Games Encyclopedia Top Games PC PS5 XSX PS4 PS3 Xbox One Xbox 360 Switch Android iOS Rankings Images Companies

Strategy Video Games42

Strategy games. Victory depends here on player’s strategy and tactics. Main task is to control resources (e.g. troops, civil workers) in order to defeat an enemy or achieve some other goal. The gameplay can be turn-based or in real time (RTS). Specific types of strategy games are economic games and so called ‘tycoons’.

PlayStation
Sony PlayStation 582 Sony PlayStation 4332 Sony PlayStation 370 Sony PlayStation 247 Sony PlayStation 126 PlayStation Portable36 PlayStation Vita44
Xbox
Microsoft Xbox Series X/S91 Microsoft XBOX ONE308 Microsoft Xbox 36096 Microsoft Xbox25
Mobile
Android OS494 Apple iOS569 Windows Phone47
Nintendo
Nintendo Switch222 Nintendo Wii28 Nintendo DS100 Nintendo Wii U14 Nintendo 3DS12 Game Boy Advance16 Nintendo GameCube9
MORE
LESS

Browse genres/themes ?

Browse the Encyclopedia by genre and tags. Each game has one main genre: Action, Fighting, Puzzle, Adventure, RPG, Sports, Strategy, Simulation, Party, Racing, Arcade. You can search multiple tags and filter games by platforms, scores, or release dates.

Filters:

strategy games
Play of Battle
Play of Battle

Strategy 2026

A cross between an RTS and a grand strategy game. Play of Battle has us leading our chosen country during the years 2008-2025. The player must make strategic decisions and lead their troops on the battlefield.

PC

Train Valley World
Train Valley World

Strategy 2024

An economic sim with puzzle elements, tasking us with building and managing railway networks. Train Valley World has us setting down railways and sending out trains in both singleplayer and multiplayer.

PC

Worshippers of Cthulhu
Worshippers of Cthulhu

Strategy 2025 (early access since September 2024)

A city builder game set in the Cthulhu mythology, in which we govern cities inhabited by worshippers of The Great Old Ones. Worshippers of Cthulhu has us expand the cities, organize ceremonies for the gods, sacrifice non-believers and populate new territories.

PCPS5XSX

F1 Manager 2024
F1 Manager 2024

Strategy 23 July 2024

The third installment of the motorsport manager series, in which we control one of the teams taking part in Formula 1 championships. The biggest novelty of F1 Manager 2024 is that instead of controlling an existing F1 team we can also create our own eleventh team.

PCPS5XSXXONEPS4

Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition - Victors and Vanquished
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition - Victors and Vanquished

Strategy 14 March 2024

A sixth expansion for the refreshed version of Age of Empires II. AoE II: Definitive Edition - Victors and Vanquished offers 19 new scenarios, as well introduces new leaders, stories and gameplay mechanics. Some of them were inspired by the works of the fans.

PCXSXXONE

Airborne Empire
Airborne Empire

Strategy 2025 (early access since September 2024)

A spin-off of Airborne Kingdom and a cross between a strategy game and an RPG. Airbore Empire tasks us with governing a floating city, completing quests for other settlements and fighting off invaders and plunderers.

PC

Anno: Build An Empire
Anno: Build An Empire

Strategy 20 November 2014

A spin-off of the popular economic strategy game series, created for mobile devices by Mi'pu'mi, founded by former Rockstar members, with the help of Blue Byte Software. The game is set in the colonial era, and your task is to establish and develop a prosperous colony in a newly-discovered region of the world. You start out on a tiny island with a small supply of materials, but as the game progresses, you unlock more resources and various other islands.

ANDiOS

Call of Duty: Heroes
Call of Duty: Heroes

Strategy 12 November 2014

A spin-off to the Call of Duty series. It is a free-to-play strategy game created mainly for mobile devices. As the title suggests, the game focuses on the characters featured mainly in the Modern Warfare and Black Ops subseries. Thus the player meets the old acquaintances, such as Captain Price, 'Soap' MacTavish or Mike Harper. In terms of the mechanics, the game was inspired by social strategies, such as Clash of Clans.

PCANDiOS

Space Hulk: Ascension - Imperial Fists
Space Hulk: Ascension - Imperial Fists

Strategy 18 December 2014

The first DLC for Space Hulk: Ascension, a game developed by Full Control. The Imperial Fists expansion delivers a completely new faction: the titular Imperial Fists chapter, as well as a story campaign tailored to the Fists, adding 15 new missions to the entire experience. The main objective is to retrieve an ancient imperial spaceship from the hands of Genestealers.

PC

AdVenture Capitalist
AdVenture Capitalist

Strategy 30 May 2014

An uncomplicated arcade and economic game, in which the fun is based on making further investments. For the money we earn we employ managers, improve our existing businesses, etc. All this in order to make a huge fortune.

PCPS4ANDiOSWWW

Brother against Brother: The Drawing of the Sword
Brother against Brother: The Drawing of the Sword

Strategy 16 April 2015

A turn-based strategy game developed by Western Civilization Software. As the title suggests, the game focuses on the American Civil War, during which brothers often had to turn against each other when the Confederate States declared war upon the northern states, devastating the United States of America.

