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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Sigils of Elohim Sigils of Elohim is a free mini-game prelude to Croteam’s upcoming first-person puzzler The Talos Principle that challenges players to solve dozens of challenging sigil puzzles under the watchful eye of Elohim.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 13 Oct 2014
Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) The New World lies before you with all its peril, promise and infinite possibility. Your colonists anxiously follow you to shore. The treasures of an entire continent await you.

Price -94% 0.46€
Rating 9.0
Release 09 Oct 2014
FINAL FANTASY® XIII Final Fantasy XIII is a fantasy RPG in which a band of brave humans struggle against fate in the utopian sky city of Cocoon and the primeval world of Pulse. Follow stylish heroine Lightning's fast paced battles and high adventure in a mysterious new world.

Price -60% 5.19€
Rating 7.4
Release 09 Oct 2014
Disciples Sacred Lands Gold Disciples GOLD takes the phenomenal gameplay, stunning graphics, over 100 spells and a powerful scenario editor of Disciples and adds new scenarios and gameplay features that set the new standard in Turn-Based Strategy.

Price -84% 0.80€
Rating 8.0
Release 07 Oct 2014
Disney•Pixar Toy Story 3: The Video Game In Toy Story 3: The Video Game help Buzz, Woody and the rest of the Toys ensure no toy gets left behind. Dive into all new heroic adventures in Story Mode or let your imagination run wild in the exiting new open world of Toy Box Mode! Come and play to infinity…and beyond!

Price -30% 13.71€
Rating 6.9
Release 06 Oct 2014
TransOcean: The Shipping Company TransOcean – The Shipping Company is your ticket to the world of gigantic ships and transnational transport empires. Build a mighty fleet of modern merchant ships and conquer the seven seas.

Price -97% 0.66€
Rating 7.1
Release 23 Sep 2014
DG2: Defense Grid 2 Great strategy is timeless. Build, adapt, and defend across dynamic maps, solo or online - every session brings new strategies, new solutions, and new surprises. Now is the perfect time to enter the grid.

Price -97% 0.34€
Rating 8.3
Release 23 Sep 2014
Stronghold Crusader 2 Stronghold Crusader 2 is the long awaited sequel to the original castle sim. After 12 years Stronghold returns to the desert with a new 3D engine and powerful Havok Physics. Crusader 2 recaptures the original game’s addictive, fast-paced gameplay and authentic castle simulation.

Price -98% 0.82€
Rating 7.1
Release 22 Sep 2014
Cannon Brawl Cannon Brawl is action RTS and artillery hybrid. Pilot an airship, command powerful weapon emplacements and use the destructible terrain to out think and destroy your enemy! It's a new take on artillery strategy!

Price 15.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 19 Sep 2014
Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut Harebrained Schemes' biggest Shadowrun game to date, and the definitive Shadowrun RPG experience available on PC. Now a standalone title with tons of new content & improvements!

Price -75% 3.78€
Rating 8.7
Release 18 Sep 2014
ENDLESS Legend™ ENDLESS Legend™ is a 4X turn-based fantasy strategy game by the creators of ENDLESS Space™ and Dungeon of the ENDLESS™. Control every aspect of your civilization as you struggle to save your homeworld Auriga. Create your own Legend!

Price -92% 2.05€
Rating 8.2
Release 18 Sep 2014
Battle Nations Battle Nations is back! Build your empire and lead your armies to victory! Choose from traditional troops and vehicles or unleash exotic forces like mammoths, velociraptors, sandworms, and futuristic plasma units!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.1
Release 18 Sep 2014
Wasteland 2: Director's Cut From the producer of the original Fallout comes Wasteland 2. With over 80 hours of gameplay, deck out your Ranger squad with devastating weaponry, test the limits of your strategy skills, and bring justice to the Wasteland! The choices are yours…but so are the consequences.

Price -79% 5.31€
Rating 8.0
Release 18 Sep 2014
WAKFU Immerse yourself in the WAKFU universe with this free to play MMORPG. Select your class, travel the world, meet adventurers to challenge powerful monsters in epic turn-based battles.Participate in the kingdom’s economy and politics and create your own legend!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 18 Sep 2014
SPACECOM SPACECOM – a strategic-to-the-bone, starfleet command game in which deception, smart movement, and choices to battle decide victory or defeat.

Price -97% 0.36€
Rating 6.6
Release 17 Sep 2014
Blitzkrieg 2 Anthology Return to the bloody battlefields of World War II in this epic sequel. Blitzkrieg 2 returns you to the gritty realism of WWII battles while pushing your focus into new, strategic opportunities during global war!

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 16 Sep 2014
Blitzkrieg Anthology March into the real-time strategy legend, Blitzkrieg, and prepare for war. This legendary WWII RTS blends unprecedented realism and accuracy to form immersive 3D backgrounds and a game where brute force often takes a back seat to strategy and wits.

