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1335 Strategy games reviewed and scored, best first.
1335 reviews
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 Cozy Nordic Settlement Builder, Out of a Long Demo Period Folklands is a settlement builder from Bromantic Games, set in a retro-styled, fantasy Nordic-inspired world where playe
3.7 / 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 handsome medieval-themed adaptation of the ancient board game for js13k 2023, whose board could never be interacted with in any mode during testing — not a touch-specific failure, but a total absence of any selectable piece, which matches a rendering bug the author himself has repeatedly acknowledged.
3.5 / 10
An Early Access xianxia cultivation RPG about crafting treasures, building tactical characters, and ascending through nine realms of immortality, whose large Very Positive review sample praises its deep, native-English-written systems and frequent developer updates while flagging punishing balance swings, laggy transitions, and a repeated, specific complaint about AI-generated art assets.
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
A full-motion-video romance game built around first-person bar games with a cast of live-action characters, undercut at launch by a dice minigame reviewers say overwhelms the promised romance content, save and playback bugs that force full replays, and a developer response that has since walked the dice emphasis back in a major post-launch update.
3.5 / 10
The latest annual Madden entry pairs a franchise mode multiple long-time players call genuinely improved with a rough, server-dependent launch, aggressive single-player microtransactions, and specific, widely reported gameplay-breaking bugs that a large share of its own veteran audience says make this one of the worst entries in years.
3.5 / 10
A promising co-op hardware empire, then silence Hardware Store Simulator sets itself apart from the genre's crowded field of single-shop management sims with a genuinely distin
3.5 / 10
A loving but uneven tribute to Majesty that nails the nostalgia and fumbles the follow-through, with a misleading sandbox promise and suspected AI art among the sticking points.
3.5 / 10
A Chinese folk-horror suspense puzzle game from Liminal Factory about a young Taoist priest investigating deaths in a mist-shrouded town, earning a Mostly Negative launch reception after a long wishlist build-up, with reviewers praising its character art and setting but describing a short, buggy, confusingly-guided experience.
3.5 / 10
A short, chill management game about smuggling gacha-collected 'cute-ware' past an anti-aesthetics regime from behind a ramen stall front, praised by its small early audience for its striking premise, calming loop, and refreshing lack of real-money monetisation.
3.5 / 10
Music Band Manager promises the fantasy of building a rock band from nothing to global fame. What it delivers, by its own players' near-unanimous account, is a repetitive economic grind with a broken money system, placeholder achievement names the developer never bothered to finish, and one confirmed patch cycle in 2018 before the studio moved permanently on to other games.
3.5 / 10
A cartoonish, board-game-logic city builder that lets players shape a hippie, robotic, mystical, or warlike settlement rather than a grey industrial megalopolis, whose small but unanimously positive review sample praises its charm and thematic freedom while repeatedly flagging a specific building-unlock balance problem around its hospital.
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 pixel-art, RPG Maker-built turn-based JRPG about two reluctant heroes fighting a corrupting darkness, built around a visible-enemy, shield-breaking combat system openly modelled on Octopath Traveler, whose large and consistently positive review sample praises that combat while repeatedly flagging punishing early-game boss balance since smoothed by an active post-launch patch history.
3.5 / 10
A promising concept — a roguelite where every attack is a typed word, wrapped in a striking medieval-manuscript art style — collapses under a wave of bugs, half-explained systems, and a disputed AI-disclosure controversy that has left most of its review pool furious rather than forgiving.
3.5 / 10
A cheap Chinese dynasty-management sim about ruling as a young monarch, undercut by widely reported AI-generated voice acting and art, thin content, and persistent bugs.
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
Every Official Screenshot Is a Marketing Graphic, Not Gameplay AFK Three Kingdoms launched free-to-play on 4 September 2026 from developer and publisher Three Kingdoms Games Limite
3.2 / 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-to-play dark-fantasy tactics gacha with a genuinely interesting merge-based class system arrives buried under chaotic multilingual localization, aggressive monetisation, and a review sample repeatedly and specifically alleging bought positive reviews.
3 / 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
