Tactics 2016 for PC — top best games in the Tactics genre

Hearts of Iron 4 - a game in the Tactics genre

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

Game released: PC → 6 June 2016

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Hearts of Iron 4 is a historical top-down real-time tactical strategy game. The player is given the opportunity to fully manage an individual state, its diplomacy...

XCOM 2

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

Game released: PC → 4 February 2016

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 87/100

XCOM 2 is a tactical turn-based strategy set in a futuristic setting and in the XCOM universe. The game continues the storyline of the first part, and the action...

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun

Strategy, Stealth, In real time, Isometric, Tactics

Game released: PC → 6 December 2016

Players: 9/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Real-time tactical strategy with stealth elements and an isometric view. The events take place in 17th century Japan, where a group of five heroes operates in the...

Lara Croft GO

Strategy, Isometric, Puzzle, Turn-based, Logic, Tactics, Adventure

Game released: PC → 4 December 2016

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Lara Croft GO is a turn-based tactical puzzle game with an isometric camera view about everyone's favorite tomb raider. The game continues the traditions of Hitman...

Banner Saga 2

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

Game released: PC → 19 April 2016

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Banner Saga 2 is a turn-based role-playing game with tactical elements and an isometric view. You must lead your Viking clans through a hostile country on the verge...

Worms W.M.D

Action, Strategy, Turn-based, Tactics, Side view, Online

Game released: PC → 23 August 2016

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Worms W.M.D is a turn-based tactical action strategy game with a side view. A continuation of the popular game series, where two squads of worms will clash again in...

Graviteam Tactics: Mius-Front

Strategy, In real time, Historical, Tactics, Simulation, Tanks

Game released: PC → 4 March 2016

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 89/100

Graviteam Tactics: Mius-Front is a tactical historical strategy in real time. The events of the game will take you to the summer of 1943, when extensive fighting...

Sengoku Jidai: Shadow of the Shogun

Strategy, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Tactics, Historical, Grand strategy

Game released: PC → 19 May 2016

Players: 5.8/10

Steam: 72/100

Sengoku Jidai: Shadow of the Shogun is a turn-based tactical strategy with an isometric camera view. The game will take you to the 16th century, during the Japanese...

Assault Squad 2: Men of War Origins

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Historical, Tactics, Action, Simulation

Game released: PC → 25 August 2016

Players: 8/10

Assault 2: Behind enemy lines. Inception is a remake of the popular real-time tactical strategy game Behind Enemy Lines 2. The game offers better graphics, improved...

Space Run Galaxy

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

Game released: PC → 17 June 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 68/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Space Run Galaxy is a direct continuation of the sci-fi tower defense strategy title Space Run. The events of the game take place 20 years after the original, a...

Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2

Online, Action, Shooter, Strategy, Third-person view, Tactics, Zombies

Game released: PC → 16 May 2022

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 is a multiplayer shooter with strategy elements and a third-person view in the Plants vs. universe. Zombies. The continuation...

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Phantoms

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

The project is closed: PC → 1 December 2016

Anticipation Rating: 6.2/10

Metacritic: 70/100

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Phantoms is a tactical action game for several players with a third-person view. The game provided for the choice of one of three classes...

Day D: Tower Rush

Arcade, Strategy, In real time, Tactics, Action, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: PC → 8 July 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 74/100

Day D: Tower Rush is a colorful arcade strategy game in the tower defense genre in real time. The professor and his robot assistant accidentally missed a time slip...

SteamWorld Heist

Strategy, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Combat robots, Tactics, Steampunk

Game released: PC → 7 June 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 86/100

SteamWorld Heist is a stylish and fun strategic shooter in the steampunk genre about pirates and robots. The main character is pirate Piper Faraday, who gathers a...

XCOM 2: Anarchy's Children

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

Game released: PC → 17 March 2016

Steam: 34/100

XCOM 2: Anarchy's Children is an expansion to the futuristic tactical strategy game featuring turn-based combat set in the XCOM universe. This update introduces a...

Polywar

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

Game released: PC → 30 December 2016

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 80/100

Polywar is a tactical online shooter with a first-person view. In this game you have to fight with thousands of players from all over the world, upgrade and...

TASTEE: Lethal Tactics

Strategy, Isometric, Turn-based, Tactics, Indie

Game released: PC → 10 May 2016

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 74/100

TASTEE: Lethal Tactics — tactical turn-based strategy game with an isometric camera view. You have to assemble a team of invincible mercenaries and go on a...

Hitman GO

Strategy, Isometric, Turn-based, Tactics, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 23 February 2016

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 77/100

A turn-based strategy puzzle set in the Hitman universe, where Agent 47 tackles missions across levels presented as miniature dioramas. The player moves along fixed...

Paragon

Online, Action, Strategy, MMO, Tactics

The project is closed: PC → 26 April 2018; Beta testing: PC → 16 August 2016

Anticipation Rating: 8.4/10

Paragon is a multiplayer action game with MOBA elements and a third-person view. Having chosen a hero, you have to fight in various arenas, where the main goal is...

Stellar Tactics

Role-playing game, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Tactics, Roguelike, Exploration, Dungeons, Sandbox

Early Access: PC → 23 September 2016

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 77/100

Stellar Tactics is a sci-fi role-playing game with tactical turn-based combat and a procedurally generated world. The game tells about genetic mutations, ancient...

