Hidden Tactical Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated tactical games. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play Tactical games on Steam.

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Circadian Dice Circadian Dice is a game inspired by single-player deck-building games, but instead of upgrading a deck, you build up a set of dice! Use 10 different heroes and 60 game-warping relics to take on 13 hand-crafted scenarios, in runs that take 10-30 minutes. Lots of secrets and unlocks to discover!

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 11 Jul 2022
Mech Armada Create and command custom Mechs to outmaneuver The Swarm in this post-apocalyptic tactical turn-based rogue-lite. Leverage the terrain, learn each Mech's unique skills and use strategy and resources to survive an ever-changing series of battles to give humanity hope.

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 16 Jun 2022
The Hand of Merlin The Hand of Merlin is a turn-based rogue-lite RPG in which Arthurian legend meets with sci-fi horror. Recruit mortal heroes to explore lands rife with otherworldly evil, make narrative bending choices in unique interactive encounters, and search for the lost fragments of your soul across the multiverse!

Price -79% 4.75€
Rating 6.8
Release 14 Jun 2022
Tinyfolks Train your folks, defeat monsters and upgrade your town!

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 01 Jun 2022
AQtion Get ready for intense, skill-based FPS action with AQtion! Featuring the best of Action Quake 2, enjoy fast-paced combat, realistic weapons, and thrilling multiplayer battles. Dominate the arena now on Steam!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.5
Release 01 Jun 2022
Dwerve An epic action-adventure with tower defense combat! Dungeon crawl through a ruined kingdom, fending off hordes with turrets and traps! Punch them into pits! Pull them into spinblades! Zap and burn them!

Price -58% 8.30€
Rating 7.0
Release 31 May 2022
Floppy Knights Meet the Floppy Knights: tangible projections summoned from floppy disks! Tactics fuse with card game mechanics as Phoebe and Carlton, a brilliant young inventor & her robot-arm bestie, square off in turn-based battles. Select your Knights, hone your deck, and execute your strategy for victory!

Price -97% 0.55€
Rating 7.5
Release 24 May 2022
Ninja Village Lead a ninja clan in the war to unify feudal Japan!

Price 7.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 22 May 2022
Spirits of the Hellements - TD Assemble legendary Spirits and defend against the endless hordes of Hell. A tower defense where you must shape the battlefield and create a maze using the three Hellements. Use Fire, Lightning, and Wind tiles to trap your enemies, or augment your defenses.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 28 Apr 2022
Rocket Bot Royale A frantic online Battle Royale set on destructible, sinking Islands! Fire rockets from your custom robo-tank to eliminate the competition using advanced tactics and powerful weapons.

Price 2.39€
Rating 8.2
Release 20 Apr 2022
Assault Bots Assault Bots is a fast-paced multiplayer robot shooter game. Create your robot, let it drive, walk, or fly, and battle other players online in this intense shooter. Game features multiple maps and game modes.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 15 Apr 2022
Dead Grid Dead Grid is a turn-based strategy game set in a post-apocalyptic, zombie-infested world. Assemble a squad of elite mercenaries to battle hordes of the undead, aid local survivors, and upgrade your camp with hundreds of collected items.

Price 8.19€
Rating 8.6
Release 24 Mar 2022
Chromosome Evil Dive deep into this Lovecraft-inspired RTS survival. Assemble your team using different classes, skills, and weaponry. It's up to your squad to survive the onslaught of nightmares that are surely coming your way. Will you find the source of the darkness?

Price -65% 4.37€
Rating 7.9
Release 24 Mar 2022
Mechs V Kaijus - Tower Defense Mechs V Kaijus is an addictive hardcore tower defense gameplay. In Mechs V Kaijus you take on the role of Commander of a powerful Mechs squadron. Improve your Mech, strategically place towers and factories on the battlefield. Deploy support units on the battlefield, and save our civilization.

Price 10.79€
Rating 7.8
Release 17 Feb 2022
Gods of Sand Train gladiators. Manage a ludus. Fight in the arenas. Conquer the tower. Gods of Sand is a gladiator manager with intense turn-based combat, inspired by the Swords and Sandals series, in a dark and unforgiving setting.

Price 8.19€
Rating 8.3
Release 07 Feb 2022
Black One Blood Brothers Black One Blood Brothers is a tactical military shooter game where strategy and coordination are key. Command a squad of top operators, with unique skills, through high-risk missions around the globe. Customize your crew, plan your missions, and adjust on the fly for a vast replayability.

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 11 Jan 2022
Angry Angry Shark Play with friends against endless waves of man eater sharks.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 01 Jan 2022
Rogue Fable III Rogue Fable III is a traditional rogue-like game which combines the depth, complexity, and challenge of the genre classics with a shorter, more tightly focused game length.

Price 8.19€
Rating 8.7
Release 22 Dec 2021
Hellcoming Hellcoming is a co-op horror survival game for 1-4 players, who need to clean large areas from hellish abomination with the help of special tools.

Price -30% 2.79€
Rating 7.5
Release 06 Dec 2021
Mud and Blood Mud and Blood, the cult classic flash real time strategy game, returns with its signature take on infantry tactics. Command a small squad through brutal battles against unfair odds. This is combat. Experience the chaos and unceremonious violence of modern war, where every decision counts.

Price 10.79€
Rating 8.2
Release 30 Nov 2021
CountryBalls Heroes CountryBalls Heroes is a game where you get to play as your favorite Countryball. Become a legend by leading massive Countryball armies. Create your forces, build master-planned cities, gather powerful artifacts and prove that your Countryball is the most powerful.

Price -89% 1.44€
Rating 7.5
Release 16 Nov 2021
Touhou Monster TD ~ 幻想乡妖怪塔防 Easy to learn but hard to master, Touhou Monster TD is a unique Tower defense Game. Control your character, level up and unlock tower skills and character talents, use your wisdom to defeat incoming enemies. Travel the Gensokyo, find out why the “Incident” happened this time.

Price 15.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 01 Oct 2021
西游记2021 This game takes Sun Wukong, Tang monk, pig Bajie, sand monk and little white dragon as the protagonists. It tells the story of their journey to the west to learn scriptures, going through difficulties and dangers, subduing demons and subduing demons, and finally obtaining the Scriptures.

Price 8.19€
Rating 8.7
Release 30 Sep 2021
Armoured Commander II In this roguelike wargame, take command of a tank and its crew in the Second World War, joining one of over 50 campaigns across Europe, North Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific. Fight with and against over 800 historically-based unit types, where each day is a struggle for survival.

Price 9.75€
Rating 9.1
Release 04 Sep 2021