Price -21% 3.95€
Rating 8.6
Release 16 Sep 2014
My Lands: Black Gem Hunting My Lands is a free online RTS where dark and light forces fight for Black Gem and dominion in a vast fantasy world. Cooperation between players, joint economy development, creation of clans and alliances and elaboration of a team strategy serve as the very foundation of the game.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 16 Sep 2014
Reprisal Universe Reprisal Universe places you in charge of the very elements themselves. Raise and lower land to expand your tribes, harness the power of fire and water. Explore the hidden mysteries of the Universe and gather your people together once again.

Price -88% 0.88€
Rating 7.2
Release 15 Sep 2014
The Guild Gold Edition It’s the year 1400- the late Middle Ages. Europe sees the dawn of the golden age of the new departures and the free spirit. Under the rule of the bourgeoisie and businessmen, more and more towns are emerging from the clutches of the aristocracy and are achieving independence, power and wealth.

Price -91% 0.91€
Rating 7.1
Release 09 Sep 2014
Infinity Wars: Animated Trading Card Game Outplay your opponent with simultaneous turns and commander-driven deck-building in a fully free-to-play PvP experience. Build your deck from 1000+ cards across 8 unique factions, and face opponents on a truly level playing field. In Infinity Wars, skill is the only factor that determines victory!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.5
Release 05 Sep 2014
Train Fever It’s the year 1850, and there are great times ahead! Establish a transport company and be its manager. Build infrastructure such as railways and stations, purchase transportation vehicles and manage lines. Fulfill the people’s needs and watch cities evolve dynamically.

Price -93% 1.55€
Rating 6.3
Release 04 Sep 2014
Hexcells Infinite Hexcells Infinite is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 01 Sep 2014
NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION: Souzou The 14th entry of the the historical simulation series "Nobunaga's Ambition." Become a daimyō of the Warring States era, and unite the land! With "the creation of a new age" as the key concept, this title features beautifully recreated castle towns, dynamic battlefield action and dramatic event scenes.

Price -55% 9.89€
Rating 8.2
Release 27 Aug 2014
See No Evil See No Evil is a dark, isometric puzzle game about sound manipulation. A harsh fantasy where the willingly blind are hostile to the nonconformist. Sometimes, the world seems darker with your eyes open.

Price 0.99€
Rating 6.3
Release 25 Aug 2014
Super Time Force Ultra Super Time Force Ultra is an insane platformer filled with robots and dinosaurs and fun and time travel... sometimes all at the same time!

Price -97% 0.41€
Rating 8.4
Release 25 Aug 2014
King's Bounty: Dark Side Time has come to begin a Dark Journey to the other side of Teana and explore a mysterious region never before seen by royal bounty hunters. King’s Bounty: Dark Side lets you play as the villains in a full standalone campaign with new heroes, dark factions, and a fresh tactical perspective.

Price -92% 1.15€
Rating 7.1
Release 19 Aug 2014
GamersGoMakers In GamersGoMakers, you found a little company creating the first video games in history. Create your first game with only basic sound and simple graphics available in the year 1980. You´re one of the pioneers entering the rising global market for computer games.

Price 7.39€
Rating 7.3
Release 08 Aug 2014
Victory At Sea Engage in epic RTS warfare across 3 huge campaigns as well as other battle modes. Create your own fleet of ships, pick your side and enter into World War II naval combat on a global scale.

Price -94% 0.49€
Rating 7.1
Release 08 Aug 2014
OTTTD Take command of HEROCORP™ and launch a Preemptive Defence Campaign™ against parallel dimensions in OTTTD, the most outrageous Tower Defence title around.

Price -94% 0.47€
Rating 7.1
Release 06 Aug 2014
Battle Islands Battle friends over air, land and sea in this epic WW2-themed battle strategy game.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 06 Aug 2014
MIND: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition MIND: Path to Thalamus is a First Person Puzzler that throws you into a fantastic and surreal environment. You will bend the natural elements to your will in order to progress in this emotive, mindbending tale. Now also in Virtual Reality!

Price 12.49€
Rating 6.4
Release 05 Aug 2014
Guns and Robots Guns and Robots is free to play online third person shooter. The game brings robot action with massive customization. Players get cartoony bright 3D graphics in attractive environments and challenge each other in open arenas.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.4
Release 04 Aug 2014
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky Hailed as one of the largest, longest and most meticulously detailed turn-based JRPG series of all time, this first chapter in the ongoing Trails saga sets the stage for what's quickly become Ys developer Nihon Falcom's most popular and best-selling franchise in their entire 30+ year history.

Price 15.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 29 Jul 2014
Terrorhedron Tower Defense Terrorhedron is the 3D, cooperative tower defense game for the PC. Unmatched challenge and complexity is introduced to the genre through 3 dimensional gameplay, micro-strategy through programmable turrets and 'edge of seat' gameplay is extended to multiplayer with up to 8 players online co-op.

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 24 Jul 2014
Gods Will Be Watching Gods Will Be Watching is a minimalistic “point and click thriller” centered on despair, commitment, and sacrifice as players face intriguing puzzles and tough decisions that will affect their entire crew’s wellbeing.

Price -89% 1.16€
Rating 6.9
Release 24 Jul 2014

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