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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Conquest of Elysium 3 Conquest of Elysium 3 (CoE3) is a streamlined turn based fantasy strategy game with a touch of rogue-like and the complex undertones of Illwinter's Dominions series. While CoE3 appears to be a simple game with limited options at first glance, delving further into the game reveals a game of complex decision making and risky endeavors.

Price -68% 3.15€
Rating 7.5
Release 24 Oct 2012
A Game of Dwarves A Dwarven Prince on a quest to reclaim his people’s stolen land will take you on a great journey. Explore a continent filled with buried treasures and unearth mysteries that have laid hidden since the Great War.

Price -90% 1.07€
Rating 6.1
Release 23 Oct 2012
Dwarfs - F2P Dwarfs!? is an addictive, fast paced arcade-like experience, with plenty of difficulty levels and game modes, in the tradition of great games such as “Lemmings” and “Dwarf Fortress”.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 18 Oct 2012
Unity of Command: Stalingrad Campaign Unity of Command is an innovative and refreshing operational-level wargame that covers the entire 1942/43 Stalingrad Campaign on the Eastern Front.

Price -97% 0.37€
Rating 7.5
Release 17 Oct 2012
Of Orcs And Men You have been appointed to fulfill an extremely dangerous mission, deep in enemy territory: to kill one man... the Emperor himself. Lead the revolution of the Orcs and Goblins!

Price -99% 0.21€
Rating 7.2
Release 11 Oct 2012
Blood Bowl: Chaos Edition (Classic) This bonecrunching sport features 23 playable races, each with its own style, vicious moves, rankings & more!

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 11 Oct 2012
XCOM: Enemy Unknown The XCOM: Enemy Unknown - Slingshot Pack is Now Available!

Price -94% 0.92€
Rating 9.2
Release 11 Oct 2012
Worms Revolution Worms™ Revolution is the latest game in the classic turn-based strategy series to come to the PC.

Price -96% 0.64€
Rating 8.5
Release 10 Oct 2012
Cortex Command Choose between different factions, with their own set of expendable soldiers, mechas, and weapons. Protect your brain, mine gold, and destroy the enemy cortex in his bunker complex!

Price -94% 1.14€
Rating 7.0
Release 28 Sep 2012
Planets Under Attack Play as humans or robots in a brand new sci-fi strategy adventure! Travel into the far reaches of space, through cleverly designed star constellations and variable game modes, conquering enemy planets using 15 combinable technologies.

Price -97% 0.42€
Rating 7.0
Release 27 Sep 2012
FTL: Faster Than Light This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.

Price -91% 0.95€
Rating 9.4
Release 14 Sep 2012
Critter Crunch Using Critter Crunch's 'Food Chain' mechanic, players will eat their way through a smorgasbord of levels and gorge on a feast of modes, including Co-op and Versus multiplayer.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 11 Sep 2012
The Basement Collection A collection of 9 award winning indie games from the creator of "Binding of isaac" and "Super Meat Boy"!

Price -81% 0.76€
Rating 8.2
Release 31 Aug 2012
Counter-Strike 2 For over two decades, Counter-Strike has offered an elite competitive experience, one shaped by millions of players from across the globe. And now the next chapter in the CS story is about to begin. This is Counter-Strike 2.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 21 Aug 2012
Battle vs Chess Commanders, assemble your armies! BATTLE vs. CHESS calls for an interactive feather duster, chartering the successful chess game principle into the present day multimedia world. Animated fantasy figurines assemble in magical worlds and await your command!

Price -97% 0.76€
Rating 6.9
Release 16 Aug 2012
Tower Wars Tower Wars combines elements of tower defense, RTS, and all-out multi-player mayhem to bring you a completely unique experience, delivered with a fun and funny not-so-old world style!

Price -28% 5.80€
Rating 7.0
Release 14 Aug 2012
Iron Brigade Join The Mobile Trench Brigade and protect humanity from the evil Monovision menace!

Price -83% 2.60€
Rating 8.1
Release 13 Aug 2012
Awesomenauts Use your power, show your might! Play this Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) game! AWESOMENAUTS combines 2D platforming with team-based strategy and hero based action. Whether you are a new recruit or an intergalactic legend, play AWESOMENAUTS!

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.3
Release 01 Aug 2012
Orcs Must Die! 2 You’ve tossed, burned and sliced them by the thousands – now orcs must die more than ever before! Grab a friend and slay orcs in untold numbers in this sequel to the 2011 AIAS Strategy Game of the Year from Robot Entertainment.

