Crying Suns is a rogue-lite and tactical game where you explore a dying galaxy as the admiral of a space fleet. As a deep story-driven game experience, each successful run will uncover a part of the underlying truth about the fall of the galactic Empire.

Battlefleet Gothic: Armada is the RTS videogame adaptation of Games Workshop’s classic tabletop game, pitting the Chaos, Imperium, Eldar, and Orks against each other in visceral space-battles.

Deep Sky Derelicts is an original combination of turn-based strategy and RPG, enriched with tactical card combat and popular roguelike elements. Explore derelict alien ships, fight, loot and upgrade your gear, all in distinctive retro-futuristic comic book aesthetic style.

Build a wilder world in Planet Zoo 2. Create distinctive zoos around the globe filled with awe-inspiring animals, including fully aquatic and flying species, before taking your experience beyond the zoo to release your animals into expansive Wildlife Reserves.

Blood Bowl 2 smashes Warhammer and American football together, in an explosive cocktail of turn-based strategy, humour and brutality, adapted from Games Workshop’s famous boardgame.

Recruit the finest group of Heroes to rise up and take on the treacherous Villains of Majesty 2: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim. In the highly-anticipated sequel to the original Majesty, humor and charm merges with a fantasy landscape to offer a gameplay experience like never before. But beware! Grabbing control of your Heroes is not the easiest task, for they are just as likely to stop in for a beer at the local tavern as they are to fight monsters and undertake heroic quests. Return to the throne in Majesty 2: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim.

The land of Benerio was once a shining kingdom by the sea. Then an iron-fisted conqueror, Ludivictus, set the world on fire and redrew the maps. Now Benerio is one downtrodden province in a crumbling Empire where the only true master is corruption. Enter Eden, a charming mercenary captain forced to become a rebel commander when his village is thrust headfirst into war. Now Eden must rally his allies and stand tall against an imperial army, fearsome monsters, and enemies within.

Welcome to Yu-Gi-Oh! MASTER DUEL, the hotly anticipated digital title that’s set to bring the Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME (TCG) to screens all over the world. With a blueprint of “online Yu-Gi-Oh! for both players and audiences,” Yu-Gi-Oh! MASTER DUEL will be wholly positioned around the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG/OCG*, spanning more than two decades of Dueling history and over 10,000 cards.**  Yu-Gi-Oh! MASTER DUEL will feature the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG/OCG’s official Master Rules, offering an exciting new, free-to-play way of enjoying intense, beautifully presented Duels on the latest gaming systems.

A fast turn-based strategy RPG with real-time combat. Develop your cities and armies, level up your heroes to gain new, powerful spells and skills, and explore the wonders and dangers of the procedurally generated maps as you aim to conquer your enemies before they do the same to you.

Sorcerer King is a 4X strategy game from the maker of Galactic Civilizations and Fallen Enchantress. Your people have lost a great war. Nice work. From the ruins, you must rebuild your nation's strength, avoiding attention until you're finally strong enough to confront the Sorcerer King.

Strategy has a new name and it’s damn TASTEE. Recruit a team of volatile mercs and execute dramatic gunfights on a mission to take down the Cartel. Out think, outmaneuver, and eliminate enemies in a fresh take on simultaneous turn-based tactics. Precision planning meets epic action.

Four powerful armies -- Empire, Chaos, Skaven and High Elves -- along with other "dogs of war" including Orcs, Dwarfs, Vampires and Goblins, clash amidst breathtaking scenery in an epic battle for land and power. The individual units of each army can be customized in great detail, allowing players to put their own mark on their fighting force and strike fear into their opponents with terrifying combinations of weaponry and armor. Players can also control Heroes and Champions for each army, high-powered units that gain new abilities as they tear through the opposition.

Set in an ethereal monochromatic world, Othercide is a horror-themed tactical turn-based game about the sacrifices you must make to prevent reality from shattering. You are the last stand between nightmarish creatures.

HUMANKIND is Amplitude Studios' magnum opus, a Historical Strategy game where YOU will re-write the entire narrative of humankind – a convergence of culture, history, and values that allows you to create a civilization that is as unique as you are. HOW FAR WILL YOU PUSH HUMANKIND?

In WARTILE miniature figures battle it out in a real time strategy video game. Position your figurines, use their strengths and be mindful of their weaknesses, activate their special abilities and play your action cards to gain the upper hand on the playing field.

Encased is an isometric role-playing game in a sci-fi post-apocalyptic setting. It was inspired by the first two Fallout installments, Divinity: Original Sin, Baldur’s Gate and alike.

Phantom Brigade is a hybrid real-time and turn-based tactical RPG, focusing on in-depth customization and player-driven stories. As the last surviving squad of mech pilots, you must capture enemy equipment and facilities to level the playing field. Outnumbered and out-gunned, lead The Brigade through a desperate campaign to retake their war-torn homeland.

Steel Division 2 is a historically-accurate WW2 real-time strategy game set on the Eastern Front. Features 1:1-scale turn-based army management and real-time tactical battles with thousands of men at your order.

Turn based 4X strategy game, recreating the civilizations of ancient China. Develop your land, build great cities, raise huge armies and fight epic battles, with hundreds of soldiers fighting right on the game map. Advance your technologies, culture and religion to create one of mankind’s biggest empires.

Rise of Industry is a strategic tycoon game that puts you in the shoes of an early 20th-century industrialist. Build and manage your growing empire in a living, breathing, and procedurally generated world that is constantly evolving and adapting to your playstyle.

Circus Electrique is part story-driven RPG, part tactics, part circus management, and completely enthralling– all with a steampunk twist. When everyday Londoners mysteriously turn into vicious killers, only the show’s talented performers possess the skills necessary to save the city.

Design your sovereign with unique talents and weapons for the trials ahead. Learn powerful spells to enchant units, summon elementals, or destroy those who oppose you. Found cities and research technologies to expand your influence. Send your champions on quests to recover ancient artifacts, gain allies, or obtain the great wealth lost during the Cataclysm.

The Red Solstice is a tactical, 8-player, co-op survival game set in the distant future on Mars. One game session can last up to one hour, during which players can roam freely over huge maps, completing randomized objectives and dealing with random events. The goal is to try to survive and conquer by any means necessary. Get stronger every time. Level up to unlock new weapons and abilities. Try to survive the storm.

Your goal is simple, but challenging: build the biggest pile of gold that you can! Every action you take will have an effect on your score in this “stratecade” game that 1UP observes “hides a surprising layer of complexity and strategy.” To be the best, you’ll need to fly deftly, upgrade smartly, and use powerups to your advantage. Most of all, you’ll need to control the kingdom around you: Burn the crops to the ground or let them grow? Keep towns in ruins or let them flourish? In HOARD™, the dragon is in charge.

Through the Darkest of Times is a strategy game, where you manage a resistance group in Third Reich Berlin. Plan the actions of your group while trying to balance the morale of your members, get needed resources for your fight to survive in the Darkest of Times.

Best PC Strategy Games

Ranked games, page 15 of 80

Crying Suns

Battlefleet Gothic: Armada

Deep Sky Derelicts

Planet Zoo 2

Blood Bowl 2

Majesty 2: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim

Lost Eidolons

Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Hero's Hour

Sorcerer King

TASTEE: Lethal Tactics

Warhammer: Mark of Chaos

Othercide

HUMANKIND

WARTILE

Encased: a sci-fi post-apocalyptic RPG

Phantom Brigade

Steel Division 2

Oriental Empires

Rise of Industry

Circus Electrique

Elemental: Fallen Enchantress

The Red Solstice

Hoard

Through the Darkest of Times

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