Tactics 2008 for PC — top best games in the Tactics genre

Heroes of Might and Magic 5 - a game in the Tactics genre

Strategy, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Tactics

Game released: PC → 8 November 2011

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 77/100

This turn-based fantasy strategy game with RPG elements is set in the Might & Magic universe, where demonic forces spread chaos and heroes from different...

Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway

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

Game released: PC → 6 November 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...

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas

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

Game released: PC → March 2010

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...

Brigade E5: New Jagged Union

Role-playing game, Strategy, Third-person view, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Simulation, Tactics

Game released: PC → 26 February 2008

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 41/100

Brigade E5: New Alliance is a tactical role-playing strategy with turn-based battles and an isometric camera view. The game includes three storylines and...

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon

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

Game released: PC → 7 April 2009

Players: 4.5/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon is a hardcore tactical shooter with a first-person view. The events of the game will take you to Eastern Europe in 2008, where massive...

X-COM: Apocalypse

Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Tactics, Science fiction

Game released: PC → 4 September 2008

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 89/100

A tactical strategy game about combating an alien invasion in Mega Primus in 2084, where social order is collapsing and extraterrestrials terrorize the population...

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2

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

Game released: PC → 18 July 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...

DEFCON

Simulation, Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Tactics, Cooperative (co-op), Indie

Game released: PC → 4 December 2008

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 84/100

DEFCON is a real-time strategy game simulating global nuclear war during the Cold War. From an underground bunker, a general must destroy the enemy population while...

Hidden & Dangerous 2: Courage Under Fire

Action, Shooter, In real time, First-person view, Third-person view, Collection, Strategy, Tactics

Game released: PC → 8 May 2008

Steam: 96/100

A tactical shooter about Allied covert operations behind enemy lines during World War II. The player commands a squad of Special Air Service soldiers on missions...

Commandos 3: Destination Berlin

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

Game released: PC → 31 January 2008

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 61/100

Metacritic: 72/100

A real-time tactics game about an elite special forces unit operating behind enemy lines during World War II. The campaign spans several parts of the European...

Counter-Strike Online

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

Game released: PC → 24 July 2008

Players: 7/10

Counter-Strike Online — shareware special version of Counter-Strike 1.6 for Asian audiences. The game features original online game modes, both taken from...

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Island Thunder

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

Game released: PC → 15 July 2008

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Island Thunder — 2010. Since Castro's death in 2006, the Cuban people have been ruled by increasingly incompetent thugs, but...

Ascension to the Throne: Valkyrie

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

Game released: PC → 29 August 2008

Players: 9.9/10

Steam: 88/100

An independent addition for Asceence to the Throne, in the center of which is the warrior Aeneas. After the betrayal and exile of the ruler of Ayrat Alexander...

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 train light...

Warfare

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Tactics

Game released: PC → 20 November 2008

Players: 10/10

Steam: 92/100

Warfare is a real-time tactical strategy game with an isometric camera view. The game will take you to the vast expanses of Saudi Arabia, which was captured by a...

Warhammer: Mark of Chaos - Gold Edition

Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Tactics

Game released: PC → 19 January 2009

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 96/100

Warhammer: Mark of Chaos — Gold Edition is a third-person strategy game with a fantasy twist from Black Hole Entertainment. The main publisher of the game is...

Children of the Nile: Alexandria

Simulation, Isometric, Historical, Tactics, Strategy, City Building

Game released: PC → 22 September 2008

Steam: 82/100

Children of the Nile: Alexandria is an isometric simulation with a mixture of historical gaming and tactical gaming from the masters at Tilted Mill Entertainment...

Warfare (2008)

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Tactics

Game released: PC → 19 September 2008

Players: 7.5/10

Blitzkrieg 2 Anthology

Strategy, In real time, Collection, Historical, Tactics

Game released: PC → 22 February 2008

Steam: 84/100

A real-time strategy game about World War II battles fought as the Soviet Union, Germany, or the United States. Its campaigns span major fronts from Europe and...

Supreme Ruler 2020

Simulation, Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Top-down view, Tactics

Game released: PC → 13 January 2009

Players: 10/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 65/100

A global economic crisis fuels political instability and regional conflicts in the strategy simulation Supreme Ruler 2020. Players govern one of more than 250...

F/A-18E Super Hornet

Simulation, Flight Simulator, First-person view, Action, Tactics

Game released: PC → 28 October 2008

Steam: 57/100

A military flight simulator about piloting the F/A-18E Super Hornet on air-to-air and air-to-ground combat missions. The player controls the aircraft from an...

Tactics

Best Games in the Tactics genre of 2008 for PC (Game released)