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Popular, well-rated games with a strong strategy score.
Explore play styles & combinations ↓+5 Strategy affinity
Review scores are shown out of 100
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+4.0
Nuclear Option
Tactical planning, weapon selection, and battlefield management require strategic thinking.
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+4.0
Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition
Ship management, combat tactics, and team coordination require strategic thinking.
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+4.0
Spaceflight Simulator
Requires planning, problem solving, and logical thinking to design effective rockets and missions.
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+4.0
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC
Combat requires tactical planning, positioning, and resource management; players devise strategies for battles.
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+4.0
Two Point Hospital
Requires strategic planning, resource management, and problem solving to succeed.
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+4.0
RollerCoaster Tycoon®: Deluxe
Requires strategic planning in coaster design, pricing, staff management, and park layout to succeed.
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+4.0
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
Requires strategic build planning, ability synergy, and tactical combat decisions.
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+4.0
World of Goo
Requires strategic planning and problem solving to build stable structures and meet level goals.
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+4.0
Splatoon 2
Requires tactical thinking in map control, weapon choice, and team coordination.
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+4.0
DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT
Requires planning routes, managing resources, and tactical decision-making in traversal and combat.
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+4.0
DEVOUR
Requires planning, coordination, and tactical decision-making to survive and complete objectives.
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+4.0
MudRunner
Players plan routes, vehicle loadouts, and fuel management to overcome terrain challenges.
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+4.0
Ninja Kiwi Archive
Tower defense and tactical games require planning and problem solving.
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+4.0
Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter
Combat requires tactical thinking, prioritization, and planning under pressure.
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+4.0
theHunter: Call of the Wild™
Requires planning, tracking, and tactical decision-making to succeed in hunts.
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+4.0
Ace Attorney Investigations Collection
Players use logic, reasoning, and planning to solve puzzles and uncover contradictions.
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+4.0
Day of the Tentacle Remastered
Players must use logic and planning to solve complex puzzles involving multiple timelines and item exchanges.
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+4.0
Don't Escape: 4 Days to Survive
Requires planning, resource allocation, and problem solving to survive each day.
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+4.0
Griftlands
Requires planning and tactical decision-making in deckbuilding, combat, and negotiation
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+4.0
Horsey Game
Players engage in complex problem solving with genetics, breeding, and race tactics.
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+4.0
inbento
Requires logical thinking, planning, and problem solving to use puzzle mechanics effectively.
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+4.0
Species: Unknown
Players use planning, problem solving, and tactical thinking to complete varied objectives and counter monsters.
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+4.0
The Pedestrian
Requires logical reasoning, planning, and problem-solving to connect panels and solve puzzles.
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+4.0
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
Players plan character builds, dialogue approaches, and combat tactics; multiple solutions to quests require strategic…
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