Best Strategy Games
1,169 Strategy games, ranked by the Rank and Play community.
R.E.P.O.
Released: Feb 26, 2025
Critic rating: 72.4 / 100 • 160 votes
Genres: Strategy, Indie
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
R.E.P.O.
Quantum Conundrum
Released: Jun 21, 2012
Critic rating: 74.1 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Strategy, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360
Game modes: Single player
In Quantum Conundrum, players take on the role of a young kid dropped off on his uncle's doorstep for the weekend; his uncle just so happens to be the brilliant, eccentric inventor, Professor Fitz Quadwrangle.
Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood
Released: Oct 6, 2005
Critic rating: 73.0 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Shooter, Strategy, Tactical
Platforms: Xbox, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, PlayStation 2
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Brothers in Arms Earned in Blood adds new features and game modes and builds upon the elements that made Brothers in Arms Road to Hill 30 a runaway success.
Heroes of Might & Magic III: HD Edition
Released: Jan 28, 2015
Critic rating: 65.3 / 100
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
The most popular Heroes title of all time is back in HD!
Five Nights at Freddy's 2
Released: Nov 10, 2014
Critic rating: 70.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Point-and-click, Simulator, Strategy, Indie
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player
Welcome back to the new and improved Freddy Fazbear's Pizza!
Puzzle Quest 2
Released: Jun 22, 2010
Critic rating: 80.6 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Platforms: Linux, Windows Phone, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Puzzle Quest 2 is a video game developed by Infinite Interactive for the Nintendo DS, Xbox Live Arcade, iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7, and Microsoft Windows.
Empire Earth II
Released: Apr 26, 2005
Critic rating: 75.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Simulator, Strategy
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Relive the complete span of human history!
The Sims 2: Castaway
Released: Oct 22, 2007
Critic rating: 73.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Simulator, Strategy, Adventure
Platforms: Wii, PlayStation 2
Game modes: Single player
Castaway is the third console spin-off of the video game The Sims 2.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links
Released: Nov 17, 2016
Critic rating: 72.2 / 100 • 93 votes
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Quiz/Trivia, Adventure, Card & Board Game
Platforms: Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Yu-Gi-Oh!
Halo Wars
Released: Feb 26, 2009
Critic rating: 70.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Strategy
Platforms: Xbox 360
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
The Covenant has declared war on humanity, and Harvest is the first battleground.
Super Auto Pets
Released: Apr 20, 2021
Critic rating: 72.2 / 100 • 46 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Indie, Card & Board Game
Platforms: Web browser, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac
Game modes: Multiplayer
In Super Auto Pets you build a team from a lovable cast of animals who will fight for you.
Arknights: Endfield
Released: Jan 22, 2026
Critic rating: 72.2 / 100 • 63 votes
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Adventure
Platforms: Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, PlayStation 5
Game modes: Single player
Arknights: Endfield is a 3D real-time strategy RPG developed by HYPERGRYPH.
The Settlers: Rise of an Empire
Released: Sep 25, 2007
Critic rating: 70.0 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Simulator, Strategy
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
In The Settlers - Rise of an Empire, players build lively, bustling towns in a medieval world.
Caesar IV
Released: Sep 26, 2006
Critic rating: 69.0 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Simulator, Strategy
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player
Starting as governor of a newly formed province in the Roman Empire your goal is simple: advance up the empire's political ladder to become the next Caesar.
Planetary Annihilation
Released: Sep 5, 2014
Critic rating: 70.0 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Strategy
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Colonize solar systems, annihilate homeworlds, and exterminate your foes in epic interplanetary battles with multiple players and thousands of units.
Mercenary Kings
Released: Mar 25, 2014
Critic rating: 75.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Shooter, Platform, Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
In this frantic 2D action game, you are part of the Mercenary Kings, the most skilled team of warriors-for-hire on Earth, but when your comrades have fallen and the fearsome forces of CLAW have seized an island-wide top secret Laboratory Base, you must do what it takes to stop them.
Surviving Mars
Released: Mar 15, 2018
Critic rating: 73.6 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Simulator, Strategy
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One
Game modes: Single player
Surviving Mars is a sci-fi city builder all about colonizing Mars and surviving the process.
Dr. Mario
Released: Jul 27, 1990
Critic rating: 72.0 / 100 • 208 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Puzzle, Strategy
Platforms: Arcade, Family Computer, Wii U, Nintendo Entertainment System
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen
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Kirby's Avalanche
Released: Feb 1, 1995
Critic rating: 72.0 / 100 • 23 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Puzzle, Strategy
Platforms: Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Wii
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen
King Dedede has challenged Kirby and other members of Dream Land to an Avalanche Competition in the Dream Fountain.
The Sims 3: Generations
Released: May 31, 2011
Critic rating: 68.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy, Adventure
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
Enjoy a whole spectrum of rich life experiences with your Sims in The Sims 3: Generations.
Heroes of Might and Magic IV: Winds of War
Released: Feb 25, 2003
Critic rating: 71.9 / 100 • 25 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Tactical
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Winds of War is the second and final expansion for Heroes of Might and Magic IV.
Cloverpit
Released: Sep 26, 2025
Critic rating: 62.0 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Simulator, Strategy, Indie, Arcade, Card & Board Game
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch 2, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
You wake up in a rusty, narrow cell, standing over a dangerously unstable grate.
Pokémon Colosseum
Released: Nov 21, 2003
Critic rating: 71.8 / 100 • 132 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure
Platforms: Nintendo GameCube
Game modes: Single player
Pokemon fans can now battle their favorite Pokemon on the grand stage.
GreedFall
Released: Sep 9, 2019
Critic rating: 70.6 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Adventure
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One
Game modes: Single player
GreedFall is a single-player action RPG set in a fictional world inspired by 17th-century Baroque Europe.
The Sims: Vacation
Released: Mar 25, 2002
Critic rating: 80.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
The Sims: Vacation, known as The Sims: On Holiday in the Republic of Ireland, the UK, China and Scandinavia, is the fourth expansion pack for The Sims.