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411 Strategy games reviewed and scored, best first.
411 reviews
A cheap turn-based tactical RPG built on the SCP Foundation universe that reviewers say barely delivers the SCP content its name promises, hampered by disclosed AI art and thin, three-hour content, with a development history that appears to have gone quiet well over a year ago.
4.5 / 10
A Facebook-era MMO strategy game from 2011 finally arrived on Steam this July, and its first reviewers are overwhelmingly its own long-lost veterans — many disappointed by what fifteen years and a free-to-play economy have done to the game they remember.
4.5 / 10
A Xianxia-flavoured hybrid of tower defense and bullet-hell idle combat, sold on Steam with a promise of thirteen fully-voiced languages that its own small English review sample says never actually arrived, from a developer whose visible support stopped within a month of launch.
4.5 / 10
A NZ$10.49 idle-summon-and-defend game from solo Chinese developer CMY that has spent eight months on sale with almost no trace of a community — one lifetime Steam review, zero concurrent players at time of writing, and a store page whose own data (an identical icon on all seven achievements, a machine-translated description, mismatched tags) argues for caution more clearly than any review score could.
4.3 / 10
A budget merge-and-defend hybrid from a small Dutch studio that has released the same basic loop under half a dozen names. Four years after launch, it has collected precisely zero Steam user reviews — and the design explains why.
4.3 / 10
A free-to-play naval PvP autobattler with real, specific tactical depth reviewers enjoy, undercut by a strong, repeated pay-to-win throughline and a Steam release several reviewers say quietly reuses a years-old mobile game without disclosing it.
4.3 / 10
A Prohibition-era mafia grand strategy game with a genuinely rare premise and almost none of the depth needed to carry it past the first few hours.
4.2 / 10
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A solo-developed first-person military shooter built in Unreal Engine 5 around a six-environment campaign and an AI-supported squad, launched 5 August 2026 with two Turkish- language user reviews, zero Steam achievements and a documented mission that its own first buyer could not finish.
4 / 10
A free city-building clicker whose own achievement list requires replaying the entire game roughly 60 times for full completion, sitting on top of a Mixed 65% built from two very different arguments — reviewers who call the active, worker-assignment gameplay "not real idle" and reviewers who report resources vanishing every time they close and reopen it.
4 / 10
A free-to-play mobile idle tavern-and-hero-management game ported to Steam in June 2023, whose ad-watch buttons routinely fail to load on PC and whose only post-launch fix, by the reviews' own account, arrived within its first two weeks.
4 / 10
A NZ$2.99 satire of Steam's own trading-card economy, where bots buy, sell and craft cards into badges to push a level counter upward — a clever premise that Steam's tiny, Mixed-rated review corpus says never grows past its opening idea.
4 / 10
A dark-comedy business simulator about running an online drug empire, launched into Early Access in January 2023 by solo developer PiCorp and left there, seemingly untouched, ever since.
4 / 10
Ubisoft's revival of one of PC strategy gaming's most beloved franchises launched broken, redesigned around combat its own decades-long fans say abandoned what made the series special, and has received exactly three news posts in over two years — this review reads the whole arc, including the rival made by the original series' own former developers that fans now point to instead.
4 / 10
KIXEYE's post-apocalyptic base-building MMO strategy game, running continuously since its 2011 Facebook debut, finally arrives on Steam — met largely by returning veteran players whose reviews describe over a decade of accumulated pay-to-win pressure and unaddressed cheating that the platform switch hasn't changed.
4 / 10
A NZ$4.79 tower-defense-and-troops hybrid from the studio behind Merge Cats and Merge Beasts. It has collected exactly one Steam review in almost four years — and that review is negative, describing the exact lack of choice this write-up finds in the store listing itself.
3.8 / 10
A genuinely funny, distinctive premise — an undead bureaucrat balancing a skeleton army's budget — undercut by a near-total lack of onboarding, painfully mismatched sound design, and a missing save feature that's gone unpatched since the game's 2017 release.
3.8 / 10
A basic but originally decent Flash-style stealth puzzler, now overwhelmingly defined by the developer's later addition of roughly 5,000 near-meaningless achievements — a widely condemned "achievement spam" update that reviewers say buried the actual game underneath it.
3.6 / 10
A free-to-play turn-based ninja RPG whose entire review sample, ten days after launch, is nine reviews and mostly negative — with a PvP-centred design that reviewers say can't currently find opponents to fight.
3.5 / 10
A space-mining idle game that patched hard for ten straight months after its August 2022 Early Access launch, then went quiet in mid-2023 with its progression math still broken — four years and no 1.0 later, its own most dedicated reviewers call it the worst idle game they've played.
3.5 / 10
An officially licensed, gacha-collector Star Trek RPG that broke from mobile-genre norms by charging one fair upfront price instead of selling microtransactions, earning real goodwill from its own community — before the publisher announced in July 2026 that the entirely online-dependent game will be delisted 20 August 2026 and fully shut down 3 September 2026.
3.5 / 10
A genuinely well-regarded airport-management sim with a distinct, ground-handling-focused concept praised even by many critics, confirmed abandoned by this review's own check of a three-year Steam news silence — leaving a real, unfinished game for sale with no further development in sight.
3.4 / 10
A one-person dungeon-management sim where you wall off rooms, seed traps and synthesise monsters to grind down invading adventurers. The pitch has real bones, but its entire English Steam review history — three reviews, all negative — describes a game that stopped short of finishing itself.
3.2 / 10
A free pixel-art clicker from developer E-Crew, built on the same chest-and-card "idle collectible" template as Adventure Communist and Cell to Singularity, abandoned six weeks after its March 2023 launch.
3 / 10
A NZ$2.49 idle hero-placement tower defense from solo Chinese developer Yamate whose 30-wave campaign hits the same reproducible, game-breaking bug at wave 23 in two independent reviews a year apart, on top of a broken mana mechanic and unit upgrades that reset every time you quit — a serious flaw in a game built around idling away from the keyboard.
3 / 10
