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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Ember Ember is a homage to classic role-playing games (RPG) that features a deep branching story, endless exploration across dynamic and living environments, a robust skill system, and an intricate crafting system.

Price -94% 0.60€
Rating 7.2
Release 09 Sep 2016
Project Highrise Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...

Price -97% 0.62€
Rating 8.2
Release 08 Sep 2016
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander is a retro space strategy RPG with base building, deep tactical combat, crew management and emergent storytelling.

Price -96% 0.69€
Rating 8.0
Release 08 Sep 2016
Star Crusade CCG Star Crusade: War for the Expanse is a free-to-play, online, digital collectible card game (CCG) based in a richly styled sci-fi universe, where each player takes command of one of the six factions vying for supremacy in an unclaimed exotic sector of space.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.7
Release 07 Sep 2016
Dungeon Rushers A Heroic-Parody tactical RPG combining dungeon crawler’s gameplay and turn-based fights. Dive in an off-beat universe, manage your team and craft mighty gear to equip them! Build your own dungeon by hiding traps and monsters in your galleries, then challenge other players to clean it!

Price -96% 0.74€
Rating 6.1
Release 06 Sep 2016
Curious Expedition Curious Expedition is a roguelike expedition simulation set in the late 19th century. Together with famous personalities you will venture on unprecedented expeditions to regions never explored before for fame, science and treasures.

Price -93% 1.13€
Rating 8.8
Release 02 Sep 2016
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!

Price Free to play
Rating 9.2
Release 01 Sep 2016
Caesar™ IV Starting as governor of a newly formed province in the Roman Empire your goal is simple: advance up the empire's political ladder to become the next Caesar.

Price 9.99€
Rating 6.8
Release 29 Aug 2016
Caesar™ 3 Prove your strength of mind and spirit and you just may be crowned Caesar!

Price 5.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 29 Aug 2016
The Hive The Hive is a strategy game with RPG elements where you assume command as the insectoid hivemind. Build and expand your underground colony, harvest resources, and evolve your swarm using DNA. Will you survive in this hostile yet beautiful underworld?

Price -99% 0.27€
Rating 6.8
Release 25 Aug 2016
Master of Orion The ascendant spacefaring 4X strategy game returns! A new chapter in the epic Master of Orion saga is poised to once again capture the imaginations of millions of gamers.

Price 20.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 25 Aug 2016
The Pirate: Caribbean Hunt Hail to the Captain! Sail into the heart of the Caribbean in the Age of Piracy - the time of black flags and white skulls, blue waves and golden opportunities. Hoist the Jolly Roger and grab the steering wheel to sail through battles and raids, ransoms and treasures, to become the Crimson King of the Antilles!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 24 Aug 2016
Picross Touch Find the hidden image in this fun and addictive logic puzzle game. All puzzles have unique solutions, ensuring 100% logically solvable puzzle grids.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 24 Aug 2016
AdVenture Communist The world's greatest communism simulator!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.4
Release 23 Aug 2016
Worms W.M.D The worms are back in their most destructive game yet. With a gorgeous, hand-drawn 2D look, brand new weapons, the introduction of crafting, vehicles and buildings plus the return of some much-loved classic weapons and gameplay, Worms W.M.D is the best worms experience ever.

Price -93% 2.33€
Rating 8.4
Release 23 Aug 2016
Guards Four heroes are facing a horde of evil! Ultimate abilities, magic artifacts, hero upgrades and clever tactics... All these will help to defeat the Boss.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 19 Aug 2016
Okhlos: Omega Squeeze into your toga and slide on your sandals to rally the angry mobs of Okhlos and bring down the oppressive god of mythological Greece!

Price -80% 2.55€
Rating 7.3
Release 18 Aug 2016
Shift It's a fun puzzle game. You have to connect as many figures as possible together. Use yellow "shifters" to change direction of the line. Get more points for longer line.

Price 0.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 16 Aug 2016
ROD: Revolt Of Defense Explore a random generated space. Find artifacts and treasure maps. Build and develop your base on a flying platform. Attack or defend against enemies and save the universe!

Price 0.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 12 Aug 2016
8-Bit Hordes From the team that brought you 8-Bit Armies comes a new fantasy RTS as fast-paced and friendly as the original! 8-BIT HORDES is a colorful strategy-arcade game that is easy to learn for players of all skill levels. Collect resources, build up and defend your base, amass your army of orcs or humans and ultimately crush your opponents!

