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

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - a game in the Strategy genre

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

Game released: PC → 5 November 2004

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 86/100

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 control of the...

Sims 2

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 their home...

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 respected...

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 becomes the...

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 tunnels and...

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 original “Heroes of...

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 environmental disaster...

Transport Giant

Simulation, Strategy, Business / Management, Isometric, Trains

Game released: PC → 23 September 2004

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 61/100

An economic strategy game about building a transport company from 1850 onward, as cities grow and industrial production expands. The player lays out routes and...

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 on 20 episodes...

Shoujo Attack!

Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PC → 3 January 2004

Shoujo Attack! is a third-person strategy game with a mix of puzzle, anime/manga and fantasy games from the masters at Lemma Soft. The game is published by Lemma...

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 after the end of...

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 find the...

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 Europe. The...

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, and air...

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 huge mother ship...

Warsong

Role-playing game, Strategy, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based

Game released: PC → 16 April 2004

Players: 9.8/10

Steam: 58/100

Warsong is a top-down role-playing game with a mixture of strategy, anime/manga and fantasy games from the masters at NCS Corporation. The game is published by...

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: 66/100

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 Solar System...

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 can play the...

Empires: Dawn of the Modern World

Action, Strategy, In real time, Educational game (Education), Isometric, Historical

Game released: PC → 30 August 2007

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 81/100

This real-time historical strategy game spans the period from the Middle Ages to World War II. Players command one of several civilizations, including China...

Space Rangers

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Turn-based

Game released: PC → 10 November 2010

Players: 8.3/10

Space Rangers — the game takes place in space, in the distant future, at the beginning of the 31st century. The galaxy is inhabited by 5 intelligent...

Ghost Master

Strategy, Horror, First-person view, Third-person view, Isometric, Comedy, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 21 December 2006

Players: 9/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 81/100

This strategy game with adventure and resource-management elements puts ghosts and other supernatural beings under the player’s command, sending them to frighten...

Starscape

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga, Indie, Strategy

Game released: PC → 3 November 2008

Steam: 83/100

Starscape is an arcade space shooter about the last pilot aboard the research station Aegis, whose crew has gone missing and whose weapon systems are ruined. To...

RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, First-person view, Third-person view, Sandbox

Game released: PC → 8 August 2007

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 81/100

A theme park management simulator that lets players view the park from different angles and ride its roller coasters. 3D graphics allow the camera to move around...

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 worms. You...

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 economic development...

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 manage the army...

Chicago 1930

Action, Strategy, Fighting, In real time, Third-person view, Isometric, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 16 June 2008

Players: 9.8/10

Steam: 70/100

A real-time tactical game about a war between the Mafia and the police in 1930s Chicago. Don Falcone seeks control of the city’s districts, while a special task...

Bejeweled 2

Action, Strategy, Puzzle, Logic, Casual game, Match-3 (Three in a row)

Game released: PC → 5 November 2004

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 69/100

This match-three puzzle game features four ways to play. Puzzle mode challenges players to solve handcrafted brain teasers against the clock, while Endless mode...

Worms Forts: Under Siege

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

Game released: PC → 2 November 2009

Metacritic: 63/100

A turn-based strategy game in the Worms series, where teams of worms battle for forts and strategically important locations. Players build and expand castles...

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 is to destroy...

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 star powers...

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 of North Africa...

The Dark Legions

Indie, Strategy, Medieval era

Game released: PC → 1 April 2004

Steam: 85/100

A medieval real-time strategy game following Theodoric, whose family was slaughtered by King Frank Kalap. Story-driven missions center on expanding an empire...

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 battle by the...

Island Wars 2

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Strategy, Flight Simulator, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 10 July 2004

Island Wars 2 is a third-person arcade game with elements of action, shooter, strategy and flight simulator from the masters from InterAction studios. The main...

In-Fisherman Freshwater Trophies

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

Game released: PC → 20 July 2004

Players: 5.5/10

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 the Hue...

Future Tactics: The Uprising

Strategy, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based

Game released: PC → 3 November 2004

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 62/100

This turn-based tactical RPG is set in the near future, after Earth has been overrun by creatures from another dimension. A young boy, his sister, and a group of...

Cubis 2

Strategy, Isometric, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 12 November 2004

A puzzle game played on an isometric board, where the goal is to make matches from cubes of different colors. The player shoots new cubes toward those already on...

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, more than 13...

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Best Games in the Strategy genre of 2004 for PC (Game released)