Best Strategy Games
1,192 Strategy games, ranked by the Rank and Play community.
Project Highrise
Released: Sep 8, 2016
Critic rating: 81.0 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Simulator, Strategy, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Project Highrise is a Tower Building Business Management Simulator.
Hogs of War
Released: Sep 5, 2000
Critic rating: 73.7 / 100 • 49 votes
Rating: T
Genres: Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Tactical
Platforms: PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Hogs of War is a turn-based tactics game where players take turns controlling individual members of their squad of hogs to engage in combat with the opposition, similar to Worms.
MudRunner
Released: Oct 31, 2017
Critic rating: 70.0 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Racing, Simulator, Strategy
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Like Spintires before it, Spintires: MudRunner puts players in the driver seat and dares them to take charge of incredible all-terrain vehicles, venturing across extreme Siberian landscapes with only a map and compass as guides!
Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition
Released: Oct 30, 2014
Critic rating: 70.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Originally released in 2000, Icewind Dale is a Dungeons & Dragons game set in Wizards of The Coast's legendary Forgotten Realms.
Sacrifice
Released: Nov 5, 2000
Critic rating: 60.0 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Strategy
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
The Holy War is over.
Fighting Force
Released: Oct 31, 1997
Critic rating: 73.6 / 100 • 79 votes
Rating: T
Genres: Fighting, Strategy, Hack and slash/Beat 'em up
Platforms: PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation Vita, Sega Saturn, PlayStation, PlayStation Portable
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Fighting Force players control one of four characters.
Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings
Released: Apr 26, 2007
Critic rating: 83.3 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Adventure
Platforms: Nintendo DS
Game modes: Single player
One year after the events of FINAL FANTASY XII, the young protagonist Vaan travels the skies of Ivalice with his trusted navigator Penelo at his side.
The Elder Scrolls: Legends
Released: Mar 9, 2017
Critic rating: 77.0 / 100
Rating: PEGI 12
Genres: Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Card & Board Game
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
The Elder Scrolls: Legends is a strategy card game that explores the series' characters, creatures, deities, and lore.
60 Seconds! Reatomized
Released: Jul 25, 2019
Critic rating: 73.5 / 100 • 38 votes
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Dolores, Ted, Mary Jane and Timmy return to face the nuclear apocalypse in this new, remastered edition of the classic atomic adventure - 60 Seconds!
Dune: Spice Wars
Released: Sep 14, 2023
Critic rating: 77.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Strategy, Tactical
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Dune: Spice Wars is a real-time strategy game with 4X elements, from the developers of the critically acclaimed Northgard.
SteamWorld Build
Released: Dec 1, 2023
Critic rating: 76.7 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Simulator, Strategy
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
In SteamWorld Build, you must escape a dying planet by building a mining town to dig up vital long-lost technology.
Transport Fever 2
Released: Dec 11, 2019
Critic rating: 72.0 / 100
Rating: PEGI 3
Genres: Simulator, Strategy
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
The classic transport simulation genre has a new gold standard with Transport Fever 2.
Smite
Released: Mar 25, 2014
Critic rating: 78.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Adventure, MOBA
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Multiplayer, Co-operative
Smite is the online battleground of the gods.
Star Wars: Empire at War
Released: Feb 16, 2006
Critic rating: 72.5 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Strategy
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
From the lives of soldiers to the deaths of planets, you are the supreme galactic commander.
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Soulstorm
Released: Mar 4, 2008
Critic rating: 80.0 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Strategy
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
The third and final expansion to the genre-defining and critically-acclaimed RTS, Dawn of War.
Schedule I
Released: Mar 24, 2025
Critic rating: 73.4 / 100 • 118 votes
Genres: Simulator, Strategy, Indie
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Schedule I is a first-person open-world crime simulation game where players build and manage a drug trafficking operation in the fictional city of Hyland Point.
Wakfu
Released: Feb 29, 2012
Critic rating: 73.4 / 100 • 41 votes
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Tactical, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)
Immerse yourself in the WAKFU universe with this free to play MMORPG.
Fable III
Released: Oct 26, 2010
Critic rating: 78.0 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy, Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Adventure
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360
Game modes: Single player, Co-operative
Set 50 years after the events of Fable II, the continent of Albion (where the Fable series is set) is under the control of Logan, a tyrant king and the Hero's older brother[1].
Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia
Released: May 2, 2018
Critic rating: 76.4 / 100
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
From the multi-award-winning strategy series, A Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia combines huge real-time battles with engrossing turn-based campaign, set at a critical flashpoint in history.
Blood Bowl 2
Released: Sep 22, 2015
Critic rating: 68.5 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Sport, Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Blood Bowl 2 smashes Warhammer and American football together, in an explosive cocktail of turn-based strategy, humor and brutality, adapted from Games Workshop’s famous board game.
The Sims 2: Nightlife
Released: Sep 13, 2005
Critic rating: 66.5 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
Your Sims are on the town hitting all the swanky hot spots in The Sims 2: Nightlife, the second expansion pack for The Sims 2.
Gigantic
Released: Jun 23, 2017
Critic rating: 76.5 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Strategy
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One
Game modes: Multiplayer, Co-operative
Gigantic is a visually-stunning evolution in team action gaming, where freedom of movement, play-style choice, and towering Guardians makes 5x5 competition more accessible and fun than ever.
Moving Out
Released: Apr 28, 2020
Critic rating: 74.5 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Simulator, Strategy, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Moving Out is a cooperative moving simulation game.
The Sims
Released: Jan 14, 2003
Critic rating: 73.2 / 100 • 23 votes
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy, Adventure
Platforms: Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2
Game modes: Single player, Split screen
Home consoles version of The Sims.
UFC 2009 Undisputed
Released: May 19, 2009
Critic rating: 76.3 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Fighting, Role-playing (RPG), Sport, Strategy, Arcade
Platforms: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen
UFC 2009 Undisputed is an explosive fighting game detailing the action, intensity and attitude of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).