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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Worms Reloaded Ten years on from Worms™ Armageddon and the turn-based comic mayhem continues in Worms™ Reloaded, an all-new edition available for PC through Steam.

Price -98% 0.74€
Rating 8.4
Release 26 Aug 2010
The Guild II Renaissance For centuries Europe has been dominated by the church and nobility. On the shoulders of ordinary people the servants of god and the noble families justified their power and wealth. This was the incontrovertible, divine world order. A truly dark era… In the 14th Century the world order is beginning to transform itself.

Price -80% 1.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 28 Jul 2010
SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition includes the bestselling SimCity 4 and the all-new SimCity 4 Rush Hour Expansion Pack. Create the most massive region of cities ever, with a farming town, bedroom community, high-tech commercial center, and industrial backbone.

Price -87% 2.60€
Rating 8.0
Release 20 Jul 2010
Alien Swarm Co-operative multiplayer game and complete code base available for free.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.3
Release 19 Jul 2010
Day of Defeat: Source Valve's WWII Multiplayer Classic - Now available for Mac.

Price 9.75€
Rating 9.0
Release 12 Jul 2010
Theatre of War Command a special task force composed of different kinds of units, including tanks, APCs, field guns, mortars, various infantry regiments and will also have an opportunity to call for artillery and air support.

Price -75% 1.00€
Rating 6.0
Release 09 Jul 2010
Moonbase Alpha NASA has once again landed on the lunar surface with the goal of colonization, research, and further exploration. Shortly after the return to the Moon, NASA has established a small outpost on the south pole of the moon called Moonbase Alpha.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 06 Jul 2010
Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead Three years after the conflict in Chernarus, portrayed in the original Arma 2, a new flashpoint explodes in the Green Sea Region. Coalition forces led by the US Army are deployed to Takistan to quickly restore peace and prevent further civilian casualties.

Price -94% 0.97€
Rating 9.0
Release 29 Jun 2010
The Guild II The Guild 2 is the shining successor of the ultra successful medieval life sim, Europe 1400. The Guild 2 is a unique mixture of RPG and life simulation in an immersive middle ages scenario. The player and his party become part of history and can even change it in real-time. Go back to the dark middle ages and found a new dynasty!

Price -96% 0.41€
Rating 6.8
Release 24 Jun 2010
Sword of the Stars: Complete Collection Sword of the Stars: Complete Collection is the original Sword of the Stars games and the three expansions Born of Blood, A Murder of Crows and Argos Naval Yard. It is the year 2405, and human scientists have discovered a new technology that allows travel from star to star at speeds faster than light.

Price -95% 0.56€
Rating 8.2
Release 04 Jun 2010
STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack Command or corrupt an entire galaxy in the definitive Star Wars strategy collection. It is a time of galactic civil war. Will you take up the reins of the Rebellion, assume control of the Empire, or rule the Star Wars Underworld?

Price 19.50€
Rating 9.6
Release 25 May 2010
Fortix Can you reclaim your ancestors’ land? Evil forces have taken over the once fertile land of Fortiana. You are the only one who can storm the castles and claw it back from the hordes of dragons. Experience a new type of strategy and arcade game. Fence off parts of the battlefield to corner your enemies.

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 14 Apr 2010
Mount & Blade: Warband In a land torn asunder by incessant warfare, it is time to assemble your own band of hardened warriors and enter the fray. Lead your men into battle, expand your realm, and claim the ultimate prize: the throne of Calradia!

Price -88% 2.59€
Rating 9.7
Release 31 Mar 2010
Star Wolves Star wolves is a 3D space RPG with deep strategy and tactical elements. The game thrusts players into a world of freelance space hunters in the XXI-XXII century A.D. during a time of political crisis for the all-powerful Empire and the three mega-corporations that control all the known worlds.

Price -90% 0.40€
Rating 7.9
Release 02 Mar 2010
Star Wolves 3: Civil War Large-scale battles have become a vestige of the past, depleting resources of conflicting parties. Settled space, where welfare and order had reigned, has become a cemetery for dead ships which is flooded with pirates and adventurists.

Price -85% 0.79€
Rating 7.6
Release 02 Mar 2010
Supreme Commander 2 Includes 47 Steam achievements, leaderboards, and stats!

Price -92% 1.08€
Rating 8.6
Release 01 Mar 2010
Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition Complete your Total War collection with this Definitive Edition of Total War: NAPOLEON, which includes all DLC and feature updates since the game’s release

Price 24.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 25 Feb 2010
Arsenal of Democracy: A Hearts of Iron Game Taking place from 1936-64, Arsenal of Democracy lets you play as any nation during the era of WW2, complete with detailed models for economics, diplomacy, research, and intelligence. Warfare is also fully represented with all three branches of operations: land, sea, and air.

Price -87% 1.37€
Rating 7.9
Release 23 Feb 2010
Aliens vs. Predator™ Survive, hunt and prey in the deadly jungles and swamps in distinctly new and thrilling first person gameplay.

Price -56% 6.60€
Rating 8.9
Release 16 Feb 2010
Secret of the Magic Crystals In this game you manage a horse-breeding farm set in a fantasy surrounding. The game enables you to breed legendary horses such as Pegasus, Unicorn, Fire-steed, Ice-steed and Demon-steed. You can buy over 700 objects during the game. Make all kinds of horseshoes as well as lots of magical potions for your horses.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 03 Feb 2010
Altitude Now Available on PC, Mac and Linux!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 04 Dec 2009
King Arthur - The Role-playing Wargame Welcome to the lost age of chivalry, where magic and myth is alive, and you are destined to be one of the living legends: Arthur, the son of Uther Pendragon, the Once and Future King of the prophecies. Fulfill your destiny and claim your rightful place on the throne of Britannia.

Price -78% 2.26€
Rating 6.6
Release 24 Nov 2009
King's Bounty: Armored Princess King's Bounty: Armored Princess is a sequel to the critically acclaimed King’s Bounty: The Legend.

Price -90% 1.00€
Rating 8.6
Release 19 Nov 2009
Gratuitous Space Battles The first ever auto-battler game, from way back in 2009Who needs backstory? Who needs resource-gathering? Diplomacy is so last year. Gratuitous Space Battles cuts right to the chase of sci-fi strategy games, and deals with large, completely unjustified space battles between huge opposing space fleets.

Price 14.79€
Rating 6.9
Release 16 Nov 2009

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