Best Strategy Games on Steam

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Clue/Cluedo: Classic Edition The official digital version of Hasbro’s classic mystery board game, Cluedo (Clue). Roll the dice and launch into a murder investigation. Whodunit? With what weapon? Where? You’ll need all your brain power to find the answers you need, as you race your friends and family to the truth!

Price -67% 5.45€
Rating 8.5
Release 17 May 2018
FRAMED Collection Rearrange the panels of an animated comic book to craft the story of a noir-styled spy adventure in the FRAMED Collection--a compilation of the multi-award winning puzzle games FRAMED and FRAMED 2.

Price -89% 1.16€
Rating 8.9
Release 17 May 2018
Albion Online Albion Online is a fantasy sandbox MMORPG featuring a player-driven economy, classless combat system, and intense PvP battles. Explore a vast open world full of danger and opportunity. Grow your wealth, forge alliances, and leave your mark on the world of Albion.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 16 May 2018
MachiaVillain Machiavillain is an evil mansion management and strategy game, inspired by Dungeon Keeper, Prison Architect and all the horror movie clichés! Build your own manor, raise your monsters, set up your traps, and exterminate your victims. But to gain reputation you'll have to slay by the horror movie rules!

Price -87% 2.64€
Rating 6.4
Release 16 May 2018
Stormbound Cards and chess collide in Stormbound. Turn-based tactical gameplay, collecting cards and beautiful 2D Art. Level up your army to conquer the ladder.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.8
Release 15 May 2018
Dragon Cliff Dragon Cliff is a Semi-Idle RPG game with deep and complex itemization/skill systems to support endless character builds. Players are to collect adventurers, kill monsters, advance talent trees, enchant/reforge equipment, discover scrolls and finally assemble the most powerful adventure team!

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 11 May 2018
Infectonator 3: Apocalypse A campy, crazy pixelart zombie apocalypse arcade sim where you're the bad guy. Drop your virus and spread it across the globe while you unlock a whole horde of bizarre undead to do your bidding.

Price -78% 2.86€
Rating 7.9
Release 10 May 2018
Paladins® Paladins is the ultimate fantasy team-based shooter experience, with over 50 customizable Champions fighting in 5v5 action across a diverse Realm of modes and maps!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 08 May 2018
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

Price -49% 10.36€
Rating 7.8
Release 03 May 2018
A Total War Saga: THRONES OF BRITANNIA From the multi-award-winning strategy series, A Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia combines huge real-time battles with engrossing turn-based campaign, set at a critical flashpoint in history. Anglo-Saxons, Gaelic clans and Viking settlers clash for control. What Kingdom will you build?

Price 39.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 02 May 2018
恒水中学连环虐杀 / The untold story of hengshui school It’s based on Hengshui high school to reveal the real society, Game feature: cult painting style, puzzle elements, serious student death event plus humorous minor role, As it was released on March,2015, and finished in the following four months, now it’s downloaded almost 0.9 million players, the live video of the game has 2.

Price -10% 3.59€
Rating 8.1
Release 02 May 2018
Battle for Wesnoth The Battle for Wesnoth is an open source, turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme. Explore the four corners of Irdya in seventeen solo campaigns and dozens of multiplayer maps, taking part in countless adventures as you go.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.1
Release 01 May 2018
Rogue Agent Rogue Agent is a turn-based strategy game, fast-paced, that pits the player against the computer on a secret service thriller around the world.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 29 Apr 2018
Zero-K With 100+ truly unique units, Zero-K is an RTS of freedom and creativity, tempered by a decade of refinement. Sculpt land into a castle and throw invaders off it with a Jugglenaut. Explore a massive campaign, solo or co-op. Hop online for epic 32 player battles or fast paced 1v1, on 100s of maps.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 27 Apr 2018
Call to Arms Call to Arms offers an innovative mix of real-time strategy and 3rd, as well as 1st person controls. Set in the time of modern warfare, the game offers realistically modeled vehicles and heavy weaponry. Command your troops to victory or fight by yourself in the 3rd or 1st person action mode.

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 27 Apr 2018
Murderous Pursuits Murderous Pursuits is a kill-or-be-killed Victorian stealth-em-up for 1-8 players in which you must hunt and kill your quarry before your hunters do the same to you, all while avoiding witnesses.

Price -93% 0.63€
Rating 6.3
Release 26 Apr 2018
EMERGENCY 4 Deluxe Coordinate firefighters, police, medical personnel and specialists in the classic EMERGENCY 4 Deluxe! Now with the previously untranslated bonus missions in English.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 24 Apr 2018
BATTLETECH Take command of your own mercenary outfit of 'Mechs and the MechWarriors that pilot them, struggling to stay afloat as you find yourself drawn into a brutal interstellar civil war.

