Best Strategy Games on Steam
Games about planning, tradeoffs, positioning, resources, and long-term decisions.
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1Baldur's Gate 3 - Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power.
Aug 3, 2023
In this game, you can…
- possess a guard, make them open a gate that releases giant spiders, then watch the chaos from the rafters.
- stack a bunch of boxes into a tower, then climb it to reach places you couldn't otherwise.
- romance wildly different beings, including vampires, ogres, lizards, and even a tentacled god.
- surround a boss with explosive barrels before the fight, then blow them up instead of fighting fair.
- turn a flooded room into an electric trap, then have the enemy freeze it into ice so everyone slips while you hold the door.
- pick up a locked chest and carry it back to camp to open later instead of unlocking it on the spot.
- earn a dog's trust step by step, pet them, play fetch, and eventually have them become your familiar.
- talk your way through conflicts, befriend enemies, or side with or kill basically any faction and watch regions treat you differently afterward.
2Geometry Dash - Jump and fly your way through danger in this rhythm-based action platformer!
Dec 22, 2014
In this game, you can…
- build full animations, minigames, and even whole games inside the level editor using massive chains of objects and logic-like setups.
- dive into millions of community-made levels and keep finding completely different stages, from quick showcases to absurdly hard challenges.
- get thrown from normal jumping into rocket flight, then into upside-down gravity, without stopping, while squeezing through spike corridors on the beat.
- control a character that runs on its own, and restart the whole level the instant you mess up.
- tap mid-air orbs to launch yourself, hit portals that flip gravity or change speed, and swap into flight or teleport movement mid-run.
- drop and remove checkpoints in practice, drill the nastiest transitions, then go back and clear the entire level in one clean run.
- play levels where the jumps and gravity flips are timed to the soundtrack, so the song effectively tells you when to move.
3Don't Starve Together - Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Apr 21, 2016
In this game, you can…
- get turned into a ghost when you die, then haunt specific items to resurrect yourself back into your body.
- steal a giant bird egg, keep it from overheating by the fire, and hatch it into a baby that follows you around.
- discover a friendly pig village, use it as a safe base, and then watch the pigs turn into werepigs later.
- turn a tiny camp into a real settlement with farms, spider dens, bee hives, and even a beefalo herd.
- build a trap-filled room just to protect a stolen egg from spiders until it finally hatches.
- bring friends back from death with things like a heart, an amulet, a touch stone, or the starting portal.
- watch a one-eyed giant arrive in winter with ground-shaking footsteps, smash your camp, and force you to survive in the dark.
4Bloons TD 6 - The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Dec 17, 2018
In this game, you can…
- watch a necromancer tower raise zombie bloons that march backward and pop the bloons behind them.
- drag a helicopter around mid-wave, lock it in place, or set it to patrol between two points.
- spend three days building money, then drop a single Paragon tower that melts everything it touches.
- hit round 100 and get a free insta-monkey you can save for any future run.
- take a sniper tower and upgrade it into a rapid-fire machine-gun monster that plays nothing like the starter version.
- play co-op where the screen splits into sections and each player controls their own slice of the map.
- fight timed boss events where a single boss bloon becomes the whole match's win-or-lose objective.
- push into extreme late-game until the map is so packed with maxed-out towers and effects you can barely find your cursor.
5Raft - Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
Jun 20, 2022
In this game, you can…
- drop anchor at an island, jump off to loot it, and realize your raft can drift away if you didn't secure it first.
- use antennas and a receiver to follow radio coordinates to story locations packed with puzzles and notes explaining why the world flooded.
- play co-op where one person builds, another cooks, and you can carry unconscious teammates back to bed like it's normal.
- start on a 2x2 raft with a plastic hook.
- yank floating trash with a hook, then turn it into a purifier, grill, sail, bed, and research table as your raft becomes a real ship.
- reinforce your raft so a shark stops tearing off platforms, turning it from a threat into background noise.
- dive underwater to scavenge reefs for ore and rare materials, then surface to unlock higher-tier crafting.
- build nets that automatically catch drifting debris, so the ocean feeds you a constant stream of materials.
