Strategy 2004 for PC — top best games in the Strategy genre

Strategy, God Simulator, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric

Game released: PC → 3 December 2005

Players: 8.1/10

Metacritic: 72/100

Sims 2 — a real life simulator in which the player controls little people (sims) and arranges their homes. Sims need to go to work, furnish...

Sid Meier's Pirates!

Action, Strategy, Fighting, Warships / Submarines, In real time, Third-person view, Isometric, Sports game, Open world, Role-playing game, Adventure

Game released: PC → 10 October 2008

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 94/100

An adventurous pirate game that combines elements of strategy, role-playing, and sea travel simulation. In the age of great discoveries, the player...

Railroad Tycoon 3

Strategy, Simulation, Business / Management, Trains

Game released: PC → 4 May 2007

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 80/100

This railway business strategy simulator challenges players to recreate events from railroad history across 25 scenarios. They lay track, including...

Rome: Total War

Strategy, In real time, Historical, Turn-based

Game released: PC → 25 February 2005

Players: 8.3/10

Metacritic: 92/100

Rome: Total War is a historical strategy with turn-based movements across a global map and real-time battles. You have to lead one of the three most...

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Science fiction, Online

Game released: PC → 5 November 2004

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Set in the grim future of the 41st millennium, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War is a real-time strategy game about humanity and alien races fighting for...

Heroes of Might and Magic 3 Complete (Collector's Edition)

Strategy, Isometric, Collection, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Role-playing game

Game released: PC → 25 August 2009

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 50/100

Heroes of Might and Magic 3 Complete (Collector's Edition) is a turn-based fantasy strategy game with an isometric view. The set includes the...

Guy Game

Strategy, Board / Group Game, Adult game, Trivia

Game released: PC → 22 December 2004

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 48/100

An adult party game centered on spring break in South Padre Island, built around trivia, competitions, and footage filmed on location. Players take...

Fall: Last Days of Gaia

Role-playing game, Strategy, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: PC → 12 July 2006

Players: 7.9/10

Fall: Last Days of Gaia — role-playing game in the post-apocalypse genre. The action takes place in the near future, after a global...

OpenTTD

Simulation, Strategy, Business / Management, Isometric, Sandbox, Trains, Construction

Game released: PC → 1 April 2021

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 90/100

OpenTTD is an economic simulation game about running a transport company. Players earn money by carrying passengers and cargo over road, rail, water...

Knights of Honor

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Historical, Grand strategy

Game released: PC → 4 February 2009

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Knights of Honor is a historical real-time strategy game with an isometric camera view in a medieval setting. The main task in the game is the...

X2: The Threat

Simulation, Action, Strategy, In real time, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Space

Game released: PC → 1 July 2004

Players: 10/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 72/100

X2: The Threat is a fascinating space simulator that continues the story of X: Beyond The Frontier. A completely updated graphics engine, new ships...

Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest

Strategy, DLC, In real time, Isometric

Game released: PC → September 2004

Players: 9.5/10

Metacritic: 63/100

An expansion for Empire Earth, this real-time strategy game adds campaigns spanning the Roman Empire, World War II and the future. To continue their...

Space Rangers 2: Dominators

Role-playing game, Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Isometric, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Turn-based

Game released: PC → 3 February 2011

Players: 8.5/10

Space Rangers 2: Dominators — real-time strategy with an isometric view. The main events of the second part of the game take place 250 years...

Worms 3D

Strategy, First-person view, Third-person view, Turn-based

Game released: PC → 11 March 2004

Players: 7.1/10

Metacritic: 71/100

Worms 3D is a continuation of the competitive action game about worms in full 3D. As before, you will have to fight in battle against a team of enemy...

Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle-earth

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, The Lord of the Rings

Game released: PC → 10 December 2004

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle-earth is an isometric real-time strategy game set in the Lord of the Rings universe. The player will have to...

Medieval: Total War

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Historical, Turn-based, Action

Game released: PC → 24 March 2004

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 88/100

Medieval: Total War is a legendary global historical strategy in a medieval setting. From the lush grasslands of Western Europe to the arid deserts...

Full Spectrum Warrior

Action, Shooter, Strategy, Third-person view, Tactics

Game released: PC → 25 February 2005

Players: 10/10

Steam: 72/100

Metacritic: 79/100

A tactical action game about infantry operations in tense urban combat. Full Spectrum Warrior is based on a game commissioned by the U.S. Army to...

