Best Strategy Games
1,192 Strategy games, ranked by the Rank and Play community.
State of Decay
Released: Jun 5, 2013
Critic rating: 75.0 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Shooter, Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy, Adventure
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360
Game modes: Single player
The end is here.
The Sims 2
Released: Sep 14, 2004
Critic rating: 71.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
In The Sims 2, your Sims will be more lifelike, more responsive, and more complex than ever before.
Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution
Released: Jun 13, 2008
Critic rating: 80.6 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Simulator, Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Platforms: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Experience the journey of a civilization's birth to it's rise of power.
Once Human
Released: Jul 9, 2024
Critic rating: 84.5 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Shooter, Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Adventure
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, PlayStation 5
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)
Once Human is a multiplayer open-world survival game set in a strange, post-apocalyptic future.
Q.U.B.E: Director's Cut
Released: May 21, 2014
Critic rating: 80.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Strategy, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Wii U, Xbox One
Game modes: Single player
Q.U.B.E: Director's Cut is the definitive version of the brain-twisting first-person puzzler.
Paladins
Released: May 2, 2017
Critic rating: 78.8 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Shooter, Strategy
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Multiplayer, Co-operative
Join 25+ million players in Paladins, the free-to-play fantasy team-based shooter sensation.
Impossible Creatures
Released: Dec 29, 2002
Critic rating: 73.3 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Simulator, Strategy
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Genetically-alter animals to create scientific marvels in "Impossible Creatures", the 2003 classic RTS.
Arma 3
Released: Sep 12, 2013
Critic rating: 72.8 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Shooter, Simulator, Strategy, Tactical
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Arma 3 is a truly massive military simulation sandbox game.
Hell Let Loose
Released: Jun 6, 2019
Critic rating: 75.0 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Shooter, Simulator, Strategy, Indie
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5
Game modes: Multiplayer
Fight in the most iconic battles of the Second World War, including El Alamein, Stalingrad, Omaha Beach, and Foy!
Quiplash
Released: Jun 30, 2015
Critic rating: 70.3 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Strategy, Quiz/Trivia, Indie
Platforms: Amazon Fire TV, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Multiplayer, Co-operative
Quiplash is a gut-busting, say-anything, no-rules party game!
Sanctum 2
Released: May 15, 2013
Critic rating: 80.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Shooter, Real Time Strategy (RTS), Strategy, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 3, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox 360
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
In Sanctum 2, you will have to utilize elements of multiple gameplay genres to succeed.
North & South
Released: Dec 31, 1989
Critic rating: 74.9 / 100 • 34 votes
Genres: Platform, Simulator, Strategy
Platforms: Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST/STE, DOS, Amiga, Family Computer, Amstrad CPC, Nintendo Entertainment System, MSX
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Your objective is ensure victory for your side by eliminating all the enemy armies.
SimCity BuildIt
Released: Dec 16, 2014
Critic rating: 80.0 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Simulator, Strategy
Platforms: Android, iOS
Game modes: Single player
Welcome, Mayor!
Mount & Blade: With Fire and Sword
Released: May 3, 2011
Critic rating: 80.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
In an open sand box world you choose your allies, your enemies, what provinces to conquer, what castles to siege and what quests to embark on.
Gods Will Be Watching
Released: Apr 30, 2013
Critic rating: 64.0 / 100
Genres: Point-and-click, Puzzle, Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Web browser, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac
Game modes: Single player
Gods Will Be Watching is a minimalistic “point and click thriller” centered on despair, commitment, and sacrifice as players face narrative puzzles and moral dilemmas that will affect both the lives of your team and the people you’re are sworn to protect.
Star Wars: Empire at War - Forces of Corruption
Released: Oct 24, 2006
Critic rating: 70.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Strategy
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
You’ve played the light side.
Plants vs. Zombies
Released: May 5, 2009
Critic rating: 70.9 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Puzzle, Real Time Strategy (RTS), Strategy, Tactical
Platforms: PlayStation 3, Windows Phone, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360, Nintendo DSi
Game modes: Single player, Co-operative
Plants vs.
SimCity 2000
Released: Dec 1, 1993
Critic rating: 71.0 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Simulator, Strategy
Platforms: Windows Mobile, PC-9800 Series, PlayStation 3, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Legacy Computer, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, DOS, FM Towns, Amiga, Sega Saturn, PlayStation, PlayStation Portable, Game Boy Advance, Super Famicom
Game modes: Single player
It has all the features, flexibility, art, animation, and power you need to create an environment of your dreams.
NieR
Released: Apr 22, 2010
Critic rating: 69.0 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Shooter, Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Xbox One
Game modes: Single player
Nothing is as it seems in Square Enix's latest action adventure game, set in a crumbling world plagued by disease and dark, unrecognizable creatures.
F1 2012
Released: Sep 17, 2012
Critic rating: 76.5 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Racing, Simulator, Sport, Strategy
Platforms: PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox 360
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
As well as the new young driver test mode, F1 2012 features a new "Champions Mode", in which the six World Champions competing in the 2012 season — Kimi Räikkönen, Lewis Hamilton, Jenson Button, Sebastian Vettel, Fernando Alonso and Michael Schumacher — will be styled after traditional end-of-level video gaming bosses, with the player challenged to beat them while racing in conditions that suit each driver.
Carcassonne
Released: Nov 29, 2017
Critic rating: 75.0 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Puzzle, Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Card & Board Game
Platforms: Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
The official adaptation of the famous board game Carcassonne!
Black & White
Released: Mar 25, 2001
Critic rating: 74.8 / 100 • 144 votes
Rating: T
Genres: Puzzle, Real Time Strategy (RTS), Simulator, Strategy
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Play the role of a deity in a land where the surroundings are yours to shape and its people are yours to lord over.
Yes, Your Grace
Released: Mar 6, 2020
Critic rating: 77.2 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy, Adventure
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
In this kingdom management RPG, petitioners will arrive in the throne room each turn to ask for your advice and assistance.
PUBG Mobile
Released: Mar 19, 2018
Critic rating: 87.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Shooter, Strategy
Platforms: Android, iOS
Game modes: Battle Royale
PUBG Mobile is the mobile version of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, a battle royale game where up to 100 players parachute onto an island, scavenge for weapons and equipment, and fight to be the last person or team standing as the playable area gradually shrinks.
Five Nights at Freddy's
Released: Aug 25, 2014
Critic rating: 74.7 / 100 • 25 votes
Rating: T
Genres: Simulator, Strategy, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Windows Phone, Android, iOS
Game modes: Single player
Welcome to your new summer job at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, where kids and parents alike come for entertainment and food as far as the eye can see!