Icey is a 2D side-scrolling action game and a meta game in disguise.
Planetbase
Released: Oct 16, 2015
Critic rating: 75.0 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Simulator, Strategy, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One
Game modes: Single player
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish an outpost on a remote planet.
The Lost Vikings
Released: Apr 29, 1993
Critic rating: 76.0 / 100 • 91 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Strategy
Platforms: Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Famicom
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
The Lost Vikings is a puzzle-platform video game developed by Silicon & Synapse (now Blizzard Entertainment) and published by Interplay.
Iron Harvest
Released: Sep 1, 2020
Critic rating: 80.7 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Sport, Strategy
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
After World War 1 farmers found a plethora of unexploded ordnance, barbed wire, weapons, shrapnel and bullets while ploughing their fields.
Human Resource Machine
Released: Oct 15, 2015
Critic rating: 74.3 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Puzzle, Simulator, Strategy, Indie
Platforms: Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Wii U, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
"Human Resource Machine is a puzzle game.
The Jackbox Party Pack 4
Released: Oct 17, 2017
Critic rating: 76.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Puzzle, Strategy, Quiz/Trivia, Indie
Platforms: Amazon Fire TV, PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
The biggest and fourthiest addition to this storied party game franchise features the blanking fun sequel Fibbage 3 and its new game mode, Fibbage: Enough About You; the web-based frame game Survive the Internet; the spooky date-a-thon Monster Seeking Monster; the deranged debate match Bracketeering; and the one-up art game Civic Doodle.
Syndicate
Released: Jun 6, 1993
Critic rating: 68.8 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Strategy, Tactical
Platforms: PC-9800 Series, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, DOS, FM Towns
Game modes: Single player
Syndicate is a strategic action game set in a dystopian future where corporate entities vie for global dominance.
Plague Inc.
Released: May 26, 2012
Critic rating: 80.0 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Simulator, Strategy, Tactical
Platforms: Web browser, Windows Phone, Android, iOS
Game modes: Single player
As a new disease, it is your job to destroy the entire human species by evolving to a deadly plague.
Death and Taxes
Released: Feb 20, 2020
Critic rating: 75.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Point-and-click, Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy, Adventure, Indie, Visual Novel
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
In this 2D, narrative-based game, you assume the role of the Grim Reaper...
Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time
Released: Aug 15, 2013
Critic rating: 80.0 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Strategy, Tactical, Adventure
Platforms: Android, iOS
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Plants vs.
Age of Wonders: Planetfall
Released: Aug 6, 2019
Critic rating: 83.8 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Simulator, Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Tactical
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Age of Wonders: Planetfall is the new strategy game from Triumph Studios, creators of the critically acclaimed Age of Wonders and Overlord series, bringing all the exciting tactical-turn based combat and in-depth 4X empire building of its predecessors to space in an all-new sci-fi setting.
Pathway
Released: Apr 11, 2019
Critic rating: 73.5 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Tactical, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Adventure into the strange unknown with Pathway, a strategy RPG set in the 1930s great desert wilderness.