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411 Strategy games reviewed and scored, best first.
411 reviews
A genre mash-up that does what it says on the tin — turn-based tactical combat fused with extraction-looter risk management, in a Western-gothic horror setting — emerging from a 13-month Early Access run with real praise for its core tension and real complaints about repetition and a gear-progression curve that eventually breaks its own difficulty.
6.5 / 10
A 2019 semi-idle party RPG that most of its audience genuinely likes — except the small, verifiable slice of English-speaking buyers who kept hitting the same unresolved one-minute crash bug for five straight years, on a game whose developer stopped posting updates in 2021.
6.5 / 10
A medieval colony sim that pitches itself as Crusader Kings' court intrigue crossed with RimWorld's colonist simulation -- a genuinely funny, genuinely ambitious generator of noble-house disasters, still rough enough after two years in Early Access that plenty of its own fans are telling each other to wait.
6.5 / 10
An XCOM-style Viking tactics RPG with genuinely praised writing that launched in a technical state its own reviewers compared to Early Access — and has spent the months since visibly recovering as negative-review volume collapsed following a string of patches.
6.5 / 10
A genuinely satisfying Klondike gold-rush mining tycoon sim from a studio whose previous Early Access title was abandoned and delisted — a history that shadows this one every time a years-old bug resurfaces or a new paid DLC lands on what a chunk of the audience still calls beta.
6.5 / 10
The Phantom Thieves trade the Metaverse for a grid-based tactics spin-off, carrying over Baton Pass and weakness-exploiting combat into cover-based skirmishes. Sharp presentation and a near-unanimously praised soundtrack sit on top of a short campaign that most of its own reviewers say is priced for a much longer game.
6.5 / 10
A memory-match card grid wrapped around a genuine dungeon-crawling RPG — flip pairs to fight monsters, loot treasure and trigger traps, then take what survives back to a Guild hub to level a deck capped at eleven cards.
6.5 / 10
A well-made, press-praised fusion of Dorfromantik's calm tile-placing and Tetris's spatial pressure, backed by a developer who delivered every update on its promised free roadmap, let down for a real minority of players by a lack of hook to keep coming back.
6.5 / 10
A solo-developer Early Access roguelite deckbuilder that casts you as a corrupt politician climbing from community leader to world leader, with fast five-to-ten-minute campaigns, a satirical Bloc-management system and cross-run meta-progression — reviewed here on a genuinely tiny early sample, but every one of the reviews it does have recommends it.
6.5 / 10
A charming coin-pusher-arcade roguelike deckbuilder whose single most-upvoted review isn't about the gameplay at all — a detailed technical audit documenting telemetry that fired before the opt-in screen and persisted after opt-out, which the publisher patched out only after the report went public — sitting alongside a separate, more ordinary complaint that the concept is more satisfying to describe than to actually play.
6.5 / 10
A tense, tactically excellent SWAT shooter whose lifetime score is still recovering from a massive, well-documented 2025 review-bomb after the developer retroactively censored the PC version to match a new console release — recent sentiment suggests the wound is healing, but slowly.
6.5 / 10
A dark-fantasy SRPG that plays like Fire Emblem's positioning and team-attack system taken further, whose combat and soundtrack draw real praise from committed players — while a launch price its own reviewers called unjustifiable still shadows the game even after patches and a permanent, deep discount.
6.5 / 10
A Kickstarter-funded tactical RPG that blends turn-based combat, kingdom management and a visual-novel-style social system, praised almost everywhere for its writing and cast -- and dragged down consistently, across nearly a decade of reviews, by crashes, harsh save limitations and RNG that a meaningful share of players call broken rather than merely unlucky.
6.5 / 10
A long-awaited Western release for a beloved PSP tactics duology, rebuilt in Unreal Engine 5 — genuinely treasured by the fans who've waited seventeen years for it, and genuinely undercut for newcomers by aggressive upscaling artifacts and a control scheme that inherited its handheld-era clunkiness without ever being modernised.
6.5 / 10
The third and final Harebrained Schemes Shadowrun tactical RPG, and the trilogy's most divisive entry — some players call it a masterpiece with a thousand-plus hours to back it up, others say the Matrix hacking minigame and murky pacing undo what Dragonfall got right.
6.5 / 10
The Kickstarter campaign that brought cyberpunk-meets-fantasy Shadowrun back to video games — a genuinely well-written tactical RPG that its own developer, and most of its fans, would go on to surpass twice over with the sequels it made possible.
6.5 / 10
A NZ$5.99 solo-developer hybrid that bolts a proper node-based skill tree onto Snake, making the run itself the resource loop rather than the thing an idle game politely ignores — checked against a 433-review corpus that agrees almost unanimously on where the game turns from clever to punishing.
6.5 / 10
Tactical Adventures' sequel moves to Unreal Engine 5 and the newly revised SRD 5.2 ruleset, and its Early Access build proves the tactics still work — while making clear that a buyer today is paying full price for roughly ten hours of a much longer game still being built.
6.5 / 10
A fantasy RTS/RPG hybrid that launched genuinely buggy and unbalanced in 2017, briefly carried a real, documented tracking-software controversy, and was rebuilt into a noticeably better game by a free 2020 overhaul most reviewers now treat as the definitive way to play it.
6.5 / 10
A free browser incremental built by two developers since 2019, stacking Prestige into Transcension into Reincarnation into Ascension into Singularity — more reset layers than almost anything in the genre, though not every one of them changes what the layer below it means.
6.5 / 10
A digital adaptation of a real tabletop primer used by Fight Club International's professional military wargaming network — a 20-minute hex-and-counter hill assault built to teach the genre's core mechanics, shipped day one with zero user reviews and no achievement data to check its claims against.
6.5 / 10
A turn-based roguelite that reviewers keep describing the same way — "Octopath Traveler meets Slay the Spire" — with a genuinely distinctive height-based combat system underneath. Two days into Early Access it's fighting real launch bugs, but few Early Access debuts respond to their players this fast or this openly.
6.5 / 10
The trilogy-capping mega-campaign Total War fans waited years for finally arrived and is genuinely excellent — after a rough launch, an expensive DLC structure, and a 2023 forum moderation policy that told players criticism was "a privilege" rather than a right.
6.5 / 10
A one-person tactical boxing sim where fighters age, get hurt and can genuinely die — built by a boxer, for boxing fans, with a real perk system underneath a genuinely rough interface and a review sample so small that this covers all eleven of it.
6.5 / 10