Price -92% 1.08€
Rating 9.1
Release 30 Jul 2012
ENDLESS™ Space - Definitive Edition ENDLESS™ Space is a turn-based 4X strategy game, covering the space colonization age in the ENDLESS™ Universe, where you can control every aspect of your civilization as you strive for galactic domination.

Price -95% 0.59€
Rating 7.9
Release 04 Jul 2012
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier™ In Ghost Recon Future Soldier join an elite team of highly trained, cut-throat special-ops soldiers. Armed to the teeth with unrivalled combat technology, Ghost Recon takes you to the globe’s most deadly warzones to hunt down the highest value targets.

Price -75% 3.74€
Rating 6.8
Release 27 Jun 2012
Quantum Conundrum Find and rescue your uncle by using his newest invention to work your way through a crazy complex mansion as you switch between dimensions and solve puzzles!

Price -80% 1.86€
Rating 8.1
Release 21 Jun 2012
Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion Command a space-faring empire in Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, the new stand-alone expansion that combines 4X depth with real-time strategy gameplay.

Price -90% 2.06€
Rating 9.1
Release 12 Jun 2012
Conflict Desert Storm™ Take charge of the most feared special operations forces in the world: the elite British SAS or the US Delta Force squads. You're the best trained, best equipped and best organised. The area that has been assigned to you is yours for the taking. Seek, locate and destroy enemy targets and personnel.

Price 6.99€
Rating 6.8
Release 28 May 2012
Fieldrunners Fieldrunners is now available on Steam! Download it now to play the hit tower defense game critics and fans have been raving about. Descend into the world of Fieldrunners, the most anticipated and visually stunning game in tower defense history!

Price -90% 0.42€
Rating 6.2
Release 24 May 2012
Warlock - Master of the Arcane In a time of chaotic upheaval, the player takes the role of a great mage, a warlord vying for ultimate power.

Price -75% 5.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 08 May 2012
Port Royale 3 The Caribbean, in the turbulent 17th Century. The mighty kingdoms of Spain, England, France and the Netherlands fight over the colonies. And there you are, a young sea captain whose only goal is to become the most powerful man in the New World.

Price -97% 0.48€
Rating 7.1
Release 04 May 2012
Toy Soldiers Command your TOY SOLDIERS in epic, action-packed battles.

Price 8.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 27 Apr 2012
Men of War: Condemned Heroes Command a Soviet penal battalion in this standalone real-time tactics game from the Men of War series. Based on true events, Condemned Heroes delivers brutal, story-driven missions across the Eastern Front – where every order, bullet, and life matters.

Price -92% 0.67€
Rating 6.8
Release 12 Apr 2012
Avernum: Escape From the Pit Avernum is a land underground, a subterranean nation full of rogues, misfits, and brigands, struggling for survival in the monster-infested darkness. Hunt for glory, treasure, and justice in the underworld. Fight for survival, freedom, and even vengeance in the epic indie cult-classic.

Price -60% 3.90€
Rating 8.7
Release 11 Apr 2012
A Total War Saga: FALL OF THE SAMURAI Experience the dramatic conflict of samurai culture and modern weaponry between the Imperial throne and the last Shogunate in 19th century Japan.

Price -81% 5.99€
Rating 6.7
Release 22 Mar 2012
Waveform Navigate the beauty and hazards of the solar system while riding a wave of light through 100+ levels in this innovative action-puzzle game!

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 20 Mar 2012
Cubemen Just Updated! Version 1.1 now has 6 New online Mayhem levels, Character Customization, 35 Defense levels, 25 Skirmish levels, and more!

Price -76% 0.74€
Rating 6.8
Release 16 Mar 2012
iBomber Defense Pacific iBomber moves to the Pacific as you fight a whole new enemy across the Pacific rim to regain freedom.

Price 5.89€
Rating 7.8
Release 01 Mar 2012
Vessel Living liquid machines have overrun a world of unstoppable progress and their inventor must stop the chaos in this game about a man with the power to bring ordinary matter to life!

Price -92% 0.44€
Rating 8.3
Release 01 Mar 2012
Stronghold Kingdoms A massively multiplayer grand strategy game, Stronghold Kingdoms is about forging alliances, political mind games, city-building and castle sieges with thousands of other players!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.3
Release 27 Feb 2012

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