Best Strategy Games
1,169 Strategy games, ranked by the Rank and Play community.
Ghost Master
Released: May 23, 2003
Critic rating: 67.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Puzzle, Strategy
Platforms: Xbox, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, PlayStation 2
Game modes: Single player
Ghost Master is a strategy game with a difference.
Clicker Heroes
Released: Jul 1, 2014
Critic rating: 66.5 / 100 • 71 votes
Rating: E10+
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Web browser, PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Ever wondered what one quadrillion damage per second feels like?
AdVenture Capitalist
Released: May 30, 2014
Critic rating: 70.0 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Simulator, Strategy, Indie
Platforms: Web browser, PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac
Game modes: Single player
AdVenture Capitalist is the world’s greatest capitalism simulator.
War for the Overworld
Released: Apr 2, 2015
Critic rating: 60.0 / 100
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Simulator, Strategy, Indie
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Tired of invading dungeons?
SimCity Societies
Released: Nov 13, 2007
Critic rating: 66.7 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Simulator, Strategy
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player
Featuring an all-new, revolutionary feature set, SimCity Societies allows players to create their own kinds of cities, shape their cultures, societal behaviors and environments.
Dungeon Defenders II
Released: Dec 5, 2014
Critic rating: 66.4 / 100 • 34 votes
Rating: E10+
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Dungeon Defenders II is a co-operative action tower defense game that incorporates heavy roleplaying elements.
20 Minutes Till Dawn
Released: Sep 5, 2022
Critic rating: 66.3 / 100 • 51 votes
Rating: E10+
Genres: Shooter, Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Adventure, Indie, Arcade
Platforms: Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Shoot down an ever growing horde of Lovecraftian monsters to survive the night.
Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars
Released: Apr 15, 2005
Critic rating: 65.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Simulator, Strategy
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars is the fourth computer game in the Cossacks series of real-time strategy games, released in Spring 2005 to mixed reviews.[1] This game focuses exclusively on the Napoleonic era, meaning it has a much shorter time span than others in this series, which spanned several centuries.
Star Fox 2
Released: Sep 29, 2017
Critic rating: 62.5 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Shooter, Platform, Real Time Strategy (RTS), Strategy
Platforms: Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Famicom
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
After the success of Star Fox, Nintendo decided to make a sequel on the same system.
Youtubers Life
Released: May 18, 2016
Critic rating: 66.1 / 100 • 52 votes
Rating: E10+
Genres: Simulator, Strategy, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Youtubers Life is the ultimate vlogger tycoon/life-sim videogame.
Mario Party DS
Released: Nov 8, 2007
Critic rating: 55.0 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Puzzle, Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure, Card & Board Game
Platforms: Wii U, Nintendo DS
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
He's captured Mario and his friends in his pursuit of a crystal that the group collected when it fell from the sky, and he doesn't hesitate to shrink them to miniature size to get rid of them and get his hands on the other four crystals.
Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure
Released: Feb 14, 2006
Critic rating: 61.5 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Racing, Strategy, Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Adventure
Platforms: Xbox, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 2
Game modes: Single player
Play as Trane, a "toy" graffiti artist with the street smarts, athletic prowess and vision to become an "All City King" - the most reputable of all graffiti artists.
Star Trek Online
Released: Feb 2, 2010
Critic rating: 67.5 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy, Tactical, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One
Game modes: Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)
Star Trek Online is a premier free-to-play MMORPG from Cryptic Studios and Perfect World Entertainment set in the famous Star Trek universe.
Tower of Time
Released: Apr 12, 2018
Critic rating: 78.3 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Tactical, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
RPG with 3d graphics, real time combat and deep and mature story with real time combat with time manipulation, tactical and challenging battles, seven diverse classes to choose for 4-man party, and more.
Sim Theme Park
Released: Nov 4, 1999
Critic rating: 65.8 / 100 • 56 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Simulator, Strategy
Platforms: PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, PlayStation, PlayStation Portable
Game modes: Single player
Like the previous title, Theme Park World tasks players with managing a series of amusement parks.
The Settlers: Heritage of Kings
Released: Feb 18, 2005
Critic rating: 55.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Strategy
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
The Settlers: Heritage of Kings is a 2005 real-time strategy game.
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing
Released: May 22, 2013
Critic rating: 64.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Put on your wide-brimmed hat, grab your weapons and embark on an incredible adventure in the gothic-noir world of Borgovia, where mad science threatens the fragile peace between monster and mortal.
Empyrion: Galactic Survival
Released: Aug 5, 2020
Critic rating: 65.7 / 100 • 24 votes
Rating: T
Genres: Shooter, Simulator, Strategy, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)
Empyrion - Galactic Survival is a 3D open world space sandbox survival adventure.
Blackguards
Released: Jan 24, 2014
Critic rating: 67.4 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Indie
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
What happens when the only hope of a threatened world lies not with heroes in shining armor, but in the hands of a band of misfits and criminals?
MySims
Released: Sep 18, 2007
Critic rating: 68.2 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Simulator, Strategy
Platforms: Wii, PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player
Move to a town that has been struggling lately.
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity
Released: Nov 23, 2012
Critic rating: 63.7 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Tactical
Platforms: Nintendo 3DS
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Discover the incredible 3D world of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity, where Pokemon speak and amazing adventures are always nearby!
Magicka: Wizard Wars
Released: May 27, 2014
Critic rating: 68.0 / 100
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Adventure
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Multiplayer
Magicka: Wizard Wars is a sandbox action PvP game that utilizes the humor and dynamic spellcasting system of Magicka, tasking players to form teams of four and blaze their way across the battlefield together, combining elements to cast hundreds of different spells to generate a broad variety of offensive and defensive effects.
Fallout Shelter
Released: Jun 14, 2015
Critic rating: 67.8 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Fallout Shelter puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault from Vault-Tec.
Minecraft: Legends
Released: Apr 18, 2023
Critic rating: 71.0 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Strategy, Arcade
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Discover the mysteries of Minecraft Legends, a new action strategy game.
Pit People
Released: Mar 2, 2018
Critic rating: 76.8 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
In the fast-paced, turn-based, co-op adventure you'll quest and explore, find awesome loot, customize your fighters, and recruit strange species.