Strategy games from our Steam seed list

Strategy genre bucket includes many sub-styles. We only require the Strategy tag on the store row in our snapshot.

How we built this list

Metadata comes from our checked-in steamGamesCatalog snapshot: merged Steam app ids from multiplayer discovery, the save-path catalog, franchise hubs, plus discovery seed genres when richer than the store row. Sorting reflects the last site build.

Games in this shortlist

  • Darkest Dungeon®

    Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ev...

    Indie, RPG, Strategy

  • Prison Architect

    Only the world's most ruthless Warden can contain the world's most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.

    Indie, Simulation, Strategy

  • Slayaway Camp

    A killer puzzle game where you control Skullface, a psycho slasher bent on slaughtering camp counselors at the title campground. Slide an adorable voxel murderer around hundreds of isometric puzzle levels to squash, flay...

    Casual, Indie, Strategy

  • Dangerous Waters

    S.C.S. - Dangerous Waters allows you total control over multiple air, surface, and submarine platforms in a modern-day naval environment. Take direct control of individual crew stations and also plan and execute combined...

    Strategy, Multiplayer

  • For The King

    For The King is a strategic RPG that blends tabletop and roguelike elements in a challenging adventure that spans the realms. Set off on a single player experience or play cooperatively both online and locally.

    Adventure, Indie, RPG, Strategy

  • Earth 2150 Trilogy

    Your heroes and your armies will need strong leadership to take them on a spellbinding odyssey that has everything a gamer's heart could wish for breathtaking worlds in space, battles against cunning enemies and even dow...

    Strategy, Multiplayer

  • Surviving Mars

    There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony's chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.

    Simulation, Strategy

  • Bomber Crew

    Chocks away! Bomber Crew is a strategic simulation game, where picking the right crew and keeping your bomber in tip top shape is the difference between completing your mission or losing it all! USAAF DLC NOW AVAILABLE! ...

    Simulation, Strategy

  • Bloodsports.TV

    Co-Op Hero Defense set in a deadly post-apocalyptic Sweden. Team up with your friends and protect the Missile Silo against horrific beasts and outlaws.

    Action, Adventure, Casual, Indie

  • Army Men II

    Army Men II, the sequel to the best-selling title Army Men, takes plastic toy soldier warfare into the kitchen, bedroom, front yard, and garage. Once again Sarge will lead his heroic Green forces into head-melting, plast...

    Action, Strategy, Multiplayer

  • Bounty Train

    Explore the dangerous life, the accurate historic events and contemporary inventions of the North American/US 19th century. Acquire one of the most legendary steam machines and transform it into a fortress on rails.

    Indie, Simulation, Strategy, Multiplayer

  • Battle Chess: Game of Kings™

    It took 2,000 years for someone to make chess better! The most challenging game on earth comes to life in Battle Chess. An entire medieval world at war is reflected on the checkered field. Everyone who's ever had a knigh...

    Casual, Strategy, Multiplayer

  • 7 Days to Die

    7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane...

    Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG

  • Command HQ

    In this fast-paced game of strategic global conquest from award-winning game designer Dan Bunten, you'll control your own superpower as you attempt to outguess and overcome opposing superpowers in World Wars I, II, III I...

    Strategy, Multiplayer

  • Desert Law

    Desert Law is a new spin on the traditional real-time strategy that immerses players into a post-apocalyptic world where gasoline is the new world currency.

    RPG, Strategy, Multiplayer

  • Chris Sawyer's Locomotion™

    Explore a vast and detailed world and build a Transportation Empire!

    Simulation, Strategy, Multiplayer

  • AirMech Command

    AirMech Command is the definitive Action/RTS experience in VR. With all new tactical room-space controls AND ground-level flight controls, you can command troops and units from orbit, or grab the stick and pilot your Air...

    Action, Indie, Strategy, Multiplayer

  • Bad Rats Show

    Bad Rats Show is a physics puzzle game where the rats exact their bloody revenge against their main enemies: the Cats. Solve puzzles in 2D and 3D maps using physics, objects and specially trained Rats. All new Rats and C...