Price -90% 4.30€
Rating 8.2
Release 24 Apr 2018
Frostpunk Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Price -97% 0.96€
Rating 9.1
Release 24 Apr 2018
Steampunk Tower 2 Steampunk Tower 2 is an action-strategy game set in the alternative Steampunk universe. In Lord Bingham’s military service there is a new secret weapon under your command, the gigantic aircraft Carrier transporting the Battle Tower.

Price -64% 2.91€
Rating 7.1
Release 19 Apr 2018
For The King For The King is a strategic RPG that blends tabletop and roguelike elements in a challenging adventure that spans the realms. Set off on a single player experience or play cooperatively both online and locally.

Price -98% 0.52€
Rating 8.7
Release 19 Apr 2018
Onmyoji Onmyoji is a turn-based fantasy strategy game with PVP or PVE battles, where you can strengthen your beloved shikigami to build your dream tactical team and defeat various demons to become the ultimate onmyoji. Cross-platform play available for both Steam and English mobile versions.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 18 Apr 2018
Project AURA Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors. You have been assigned the mission to build an habitat capable of survival in this new unknown world.

Price 12.99€
Rating 6.3
Release 17 Apr 2018
Achievement Clicker 2019 Feel like a real Achievement hunter! Earn Achievements, upgrades and get the most Achievements on Steam!

Price 0.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 13 Apr 2018
Tower of Time A new kind of RPG awaits you. A story-rich dungeon crawler with innovative real-time combat that lets you pause or slow time. Tactical thinking is essential to succeed. Now with RPGlite and Permadeath for fast-paced game.

Price -91% 2.35€
Rating 8.1
Release 12 Apr 2018
Dead In Vinland DEAD IN VINLAND is a survival/management game, mixed with RPG and adventure elements, about a Viking family trying their best to survive on a mysterious island.

Price -98% 0.48€
Rating 7.5
Release 12 Apr 2018
SpyParty SpyParty is a competitive espionage game about subtle human behavior. A Spy hides in plain sight at a fancy cocktail party, trying to accomplish missions while blending in with the other guests, while a Sniper with a single bullet looks inward, searching for the Spy.

Price 24.50€
Rating 7.6
Release 12 Apr 2018
DEPLOYMENT An intense competitive top-down shooter: choose your class, capture turrets, progress, and dominate in the arena. top-down shooter, multiplayer shooter, arena shooter, class-based shooter, sci-fi shooter

Price -99% 0.40€
Rating 7.7
Release 10 Apr 2018
Zen Chess: Mate in One Zen Chess: Mate in One is a minimalist chess puzzle game. Solve mate-in-one problems in a beautifully designed chess board.

Price -3% 0.97€
Rating 8.1
Release 10 Apr 2018
Masters of Anima Delve into an original adventure and defy the forces of evil in strategic, action-packed battles. Summon and control large armies of up to 100 Guardians thanks to intuitive and innovative gameplay and make quick tactical decisions to prevail.

Price -82% 1.27€
Rating 7.5
Release 10 Apr 2018
Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation A roguelite monster-management simulation inspired by the likes of the SCP Foundation, Cabin in the Woods, and Warehouse 13. Order your employees to perform work with the creatures and watch as it unfolds; harness greater energy, and expand the facility

Price 22.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 09 Apr 2018
Farm Manager 2018 Manage your own farm in the game Farm Manager 2018! To expand your farm business, produce cheap and sell your products in high prices. Control the process of land cultivation, employ the best staff, buy the most appropriate farm equipment, raise livestock and process the harvested crops.

Price -90% 1.94€
Rating 7.0
Release 06 Apr 2018
Welcome to the Game II Welcome to the Game II is an atmospheric horror / strategy / puzzle game that takes you into the world of the deep web in search of the shadow web. Play as an investigative reporter trying to solve a case of a mysterious woman broadcasting for help as masked men are on the hunt to kill her.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.2
Release 03 Apr 2018
AirMech AirMech® Strike is a fast paced Action-RTS game that can be played solo, coop, or competitively online. Earn Kudos and Experience in battle and unlock a wide collection of AirMechs and Units while you practice the perfect strategy to emerge victorious!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 30 Mar 2018
Empires Apart An exciting free-to-play Real Time Strategy game set in medieval times. Uniquely designed factions, customization options, singleplayer and multiplayer gameplay. Gather resources, raise an army and lead your civilization to victory in a classic RTS, brought to the modern age.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.7
Release 29 Mar 2018
OF MICE AND SAND -REVISED- On a desert planet in the farthest reaches of space, mice await your command! Direct their mobile fortress, and seek the legendary city of gold!

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 28 Mar 2018

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