Tactics for PC — top best games in the Tactics genre / Page 2

Jagged Alliance 3 - a game in the Tactics genre

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

Game released: PC → 14 July 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...

Door Kickers 2: Task Force North

Action, Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Indie, Tactics

Game released: PC → 10 February 2025; Early Access: PC → 4 November 2020

Players: 7.4/10

A top-down tactical real-time strategy game about special forces conducting operations against terrorists in the Middle East. The game offers full squad deployment...

The Last Spell

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

Game released: PC → 9 March 2023; Early Access: PC → 3 June 2021

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...

Europa Universalis 5

Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Historical, Tactics, Grand strategy

Game released: PC → 4 November 2025

VGTimes: 8.0/10

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Continuation of the cult series of global strategies Europa Universalis, covering about five hundred years of world history. The world is a complex simulation with...

Backpack Hero

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

Early Access: PC → 15 August 2022; Game released: PC → 14 November 2023

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...

Counter-Strike 2

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

Game released: PC → 27 September 2023

Players: 6.1/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Improved and redesigned version of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, created on the Source 2 engine. The game received a new interface, reworked maps (some of...

Broken Arrow

Strategy, In real time, Tactics

Game released: PC → 19 June 2025

Players: 6.6/10

Metacritic: 80/100

A large-scale real-time tactical strategy that combines the depth of wargames with the dynamics of tactical battles. The game is based on modern warfare involving...

Hard West 2

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

Game released: PC → 4 August 2022

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...

Lumencraft

Tactics, Roguelike, Top-down view, Shooter, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Early Access: PC → 13 April 2022; Game released: PC → 28 February 2023

Players: 6.4/10

The events of the game take place back in 2221. More than two centuries ago, the surface of the planet became uninhabitable. The remnants of humanity are struggling...

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Tactics

Game released: PC → 1 December 2015

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...

Gears Tactics

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

Game released: PC → 28 April 2020

Players: 8.3/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Gears Tactics is a top-down tactical strategy game set in the futuristic Gears of War universe. The game takes place 12 years before the events of the original...

King's Bounty 2

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

Game released: PC → 24 August 2021

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: PC → 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 released: PC → 14 September 2023

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...

Xenonauts 2

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

Early Access: PC → 18 July 2023; Game released: PC → 2 April 2026

Players: 7.1/10

Metacritic: 82/100

The events of the game take place in 2009. The Cold War continues, and the Berlin Wall still separates two parts of one country. At this time, a secret...

Total War: Attila

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

Game released: PC → 17 February 2015

Players: 7.1/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Total War: Attila is a continuation of the historical strategy with real-time battles and turn-based movements on the global map. The game tells the story of the...

Freeman: Guerrilla Warfare

Shooter, Strategy, In real time, First-person view, Tactics

Early Access: PC → 1 February 2018; Game released: PC → 5 October 2019

Players: 9.1/10

Freeman: Guerrilla Warfare is a unique blend of genres that combines first-person shooter with real-time tactical strategy. You will be the leader of your own...

Bodycam

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

Early Access: PC → 7 June 2024; Game in development: PC → 2026

Players: 7.8/10

Multiplayer tactical shooter with body camera view, real-life graphics and 3v3 combat. In deathmatch mode, two teams of one to three players compete to be the last...

Football Manager 2023

Business / Management, Sports game, Football, Tactics

Game released: PC → 8 November 2022

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...

Decision: Red Daze

Top-down view, Action, Post-apocalyptic, Role-playing game, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Tactics

Game released: PC → 19 May 2022

Players: 8.9/10

Decision: Red Daze is a post-apocalyptic RPG with elements of survival and tower defense. According to the plot of the game, the entire continent was infected with...

Outpost: Infinity Siege

Action, Shooter, Strategy, Cooperative (co-op), Tactics, Science fiction, In real time

Game released: PC → 26 March 2024

Players: 8.9/10

The main action of the game takes place in a dystopian future. Players face off against robotic creatures in a first-person shooter mode and participate in the...

Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance

Strategy, Futurism (Future), In real time, Isometric, Tactics, Combat robots

Game released: PC → 21 February 2024

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 72/100

Tactical strategy in the Terminator universe. The game is based on the plot of the movie "Terminator: Dark Fate", where humanity fights against "Legion", not...

The Forever Winter

Shooter, Online, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Tactics, Science fiction, Cooperative (co-op), Survival horror

Early Access: PC → 24 September 2024; Game in development: PC → 2026

Players: 8/10

The main action takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where people need to survive among giant war machines controlled by two warring superpowers. Enemies have...

Hidden & Dangerous

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

Game released: PC → 29 July 1999

Players: 6.1/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Hidden & Dangerous is a tactical shooter with a first-person view and strategy elements in the setting of the Second World War. You will be at the head of a group...

XCOM 2: War of the Chosen

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

Game released: PC → 29 August 2017

Players: 9.2/10

Metacritic: 88/100

XCOM 2: War of the Chosen is an addition to the futuristic tactical strategy with turn-based combat in the XCOM universe. The main feature of the add-on is an...

Aliens: Dark Descent

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

Game released: PC → 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...

Police Stories

Action, Shooter, Horror, Top-down view, Tactics, Roguelike

Game released: PC → 19 September 2019

Players: 7.6/10

Police Stories is a top-down tactical shooter with horror elements. You will play as a policeman and, together with your partner Rick, go to storm various premises...

Cepheus Protocol

Action, Shooter, Strategy, Horror, In real time, First-person view, Isometric, Post-apocalyptic, Tactics, Survival

Early Access: PC → 15 May 2020; Game in development: PC → 2026

Players: 7/10

Cepheus Protocol is a tactical real-time strategy game with first-person shooter elements. The Pangu virus has been released in San Francisco, turning thousands of...

Steel Division 2

Strategy, In real time, Historical, Tactics

Game released: PC → 20 June 2019

Players: 7.1/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Steel Division 2 is a sequel to the realistic real-time tactical strategy game. The events of the game tell about the Second World War and will be dedicated to the...

Desperados 3

Action, Strategy, Adventure, Stealth, In real time, Isometric, Tactics

Game released: PC → 16 June 2020

Players: 9.5/10

Metacritic: 84/100

Desperados 3 is the continuation of the popular tactical strategy series Desperados from the creators of Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun. The game allows you...

Partisans 1941

Strategy, Isometric, Historical, Tactics

Game released: PC → 14 October 2020

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 74/100

Partisans 1941 is a historical tactical strategy game with an isometric camera view. The events of the game will tell about Russian partisans who fought battles...

Battle Brothers

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

Game released: PC → 24 March 2017; Early Access: PC → 27 April 2015

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 77/100

Orcs Must Die! 3

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

Game released: PC → 23 July 2021

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...

Frozenheim

Business / Management, Strategy, Fantasy / Medieval, Isometric, In real time, Tactics

Early Access: PC → 20 May 2021; Game released: PC → 16 June 2022

Players: 7.6/10

Metacritic: 67/100

Frozenheim is a Scandinavian real-time city-planning simulator with sophisticated control mechanics and an isometric camera view in a fantasy setting. The game...

PUBG: Battlegrounds

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

Game released: PC → 21 December 2017

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

Early Access: PC → 29 April 2021; Game released: PC → 21 April 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...

State of Decay - Year-One Survival Edition

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Sandbox, Role-playing game, Stealth, Tactics

Game released: PC → 27 April 2015

Players: 7/10

Metacritic: 72/100

State of Decay — Year-One Survival Edition is an action-horror game with a third-person view and stealth elements. The developers have added new weapons...

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

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

Game released: PC → 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: PC → 4 June 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...

The Lamplighters League

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

Game released: PC → 3 October 2023

Metacritic: 71/100

The events of the game take place in the 30s of the last century. The world is about to be enslaved by the tyrannical cult "Disgraced", which has been plotting evil...

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Best Games in the Tactics genre for PC