    Action, Casual, Indie, Simulation

  • Conquest of Elysium 4

    Conquest of Elysium 4 is a quick turn based fantasy strategy game with a touch of rogue-like. The game is full of depth, details and monsters. There are also a huge number of factions, each with its own unique gameplay a...

    Indie, Strategy, Multiplayer

  • DUAL GEAR

    DUAL GEAR is a Tactical Action Turn-Based Strategy Game inspired by Japanese Mecha. To go beyond the traditional, DUAL GEAR engages the player to pilots their mechs with Real-Time Action Shooting while experiencing the h...

    Action, Indie, RPG, Simulation

  • Dark Quest 2

    Dark Quest 2 is a turn based RPG where you control a party of heroes on your epic quest to defeat the evil sorcerer and his minions.

    Indie, RPG, Strategy, Multiplayer

  • Call Of The Mighty Warriors

    Two kingdoms in battle against each other, the king Bennevert called for the legendary mighty mercenaries to defend strategic posts in dangerous lands in the battlefield. Are you prepared to be a mercenary?

    Indie, Strategy, Multiplayer

  • Card Quest

    Card Quest is a dungeon crawling adventure game with unique card combat. Play with a variety of unique character classes, and customize decks to fit your playstyle. Explore the strategic depth of tactical roguelike gamep...

    Indie, RPG, Strategy, Multiplayer

  • Archipelago

    Archipelago - is a fun game about pirate adventures.

    Casual, Indie, Massively Multiplayer, Simulation

  • Dots eXtreme

    Dots eXtreme is a classic dots puzzle with large boards and increased difficulty level. Connect matching colors and shapes in the new dots puzzle with board size up to 20x20.

    Casual, Indie, Strategy

  • Ghostlords

    Ghostlords is a strategic turn-based RPG that tells the story of a post-apocalyptic haunted Great Britain. Experience the new world, capture wild spirits, and put together a team of ghosts to help you battle the forces o...

    Adventure, Indie, RPG, Strategy

  • Black Forest

    Danger, death, and despair define Black Forest. As the chief of an unlucky village, your goal is to survive. Gather resources, shore up the village, then survive the terrifying night. Maybe you'll hold out long enough fo...

    Casual, Indie, Strategy, Free To Play

  • Victoria 3

    Paradox Development Studio invites you to build your ideal society in the tumult of the exciting and transformative 19th century. Balance the competing interests in your society and earn your place in the sun in Victoria...

    Simulation, Strategy

  • Brawl of Ages

    Brawl of Ages is a free to play multiplayer Collectible Card Arena game that plunges players into short and intense 1v1 matches. Build a legendary deck and BRAWL to prove your strategic superiority.

    Action, Free To Play, Strategy

  • Polygod

    Polygod is a rogue-like, randomly generated, single & multiplayer FPS with a brutal difficulty curve.

    Action, Indie, Strategy

  • Think To Die

    A different and creative casual puzzle game where you have to find a way to die to pass the level. To do so, you have to master different situations, combine objects, and time your actions.

    Casual, Free To Play, Indie, Strategy

  • Zombie Defense

    A modern hybrid of the classic RTS and modern Tower Defense. Recruit soldiers, place them on slots and let them shoot incoming waves of zombies by their own. Order supplies, throw grenades, order airstrikes and many more...

    Action, Casual, Indie, Strategy

  • Glittermitten Grove

    Just like the faeries in your garden, we love collecting berries for our prickleberry loaves and finding treasure with our special fribblesham fireworks. Come join us in our faerieland, full of strange adventure!

    Simulation, Strategy

  • Children of Orc

    Lead your civilization of Orc Children, stranded on a planet. Build infrastructure, explore continents, and instruct your peers. Children of Orc mixes the point-and-click adventure game with real-time-strategy. You contr...

    Strategy

  • Army Men: Toys in Space

    Finally, proof that little green men exist in outer space! A horde of alien toys has invaded Earth. Now, they've enlisted the Tan Army to help them conquer the galaxy. All hope rests with one man, a green plastic soldier...

    Action, Strategy, Multiplayer

  • Age of Wonders

    Welcome to Age of Wonders, the authentic turn based fantasy strategy classic that started the hit series. Age of Wonders' intimate atmosphere with painterly graphics still shines today. The game's fully patched up, start...

    RPG, Strategy, Multiplayer