6Hearts of Iron IV - Victory is at your fingertips! Your ability to lead your nation is your supreme weapon, the strategy game Hearts of Iron IV lets you take command of any nation in World War II; the most engaging conflict in world history.
Jun 6, 2016
In this game, you can…
- stage a surprise airborne invasion that takes an enemy capital before your own sea landing even leaves port.
- start as tiny Bolivia and snowball from beating one neighbor into grinding down half a continent, then gearing up to fight Brazil.
- oust Stalin in a civil war, reunite China as a warlord, or put another Napoleon on France's throne in the same game.
- manually switch combat plans mid-battle multiple times to change how a fight plays out instead of just watching it resolve.
- drive a tank army straight through a country that has no anti-tank and rip the front so wide it looks like someone took a bite out of the map.
- race the clock in a WW1 mod: stabilize a collapsing front, rush 1918 fighters to wipe the enemy air force, then snake an armored car into Paris seconds before the USA joins.
- turn a small nation into an industrial powerhouse through years of buildup, then flip the switch into rapid conquest the moment you're ready.
7Schedule I - From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Mar 24, 2025
In this game, you can…
- mix drugs with other ingredients to create effects like super jump, speed boosts, or turning users into ticking time bombs.
- pickpocket the whole city by day, then go gambling at night as part of the same routine.
- buy a Golden Skateboard, break in through a shack window, knock a guy out, then pickpocket him to get your money back.
- build a drug empire from nothing, scaling into properties, employees, dealers, laundering, and automated production across Hyland Point.
- run the entire operation hands-on: water and trim plants, mix ingredients, bag and package product, test purity, then coordinate in-person handoffs.
- discover weird recipes and lace your product with absurd additives that radically change what it does to people.
- stack boxes and barrels to climb over fences and slip past police patrols during curfew.
- set up dealers to unload lower-quality batches while you keep experimenting with new mixes, keeping money flowing while you expand.
8Arma 3 - Experience true combat gameplay in a massive military sandbox. Deploy with a wide variety of single- and multiplayer content, a massive arsenal of modern weapons and vehicles, and limitless opportunities for content creation. Authentic, diverse, open - Arma 3 sends you to war.
Sep 12, 2013
In this game, you can…
- build custom wars and scenarios in an editor, from realistic ops to zombies, aliens, sci‑fi, and completely player-made terrains.
- lie motionless in a ghillie suit while an entire platoon patrols right past you.
- treat battlefield injuries mid-fight, from chest wounds to splints and stitches, while your squad keeps taking fire.
- spend 30 minutes watching patrol routes, sprint 200 meters into the open, plant charges on a comms tower, then escape before the patrol net closes.
- play missions where 7 people crawl for cover, patch each other up, and keep moving even after a sniper drops someone instantly.
9Cities: Skylines - Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
Mar 10, 2015
In this game, you can…
- accidentally route sewage outflow into your own drinking-water pumps and watch the whole city get sick from polluted water.
- follow a single named citizen as they commute, work, shop, and chain a metro ride into a bus transfer.
- use mods to expand the playable map far beyond the base size and even fly a plane through your own city.
- lay roads from a lone highway connection and watch empty land turn into neighborhoods with homes, shops, and factories.
- rebuild highway exits and roundabouts until traffic patterns actually change and congestion drops dramatically across the city.
- draw and rename districts, then flip policies like free public transport or no high-rises to reshape how an area develops.
- build a dam that raises the river, then watch the new water level flood whatever neighborhoods you put too close.
- run buses, metros, trains, taxis, cargo ships, and airports, then tune routes so the entire transport network works together.
10Satisfactory - Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Sep 10, 2024
In this game, you can…
- walk in one direction for 30 minutes and realize it's all one connected 30 km² world.
- build a 4 km pipeline just to bring crude oil back to base.
- power an acre-long production line with nuclear energy, then use the leftovers to build a racetrack in the desert.
- turn a pristine alien landscape into a sprawling logistics megafactory.
- go from hand-mining ore to running powered drills, vehicles, jetpacks, and trains in the same save.
- string conveyor belts across cliffs and valleys until the terrain is basically your factory's floor plan.
- expand from hand-crafting parts to fully automated production lines that keep making them while you do something else.
