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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Polarity Polarity takes it to the next level, demanding all of your wits and reflexes. Full-featured local co-op campaign.

Price 12.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 15 Jul 2016
Strike.is: The Game Load your gun and dominate the best multiplayer mobile shooter game!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.1
Release 14 Jul 2016
Crush Your Enemies Go back to the awesome glory days of Real-Time Strategy games. Crush Your Enemies has everything you love of the genre: Planning, choosing different types of units, managing resources, taking enemy territory and outwitting your opponent with the ingenious formations of your men.

Price -89% 1.14€
Rating 7.7
Release 13 Jul 2016
Poly Bridge Unleash your engineering creativity with an engaging and fresh bridge-building simulator with all the bells and whistles. Enjoy hours of physics-based puzzle solving in the Campaign and then jump in the Sandbox to create your own bridge designs and puzzles!

Price -40% 4.97€
Rating 8.9
Release 12 Jul 2016
Tumblestone Tumblestone is the first original action-puzzle game of the past fifteen years -- completely reinventing the genre into a deep and cerebral puzzle solving experience that you won't forget.

Price -98% 0.65€
Rating 7.4
Release 12 Jul 2016
Mind Spheres Inspired by two not so different worlds, Mind Spheres brings you an exclusive and awesome experience. A physics puzzle with minigolf + pinball unique mashup. Figure out puzzles in order to proceed to the next level.

Price -93% 0.39€
Rating 7.4
Release 08 Jul 2016
Red Trigger Red Trigger is an FPS Puzzle game inspired by Portal, Antichamber and more. Use a gun that can expand or retract red blocks. The catch? You can only expand three blocks at a time - so you need to manage your energy wisely.

Price 6.89€
Rating 8.6
Release 08 Jul 2016
Boid Boid is real-time strategy at its most primal - your only resource is your army. No funds to manage or infrastructures to build. It’s a kill or be killed battle of rapid decisions to dominate the gene pool.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 08 Jul 2016
Hero Zero - Multiplayer RPG Become a hero, build your own Hide-Out and start by saving your neighbourhood. Level up your skills, collect incredibly weird superhero gadgets, and join a superhero team to save the world!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 05 Jul 2016
Megadimension Neptunia VII New challengers are taking control of Gamindustri, and Neptune's nowhere in sight. Now she’s gotta help a mysterious stranger fight a colossal new evil, reclaim her Goddess title, and find some time for pudding! Go next gen with Giant Battles and multi-worlds in this JRPG!

Price -84% 3.19€
Rating 9.0
Release 05 Jul 2016
Tomoyo After ~It's a Wonderful Life~ English Edition From renowned visual novel studio Key, this is the sequel to the highly acclaimed visual novel CLANNAD. Featuring a truly memorable continuation to Tomoya and Tomoyo's journey, Tomoyo After promises to draw you even further into CLANNAD's world.

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 01 Jul 2016
Drawful 2 For 3-8 players and an audience of thousands! Your phones or tablets are your controllers! The game of terrible drawings and hilariously wrong answers.

Price -96% 0.41€
Rating 7.2
Release 20 Jun 2016
12 Labours of Hercules V: Kids of Hellas (Platinum Edition) With your help, Hercules must return the kids home, blow up the factory that produces the evil toys, and lead a strategic operation to destroy Ares' command transmitter in 12 Labours of Hercules V: Kids of Hellas!

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 17 Jun 2016
MAZE LORD Become the part of the legend and save the stolen princess!

Price -92% 0.42€
Rating 8.1
Release 17 Jun 2016
Cursed Her future, as well as of the whole world depends on her ingenuity and bravery. The path to her fiancé is blocked by ghosts, dragons, demons and other creatures from beyond. Will she overcome her fears? Will she find her beloved? Play "Cursed" and find out!

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 17 Jun 2016
Space Run Galaxy Space Run Galaxy is the sequel to Space Run, the game from one-man studio Passtech, which seduced hundreds of thousands of players with its dynamic and original gameplay. By twisting the tower-defense game style, Space Run offered an addictive real-time spaceship construction strategy experience.

Price -95% 0.55€
Rating 6.2
Release 17 Jun 2016
Bastard Bonds Bastard Bonds is a mature, fast-paced tactical RPG with high-end pixel art and in-depth character customization.

Price 8.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 15 Jun 2016
Welcome to the Game Welcome to the Game is a creepy horror/puzzle game that takes you into the world of the Deep Web. Explore the Deep Web with the sole purpose of trying to find a Red Room, an online service / website that allows you to see and participate in interactive torture and murder.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 15 Jun 2016
Dead by Daylight Trapped forever in a realm of eldritch evil where even death is not an escape, four determined Survivors face a bloodthirsty Killer in a vicious game of nerve and wits. Pick a side and step into a world of tension and terror with horror gaming's best asymmetrical multiplayer.

Price -60% 7.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 14 Jun 2016
Emporea: Realms of War and Magic Emporea is an oldschool fantasy strategy game, where cooperation with other players is necessary to achieve victory. Only the best alliance can win! Multiple realms available, with new ones starting every two weeks.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.6
Release 08 Jun 2016
Insanity Clicker Been looking for the thrill? Then you've come to the right place! Insanity Clicker is a time-killer game full of horror and fear that will make you tremble in a couple of minutes!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.6
Release 07 Jun 2016
SteamWorld Heist Command a steam-driven pirate crew in a series of epic tactical shootouts in SteamWorld Heist. This is turn-based strategy with a twist: You manually aim the guns of your robots, allowing for insane skill shots and bullet-bouncing action!

Price -98% 0.43€
Rating 9.0
Release 07 Jun 2016
Super Duper Party Pooper Created by solo developer Nikola Kostic - Have you ever wanted to poop on party goers but were too socially awkward to just go for it? Well, Super Duper Party Pooper is about to change all that, the player will find themselves in the middle of a raw human story of existential panic.

Price 0.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 06 Jun 2016
Hearts of Iron IV Victory is at your fingertips! Your ability to lead your nation is your supreme weapon, the strategy game Hearts of Iron IV lets you take command of any nation in World War II; the most engaging conflict in world history.

Price -81% 9.83€
Rating 8.8
Release 06 Jun 2016

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