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1335 Strategy games reviewed and scored, best first.
1335 reviews
An East-Asian-themed entry in Firefly Studios' long-running castle-building RTS series, Mixed across nearly 1,900 reviews for its aesthetic and accessible core loop — undercut by an extremely consistent complaint from longtime series fans that it represents a significant downgrade from 2005's Stronghold 2 in nearly every dimension, compounded by homogenised faction design and technical instability on larger maps.
5 / 10
A Lovecraftian narrative RPG set in an Arkham torn loose from reality, Mixed across 575 reviews for genuinely strong writing, art and sanity-driven roleplaying — undercut by clunky, dice-heavy combat and a story that a large share of reviewers say ends abruptly, roughly a third of the way through what was promised.
5 / 10
A WWII real-time tactics sequel that splits its own franchise fanbase cleanly along generational lines — veterans of the original 2000s-era Sudden Strike games praising a return to slower, deliberate tactical pacing, while fans of the more recent Sudden Strike 4 report a barebones, overpriced downgrade with worse graphics, thin multiplayer and unrealistic combat balance.
5 / 10
An isometric post-apocalyptic RPG blending Mutant Year Zero-style exploration with base management and real-time tactical combat, Survive the Fall earns genuine praise for its atmosphere and ambition from a small Polish studio, but a heavily corroborated majority of reviewers report the game launched with serious bugs, unbalanced base-and-scavenging economy, and pacing problems severe enough that many argue it should have entered Early Access rather than shipped as a full release.
5 / 10
A small five-person Polish studio's ambitious crew-role WWII tank sim launched in a rough, unfinished state after its publisher reportedly pulled funding overnight, and while reviewers consistently praise the concept and the developers' visible post-launch effort, an equally consistent chorus of bugs, broken AI, and cluttered UI complaints makes clear this is a game still finding its footing.
5 / 10
A NZ$6.39 mouse-driven incremental about melting waves of monsters and climbing a permanent upgrade tree. Its isekai title promises an RPG that isn't there, its most useful reviews are barely 90 minutes long, and a late-game visual effect has drawn a genuine photosensitivity warning with no in-game way to turn it off.
5 / 10
A charming, distinctively-styled insect-hero roguelike autochess whose "cyber cricket-fighting" concept and hybrid genre execution draw real praise from its majority Chinese-language review base, badly undermined by a specifically-quantified exponential difficulty spike that can make a fully-built team obsolete within days, a combat mechanic interaction reviewers say collapses team variety down to only one or two viable compositions, an extensive list of specific crash and save-corruption bugs, and a broken, mistranslated English localisation that led every English-language reviewer in this sample to refund.
5 / 10
Debut developer Final Arcade's budget-priced idle tower-builder wears its inspirations from Gnorp Apologue and Tower Wizard openly, and while its art direction and low-risk price draw genuine goodwill, a large and detailed share of its launch-week reviews describe a game released with serious, specific bugs, balance problems and missing quality-of-life features still unresolved.
5 / 10
A collection of tightly designed Chinese "Magic Tower" resource-and-route puzzle RPGs whose genuinely respected numerical design is overshadowed by an unusually fragmented, chapter-by-chapter paid DLC structure that a large majority of its own core audience calls predatory, compounded by a specific Steam-compatibility launch crash and dialogue that can't be skipped by any obvious in-game means.
5 / 10
A 2D tactical sandbox editor for staging and animating historical battles, praised by reviewers for its sprite-import map and unit tools but weighed down by a punishing UI, a combat simulation that several called unrealistic and unfinished, and pointed reviewer allegations of undisclosed AI-generated assets and hostile developer conduct.
5 / 10
A veteran-defined tank warfare MMO whose Steam launch stumbled over locked-out existing accounts in 2021, and whose long, escalating pay-to-win reputation reached a documented breaking point in May 2025 when Wargaming introduced tiered loot boxes that sent its most invested ten-year players heading for the exit.
5 / 10
Marrowtide is a free strategy game from developer REPUBLIC OF GORF that combines Slay the Spire-style deckbuilding with XCOM-style 3D tactical movement, and this review's small but unanimous 4-review sample sees real, distinct potential in the hybrid held back by a handful of specific, currently unresolved bugs.
4.9 / 10
Metal Hunter is a free JRPG-style tank-and-character action RPG built as a spiritual continuation of the beloved Metal Max series, and this review's 100-review sample, Very Positive overall (420:33 lifetime), documents an emotional, deeply nostalgic reception from longtime fans alongside real launch bugs, a stat-blind shopping system, a four-month development handover, and a rushed 1.0 update the tiny two-person team openly apologized for.
4.9 / 10
Troyd Games' post-apocalyptic base-defense strategy game leans hard on a day/night prep-and-survive loop reviewers repeatedly compare to Thronefall, delivering real value at a low price but falling short on build variety and combat balance.
4.8 / 10
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Legend of Swords II is a $2.99 Chinese-style turn-based RPG from developer CWGame, a wuxia-themed sequel built around talents, forging, pets, and reincarnation systems, and this review's 10-review Mixed sample describes a genuinely engaging story and skill-based boss fights held back by save-system frustrations, story-blocking bugs, and a rushed English translation.
4.8 / 10
A Shared Screen, Private Phones, and a Table Full of Liars NECHTO: Infection Protocol is a social-deduction card game built for 4 to 12 players gathered around one shared screen, w
4.8 / 10
A US$5.99 Chinese cultivation-themed idle RPG whose own official English screenshot shows equipment names left as untranslated pinyin, whose single biggest review-corpus complaint is that the developer vanished for 17 months, and whose store description of the companion system turns out to be a garbled machine translation of a real, unsettling mechanic.
4.6 / 10
A full-price revival of the cult tactical-RPG franchise that a large majority of its own longtime fans call a significant step backward from Brigandine: The Legend of Forsena and The Legend of Runersia — fewer classes, no multiclassing, smaller maps, and a story mode that removes the series' signature freedom to invade rival nations in any order — defended by a real minority who argue its core combat mechanics are genuinely improved underneath the reduced scope.
4.5 / 10
A cheap 3D coin-flipping idle clicker that a majority of reviewers find relaxing and satisfying, dogged by a credible, specific accusation of closely cloning an existing idler and by severe performance problems reported by at least one long-term player.
4.5 / 10
Stranded, scripted, and compared to a much better game Desperate Place puts you in the boots of a crew member waking up on a damaged colonization starship, stranded on a hostile al
4.5 / 10
A business-management sim that starts genuinely satisfying but automates itself into a passive clicker within a few hours, compounded by a storage-system bug that skips warehouse shelves entirely, a difficulty spike between its demo and full release, and a rigid structure that forces players to stock everything they unlock rather than specialise.
4.5 / 10
A first game from a small studio, patched within a day of launch — but a mining incremental whose own reviewers repeatedly question whether its writing and design were properly finished before release.
4.5 / 10
A shadow-dropped mobile spin-off that swaps Fire Emblem Heroes' gacha for a genuinely fairer season-pass model and grafts on an Among Us-style hidden-traitor mechanic, an experiment critics almost universally say fails on its own tactical terms — Metacritic's second-worst reviewed game of 2025 — even as its App Store audience rates it considerably more kindly.
4.5 / 10
A mining incremental about a mole digging endless loops for resources and artifacts, whose demo-to-full-game jump and AI-generated cutscenes have drawn specific, detailed criticism, though at least one seasoned incremental-genre reviewer still recommends its pacing.
4.5 / 10
