Top 10 Games: Strategy
The highest-graded strategy games we have reviewed, best first.
Baldur's Gate 3A tabletop campaign simulated so completely that breaking the plot becomes a feature rather than a bug.Read the review
Final Fantasy TacticsA political tragedy about class and church corruption, running on the deepest job system Square ever shipped.
Fire Emblem: Fortune's WeaveFour campaigns, one autosaved file, and the best Fire Emblem since Three Houses by a comfortable distance.
Suikoden IIOne hundred and eight recruitable characters and a war story about a friendship that cannot survive it.
StarCraftThree utterly different armies, one perfect balance, and the birth of esports.
Crusader Kings IIIA strategy game that is really a machine for generating family disasters, and the best one Paradox has built.
Age of Empires II: The Age of KingsHistory's greatest hits, playable: the RTS that never really left.
FactorioThe most addictive engineering problem ever shipped, running on the cleanest simulation code in commercial games.
Sid Meier's Civilization VIFiraxis pulls the city apart across the map and turns six thousand years of turns into an argument about zoning.
MewgenicsFourteen years in development hell produced the strangest good tactics game in a long time, and it sold a million in a week.
