Best Strategy Games in 2025

Age of Empires is the critically acclaimed, award winning Real Time Strategy (RTS) game with a legacy spanning over 20 years and nearly a dozen titles in the franchise.

Stronghold Crusader is a RTS game from the series from Stronghold.

ANNO is a city-building and economic simulation video game series, with real-time strategy elements.

Sid Meier’s Civilization VI is a Turn-based Strategy, War, Tactical, Single and Multiplayer video game created by Firaxis and published by 2K.

0 A. D. is a free, open-source, historical Real Time Strategy (RTS) game currently under development by Wildfire Games, a global group of volunteer game developers. Download 0 A. D.

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Tropico is an Addictive, Strategy, Construction and Management, City Building, Sandbox and Single-player Simulation developed by PopTop Software.

As always, Email support (at) shiningrocksoftware (dot) com if you have any issues. This will likely be the last update of Banished, except for any major bug fixes. The OSX and Linux versions development has stopped, and won't be released.

Build, craft, and control! SimCity BuildIt is an all-new SimCity game designed just for mobile.

RimWorld - A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller.

Freeciv is an open-source, turn-based strategy game based on Civilization II.

Open Source

Join "The Project" to restore humanity's synaptic-link technology after nuclear war...

Open Source

Build your empire and journey through the ages: With Forge of Empires, we bring our award-winning...

The Settlers is a free web browser based strategy game along with a gameplay that drops anywhere between Age of Empires and the online strategy style.