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1335 Strategy games reviewed and scored, best first.
1335 reviews
A whimsical Early Access tavern sim casting players as an exiled wizard running a magical inn, praised for its cosy card-battle-and-cooking loop but held back by an unintuitive interface, unclear quest guidance, and the rough edges typical of an early build.
5.4 / 10
Answering the Phone, Haggling Over the Price, Building a Five-a-Side Empire Pitchside Empire is a free-to-play business sim from solo-flavored studio Bombastik Studio that starts a
5.4 / 10
A grid-based tactics roguelike fused with deckbuilding, praised by reviewers for its ambitious hybrid combat and pixel art but held back by a genuinely mixed Steam sample dominated by bug reports and unclear UI feedback.
5.4 / 10
Read review of Shuffle Tactics Review: A Brilliant Idea Buried Under Bugs
A 2015 remaster of Firefly Studios' 2003 cult classic that turns out to be closer to The Sims in space than the SimCity-style colony builder its marketing suggests — a genre mismatch the overwhelming majority of its negative reviews describe independently, on top of real modern-PC stability bugs.
5.4 / 10
A very familiar formula, executed competently Idle Realms: The Eternal Spire is a single-player idle RPG built on the Melvor Idle template: eighteen skills split across four catego
5.3 / 10
A dual-hero idler that leans hard on synergy Idle Trinity Builder is a small-scale idle RPG from solo Chinese developer Yamate, released 10 June 2026 for NZ$12.49. The pitch is nar
5.3 / 10
A tiny, sincere space-RTS built around a genuinely original hook — gravity wells and time dilation as tactical tools — undercut by a clunky interface and thin content that its own players, split exactly down the middle, can't agree on.
5.3 / 10
A Farm Manager, Not a Farming Simulator The Headlands is a solo-developed farming strategy from TessaraOxygen set in a fictional early-2000s village, built around reviving a run-do
5.3 / 10
A Solo-Developer Airline Tycoon Fills a Genre Gap That's Been Empty for Years Airline Founder puts you in charge of a single-base regional carrier and tasks you with growing it
5.2 / 10
A tower defense and incremental hybrid with striking pixel art and a genuinely clever skill tree, undercut by targeting bugs, softlocks, and a runtime measured in single-digit hours.
5.2 / 10
A free tactical RPG built around actually crafting your squad's weapons and armour rather than looting them, with a genuinely liked core loop undercut by an aggressive, mobile-ported subscription and stamina system that dominates the Steam review sample.
5.2 / 10
This vertical survival city-builder about defending a tree-city from a rising fog has a striking premise and real ambition, but a genuinely divided review base shows just how much unresolved jank stands between it and its clear potential.
5.2 / 10
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From a Spare Room to a Federally Licensed Empire Gun Shop 3 casts players as a newly licensed Federal Firearms Dealer building a business from a spare room or run-down storefront,
5.2 / 10
Kervado's free-to-play survivor-style tower defense has a genuinely addictive core loop and devs who responded fast to a rocky launch, but reviewers consistently describe a missing tutorial, narrow build balance, and pay-to-win monetisation holding it back.
5.1 / 10
Read review of Fortress Fury Review: An Addictive Loop Buried Under Rough Edges
Idle Boss Rush is Irid Games' incremental take on a boss-rush structure: instead of an endless tower or an open-ended number-go-up loop, the game gives players a finite roster
5.1 / 10
Flazm's newest Train Valley entry is a relaxing, good-looking train-routing puzzler, but reviewers who came from Train Valley 2 describe a stripped-down sequel undercut by real bugs and a punishing lack of mid-run saves.
5.1 / 10
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One Printer in a Bedroom, One Factory Floor Away 3D Printer Manager, a $0.99 idle management sim from solo developer Smushii, started life on Steam in early 2026 as a scrappy, larg
5 / 10
Thirty-Eight Reviews, Mixed, Split Between Devoted Grinders and Furious Refunds AFK leveling fight monsters launched on Steam on 19 March 2026 from solo Chinese developer Sora, and
5 / 10
A genuinely original colony-sim/tower-defense hybrid about building a fortress on the back of a walking World Tree — sticky enough to hook dedicated fans for hundreds of hours, but shipped to 1.0 with a game-breaking defense bug and balance problems the developer appears to have stopped fixing entirely.
5 / 10
A genuinely satisfying weapon-forging minigame wrapped in a short, shallow auto-battler campaign that markets itself as far bigger than it turns out to be.
5 / 10
A catastrophically incomplete 2023 launch that devastated long-time Blood Bowl 2 fans has genuinely improved on the technical side according to more recent reviews, but a persistent, heavily-corroborated complaint about teams being locked behind premium currency, a battle pass and seasonal releases — rather than available at launch — kept the negative sample nearly as high in 2025 as it was at launch.
5 / 10
A solo-developer physics-bounce incremental combat game from LeenGameDev, tasking players with automating an arena of ricocheting weapons against escalating enemy waves, drawing a genuinely divided Mixed review sample that credits its satisfying core mechanic and short, completable loop while flagging heavily corroborated complaints about bugs, shallow build depth, and frustrating RNG-gated progression.
5 / 10
Steel Balalaika's large-scale modern-warfare RTS launched with a genuinely fresh, faster-paced take on the wargame genre, but a widely corroborated faction-balance collapse, rampant reported cheating, and a controversial pay-to-win DLC have dragged its own review pool down to Mixed.
5 / 10
A dark fantasy roguelike deck-builder from solo studio Grayfox set in a cursed forest under the watch of a creepy circus ringmaster, drawing an extremely small English review sample that praises its distinctive atmosphere and flexible deck-building, tempered by fair, corroborated complaints about a confusing, poorly explained onboarding experience.
5 / 10