Price -57% 6.39€
Rating 7.7
Release 12 Aug 2016
Reigns Sit on the throne as a benevolent (or malevolent) medieval monarch of the modern age and swipe your royal controller either left or right to impose your will upon the kingdom.

Price -81% 0.59€
Rating 8.5
Release 11 Aug 2016
Rock 'N' Roll Defense Rocked by an explosive soundtrack, choose your band, place your equipments and defend the Rock 'N' Roll from everyone and everything who try to pull it down, on a totally hardcore tower defense!

Price -96% 0.23€
Rating 8.3
Release 10 Aug 2016
Kingdom: New Lands Kingdom: New Lands builds upon the award-winning gameplay and mystery of Kingdom by introducing an abundance of new content to the IGF-nominated title while maintaining the simplicity and depth that legions of monarchs have come to experience and enjoy.

Price -91% 1.46€
Rating 8.4
Release 09 Aug 2016
Infectonator: Survivors "Infectonator : Survivors" is a Randomized Permadeath Survival Simulator that combines RTS, Tower Defense, Roguelike, and Management-Simulation gameplay. The goal is to lead a group of survivors in a struggle to stay alive and find rescue in a zombie apocalyptic world.

Price -96% 0.47€
Rating 6.5
Release 08 Aug 2016
Grand Pigeon's Duty Pigeons organized resistance, which aims to attract people's attention to the problem of hunger and restore bakery companies for their bait.

Price 3.33€
Rating 7.3
Release 05 Aug 2016
Voodoo Garden Welcome to the Voodoo Garden! You're owner of a little hut in a bustling swamp. With the help of little spirits you can earn powers and gold by producing various voodoo supplies.

Price -2% 2.95€
Rating 7.3
Release 04 Aug 2016
Might and Magic: Heroes VII – Trial by Fire Five years after the epic events of Might & Magic Heroes VII, lead the new Fortress faction to define the destiny of the Dwarves and shed light on some of the darkest chapters of their history.

Price 29.99€
Rating 6.4
Release 04 Aug 2016
This Is the Police This Is the Police is a strategy/adventure game set in a city spiraling the drain. Taking the role of gritty Police Chief Jack Boyd, you'll dive into a deep story of crime and intrigue. Will Jack reach his retirement with a nice stack of bills, or will he end up broken ... or worse?

Price -89% 1.69€
Rating 8.1
Release 02 Aug 2016
Tricky Towers With your brilliant robe and magic powers, it’s time to build some Tricky Towers! Stack your bricks in this land of fable, whose marvelous tower will be the most stable? Battle your friends and rise to fame, in this frantic physics game.

Price -73% 4.08€
Rating 8.8
Release 02 Aug 2016
Redactem Rewind time and manipulate gravity in order to solve parkour puzzles in this exciting new 2D platformer.

Price -98% 0.14€
Rating 6.4
Release 01 Aug 2016
System Crash System Crash is a story-driven cyberpunk collectible card game inspired by Blade Runner and Neuromancer. When corporations own everything and the line between man and machine is blurred, your only option is to fight to survive!

Price -87% 1.65€
Rating 7.5
Release 01 Aug 2016
Mansions of Madness A companion app for the Mansions of Madness Second Edition board game from Fantasy Flight Games. Mansions of Madness is a cooperative game of mystery and investigation inspired by the writings of H. P. Lovecraft. During each game, one to five players explore a location to unravel a mystery.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 01 Aug 2016
Half Dead Half dead is a multiplayer sci-fi game about a violent TV show. The players' goal is to survive in a network of rooms full of traps.

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 01 Aug 2016
Neon Space 2 Neon Space 2 is a highly anticipated sequel to Neon Space. The game kept all the elements from his predecessor, but at the same time the visuals received a major improvement.

Price -99% 0.42€
Rating 6.7
Release 26 Jul 2016
Just Deserts Just Deserts is a sci-fi action dating sim where you play as a soldier who must protect a city from mysterious alien attack, while at the same time you will also be seeking to capture the heart of your dream girl(s)! Theme song by Vesuvia [Ecky], vocal track by iMochi

Price -97% 0.32€
Rating 6.9
Release 25 Jul 2016
Kingdom Rush Frontiers - Tower Defense Command your troops through an epic (mis)adventure as you defend exotic lands from dragons, man-eating plants, and ghastly denizens of the underworld -all with flashy new towers, levels, heroes, and more goodies to help you crush your foes in this Fantasy Action Tower Defense game!

Price 9.99€
Rating 9.4
Release 25 Jul 2016

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