Best Strategy Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy 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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Screeps: World Screeps: World is an open source MMO RTS sandbox game for programming enthusiasts. You control your colony by writing JavaScript code that executes 24/7 in a massive, persistent world alongside other programmers.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.3
Release 16 Nov 2016
Creeper World 2: Anniversary Edition Deceptively simple... amazingly deep. Creeper World 2 thrusts you into the 14th millennium fighting and enemy that flows and oozes through the terrain. Employ advanced weapons,gravity manipulating repulsors, wormhole like rifts, and your own wit against this never yielding enemy.

Price -32% 3.41€
Rating 8.4
Release 16 Nov 2016
Creeper World: Anniversary Edition Imagine an enemy that is everywhere and moves like a giant, organic mass across the map. Imagine your base and your people surrounded by a blanket of crushing destruction from all directions. Your only hope, well what hope? Then you take the high ground and pound this enemy into oblivion.

Price -35% 3.25€
Rating 9.1
Release 16 Nov 2016
Spellstone Spellstone is a fantasy card game with beautiful hand-drawn art and rich lore! Collect hundreds of striking cards to battle through a compelling story and unravel the mystery of the Void.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.1
Release 14 Nov 2016
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation A massive-scale real-time strategy game where you command entire armies on a dynamic battlefield. Conquer multiple worlds across several single-player campaigns; or play with your friends in multiplayer combat.

Price -98% 0.56€
Rating 7.2
Release 10 Nov 2016
Tyranny Experience a story-driven RPG where your choices mean all the difference in the world.

Price -83% 5.20€
Rating 8.5
Release 10 Nov 2016
Notruf 112 | Emergency Call 112 Emergency Call 112 – The Fire Fighting Simulation is an exciting, fully detailed simulation of the eventful life of a big city fire department. It was developed in cooperation with and modelled on the fire brigade of Mülheim, Germany. Mülheim has one of the largest and most modern fire stations in Europe.

Price -55% 6.78€
Rating 7.4
Release 09 Nov 2016
Beholder You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?

Price -96% 0.60€
Rating 9.0
Release 09 Nov 2016
World of Tanks Blitz Blow off steam and tank turrets in a free-to-play online 7v7 tank shooter! Drive hundreds of tanks, from museum classics to "did-that-ever-exist?" specials, in quick 5 to 7-minute brawls packed with metal mayhem. Play solo or team up with a friend and enjoy smooth action even on modest hardware!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 09 Nov 2016
Motorsport Manager Have you got what it takes to become the manager of a high-performance motorsport team? Motorsport Manager is a highly detailed, best-in-class management game for fans of motorsport. You’ll hire the drivers, build the cars and embed yourself in the dynamic world of racing.

Price -74% 5.37€
Rating 8.9
Release 09 Nov 2016
Transport Fever Transport Fever is a railroad-focused tycoon game. Players start in 1850 and build up a thriving transport company. As an emerging transport tycoon, the player constructs stations, airports, harbors and makes money by connecting areas requiring transport services. Build up your own Empire!

Price -98% 0.80€
Rating 8.1
Release 08 Nov 2016
Trillion: God of Destruction An ancient god consumes your world. Now you must train and build relationships with each of your Overlords in this challenging raising sim/roguelike/SRPG hybrid. How many Overlords will you sacrifice to defeat an enemy with a trillion hit points?

Price -95% 0.57€
Rating 6.4
Release 07 Nov 2016
Wayout Relax, clear your mind and find the way out.

Price -36% 1.29€
Rating 8.4
Release 04 Nov 2016
Dungeon Rats A turn-based, party-based RPG set in the Age of Decadence world and focused on squad level tactical combat. Fight your way out of prison mine or die trying.

Price -95% 0.40€
Rating 7.3
Release 04 Nov 2016
Trimmer Tycoon Trimmer Tycoon is a fast survival game. You’re the new owner of a beard-trimming salon - Shavy. Customers start flowing in with absurd wishes for their beards. Can you satisfy their beardy dreams and keep up with the ever-increasing rent?

Price Free to play
Rating 6.6
Release 04 Nov 2016
Rencounter Rencounter is a difficult, turn-based, RPG, roguelike game with a mysterious atmosphere. Help your squad survive while navigating through a network of tunnels and rooms. Distribute provisions and medicine to keep them alive.

Price -96% 0.25€
Rating 6.8
Release 04 Nov 2016
Dead Age Survive the zombie apocalypse with a “Final Fantasy” turn-based combat and permanent death! Manage survivors, craft materials, and make difficult decisions. Defend your camp against hordes of the undead to prevail in this non-linear rogue-lite (comparable to FTL). Innovative Indie Survival-RPG!

Price -97% 0.52€
Rating 7.9
Release 04 Nov 2016
EmergeNYC EmergeNYC is a simulation of New York City's Emergency Services. Drive over 30 different Emergency Vehicles with up to 32 of your friends through busy City Streets with blazing sirens and air horns. Take the role of a firefighter, medic, or police officer and ride with your friends to emergencies

Price 20.99€
Rating 6.3
Release 03 Nov 2016
House of the Dying Sun House of the Dying Sun is a tactical space shooter that puts you in the cockpit of the universe's most terrifying starfighter. Hunt the enemies of the Empire and bring ruin to their people.

Price -70% 5.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 01 Nov 2016
Shadowverse CCG Four million battles every day. One Shadowverse. Japan's #1 strategic card game. Made by card gamers for card gamers.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.2
Release 27 Oct 2016
VERSUS SQUAD Versus Squad is a fast action twin-stick shooter from the creator of Nation Red. Build your own sandbox defense and battle thousands of zombie mutants in top down combat! Face up to a dozen bosses. Simultaneously. Collect loot, build and repair. Play single player, on-line or local coop!

Price -48% 4.17€
Rating 7.5
Release 26 Oct 2016
Slayaway Camp A killer puzzle game where you control Skullface, a psycho slasher bent on slaughtering camp counselors at the title campground. Slide an adorable voxel murderer around hundreds of isometric puzzle levels to squash, flay, and decapitate hapless victims in this darkly comic homage to 80s horror.

Price 7.39€
Rating 8.9
Release 25 Oct 2016
Oh...Sir!! The Insult Simulator A Hilarious Insult-‘em up in which players must verbally take-out their friends and family in different game modes. Assemble witty insults using different word strings, and employ combos, criticals, continuations and more to battle your opponents both offline and online across multiple devices.

Price -40% 1.20€
Rating 8.8
Release 25 Oct 2016
Yomawari: Night Alone A quiet evening stroll takes a turn for the worse as a tragic accident befalls a little girl and her dog. When her sister goes missing later in the night, the little girl decides to venture out into the eerie darkness to search for her loved ones as evil spirits haunt the alleyways and streets of her once-peaceful town.

Price -90% 2.05€
Rating 7.4
Release 25 Oct 2016

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