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1328 Strategy games reviewed and scored, best first.
1328 reviews
A genuinely inventive puzzle premise — secretly designing a dungeon to lose in a way that satisfies each invading hero's specific class desires — undercut in its back half by a well-documented complaint that solving devolves from logic into brute-force trial and error.
6.5 / 10
The 1999 Bullfrog classic that put you on the evil side of a fantasy dungeon, reissued on Steam in 2024 as a straight port of the GOG build. The dungeon-management design still holds up completely. Whether the executable does depends entirely on your PC.
6.5 / 10
A Dungeon Keeper-inspired dungeon-management strategy RPG that has held Very Positive across roughly 12,600 Steam reviews since October 2017 — genuinely funny and frequently deep-discounted, but sitting under a persistent "repetitive and shallow next to the games it's imitating" complaint, plus a years-old camera-zoom gripe the reviews themselves can't agree is even still a problem.
6.5 / 10
A fantasy idle RPG that lets players command up to five independently-levelling heroes across shared gathering, crafting and dungeon systems that keep progressing while offline, drawing a small early reception comparing it favourably to Melvor Idle, tempered by a rocky release week that included a major cloud/local save-sync bug the developer patched within roughly 24 hours.
6.5 / 10
A genuinely charming, low-footprint desktop companion idler that succeeds at true hands-off idling, undercut by punishing exponential resource walls, a broken tutorial, and build variety that flattens out once the honeymoon period ends.
6.5 / 10
A staggeringly deep grand strategy sandbox spanning nearly four centuries of world history, and the game most responsible for Paradox's reputation as the industry's most aggressive DLC seller — with thousands of hours logged by reviewers giving it a thumbs-down on principle alone.
6.5 / 10
Rebuilding Civilization, One Crystal Lantern at a Time EverDark is a $9.99 2D dark steampunk action RPG that fuses top-down exploration and combat with base building and wave defen
6.5 / 10
A solo-built voxel colony sim where every species of tree and vein of ore keeps its own look all the way into the furniture you craft from it, three and a half years out of Early Access at NZ$38.49 with no user reviews yet against the 1.0 build.
6.5 / 10
A solo-developed space-colony sim that spent a year in Early Access fixing the exact problems its first reviewers complained about, then launched to a small but genuinely engaged audience most readers have never heard of.
6.5 / 10
A tight, hex-based fantasy wargame reviving the 1996 tactics classic with satisfying unit and hero progression — but a large, detailed contingent of original fans argues it stripped away the strategic layer and faction variety that made the first game special, while paywalling much of what's left behind pricey DLC.
6.5 / 10
A charming, food-themed roguelite city-builder clearly indebted to Against the Storm, held back by a blueprint RNG system reviewers in two languages agree can make runs unwinnable through bad luck alone, and a baffling lack of key rebinding.
6.5 / 10
A cozy-looking but genuinely demanding incremental strategy game from solo developer Quiétude, casting players as an ant colony gathering food and evolving specialized workers to satisfy an ever-hungrier Queen, Mostly Positive across 237 English reviews for its charming art and surprisingly deep build-optimization puzzle — with a widely repeated complaint that progress walls force exact "correct" builds and long, wasted waiting periods to discover mistakes.
6.5 / 10
An underwater, Brotato-style wave-survival roguelite where you play a hungry small animal hunting fish for calories, praised by an early, entirely Chinese-language review base for genuinely hand-drawn art and an active, listening developer, while multiple detailed reviews flag performance stutters, unclear character-unlock conditions and unfinished UI as the rough edges of a game still visibly mid-polish.
6.5 / 10
A gothic antique-shop roguelike that fuses Balatro-style combo scoring with Resident Evil-style spatial inventory puzzling into a genuinely addictive, well-liked whole, held back by a lack of difficulty options that frustrates less experienced puzzle players, a progression- blocking bug, and a post-launch bundle discount some early buyers felt undercut their support.
6.5 / 10
A full remake of the 1999 PlayStation tactical RPG classic lands a Mostly Positive Steam reception, with a vocal, detailed critical contingent flagging AI-assisted art assets, redesigned mech silhouettes, and weightless combat animation against a broader base that says the branching two-campaign story and turn-based tactics still hold up.
6.5 / 10
A Thirty-Ninth Consecutive Launch Without a Single Review Galithia entered Early Access on Steam on 15 September 2026, and at the time of writing it carries zero user reviews on ei
6.5 / 10
Chess Meets Balatro, And Reviewers Can't Stop Saying So Gambonanza, from developer Blukulélé and published by Sidekick Publishing and Stray Fawn Publishing, released on Steam o
6.5 / 10
A visually striking turn-based spin-off of the Gears of War franchise whose negative sample is dominated by one specific, repeated comparison — reviewers naming XCOM in nearly a third of negative reviews to argue Gears Tactics lacks a strategic layer, meaningful gear progression and mission variety, turning a strong opening into what several call a grindy slog.
6.5 / 10
A deceptively deep free-to-play match-3 RPG from the creators of Puzzle Quest, still receiving real, numbered content updates nearly twelve years after launch — Steam's own review sample is surprisingly thin, but the handful of detailed accounts describe hundreds to thousands of hours of genuine engagement alongside real, specific structural complaints.
6.5 / 10
The Ghost Master Successor Nobody Else Was Making Ghost Master, the 2003 cult strategy game where you played a spectral villain terrorizing the living instead of defending against
6.5 / 10
Mistical Studios' GLONK is a short, cute incremental game about feeding and growing a hungry blob-like creature, earning a Very Positive reception for its charming presentation and addictive early hour, tempered by a heavily repeated complaint that its endgame prestige loop grows repetitive and its upgrade tree doesn't meaningfully change how the game plays.
6.5 / 10
Tower defense where the towers walk Gnomes' one genuinely novel idea is also its most divisive: instead of placing towers at fixed points along a lane, you deploy small mobile
6.5 / 10
An autobattler with the dice taken away Gods vs Horrors takes the drafting-and-scaling structure that autobattlers like Hearthstone Battlegrounds popularised and strips out the one
6.5 / 10
A niche Bordeaux wine-making business sim earns real affection from its small review sample for the depth of its viticulture and the emotional pull of its father's-debt storyline, but that same sample is consistent that the game still looks and feels unfinished, with thin late-game content and interface rough edges to match.
6.5 / 10
