Strategy Hidden Gems on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated strategy games.

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Clue/Cluedo Experience a fresh take on the classic crime-solving board game. Step into new mysteries and use your skills of deduction to find out whodunit, with what weapon and where.

Price -83% 2.63€
Rating 8.3
Release 23 Aug 2023
Draft of Darkness Draft of Darkness is a survival horror RPG with deck building and roguelike dungeon exploration. Recruit allies, synergize their decks to create powerful card combos. Manage your limited resources and explore procedurally generated maps to determine the story's outcome.

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.6
Release 23 Aug 2023
Vectorio A minimalistic base-building tower-defense game. Collect and automate resources, research new technologies, setup supply chains, and fight back against the ever growing onslaught of enemy forces with a variety of powerful defenses.

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.6
Release 18 Aug 2023
Affogato Affogato is a RPG featuring a unique 'reverse tower defense' mechanic. Play as a sorceress managing a café in Arorua. Meet customers from all walks of life, hear their stories and travel into their minds to help them defeat their inner demons. Experience a city life that exudes magic and excitement.

Price -64% 5.95€
Rating 7.9
Release 17 Aug 2023
Word Factori Word Factori is a word-building game where your only resource is the letter "i". Build a chain of factories to bend, rotate, reflect, and merge "i" into more complex letters. Discover secret letter recipes, unlock hidden word art, and optimize your factory chains for high scores.

Price 5.89€
Rating 7.9
Release 03 Aug 2023
Love n War: Hero by Chance II Love n War: Hero by Chance II is a tactical RPG with exciting battles and hot girls. The fight against the Drogakan empire goes on with a more sophisticated storyline this time. Build your economy, recruit gorgeous heroic girls, upgrade units, and immerse in stimulating love tales.

Price -40% 3.53€
Rating 7.8
Release 03 Aug 2023
BattleGroupVR BattleGroupVR is a first person real-time space strategy where you lead a fleet of powerful warships into battle from the bridge of your own flagship. Assemble your fleet, upgrade your load-outs, train your captains, engage the enemy and secure the sector. Try not to go down with the ship.

Price -98% 0.42€
Rating 8.7
Release 31 Jul 2023
Landnama Face the judgment of winter’s deadly toll as you lead the first Viking clans to settle Iceland in this non-violent, rogue-lite survival base builder.

Price 13.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 30 Jul 2023
Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes - Definitive Edition Plan your next move wisely, every additional combo can make the difference! Whether in solo or duo, online or offline, mix and match your units to defeat your enemies in this Definitive Edition of Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes!

Price -52% 8.79€
Rating 7.4
Release 20 Jul 2023
One Military Camp Build your own military camp, manage the economy, recruit the best candidates and train them to become elite specialists. Send them on missions across the land to end the war once and for all!

Price -46% 13.66€
Rating 7.4
Release 20 Jul 2023
Lakeburg Legacies Take fate into your own hands in Lakeburg Legacies, a social-based village management sim where love is your favourite resource. Play matchmaker to create the most effective, and most loved up, couples and help your kingdom thrive. How long will it take you to crown a sovereign?

Price -75% 5.77€
Rating 6.9
Release 20 Jul 2023
Oaken Oaken, a turn-based tactical roguelike set in the spirit inhabited world. Explore the Great Oak, gather allies and trinkets, learn to use the positioning for your advantage, choose how to upgrade your cards. Wake the spirits and save the Oak!

Price -94% 1.33€
Rating 7.3
Release 20 Jul 2023
Let's! Revolution! Let’s! Revolution! is a colorful roguelite puzzle mashup about stopping a narcissistic King from ruining your world. Flip tiles to uncover the hidden path to the King. Use deductive reasoning to avoid his cronies or take them all down in strategic turn-based combat.

Price -93% 1.47€
Rating 8.7
Release 19 Jul 2023
Krzyżacy - The Knights of the Cross A story-driven deckbuilding RPG set in the history of Krzyżacy - The Knights of the Cross. Unlike traditional deckbuilders, the teammates you recruit decide the success or failure of battles. Fight the war against the Teutonic, or tackle roguelite runs in this strategic deckbuilder unlike any other.

Price 15.79€
Rating 7.2
Release 19 Jul 2023
Shadows of Forbidden Gods Take on the role of a Dark Elder God and lead your agents to bring about an apocalypse in a fantasy world. Work in the shadows, avoiding the heroes who will try to stop you, as you bring about plague and famine, ice age and volcanic destruction, madness and never ending night.

Price -52% 8.06€
Rating 8.7
Release 15 Jul 2023
EarthX EarthX is a rocket company management game. Go from launching small rockets on Earth to eventually building a colony on Mars. Create your own Internet constellation, develop new technologies, supply the International Space Station and terraform Mars!

