Talk about a murderous bastard of a grand strategy game. ( Editor: could be immediately wrong) The best strategy games We have a strategy editor on our team now, so we can’t be wrong. But which are the absolute top strategy games on PC? Well, just drag a selection box over our bodies and right-click on the horizon, and we’ll find out. Turn-based or real-time, grand strategy or tactical… this genre is as diverse as they come.
Join us as we explore a curated collection of the genre’s greatest hits, from newcomers to classics.įun fact: the strategy genre was first invented back in 1938, when Winston Churchill looked out an aeroplane window over France and thought, “Hey, this would make a really cool videogame, whatever that is.” Probably. Since then, there have been about a hundred million different strategy games, simulating as many different kinds of fighting as we humans have had reasons to fight one another. What are the best strategy games on PC? Some would say Command and Conquer, others Civilization VI, while yet more still would say “actually, Civ IV was the better ga-” but at that point we’d stop listening because nobody cares.