Strategy
In strategy games, success depends on proper planning and tactical thinking. Typically, a player somehow acquires a resource (or several) that must be used to create an army, defend, and develop them. The player is tasked with defeating the opponent's army or destroying their base. Strategies can be turn-based or real-time. There is also a subtype of strategies called "wargames," where the economic aspect is absent. The player immediately receives an army and must skillfully manage it.
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Best Games in the Strategy genre of 2021 (Game released)
Game released: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S → 24 August 2021
Players:
8.3/10
Steam:
56/100
Metacritic:
64/100
Nostria was once a magical place where everyone had a chance at a good life. Today, the kingdom is in decline: robbers prowl everywhere, creatures of darkness are...
Game released: PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Mac → 2 September 2021
Players:
8.1/10
Steam:
81/100
Metacritic:
81/100
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous is a classic party role-playing game with an isometric camera in a fantasy setting, based on the D&D 3.5 rules with several...
Game released: PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S → 3 December 2019
Players:
8.1/10
Steam:
71/100
Metacritic:
74/100
Phoenix Point is a tactical strategy game with turn-based combat in a futuristic setting, which is the spiritual successor to the games in the X-COM franchise. The...
Game released: PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android → 7 March 2018
Players:
8.9/10
Steam:
84/100
Metacritic:
79/100
Real-time strategy inspired by Scandinavian mythology and the Viking era. After the discovery of the mysterious continent of Northgard, clans venture into uncharted...
Game released: PC, Mac, Stadia, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 → 17 August 2021
Players:
6.9/10
Steam:
69/100
Metacritic:
77/100
Humankind is a turn-based management strategy about the history of mankind. The game will allow you to rewrite the human past and create your own, unique...
Strategy, Business / Management, Isometric, Futurism (Future), In real time, Construction, Simulation
Game released: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One → 9 November 2021
Players:
8.5/10
Steam:
90/100
Metacritic:
76/100
Jurassic World Evolution 2 is a continuation of the real-time economic strategy that will allow you to create your own “Jurassic Park”. The new game will develop...
Game released: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Mac → 10 August 2021
Players:
9.4/10
Steam:
89/100
Metacritic:
75/100
Black Book is a mixture of an adventure game and a card RPG in the setting of Russian fairy tales. The game tells the story of a young peasant woman, Vasilisa: the...
Game released: PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S → 18 November 2021
Players:
9.6/10
Steam:
70/100
Metacritic:
73/100
Disciples: Liberation is a continuation of the famous series of tactical RPGs with strategy elements and an isometric camera view in a dark fantasy setting. You...
Game released: PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android → 1 February 2018
Players:
8.1/10
Metacritic:
77/100
XCOM 2: Collection — the complete edition of the turn-based strategy game XCOM 2, which includes not only the original game but also previously released DLCs and...
Business / Management, Strategy, Isometric, Post-apocalyptic, Futurism (Future), In real time, Simulation
Game released: PlayStation 4, PC, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch → 16 November 2021
Players:
8.9/10
Steam:
71/100
Surviving the Aftermath — a real-time management strategy game from the creators of Surviving Mars. The game allows you to build a colony of people who survived a...
Game released: Xbox Series X/S, PC, Mac, Xbox One, iOS, Android, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 → 1 April 2021
Players:
7.7/10
Steam:
98/100
A fun tactical simulator in which historical battles turn into a chaotic and funny sandbox. Stupid, but charming units fighting under the control of funny physics...
Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Free game, Tactics, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Casual game, Construction
Game released: PC, Linux, Android, iOS → 30 April 2021
Steam:
87/100
A minimalist strategy in the genre of "tower defense," where protecting the base from endless waves of enemies combines with technology development, resource...
Online, Top-down view, Board / Group Game, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Card game, Strategy, Free game
Game released: PC, iOS, Android → 26 September 2019
Players:
6.2/10
Steam:
58/100
Metacritic:
84/100
Magic: The Gathering Arena is a fantasy collectible card multiplayer game with strategic elements and an isometric view based on the popular CCG Magic: The...
Simulation, Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Top-down view, Indie, City Building, Casual game, Construction
Game released: PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Mac → 13 May 2021
Players:
5/10
Steam:
78/100
Metacritic:
72/100
Before We Leave is a top-down real-time management strategy game. After a long period of imprisonment in the bowels of the earth, your people emerge to the surface...
Role-playing game, Strategy, Horror, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie, Roguelike, Side view, Dungeons
Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 → 29 April 2021
Players:
7.5/10
Steam:
76/100
Metacritic:
76/100
Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager is a dark role-playing roguelike with turn-based combat and a side view in a fantasy setting. You have to build a...
Action, Strategy, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Tactics, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Cooperative (co-op)
Game released: Stadia, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 5 → 14 July 2020
Players:
10/10
Steam:
85/100
Metacritic:
77/100
Orcs Must Die! 3 is a continuation of the tactical action game with elements of “tower defense” and a third-person view in a fantasy setting. The new part of the...
Game released: PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, iOS, Android → 15 November 2018
Players:
7.8/10
Steam:
92/100
Metacritic:
72/100
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus is a turn-based strategy game with an isometric camera view set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. The events of the game are dedicated...
Action, Stealth, Third-person view, Strategy, Historical, First-person view, Online, Survival, Open world
Game released: PC → 20 October 2021
Players:
7.1/10
Steam:
67/100
This Land is My Land is a dynamic stealth action game with a third-person view in the open world of the American Wild West. The main character is the leader of an...
Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 4, PS Vita, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android, Xbox One → 23 April 2015
Players:
8.7/10
Steam:
95/100
Metacritic:
86/100
Crypt of the NecroDancer is a unique indie game where everything moves to the rhythm of the music of Danny Baranowski, the composer of Super Meat Boy and the...
Game released: PC, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One → 26 August 2021
Players:
7.9/10
Steam:
95/100
Metacritic:
63/100
Townscaper is a vibrant casual strategy game in which the player builds a city on an island. The player selects colors and creates blocks of houses on a grid, and...
Action, Strategy, Business / Management, Isometric, Cooperative (co-op), Online, Casual game, Simulation
Game released: PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch → 12 November 2020
Steam:
71/100
Metacritic:
86/100
Overcooked! All You Can Eat is a cooperative management strategy with an isometric camera view. It features remastered versions of Overcooked and Overcooked 2...
Role-playing game, Simulation, Strategy, Turn-based, Indie, Tactics, Roguelike, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch → 8 September 2020
Players:
10/10
Steam:
81/100
Metacritic:
77/100
Star Renegades is a tactical turn-based strategy game with role-playing elements and a side-view in a sci-fi setting from the creators of Halcyon 6: Starbase...
Simulation, Top-down view, Strategy, Tactics, Indie, Business / Management, Educational game (Education), Roguelike, Casual game
Game released: PC, Mac, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Android, iOS, PlayStation 5 → 23 April 2020
Players:
7.9/10
Steam:
89/100
Metacritic:
73/100
A continuation of the original 911 Operator idea, but on a larger scale - now the whole world is under control. As an emergency services dispatcher, you will have...
Game released: PC, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Mac, Linux → 17 June 2021
Players:
9.3/10
Steam:
84/100
Metacritic:
72/100
Roguebook is a roguelike with procedurally generated locations and card-based turn-based combat. The plot of the game tells the story of a legendary book written...