Best Strategy Games 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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Kindergarten Welcome to Kindergarten! Have fun trying to learn and share...and not die. That's important too. In a school that's just not quite right, it's important to be friendly...and take out those that aren't.

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.4
Release 15 Jun 2017
Carrier Deck Carrier Deck is a fast paced time management game where you play as the Air Boss on board the CVN-76 in the midst of active war.

Price -67% 3.24€
Rating 8.4
Release 15 Jun 2017
Pathfinder Adventures Pathfinder Adventures translates the best-selling Pathfinder Adventure Card Game into an entirely new breed of digital card game, where players adventure collaboratively to battle monsters and villains, and acquire new feats, items, weapons, and allies.

Price -89% 1.11€
Rating 6.2
Release 15 Jun 2017
Home Wars Do you hate bugs and arachnids? Seeing them creeps you out? Would you like them to disappear off the face of the Earth? GOOD! This is the right game for you! In HW you’ll play as a General of a toy soldiers army, with the sole purpose of saving the owner’s house from the invasion of those damn Bugs.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 13 Jun 2017
Art Of Gravity Art Of Gravity is a voxel/physics based puzzle game, revolving around the theme of destroying abstract figures, which results in mesmerizing displays of dance of gravity.

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 13 Jun 2017
Superdimension Neptune VS Sega Hard Girls A collaboration project between ASCII Media Works’ Dengeki Bunko and SEGA, the Sega Hard Girls are made up of various Sega consoles, including the Dreamcast, Sega Saturn, and Mega Drive! These anthropomorphized consoles are girls with an array of personalities and spunk, and this time they are teaming up with Neptune and IF for an...

Price -85% 3.04€
Rating 8.7
Release 12 Jun 2017
Strategic Command WWII: War in Europe Strategic Command WWII: War in Europe is a deeply immersive turn based strategy game covering the greatest conflict in modern history!

Price -88% 4.93€
Rating 8.4
Release 06 Jun 2017
Passpartout: The Starving Artist Even you can become a great artist! Wrestle subjectivity as you attempt to sell your art to rude customers in order to progress in this confusing art scene. The only thing threatening you is your expensive wine and baguette addiction! Will your art end up in the Louvre or on your parents' fridge?

Price -47% 5.34€
Rating 8.6
Release 06 Jun 2017
Cold Waters Spiritual Successor to the Microprose Classic “Red Storm Rising”.

Price 36.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 05 Jun 2017
Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator Here is a sandbox like no other. Create massive battles with absolutely no limits. Want to see 10,000 chickens fight an army of Romans?? Sure, why not. Want to see a company of WW2 U.S soldiers fight 11,000 Medieval soldiers?? There are simply no limits to the carnage you can achieve in UEBS.

Price 12.49€
Rating 7.5
Release 01 Jun 2017
The Elder Scrolls®: Legends™ The Elder Scrolls: Legends™ is an award- winning free-to-play strategy card game based on the world and lore of the Elder Scrolls series. Play for hours or minutes across many game modes that are easy to learn but challenging to master.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 31 May 2017
Zombidle : REMONSTERED Like the song says, good guys finish last, and in this case, they also finish homeless and on fire. Welcome to Zombidle, Berzerk Studio's newest idle game, or tap game; whatever, you do you, man.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 30 May 2017
First Strike FIRST STRIKE is a fast paced real time strategy game where you play one of the twelve biggest nuclear superpowers of the world – from known superpowers like the USA to an upstart hellraiser like North Korea – and try to be the last one remaining when the whole world blows to smithereens.

Price -75% 2.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 30 May 2017
CrossCells CrossCells is an ambient logic puzzle game.

Price 2.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 26 May 2017
Constructor You can’t rise to the top without taking a few others down. If that means engaging in a workplace accidents, dodgy deals, and a shifty trick or two then so be it! You're going to need every trick in the book if you want to go from small-time slumlord to property tycoon!

Price 29.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 26 May 2017
50 years 50 Years is a fast-paced alternative to the bigger, longer turn-based strategy games. You can win or lose a game in a single evening. Either way you'll want to play it again.

Price -90% 0.53€
Rating 8.4
Release 26 May 2017
Life is Feudal: Forest Village LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.

Price -95% 1.36€
Rating 6.5
Release 26 May 2017
Black Desert Played by over 20 million Adventurers - Black Desert Online is an open-world, action MMORPG. Experience intense, action-packed combat, battle massive world bosses, fight alongside friends to siege and conquer castles, and train in professions such as fishing, trading, crafting, cooking, and more!

Price -90% 0.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 24 May 2017
Cosmic Trip Cosmic Trip is an award-winning real-time strategy VR game. Build a base, command a flying drone army, and attack/defend hostile enemies on strange alien planets.