PC

Space Hulk: Ascension - Dark Angels
Space Hulk: Ascension - Dark Angels

Strategy 15 April 2014

The third DLC for Space Hulk: Ascension, which, along with the two previous expansions (Imperial Fists and Salamanders), was developed by Full Control. In this add-on, the players get to control an elite Space Marine faction – The Dark Angels chapter, whose main objective is to eliminate the Tyranids preparing a full-scale assault on the planet of Corinth from the space hulk orbiting around it. The story campaign includes twenty new missions.

PC

Oriental Empires
Oriental Empires

Strategy 14 September 2017

A turn-based 4X strategy game set in ancient China and developed by Ntronium Games. Oriental Empires focuses on faithfully recreating historical events concerning the Chinese empire - the game encompasses a period of three thousand years between 1500 B.C and 1500 A.D. The player becomes a leader of a small tribe and their goal is to build up a powerful empire. To do so, they have to cultivate land, gather resources, build new towns, as well as recruit and train the army.

PC

SpongeBob Diner Dash
SpongeBob Diner Dash

Strategy 04 January 2007

A fun strategy and arcade game based on the cartoon SpongeBob Kanciastoporty. During the game we play the title character, who has to serve guests arriving to eat something in Mr. Krab's restaurant.

PCANDiOS

Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIII
Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIII

Strategy 28 January 2016

The thirteenth installment in the popular series of turn-based strategy games with RPG elements, developed continuously since 1985 by Koei. The story is set in the 2nd century B.C. in China, during the reign of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms era that began afterwards. The story combines historical events with those presented in the 14th century novel called “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”, making the game a mix of actual places and characters as well as fictional plot events.

PCXONEPS4PS3

StarDrive 2: Sector Zero
StarDrive 2: Sector Zero

Strategy 08 March 2016

The first major expansion for StarDrive 2, a space 4X strategy game by Zero Sum Games. Sector Zero brings, first and foremost, larger galaxies (up to 4 times bigger), new missions, technologies, and racial traits, as well as two additional victory conditions based on scientific and historical approach. The gameplay itself does not deviate significantly from what we have seen in the original. The developers introduced two new mechanics, though.

PC

Populous: The Beginning - Undiscovered Worlds
Populous: The Beginning - Undiscovered Worlds

Strategy 30 November 1998

Official add-on to Populous: The Beginning, the third installment of the so-called 'god games' series launched in 1989. The plugin doesn't make any changes in gameplay mechanics, offering 12 completely new missions for single- and multiplayer fun.

PC

Godus Wars
Godus Wars

Strategy 03 February 2016

An improved version of Godus – the spiritual successor of the Populous series which was a real-time strategy in which the player could assume the role of a god. The game was created by 22 Cans, a studio founded by Peter Molyneux, the creator of such series as Dungeon Keeper, Black & White and Fable. In Godus Wars player assumes the role of one of four playable gods who use their powers and abilities to secure welfare and safety of their followers.

PC

Graviteam Tactics: Mius-Front
Graviteam Tactics: Mius-Front

Strategy 05 March 2016

A tactical combat simulation set during WWII. The game was developed by Graviteam, which has already produced several similar productions. This time the player leads the German or the Russian army in the battles taking place near the eponymous Mius river during 1943. The game offers two large-scale military operations, the course of which is influenced by the decisions made by the player and the game's advanced AI.

PC

Worms W.M.D
Worms W.M.D

Strategy 23 August 2016

Another major installment in the bestselling turn-based strategy game series that focus on a humorous rivalry between the eponymous worms. In Worms WMD, the basic gameplay principles remain unchanged, and the players still have to eliminate the opposite team using a number of more or less unconventional weapons. The participants make their moves in turns and their actions are limited by a time limit.

PCXONEPS4SwitchANDiOS

Party Hard
Party Hard

Strategy 25 August 2015

A brutal action game in retro style, developed as a commercial edition of a project for Global Game Jam. The title was created by an independent studio PinoklGames from Ukraine. During the game you assume the role of a man who is clearly dissatisfied with his neighbors disrupting the quiet night hours and decides to seek revenge against them. Instead of calling the cops, the protagonist joins one of the night parties in order to brutally murder every guest.

PCXONEPS4SwitchANDiOS

Warcraft II: The Dark Saga
Warcraft II: The Dark Saga

Strategy 31 August 1997

Console version of Warcraft II real-time strategy: Tides of Darkness, including tasks from Beyond the Dark Portal. The production allows the player to lead the forces of people or orcs in a bloody war of domination over the land of Azeroth. User tasks include building a base, collecting raw materials, developing an army and destroying enemy forces. The console edition contains many improvements compared to the version released for personal computers.

PS1

Dungeons 3
Dungeons 3

Strategy 13 October 2017

Dungeons 3 is the third installment in the fantasy strategy game series developed by Realmforge. Dungeons 3 continues the story from the previous games. We play as a Dungeon Lord who, after uniting the forces of evil and laying the foundations of the new empire of darkness, comes to the conclusion that his ambitions are not yet fulfilled. He decides to recruit the priestess of dark elves so that she would lead his forces during the conquest of the surface world.

PCXONEPS4Switch

King Of Glory
King Of Glory

Strategy 20 November 2015

A mobile MOBA game that is a clone of the famous League of Legends. The game consists of clashes between two, five-person teams. Players take on the role of powerful heroes and their task is to destroy the enemy base.

ANDiOS