Tactics for PlayStation 3 — top best games in the Tactics genre

Dragon Age: Origins - a game in the Tactics genre

Role-playing game, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Tactics

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 15 March 2011

Players: 9/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 88/100

Dragon Age: Origins is a tactical role-playing game with third-person perspective in a fantasy setting. You have to save Ferelden from the creatures of darkness. To...

Dragon Age: Inquisition

Role-playing game, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Tactics, Open world

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 27 November 2014

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Dragon Age: Inquisition is a tactical role-playing game with third-person perspective in a fantasy setting. Players will have to revive and lead the Inquisition...

Sanctum 2

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Tactics, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Cooperative (co-op), Strategy

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 10 September 2013

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 77/100

A first-person shooter with tower defense elements, Sanctum 2 centers on protecting oxygen-producing Cores from alien creatures on the planet LOEK III. During the...

XCOM: Enemy Unknown

Action, Strategy, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Tactics, Science fiction

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 9 October 2012

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 88/100

XCOM: Enemy Unknown is a turn-based tactical strategy game about the secret organization XCOM fighting a global alien invasion. The player manages the...

Final Fantasy VI

Role-playing game, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Isometric, Adventure, Tactics, Strategy, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 6 December 2011

Players: 9.8/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 92/100

Final Fantasy VI is a turn-based tactical strategy role-playing adventure game with an isometric view. The war of magicians left behind only ashes and suffering...

Dragon Age 2

Role-playing game, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Tactics, Adventure

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 15 March 2012

VGTimes: 7.4/10

Players: 8/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Dragon Age 2 is a tactical role-playing game with third-person perspective in a fantasy setting. The events of the game take place over 7 years (including the...

Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare

Action, Shooter, Online, Third-person view, Logic, Tactics

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 18 August 2014

Players: 7.9/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare is a third-person multiplayer shooter set in the Plants vs. Zombies. You, as one of the plants, will have to run around a...

Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Third-person view, Historical, Tactics

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 3 October 2008

Players: 6.2/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 77/100

This tactical World War II shooter is set during Operation Market Garden, the war’s largest airborne operation. Players lead Matt Baker, Joe Hartsock, and the...

Worms 2: Armageddon

Strategy, Puzzle, Turn-based, Tactics, Side view

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 14 September 2010

Players: 7.4/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Worms 2: Armageddon is a special edition of the tactical strategy Worms 2 for consoles and mobile devices. The game will tell about the famous and “unsinkable...

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Third-person view, Tactics, Online

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 28 June 2007

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas — Rainbow operatives take to the chaotic streets of Las Vegas as an intensifying terrorist siege in Sin City threatens to take...

Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising

Simulation, Action, Shooter, Flight Simulator, First-person view, Third-person view, Helicopters, Sandbox, Tanks, Tactics, Open world

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 14 January 2010

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 64/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising is a tactical shooter with a first-person view, the events of which will tell about the military conflict on one of the islands...

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier

Action, Shooter, Stealth, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Tactics

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 22 May 2012

VGTimes: 7.4/10

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 67/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier is a continuation of the third-person tactical shooter in the Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon series. There is devastation in...

XCOM: Enemy Within

Action, Shooter, Strategy, DLC, In real time, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Tactics, Science fiction

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 15 November 2013

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 90/100

An expansion for XCOM: Enemy Unknown that broadens the turn-based strategy with new threats from enemies and aliens. The squad gains new abilities, upgrades, and...

Angry Birds

Tactics, Logic, Puzzle, Side view

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 4 January 2011

Players: 8/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Angry Birds is a tactical puzzle game with a side view. In this game you have to take revenge on the greedy pigs who stole the eggs. You will be able to use the...

Disgaea 3

Role-playing game, Strategy, Isometric, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Tactics

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 20 February 2009

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Disgaea 3 is a turn-based tactical role-playing game and a sequel in the Disgaea series, with battles fought on isometric maps featuring three-dimensional terrain...

Karateka (2012)

Arcade, Fighting, Indie, Action, Tactics, Side view, Strategy

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 18 December 2012

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 60/100

Karateka (2012) is an indie tactical fighting game with action and arcade elements. The game takes place in a feudal universe. Your mission is to save your beloved...

Bureau: XCOM Declassified

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Tactics, Science fiction

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 20 August 2013

VGTimes: 7.6/10

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 64/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Bureau: XCOM Declassified is a tactical action game with a third-person view in the XCOM universe. The plot of the game will tell you how the Federal Bureau of...

Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening

Role-playing game, DLC, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Tactics

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 18 March 2010

Players: 8/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Dragon Age: Origins — Awakening is a paid add-on for a role-playing game with tactical elements and a third-person view in a fantasy setting. You are about to...

Guns Up

Action, Strategy, Isometric, Free game, Tactics, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 5 December 2015

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 54/100

A side-scrolling strategy game that combines real-time battles with base defense, Guns Up has players send troops to attack other players’ fortifications while...

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Third-person view, Tactics, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 20 March 2008

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 80/100

This first- and third-person tactical shooter follows Rainbow's fight against a terrorist threat in Las Vegas. The story unfolds in parallel with the events of the...

Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes

Action, Shooter, Stealth, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Tactics

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 20 March 2014

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes is a tactical stealth-action prologue to Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. Snake infiltrates a Cuban military base to rescue...

Possession

Action, In real time, Post-apocalyptic, Tactics

Game canceled: PlayStation 3 → 2005

Possession is an action game with elements of a tactical game from developers from the Volatile Games studio. The main publisher of the game is Blitz Games...

Tom Clancy's EndWar (2008)

Strategy, Isometric, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Sandbox, Tactics

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 4 November 2008

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Set during a futuristic World War III, this military strategy game puts the player in command of an army fighting for one of three factions: the U.S.-led Joint...

Battlefield 4: Naval Strike

Action, Shooter, DLC, First-person view, Combat robots, Tactics

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 25 March 2014

Players: 8.1/10

Battlefield 4: Naval Strike is an add-on for the dynamic multiplayer first-person shooter Battlefield 4. It adds 4 maps to the multiplayer ("Breakwater...

Swords & Soldiers

Strategy, In real time, Fantasy / Medieval, Tactics

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 28 September 2010

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Swords & Soldiers is a unique side-view tower defense strategy game set in a fantasy setting. In the game you will be able to try out the innovative double tower...

Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2014

Strategy, Board / Group Game, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Tactics

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 25 June 2013

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 80/100

A turn-based card strategy game set in the Magic: The Gathering universe, it centers on duels between planeswalkers—mages who travel between worlds, cast spells...

Frozen Synapse: Prime

Strategy, Isometric, Turn-based, Sandbox, Tactics

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 14 November 2014

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 63/100

Metacritic: 84/100

This turn-based tactical strategy game is set in a dystopian future, where a resistance group seeks to stop a corporation from taking over a city. In the...

Dragon Age: Origins - The Stone Prisoner

Role-playing game, DLC, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Tactics

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 3 November 2009

Dragon Age: Origins — The Stone Prisoner is a paid add-on for a role-playing game with tactical elements and a third-person view in a fantasy setting. There...

Risk: Urban Assault

Strategy, Board / Group Game, Turn-based, Tactics

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 2 August 2016

Risk: Urban Assault is a tabletop tactical strategy game with turn-based battles. The game features five sides to the military conflict, each of which has its own...

Rainbow Moon

Role-playing game, Strategy, Isometric, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Tactics, Adventure

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 4 July 2012

Metacritic: 70/100

Rainbow Moon — Japanese-style tactical RPG with turn-based combat. Cursed by his nemesis, Baldren finds himself in the unknown world of Rainbow Moon. And to...

Defense Technica

Action, Strategy, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Tactics, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Indie

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 23 April 2014

Steam: 42/100

Metacritic: 63/100

A futuristic tower defense strategy game about protecting a core from biomechanical attackers. The defense includes eight classes of towers with different weapons...

Dragon Age: Inquisition - Jaws of Hakkon

Role-playing game, DLC, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Tactics

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 26 May 2015

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 74/100

Dragon Age: Inquisition — Jaws of Hakkon is a paid add-on for a role-playing game with tactical elements and a third-person view in a fantasy setting. A new...

Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers

Action, Strategy, Third-person view, Tactics

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 21 February 2012

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 70/100

A tactical action game about leading infantry units in combat. The player directs multiple fire teams in real time, guides them through hostile areas, and uses...

Space Hulk (2013)

Action, Strategy, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Tactics, Turn-based, Board / Group Game

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 1 September 2015

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 61/100

A turn-based tactical strategy game set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe and based on the Space Hulk board game. A squad of Blood Angels Terminators searches an...

WarDevil: Unleash the Beast Within

Action, Shooter, Hack and slash, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Tactics

Game canceled: PlayStation 3 → Q4 2011

WarDevil: Unleash the Beast Within is a third-person action game with elements of a shooter, hack-and-slash and tactical game from developers from Digi-Guys...

Interstellar Marines

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Tactics, Indie

Game canceled: PlayStation 3 → 2014

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 50/100

This tactical sci-fi first-person shooter is set in the early 22nd century, when the discovery of an inexhaustible energy source has enabled humanity to explore the...

Space Hulk: Ascension

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

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 23 October 2015

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 72/100

This turn-based tactical strategy game, set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, follows a squad of Space Marine Terminators exploring ancient vessels lost in the...

Battlefield 4: China Rising

Action, Shooter, DLC, First-person view, Tactics

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 3 December 2013

Players: 5.9/10

An expansion for Battlefield 4, this first-person tactical shooter centers on the fight for dominance across mainland China. Players battle across four large maps...

Agarest: Generations of War Zero

Role-playing game, Strategy, Adventure, Isometric, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Tactics, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 25 June 2009

Steam: 72/100

A turn-based tactical role-playing game set in Agarest, a fantasy world ravaged by war between the gods of light and darkness. Sieghart, a young officer serving the...

Battlefield 4: Second Assault

Action, Shooter, DLC, First-person view, Tactics

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 18 February 2014

Players: 4.5/10

Battlefield 4: Second Assault is an add-on for the dynamic multiplayer first-person shooter Battlefield 4. It contains four multiplayer maps from Battlefield 3...

Tactics

Best Games in the Tactics genre for PlayStation 3