Price -79% 4.24€
Rating 8.0
Release 24 May 2017
Steel Division: Normandy 44 Steel Division: Normandy is a tactical real-time strategy (RTS) game that pits players against AI enemies in a single-player campaign -- or against several opponents in massive 10-on-10 multiplayer battles.

Price -74% 5.26€
Rating 7.3
Release 23 May 2017
Starpoint Gemini Warlords Strategy from the front lines! Starpoint Gemini Warlords combines 3rd person capital spaceship combat with 4X strategy and RPG gameplay elements. Build mighty war fleets and send them into battle or lead them into combat yourself. Become the Warlord and conquer the Gemini system!

Price -96% 1.58€
Rating 7.1
Release 23 May 2017
Sudden Strike 2 Gold At the height of World War 2, take command of German, Russian, British, American and Imperial Japanese armies on battelfields across the globe. Sudden Strike 2 expands on all aspects of the classic RTS game with new units, maps and epic campaigns.

Price -95% 0.33€
Rating 7.9
Release 22 May 2017
Sudden Strike Gold Set in World War 2, Sudden Strike offers revolutionary real-time-strategy gameplay. Command Russian, German, French, American and British armies in large scale battles including urban warfare, beach landings and aerial invasions. Whichever tactics you choose, you will find it in Sudden Strike!

Price -94% 0.36€
Rating 8.2
Release 22 May 2017
Hyper Knights Slash and Dash, raise your army, learn powerful combos and take back your land!

Price -75% 1.24€
Rating 8.4
Release 19 May 2017
Ravenfield Fight upon the Ravenfield together with your Blue allies! Take down those pesky Reds using helicopters, tanks, guns, and active ragdoll physics!

Price 17.49€
Rating 9.5
Release 18 May 2017
Regalia: Of Men and Monarchs Regalia: Of Men And Monarchs is a tactical RPG set in a cheerful fantasy world full of weirdness and wonder. Assemble your party, go adventuring, manage your kingdom, make new friends, and defeat your opponents in challenging turn-based combat.

Price -88% 2.46€
Rating 7.5
Release 18 May 2017
ENDLESS Space™ 2 ENDLESS Space™ 2 is a Strategic Space Opera, featuring the compelling “just one more turn” gameplay, set in the mysterious ENDLESS Universe™. As the leader of your civilization, will you impose your vision and build the greatest stellar empire?

Price -75% 9.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 18 May 2017
Bounty Train Explore the dangerous life, the accurate historic events and contemporary inventions of the North American/US 19th century. Acquire one of the most legendary steam machines and transform it into a fortress on rails.

Price -97% 0.37€
Rating 6.8
Release 16 May 2017
Learn to Fly 3 Build your spaceship from scratch, earn funds and invest them into building a bigger, better spaceship as you try and fly your way up to space!

Price Free to play
Rating 9.2
Release 12 May 2017
Block'hood Block’hood is a neighborhood-building simulator that celebrates the diversity and experimentation of cities and the unique ecosystems within them. Budding city planners will have access to 200+ building blocks to combine and to create unique neighborhoods and discover the implications of their designs.

Price -85% 2.31€
Rating 7.1
Release 10 May 2017
Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards Family Guy, Bob's Burgers, Futurama, American Dad, King of the Hill, and Archer join forces in Animation Throwdown, your favorite new collectible card game. Collect your favorite characters, combine cards to make hilarious combos, and battle your way through an adventure of animated proportions.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 05 May 2017
Metal Waltz: Anime tank girls Military Strategy + RPG + Collection + Story. This is a story of the war between mankind and the tank monsters. The hope of the human relies on the girls, whose bodies have been rebuilt and combined with armor parts. All the girls are under your command. Lead your army, won the war!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 02 May 2017
Graviteam Tactics: Tunisia 1943 Graviteam Tactics: Tunisia 1943 - tactical battalion level combat simulation. During the Tunisian Campaign in winter 1943 German Panzer battlegroups launch a counteroffensive against the Allied forces to drive them out of Eastern Dorsal.

Price 28.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 01 May 2017
Hearthlands Hearthlands is a medieval/fantasy city-building real time strategy game in which you take a role of a king in a procedurally generated world. You can not control your subjects directly; instead you focus on city-building, resource management, diplomacy, magic, etc.

Price 15.79€
Rating 7.7
Release 28 Apr 2017
Expeditions: Viking Circa 790 AD. A small band of Norse warriors lands on the shores of England. History may have forgotten their names, but their actions live on. As the chieftain of your clan, let ambition guide your choices in the party-based RPG Expeditions: Viking. How will history remember you?

Price -98% 0.72€
Rating 8.1
Release 27 Apr 2017
Little Nightmares Take on the role of Six, a lone child lost in a massive metal vessel known as the Maw, surrounded by dangerous, distorted versions of adults. You’ll need to do your best to escape in one piece or your fate will be worse than you ever dared dream.

Price -87% 2.66€
Rating 9.3
Release 27 Apr 2017

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