Price -98% 0.44€
Rating 8.3
Release 12 Jul 2023
FRONT MISSION 1st: Remake FRONT MISSION 1st: Remake is an immersive, tactical turn-based RPG, placing you in command of the awe-inspiring Wanzers – powerful military machines.

Price 33.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 30 Jun 2023
Soccer Kids Alpha A game about soccer, made by people who suck at playing soccer. Guide your team of nerds to victory in this tight, tactical soccer game!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 27 Jun 2023
The Purge Dilemma Do you have the intuition and cunning to successfully save yourself from the purges of a paranoid dictator? Prove your loyalty to the Tyrant in this social deduction game designed for 5-10 players.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 26 Jun 2023
Farm Keeper A tile-based farming game where success means maximizing yields to survive the rent, expanding your farm through random tile choices.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 17 Jun 2023
Deducto 2 A fun sus-like game where you backstab your co-workers and get mad at your co-workers for backstabbing you. (up to 16 players)

Price -75% 1.24€
Rating 8.5
Release 16 Jun 2023
Breach Wanderers A fresh take on Roguelike Deckbuilders that lets you fine-tune your decks before each run to adapt your strategy on your way to victory. Over 1,200 cards to choose from, ten characters with their own set of unique skills, and dozens of items and missions to evolve your tactics.

Price -82% 2.32€
Rating 8.3
Release 09 Jun 2023
Pro Cycling Manager 2023 Manage a team of professional cyclists: control the budget, recruit young talent, train riders and devise race strategies. Jostle for position to reach the top of the world rankings!

Price -74% 10.59€
Rating 7.3
Release 08 Jun 2023
Espresso Tycoon Espresso Tycoon - a coffee shop simulator. Create your brand, decorate the coffee shop, manage your employees, and take care of your customers. Use the 3D coffee editor to create coffee recipes, order supplies, and collect rating points. Build the whole coffee business and complete all the missions!

Price -91% 1.81€
Rating 8.2
Release 07 Jun 2023
Bombe Minesweeper, but you only solve each situation once.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.8
Release 04 Jun 2023
Jumbo Airport Story Just imagine: your own world-famous airport! A game with sky-high levels of fun!

Price 7.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 04 Jun 2023
Pirate101 Assemble your ragtag crew and prepare to plunder the skyways in search of the legendary map to El Dorado! Danger lurks around every corner as you outsmart clockwork soldiers, uncover hidden mysteries, and unleash powerful combos in this pirate turn-based tactics MMORPG.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.7
Release 31 May 2023
Lord of the Other World This game is a more casual strategy war game, it bid farewell to the endless confrontation between players in traditional strategy games! More emphasis on collaboration between players.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.2
Release 30 May 2023
Ajax’s Trial Legendary Hoplite: Ajax's Trial is the prologue version of Legendary Hoplite, a game that combines Tower Defense and Action RPG genres. In this game, you'll need to build fortifications, upgrade your army, and create your own unique strategy to fight off hordes of monsters across 7 levels.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 26 May 2023
Dead Town Tales Dead Town Tales is a game that focuses on strategy card building and core Roguelike gameplay. You can learn about this romantic and mysterious world by fighting and exploring, meeting people, ghosts and monsters in Dead Town and experiencing the unknown and making choices together with them.

Price 11.79€
Rating 7.8
Release 25 May 2023
Do Not Feed the Monkeys 2099 Spy on strangers through security cameras, invade their privacy and discover their secrets in this digital voyeur simulator. Welcome to the future of The Primate Observation Club. Even in 2099 the rule about messing with your unlucky subjects still remains in this sequel: DO NOT feed the monkeys!

Price -86% 2.14€
Rating 7.0
Release 25 May 2023
Cards & Tankards Grab a drink, invite your friends and ready your deck! Cards & Tankards is the first social collectible card game available for both PC and VR.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 25 May 2023
Rule the Waves 3 Rule the Waves III is a simulation of naval ship design and construction, fleet management and naval warfare from 1890 to 1970.

Price -93% 3.08€
Rating 8.4
Release 18 May 2023
Dungeon Village 2 Recruit adventurers and monsters to create your own RRG-style town!

Price 7.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 14 May 2023
Quest for the Golden Candelabra Lead a group of childhood friends in a series of difficult encounters played under the rules of PF2E, the second edition of a powerful tabletop OGL ruleset.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 12 May 2023
Abalon: Roguelike Tactics CCG Abalon is a roguelike adventure that fuses tactical turn-based combat and card strategy. Choose your summoner and explore a tabletop world to discover its secrets. Build the perfect deck, outsmart your enemies and become legend!

Price 28.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 11 May 2023

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