15 of the Best Strategy Games and Compare Prices

 

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IN Mount & Blade 2 Bannerlord Monster Train PlayerUnknowns BattleGround Europa Universalis 4 Darkest Dungeon Company of Heroes 2 Cities Skylines Sid Meier’s Civilization 5

OUT Planet Zoo Total War THREE KINGDOMS RimWorld Plague Inc Evolved Sid Meier’s Civilization 6 Gathering Storm Spellscaster University Endless Space 2 Transport Fever 2

 

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What are the best 15 Strategy Games ?

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1. Age of Empires II

Play one of the most popular strategy games ever, now fully remastered with three new campaigns and four new civilizations. Choose between the original AI, the updated HD Edition AI, or the newer AI developed for the Definitive Edition. The game features all of the original campaigns, the expansions and boasts more than 200 hours of gameplay and 1,000 years of human history as you begin your quest for world domination, then head online and choose any of the 35 civilizations on offer to challenge other players in massive PvP battles.

   

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2. Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord

Create and develop your character the way you want to, then explore, raid and conquer your way across a continent in this open-world medieval strategy. Enjoy an incredible single-player campaign or test your skills in multiplayer in breathtaking battles that feature skill-based directional medieval combat.

   

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3. Divinity: Original Sin 2

Gather your party and enter the eagerly anticipated sequel to Larian Studios’ Divinity: Original Sin. Choose your race and origin from six unique origin characters, each with their own background and quests, or create your own. Explore the vast world of Rivellon, developing relationships and manipulating the elements. You can now join with up to three others to master deep, tactical, turn-based combat in drop in/drop out co-op play, but know only one of you will get the chance to become a god. Go anywhere and explore endless ways to interact with the world, and discover more with the brand-new PvP and Game Master modes.

   

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4. Monster Train

Board the train to hell and play the strategic roguelike deck-building game. Every playthrough is unique with more than 220 cards, 5 monster clans, over 80 artifacts and more than 20 unique random events available. Strategize, plan, upgrade and duplicate your cards, and complete daily challenges that offer modified runs and global leaderboards. Design your own challenge and share it, or compete online with up to 8 players supported in a dash to hell like never before.

   

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5. Sid Meier’s Civilization VI

Expand your empire and advance your culture all over again in this latest game from the Sid Meier franchise. Choose one of twenty historical leaders, including Roosevelt and Victoria, and expand across the map. Unlock boosts, explore and develop your environment, discover new cultures, build alliances, negotiate and combine units to destroy your foes. It features singleplayer and multiplayer modes, and whether old or new to the franchise it offers endless replayability to all.

   

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6. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege

Master the art of destruction and gadgetry, face intense close quarters combat, high lethality and split-second tactical decision making in explosive team-play action. The Siege multiplayer matches take place in a training simulation and is why players only play as counter-terrorists, with Tom Clancy also stating that he did not want players to play as terrorists in any of his games. Siege was released in December, 2015 and only implemented their loot system, called Alpha Packs, in July, 2017. Ubisoft later used the Siege monetary system to their other online multiplayer game, For Honor. Siege has won four awards, Best PC Game at the Game Critics Awards in 2014, Esports Title of the Year at the Australian Games Awards and Radio 105 eSports Game of the Year at the Italian Video Game Awards in 2018.

   

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7. PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS

Customize your character and then arachute into the online multiplayer battle royale game that set the standard for the genre and fight for survival in arenas supporting up to 100 players. Start with nothing, alone or in a squad, and find hundreds of items from armor, weapons, and boosters to improve your chances of survival. Be the last squad standing and earn the Chicken Dinner.

   

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8. Europa Universalis IV

Rule your nation through the ages, the way you want to, in a game where your choices matter, and the possibilities are endless. Enjoy historical accuracy, and lead your nation through hundreds of years, experiencing trade, diplomacy, and warfare like never before in a strategy game.

   

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9. Total War: WARHAMMER II

The Warhammer world comes to life in a breath-taking campaign of exploration, expansion and conquest, as you control thousands of troops and monsters in epic real-time strategy battles. Build your empire using statecraft, diplomacy and exploration. Level up your Legendary Lords and Heroes, arm them with mythical weapons and armor. Build alliances or declare Total War. Play as one of eight Legendary Lords and any of the four races with each offering a unique playstyle, unique campaign mechanics, armies, monsters and army abilities. Conquer the world alone or together as you smash your way through your enemies with cunning or brute force.

   

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10. Darkest Dungeon

Recruit, train and lead a team of flawed heroes in this gothic roguelike turn-based RPG that puts emphasis on the psychological stresses of adventuring. The game features an affliction system and more than 15 playable characters. Battle monsters, stress, paranoia, fear, and many more, then camp to heal, and plan your rests ahead of the next dungeon.