Giants: Citizen Kabuto

Action, Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Adventure, Role-playing game

Game released: PC → 28 October 2008

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 82/100

This science-fiction action game with strategy elements is set on the Island, a vast fragment of a lost planet where three peoples collide. Kabuto, a...

Anno 1602: Creation of a New World

Simulation, Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric

Game released: PC → 8 April 2004

Anno 1602: Creation of a New World — the game allows the player to create a realistic and living world to his taste, and the ultimate goal is...

Disciples 2: Rise of the Elves

Strategy, Isometric, Collection, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Sandbox

Game released: PC → 6 July 2006

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 80/100

This turn-based fantasy strategy game follows the elves as they seek to reclaim the forests of Nevendaar from the world’s four main powers. Driven to...

Ground Control 2: Operation Exodus

Action, Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Futurism (Future)

Game released: PC → 6 August 2009

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Set in 2741, this real-time strategy game with action elements follows a war in which the Terran Empire besieges the Northern Star Alliance, a...

Master of Orion 3

Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Space

Game released: PC → 4 May 2010

Steam: 55/100

Metacritic: 64/100

A space strategy about guiding an entire galactic civilization. The player shapes its economy and administration while using political skills and...

Empire Earth

Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Sandbox, Top-down view

Game released: PC → November 2006

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Empire Earth — the fate of a newborn civilization will remain in your hands for half a million years of human history. Start collecting natural...

Crusader Kings

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Historical, Grand strategy

Game released: PC → 28 September 2004

Players: 8.3/10

Metacritic: 73/100

This historical strategy game focuses on the feudal kingdoms of medieval Europe from 1066 to 1453. The player leads a dynasty and seeks to expand its...

Soldiers: Heroes of World War 2

Action, Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Historical

Game released: PC → 3 July 2014

Players: 7/10

Metacritic: 77/100

This real-time tactical action game, played from a third-person perspective, follows a special forces squad on the battlefields of World War II-era...

Jagged Alliance 2: Wildfire

Role-playing game, Strategy, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Turn-based

Game released: PC → 8 November 2007

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 79/100

Jagged Alliance 2: Wildfire is the second standalone add-on for the tactical role-playing game with elements of the turn-based strategy of Jagged...

Homeworld 2

Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Futurism (Future)

Game released: PC → 16 June 2005

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 83/100

Homeworld 2 — A new threat is approaching the Hiigarans. Warlike Vaygrs want to take over the entire galaxy. As before, the player controls a...

Chris Sawyer's Locomotion

Simulation, Strategy, Business / Management, Isometric, Sandbox, Trains

Game released: PC → 9 August 2011

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 59/100

An economic strategy and transport-management simulator about building a company that carries passengers and cargo between cities and industries. The...

Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive

Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Isometric, Tactics

Game released: PC → 21 April 2011

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 78/100

A real-time tactical strategy set on the American frontier, where Cooper and his gang track down bandits responsible for a train robbery. Hired to...

Conflict: Vietnam

Action, Strategy, Third-person view, Historical

Game released: PC → 21 September 2007

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 58/100

Conflict: Vietnam — the game's plot develops in January-February 1968, starting on the eve of the Tet Offensive and ending with the capture of...

Nexus: The Jupiter Incident

Simulation, Action, Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Space, Science fiction

Game released: PC → 24 January 2008

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 77/100

This real-time tactical space simulator follows a conflict between megacorporations at the dawn of the 22nd century. A discovery on the edge of the...

S2: Silent Storm

Role-playing game, Strategy, Third-person view, Turn-based

Game released: PC → 20 January 2004

Players: 10/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 83/100

S2: Silent Storm — The key features of the game are a completely destructible 3D world, the use of ragdoll physics and non-linear gameplay. You...

Galactic Civilizations

Strategy, Futurism (Future), Grand strategy, Turn-based

Game released: PC → 27 August 2004

Players: 10/10

Steam: 47/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Galactic Civilizations — strategy in the futuristic genre. The game takes place in 2178. Humanity has established contacts with the five major...

In-Fisherman Freshwater Trophies

Action, Strategy, Simulation, Third-person view, Sports game

Game released: PC → 20 July 2004

Players: 5.5/10

Worms World Party

Action, Strategy, Tactics, Side view

Game released: PC → 22 January 2004

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 77/100

Worms World Party is a continuation of the tactical action game with strategy elements in the popular Worms universe. As usual, the goal of the game...