ArmA 3: Apex

Simulation, Action, Shooter, DLC, First-person view, Third-person view, Tactics, Strategy

Game released: PC → 11 July 2016

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 81/100

ArmA 3: Apex is an addition to the tactical shooter with first and third person views. The add-on adds the huge new island of Tanoa, the Syndicate faction, 13 types...

Atlas Reactor

Online, Strategy, MMO, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Free game, Tactics

Game released: PC → 4 October 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Atlas Reactor is a free-to-play multiplayer tactical strategy with turn-based combat in a futuristic setting. As military freelancers, you will have to fight for...

Spacejacked

Arcade, Action, Strategy, Indie, Tactics, Side view, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: PC → 26 February 2016

Players: 6.5/10

Steam: 100/100

Spacejacked is an exciting arcade game with strategy elements in the tower defense genre with a side view. In the role of space engineer Dave Paprovsky, you have to...

Defense of Egypt: Cleopatra Mission

Arcade, Historical, Strategy, Tactics, Top-down view, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Action

Game released: PC → 6 October 2016

Steam: 80/100

Defense of Egypt: Cleopatra Mission is a top-down historical real-time strategy game in the tower defense genre. The events of the game will unfold in the vastness...

Brigador

Action, In real time, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Indie, Tactics

Game released: PC → 2 June 2016

Brigador is an isometric real-time tactics game about a mercenary pilot hired to sow chaos in a city-state after the sudden death of its dictator. The mission is...

90 Minute Fever

Simulation, Football, Business / Management, Sports game, Free game, Tactics

Early Access: PC → 12 July 2016; Game released: PC → 1 September 2023

Steam: 63/100

90 Minute Fever is a multiplayer management simulator where you manage a football team. You can create your own football club, develop and improve it in every way...

Control Craft 2

Strategy, In real time, Futurism (Future), Tactics, Side view, Collectible card game (CCG), Metroidvania, Shooter

Game released: PC → 15 February 2016

Steam: 72/100

Control Craft 2 is a fun, top-down tactical strategy game set in a sci-fi setting where you have to fight the forces trying to invade our planet. Wave after wave of...

Habitat: A Thousand Generations in Orbit

Action, Strategy, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Tactics, Space, Indie

Game released: PC → 26 January 2016

Steam: 32/100

This physics-based space strategy game with action elements follows an effort to save humanity after Earth becomes uninhabitable. The player leads a team of...

Artificial Defense

Strategy, Tactics, Side view, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 1 June 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 76/100

Artificial Defense is a top-down tactical strategy game in the tower defense genre. You have to become the defender of a real server, because it’s no secret that...

Duelyst

Strategy, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Card game, Free game, Tactics

Game released: PC → 23 August 2016

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Duelyst is a card-based tactical strategy with turn-based battles in a fantasy setting. The game combines the mechanics of Fire Emblem and Hearthstone: it took the...

Champions of Anteria

Simulation, Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Tactics, Role-playing game, City Building

Game released: PC → 30 August 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 50/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Champions of Anteria is a tactical real-time strategy in a fantasy setting. In missions, players will be able to control a group of three characters. The game will...

XCOM 2: Alien Hunters

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

Game released: PC → 12 May 2016

Steam: 39/100

XCOM 2: Alien Hunters is an addition to the futuristic tactical strategy with turn-based combat in the XCOM universe. This update will delight you with a new story...

Ninja Stealth

Tactics, Stealth, Indie, Top-down view, Puzzle, Strategy

Game released: PC → 29 September 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 76/100

Ninja Stealth is a tactical indie stealth game with puzzle elements and a top-down view. As a ninja, you need to always hide in the shadows, your goal is simple...

Tank Battle: 1944

Strategy, Tanks, Tactics, Turn-based

Game released: PC → 1 March 2016

Steam: 79/100

A turn-based tactical strategy game set during the Allied invasion of Europe in the Second World War. The player commands an American battle group and takes part in...

Yrminsul

Strategy, Business / Management, Isometric, Indie, Tactics, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: PC → 2 March 2016

Steam: 66/100

A strategy game set in a fantasy universe where battles take the form of tower defense, with the player leading the forces of evil against armies of good. The...

Faeria

Strategy, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Card game, Free game, Tactics, Online

Game released: PC → 29 February 2016; Early Access: PC → 1 March 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Faeria is a card-based tactical strategy game in a fantasy setting. You have to fight on a playing field consisting of hexagons, mine gold and mana, acquire...

Tahira: Echoes of the Astral Empire

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

Game released: PC → 31 August 2016

Players: 3.6/10

Steam: 66/100

Tahira: Echoes of the Astral Empire is a tactical RPG strategy with turn-based combat and an isometric camera view. As a young princess, you have to save your...

Infection: Humanity's Last Gasp

Strategy, Puzzle, Tactics, Casual game

Game released: PC → 26 May 2016

Steam: 44/100

This strategy puzzle game, based on John Gibson’s board game, follows efforts to stop an evolving virus that threatens humanity. The player runs a New York City...

Special Tactics

Online, Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Tactics, Simulation, Free game

Early Access: PC → 14 January 2016

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 83/100

Special Tactics is a top-down multiplayer tactical shooter. The game is very much like Counter-Strike, just with a different perspective. The battles involve...

Duskers

Exploration, Space, Roguelike, Tactics, Top-down view, Science fiction, Horror

Game released: PC → 18 May 2016

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 83/100

The player controls a drone and explores abandoned spaceships to find means of survival and learn how the universe turned into a giant graveyard. Dangerous...

Tactics

Best Games in the Tactics genre of 2016 for PC