   

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11. Hearts of Iron IV

Take command of any nation in World War 2 and lead that nation to victory in the most engaging conflict in history. Experience total strategic war, winning over land, air and sea, as well as in the hearts and minds of the men and women of your nation. Authentic real-time war simulation allows you to take advantage of the tanks, planes, ships and guns of the time. Use your diplomacy skills, engage in trade for resources or simply battle your way to victory in snow, mud and storms. You can shape the world in the wonderfully realistic single-player campaign or head online in competitive or cooperative multiplayer featuring up to 32 player action.

   

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12. Stellaris

Take control of a species in its early stages of interstellar space exploration and build them up to be the “species of the stars”. Explore thousands of randomly generated planet types, galaxies, quests and monsters. Play the way you want and customize your race through ethics, technology, preferred space travel, habitat, and philosophies.

   

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13. Company of Heroes 2

Drop into World War 2 with the sequel to the highest rated strategy game of all time, and enjoy the new TrueSight system that offers better graphical quality and accuracy of combat. Develop your commander abilities, improve your tactics, strategize, and fight through dynamic battles with weather changes, and environmental destruction.

   

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14. Cities: Skylines

Build the city the people deserve in this open-ended city-building simulator and balance essential requirements such as education, water. electricity, police, fire fighting, and healthcare, along with your city’s real economy system. Discover the local traffic simulation, assign districts, apply for policies, and take advantage of a full day and night cycle, then share your creations on the Steam Workshop.

   

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15. Sid Meier’s Civilization V

Play the turn-based strategy series that defined the genre and drop into Civilization V, designed for new players and veterans of the series alike. Enjoy realistic graphics that, a believable world, a large community with online competitive play and plenty of mod support, and all new features that offer more detail, depth, and replayability.

     

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What Is a Strategy Game?

A strategy game is, in simple terms, a game that focuses on the choices that a player makes in order to influence the outcome of the game, engaging players in a more thought-provoking experience.

Strategy games fall into a number of sub-genres:

• • 4X games focus on exploration, expanding, exploiting and exterminating as the player controls an empire, these are games such as the Europa Universalis franchise and Stellaris.

• • Real-time strategy (RTS) games, such as the StarCraft games and Age of Empires franchise are games that do not progress in turns and will see players control units and structures in real-time, usually limiting them with the resources made available.

• • Multiplayer Online Battle Arenas (MOBAs), such as Dota 2 and League of Legends tasks players with controlling a single unit, often called a Hero or Champion, and challenging them to move through lanes and periodically-spawned computer-controlled units in order to destroy the other team’s towers and base.

• • Turn-based strategy (TBS) games, such as the Civilization series and Heroes of Might and Magic are games where players take it in turns to move, attack or collect resources, and the gameplay is generally close to that of a board game. 
  • Turn-based tactics (TBT) titles, like the X-Com series or Fire Emblem games focus on military tactics on a small-scale to decide the outcome of various scenarios.

There is a strategy game for everyone, test your reactions and skills, such as in a MOBA or RTS, or whether you want a more causal and thought-provoking challenge in games that fall in the TBS and TBT categories, there is a strategy game for everyone.

This is where Tags come in.

Why Are We Doing a Top 15 Strategy Games List

In the world of Strategy Games, fantastic games can be found at incredible prices but you can also be at a greater risk of being left disappointed.

Not all games reach their potential and get a release, unfortunately many games are left abandoned by their developers or are even released in a poor state and are yet still available to purchase on Steam.

Steam is in the business of selling games and sometimes that can mean a drop in quality in order to get more titles onto the Steam Store and available for purchase.

At Allkeyshop, we believe in quality over quantity and because of that we use every bit of data that Steam offers and we use that to provide the most detailed analysis of a game’s ranking.

How Do We Get Our Rankings?

Our rankings will take all available pieces of data into account, in particular we focus on the real ratings, real opinions and recommendations of those that play the game.

As a part of our ranking, we ensure that only those that own the game, have it currently available in their library and are logged into their account can vote for their favourite games. This, along with our other data, ensures we have the most accurate ranking system possible.

We only show the top 15 games so that you are not overwhelmed with hundreds of games and swamped in too much data. We plan on refreshing our top 15 each week, but we may change this plan if we find it has a real demand from you, our users.

Allkeyshop is a price comparator site with the intention of giving players the best price possible for the best games available. We remain fully impartial on prices and sellers, displaying both online sites and platforms such Steam, Origin and Epic, and we remain completely impartial on the rating of those games that we highlight in our rankings.

Our rankings are based on our users with no influence from us and we will remain impartial on the ratings and the rankings of all games.

 

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