Tactics for PlayStation 5 — top best games in the Tactics genre

Ready or Not - a game in the Tactics genre

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

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 15 July 2025

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 81/100

The game takes place in the cramped slums of an alternative America, where economic collapse has greatly affected the differences between social groups of people...

Dispatch

Adventure, Business / Management, Comics, Indie, Tactics, Casual game, Comedy

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 22 October 2025

VGTimes: 9.0/10

Players: 9.1/10

Metacritic: 88/100

An adventure from the authors of The Wolf Among Us and Tales from the Borderlands. The plot tells about a superhero whose mecha armor was broken by his worst...

Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Collection, Tactics

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 24 October 2023

Metacritic: 74/100

A collection of re-releases of the first parts of MGS, which marked the beginning of the legendary story of the adventures of Solid Snake. The collection includes...

Phoenix Point

Strategy, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Tactics

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 9 December 2021

Players: 8.1/10

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...

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater

Action, Adventure, Stealth, Third-person view, Tactics

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 28 August 2025

VGTimes: 8.8/10

Players: 6.8/10

Metacritic: 84/100

Remake of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. The game's plot unfolds in 1964 during the Cold War. Naked Snake is a professional special agent and soldier-spy who is...

Battlefield 6

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

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 10 October 2025

VGTimes: 4.8/10

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 83/100

Battlefield 6 — a multiplayer first-person shooter, the thirteenth game in the main series. The developers returned to the beloved formula with four classes and...

Age of Wonders 4

Strategy, Online, Isometric, Turn-based, Tactics, Fantasy, Grand strategy

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 2 May 2023

Players: 9.4/10

Metacritic: 83/100

An epic battle for the future of the world is coming! The great wizard kings who have returned to the world wish to rule over mortals like gods. Each ruler tries to...

Weird West

Role-playing game, Isometric, Adventure, Action, Tactics, Mysticism / Supernatural

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 8 May 2023

Players: 7.3/10

Metacritic: 77/100

The game takes place in the world of the unusual and gloomy Wild West, where sheriffs and bandits exist along with fantastic creatures. Players find themselves in a...

Dynasty Warriors: Origins

Action, Slasher, Third-person view, Historical, Tactics, Medieval era

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 17 January 2025

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 81/100

A dynamic action-slasher film set in the era of the Three Kingdoms of China. The player becomes part of the legendary events, fighting for one of the sides in the...

Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Isometric, Turn-based, Tactics, Steampunk, Science fiction

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 7 December 2023

Players: 9.4/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Players will take on the role of a Rogue Trader, descendant of an ancient dynasty of brave privateers, ruling their own trading empire and exploring the outskirts...

Lost Eidolons

Role-playing game, Tactics, Third-person view, Top-down view, Turn-based, Fantasy

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 24 August 2023

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 75/100

The game takes place in the dark world of Artemesia, where the player takes on the role of a mercenary named Eden. The hero has become a victim of a conspiracy and...

King Arthur: Knight's Tale

Role-playing game, Tactics, Turn-based, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 22 February 2024

Players: 7.6/10

Metacritic: 77/100

King Arthur: Knight's Tale is a turn-based tactical role-playing game in a dark fantasy setting, based on the myths of King Arthur. The plot is a modern retelling...

Company of Heroes 3

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Action, Tactics, Historical, Turn-based

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 30 May 2023

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 77/100

The events of the third part take place in the Mediterranean. The game features an exciting story campaign, the largest in the history of the Company of Heroes...

Fortnite

Action, Shooter, Online, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Free game, Tactics

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 12 November 2020

Players: 6.2/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Most of the planet was destroyed by a cataclysm, which led to the emergence of strange creatures resembling zombies. The survivors named them "brain-eaters." The...

Marvel's Midnight Suns

Strategy, Tactics, Isometric, Top-down view, Comics, Turn-based, Collectible card game (CCG)

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 2 December 2022

Players: 6.6/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Turn-based tactics in the Marvel universe from the creators of XCOM: Enemy Within and XCOM 2. Marvel's Midnight Suns is based on the dark comic book storyline...

Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin

Role-playing game, Action, In real time, Tactics, Third-person view, Science fiction, Fantasy

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 18 March 2022

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 69/100

Jack and his allies, Ash and Jed, are determined to defeat Chaos by opening the gates to the Temple of Chaos. However, doubts remain as to whether they are truly...

Jagged Alliance 3

Strategy, Tactics, Isometric, Turn-based, Role-playing game

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 16 November 2023

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Continuation of the Jagged Alliance series, the plot of which tells about mercenaries. A squad of three mercenaries roams locations and participates in turn-based...

The Last Spell

Role-playing game, Tactics, Isometric, Turn-based, Fantasy, Roguelike

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 9 March 2023

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 82/100

The game takes place in a dark fantasy world, in which, due to the Cataclysm caused by magicians, monsters began to appear everywhere, threatening humanity. A group...

Backpack Hero

Indie, Turn-based, Fantasy, Dungeons, Tactics, Card game, Side view, Roguelike

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 11 June 2024

Players: 10/10

Pixel roguelike about anthropomorphic animals and inventory management. The player sets out to conquer dungeons, collecting rare items, distributing them in a...

