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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Mage and Monsters II
Recruit a hero to lead your army, and use spells while they fight for you. Mage & Monsters 2 is an active auto battler, where you choose to either enhance the strength of your hero, reinforce the might of your army, or increase the power of your spells.
Trench Face
Trench Face is a horror turn based war RPG featuring exploration-based dungeons, with hanging monsters lurking around each corner. Every enemy varying in strengths and weaknesses. Escape the trench with your life.
Dungeon Warfare 3
Forge invincible defenses with lethal traps and devious machines, and crush relentless waves of adventurers in the ultimate tower defense showdown!
Ways of Alchemy
Become a medieval alchemist in this card game. Brew deadly potions, discover ancient recipes, hire adventurers, and outwit the Inquisition. Transform your humble shack into an alchemical empire. No wands are required — just knowledge and wit.
Little Witch Survivors
"Little Witch Survivors" is a magic pigeon barrage shooting game. You will play as a little witch, summoning and commanding eight unique magic guardians to fight side by side! Each guardian has dual skills, and you can switch strategies freely in the equipment slots - weave your own magic miracle!
Knightica
Recruit powerful units, place them strategically and find the best synergies in this Roguelike Autobattler! Knightica lets you guide a warband through many challenges to free the Kingdoms. Discover optimal combinations, weave powerful enchants, face dangerous monsters and lead your army to victory!
Worldwide Rush
Worldwide Rush lets you experience passenger transportation and management on a global scale. Expand your company, meet the growing travel demand, compete against other companies, and discover new continents with its unique vehicles. The entire world is yours to control.
Inkshade
Inkshade is a turn-based tactics game carved out of strange wooden miniatures, wrapped in a web of locked rooms, and orchestrated by an otherworldly game master. Victory is not guaranteed, and the only constant is the cruel black ink that flows within the pieces.
Super Drift Blade
Most of your actions have been taken away. In each time loop, slide the mouse to kill monsters, crack the puzzles locked by knowledge, and explore the hidden paths! Go deeper in a limited time and discover the truth of the world.
Passant: A Chess Roguelike
Passant is a chess roguelike that changes all the rules. Progress through challenging rounds while collecting powerful pieces and game-changing items to seize victory.
Monarch : Medieval Remastered
In the medieval era, assume the role of a lord and engage with other lords，develop fiefdoms, and employ strategies involving intrigue, warfare, and plunder. Expand your territory and strengthen your house lineage Or, be a god, manipulate the world? This game primarily strategic role-playing elements
The Royal Writ
Sacrifice creates stories in this medieval roguelike deckbuilder. Watch your cards march to glory or permanent death as they battle toward the enemy. Each fallen hero becomes part of your kingdom's legend. Command wisely... some sacrifices are necessary.
Warnament
A turn-based grand strategy game, simple for newbies yet challenging for masters. As the leader of a nation, you will conquer territories and advance in military, technology, culture, or politics. Choose from historical scenarios or create your own with an editor.
Hyper Chess
There are NO TURNS in this wild version of Chess! Pieces move across the board in real-time, so you'll need to think fast to protect your King!
Another Farm Roguelike: Rebirth
Discover the ultimate farming roguelike experience! Build, craft, and grow your farm to pay off the increasing rent. No slow-paced walking or social distractions—just click! Reclaim the joy of strategic farming in diverse maps and let your cursor guide you to success. Play your way, rent won’t wait!
Frosthaven
From the creative mind of Isaac Childres, the highly acclaimed board game moves to the digital realm in the video game adaptation of FROSTHAVEN! The dark fantasy tactical RPG features deep mechanics and challenging yet satisfying gameplay both in Single Player and Co-Op Online Multiplayer.
Lakeside Bar
A cozy management sim where the jazz is smooth, the cocktails are cooler than the evening breeze, and the lake reflects your perfect escape.
Once Upon a Galaxy
ONCE UPON A GALAXY is an easy to learn Card Battler with incredible strategic depth and near infinite fun! Which of your favorite characters from myth and fairy tale will you choose?
Let Them Trade
Build a network of cities that produce and trade resources, upgrade your castle, and protect the cities from cheeky bandits. Tinker with the economy at your own pace, and watch the charming wooden world grow into a lively and thriving kingdom.
Pile Up!
"Pile Up!" is a strategic building game which you need to build houses, fulfill your people’s requests and manage your risky buildings in different ways on a small land. But don’t let your guard down in this chill environment, we only get you relaxed so you destroy everything you did.
Fill Up The Hole
Turn trash into cash in a dystopian world! Fill Up The Hole is a short incremental game where you build a city, automate garbage production, and toss it into a magical hole for profit.
The Three Kingdoms: The Tales of Jian An
This is a historical strategy game set in the Three Kingdoms era, told from Liu Bei's perspective. It covers the Yellow Turban Rebellion to early Three Kingdoms. Featuring classic turn-based gameplay, it reinterprets historical events, offering both engaging battles and rich cultural insights.
Super Loco World - Cozy Train Automation
Effortlessly build and automate intricate railroads and deliver goods to meet the demands of a dynamic world! Make clever use of signals and signposts to avoid traffic jams, and watch your villages blossom into bustling towns in this cozy take on the train tycoon genre.
Kaizen: A Factory Story
Kaizen is an open-ended puzzle automation game from the original Zachtronics team, set in 1980s Japan. Design, build, and optimize production lines to create iconic products, like calculators, camcorders, and arcade machines.
Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold War
Crisis in the Kremlin is a global real-time political strategy about the Socialist world in its final decade. Shape the fate of the world as you manage economy, foreign relations, and domestic policy. Engage with countries across the globe, using diplomacy or even proxy wars to expand your reach.
Occlude
Occlude is a ritual disguised as Solitaire; a cosmic-horror card game where the rules are obscured and reality is at stake. Play through cryptic challenges to reveal forbidden lore in this singleplayer narrative puzzle game for the terminally curious. Don’t worry; you can always start over.
Ground of Aces
Take command of a remote military air base during World War II. Build your own airfield, manage iconic aircraft and oversee your crew’s well-being. Prepare them against air raids and send your pilots on dangerous missions. Survive and help your nation win the war!
Every Day We Fight
Caught in a time loop, your band of resistance fighters is humanity’s last hope. Real-time exploration meets turn-based tactics and roguelite strategy as you learn new abilities, seek out new weapons, and develop new techniques to overcome the mysterious alien threat.
Primordialis
Primordialis is a physics-based roguelike fish builder. Unleash your creativity to defeat creatures using venomous tentacles, electrical shocks, or exploding children. The possibilities are endless. Explore the primordial depths to reveal its secrets and discover what lies beyond.
Hunter Roulette
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the underground survivor's showdown! All you need is a locked-and-loaded gun and the guts to stare death in the face to have the time of your life. Ready or not, this isn’t just any gamble—it’s your one shot at survival and rebirth. The hunt starts now！Good luck!
Shambles: Sons of Apocalypse
“The world you knew is already collapsed.”As an explorer in a bunker, explore a new world 500 years in the future and decide its fate. You can lead the world back to doom or bring it to peace. It all depends on your choices.
Rentlord
Rentlord is a combo-making roguelike real estate game where you buy properties, manage your income, and overcome unique weekly challenges. Strategic property upgrades and plugins with high combo potential, each run offers new opportunities to maximize rent, while avoiding taxes!
Merge Maestro
Combine 100's of unique emoji based tokens in this roguelike merge-builder! Find ever more creative combinations of Tokens and Powers to fuse unique strategies and beat this ever more challenging twist on rogue-likes, puzzlers and arcadey games!