You might feel we've forgotten something, so write your own enthusiastic recommendations in the comments below. With that in mind, let's jump straight into our list of the 50 best strategy games you can play today.īelow, you'll find our 50 picks for the best strategy games on PC. A handful of the games you'll see here will involve a bit of building, but there's no football management or spaghetti junctions. We have however mainly focused on games about commanding troops of one kind or another, while splitting our picks of the best management games off into its own list.

Below you'll find real-time and turn-based strategy games in there, and everything from small scale robot skirmishes to epic historical warfare.

We've gone pretty broad with our definition of strategy games for this list.

They're all strategy games we think you could play and love right now, so why not have a look and see what we recommend? Our list contains games from as recently as 12 months ago alongside classics from as far back as 28 years ago. Strategy games make up one of the richest and most diverse genres of PC games on the planet, which makes compiling a list of the best strategy games you can play today a pretty tall order.