Hard West 2

Strategy, Isometric, Turn-based, Tactics, Mysticism / Supernatural, Demons

Game in development: PlayStation 5 → 2026

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 77/100

Hard West 2 is a continuation of the exciting turn-based tactical western with an isometric camera view. The game takes place in the Wild West. The main character...

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Tactics

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 1 December 2020

Players: 8.1/10

Metacritic: 75/100

Rainbow Six: Siege is a tactical first-person shooter where the main idea is to show the actions of counter-terrorist national organizations in the field during...

King's Bounty 2

Role-playing game, Strategy, Adventure, Isometric, Turn-based, Tactics, Fantasy, Medieval era

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 7 September 2023

Players: 8.3/10

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...

Tactics Ogre: Reborn

Role-playing game, Strategy, Tactics, Fantasy, Turn-based

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 11 November 2022

Metacritic: 85/100

Tactics Ogre: Reborn is a remaster of the remake of the original Tactics Ogre, which was released in the 90s on Super Famicom, Sega Saturn, and PlayStation (the...

Wandering Sword

Role-playing game, Adventure, Isometric, Turn-based, Tactics

Game in development: PlayStation 5 → 28 May 2026

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 80/100

A Chinese martial arts role-playing game in which the main character is a young swordsman who finds himself embroiled in dangerous events. It explores a huge open...

Football Manager 2023

Business / Management, Sports game, Football, Tactics

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 1 February 2023

Players: 6.6/10

Metacritic: 80/100

A football manager in which you can take control of your favorite club and lead it to victories in all possible tournaments. In the new version, changes have...

Aliens: Dark Descent

Top-down view, Adventure, Futurism (Future), Tactics, Strategy, Action, Science fiction

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 20 June 2023

Players: 9.4/10

Metacritic: 76/100

A tactical strategy game set in the Alien universe, in which a squad of foot soldiers tries to stop an outbreak of xenomorphs. Many dangers await them: in addition...

Orcs Must Die! 3

Action, Strategy, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Tactics

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 8 June 2022

Players: 10/10

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...

PUBG: Battlegrounds

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

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 12 November 2025

Players: 6.7/10

Metacritic: 81/100

PUBG: Battlegrounds is a free-to-play multiplayer tactical shooter in third-person perspective, where only the last surviving participant wins. In this survival...

Warpips

Strategy, In real time, Side view, Tanks, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Tactics, Indie

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 12 October 2022

Players: 8.6/10

Warpips is an exciting tactical strategy game in the tower defense genre and with a side view. In the game you have to create an indestructible army by combining...

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

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

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 28 October 2022

Players: 6.6/10

Metacritic: 77/100

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is the continuation of the popular series of first-person adventure shooters in the Call of Duty series. The game is a direct...

Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2

Shooter, Adventure, Tactics, First-person view, Stealth

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 24 August 2021

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 72/100

Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 is the continuation of the first-person tactical shooter in the Sniper: Ghost Warrior series. The game takes place in the fictional...

HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed

Action, Shooter, Indie, First-person view, Online, Cooperative (co-op), Arcade, Tactics

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 30 May 2025

Players: 7/10

Metacritic: 77/100

Co-op shooter with tower defense elements. In the game you have to fight for the future of plastic life. Together with three friends, you will go on an epic...

Triangle Strategy

Role-playing game, Strategy, Isometric, Turn-based, Tactics, Fantasy

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 20 August 2025

Players: 5.9/10

Metacritic: 84/100

A tactical RPG with pixel art, inspired by classic Japanese stories, tells the story of Serenoa, heir to House Wolforth, who becomes embroiled in a complex web of...

Disciples: Liberation

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

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 21 October 2021

Players: 9.6/10

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...

Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown

Simulation, Business / Management, Indie, Tactics, Roguelike, Science fiction, Survival, Space

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 18 February 2026

Players: 6.7/10

Metacritic: 76/100

The player explores space and pilots a legendary starship. They must survive and find a way home. They must plan a route, manage resources, and make difficult...

Commandos: Origins

Action, Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Historical, Tactics, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 9 April 2025

Players: 6.6/10

Metacritic: 71/100

Prequel to the cult military tactics Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines. The game tells the story of the formation of an elite sabotage squad. The heroes participate...

Valorant

Shooter, Online, First-person view, Tactics

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 2 August 2024

Players: 4.3/10

Metacritic: 80/100

A tactical multiplayer first-person shooter developed by Riot Games, the creators of League of Legends, focusing on the esports aspect. The game resembles a mix of...

Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew

Tactics, Adventure, Isometric, Stealth, Fantasy, Strategy

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 22 August 2023

Players: 9.7/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Tactical stealth strategy from the creators of Desperados 3. A crew of cursed pirates on a living ghost ship sail the Dark Caribbean seas. They battle the...

Payday 3

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

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 21 September 2023

Players: 6.6/10

Metacritic: 65/100

Cooperative online shooter with a first-person view. The main characters are still four robbers, each of whom wears memorable masks. In the story, the old team...

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

Shooter, First-person view, Online, Tactics, Cooperative (co-op), Zombies

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 10 November 2023

Players: 7/10

Metacritic: 58/100

Direct continuation of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 2022. John Price faces off against a new terrorist leader. Ultranationalist war criminal Vladimir Makarov...

Tactics

Best Games in the Tactics genre for PlayStation 5