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Best PC strategy games 2. What is the best PC strategy game? The genre was first invented way back in 1. Winston Churchill looked out of an aeroplane window over France and thought hey, this would make a really cool videogame, whatever that is. Since then there have been about a hundred million different strategy games, simulating about as many different kinds of fighting as we humans have had reasons to fight one another.
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From the all- encompassing broad strokes of the Civilization series to the individually rendered blades of the Total War games, and from the unflinchingly realistic depictions of Europa Universalis to the far flung fantasy tech of Star. Craft, the genre is as diverse as they come. But which are the absolute top strategy games on PC?
Which are the best strategy games on Steam. Are any of them free? Well just drag a selection box over our bodies and right- click on the horizon, and we'll all be on our way to finding out. Star. Craft 2. The best strategy game for e- sports fans. Starcraft II is sci- fi strategy game about armoured cowboys versus xenomorphic aliens and space elves.
It’s a classic base- building RTS where you gather resources, build armies, and kill your enemy before they kill you with quick decisions and even quicker mouse clicks. Multiplayer is a huge part of Starcraft II. Your enemies will be human; they will be able to click faster than you, issue orders quicker than you. You will probably lose a lot, but you will get better the more you play, and there is a small but dedicated competitive player- base to compete against at the e.
Sports level. The single player is also interesting - Blizzard have combined frantic action with an RPG like backdrop as you follow the exploits of Terran Mercenary Jim Raynor. You will fight through a series of missions, many of which will have unique objectives – like trying to harvest resources on a map that periodically fills up with lava, defending against waves upon waves of Zerg for a set period of time. In between missions you’ll explore an RPG- like hub, where you can talk to people, research new techs and decide where your next destination will be.
Story is hard to do in RTS, and many resign themselves to cutscenes or in- mission dialogue, but SCII actually makes you interact with the world outside combat, and so it’s more interactive story. Buyer’s Guide: Blizzard is one of the few companies that doesn’t really ‘do’ DLC. Starcraft II has one expansion out at the time of writing – Heart of the Swarm, with a second expansion (Legacy of the Void) due out at some point in the future. The expansions in general add a few new units and tweaks to multiplayer, but mainly advance the single- player story. In the vanilla game, you played as the Terrans. In Hearts of the Swarm you play as the Zerg.
You play Protoss in Legacy of the Void. Warhammer 4. 0,0. Dawn of War. The best Warhammer strategy game (sorry Dawn of War II)Playing Dawn of War now is fascinating. In many ways, it feels like a very traditional RTS, with lots of base building, turtling and resource management. But it’s also a precursor to the likes of Company of Heroes.
We see Relic starting to experiment with morale, cover, squads and drastically different factions. There's an intensity underpinning the whole game. It’s all about pushing forward, then capturing and holding territory. And all the time, resources become more fleeting, as generators and the like decay.
But the war machine constantly needs to be fed. Expansions fleshed the game out, introducing more factions built around unique mechanics. There’s the sneaky eldar, waaargh- hungry orks, the massive Imperial Guard - each faction offered different ways to play the game. By the end, there were nine factions in total. Dawn of War II ended up changing just about everything, making battles smaller and focusing on tactics over strategy. It was still great, but the move away from the traditions of the genre made it lose some of its magic. Buyer's Guide: The base game and all the expansions have been gathered in the Warhammer 4.
Dawn of War Master Collection. Total War: Shogun 2. The best Total War strategy game Total War means exactly that: running an entire empire, while fighting every battle they face on the road to domination. One minute you’re tinkering with taxes and building baths, and the next you’re firing cannons and charging headfirst into the enemy. It takes place in two distinct modes: up- close, real- time tactical battles and more removed, turn- based empire management. The key is the interaction between the two modes: holding the line in a siege, knowing that if a castle falls, so too will your forward line. Ordering a cavalry charge against an enemy army, knowing that it’s led by your opponent’s king and killing him will cause his empire to crumble. Whenever two armies meet, the game switches into a tactical battle.
This is where you get to play as the general, the hero – you command your units, build formations and strategies, and fight your enemy to the last man. The best bit: it’s not completely down to the stats – with the right terrain, the right tactics, a small outnumbered force can withstand almost any odds, and the mightiest army can be felled by a decent ambush. Total War: Shogun II, is the best in the series so far. If the period it covers, 1. Japan, is no to your taste, try Napoleon: Total War - it’s a focused look at the famous general’s campaigns.
There's a ton of updates too. Check our guides to the best Shogun 2 mods, DLC and user- created maps. Total War is deep, tactical and thoughtful: expect a campaign of Total War to last a week or so. Buyer’s Guide: Sega often does Total War deals, and you can grab Shogun 2 and its expansions on Steam. Civilization VThe best strategy game where Montezuma can fight Gandhi.
The Civ games are about human history: you’re guiding a race of people from the Stone Age through to modern times and beyond. This is ‘4. X’ strategy (expand, explore, exploit and exterminate) at its finest - you will start off with nothing, and grow into a global power. Or die trying. The decisions you face are many: political, economical, military, even social. You can be a friendly neighbour or conqueror. A hub of trade and tourism, or an industrial powerhouse.
Freedom of choice is the game’s best asset - where do you go? What do you do? Which path will be your path to victory? There are over 2. Civilzation V is as streamlined as the series will ever get and the perfect place to jump in.
It’s got a strong set of tutorials, tooltips that guide you through every decision. Combat is as good as it’s ever been thanks to a rethink of Civ’s grid system, and Steam Workshop support means there’s a never- ending flow of mods and maps to tinker with. This is the series that invented the term “one more turn” — it is addictive, compelling, and absorbing. Essential playing. Buyer's Guide: Pick up the Complete Edition for all the map packs and expansions, or just buy the two excellent expansions separately Check out Civilization 5 Brave New World review, to see why it is a must buy.
Crusader Kings 2. The best strategy game that lets you murder your spouse.
Crusader Kings II is a murderous bastard of a grand- strategy game. You play a medieval lord, trying to gain more power, influence, and territory in a historically accurate medieval Europe. It offers complex game mechanics in lieu of fancy graphics.
You’re managing economies, armies, and people. It’s this personal element that makes CKII so compelling. You are in charge of a family dynasty, not an abstract nation. You will marry and have kids, you’ll die, and then your heir will take over and the whole thing begins again. In between all this, you can use intrigue or brute force to increase your holdings, but the key is that you develop a real personal connection with your characters, you avatar. You will mourn their death, you’ll cheer their every triumph. Betrayal should be expected.
As a Count or Duke, you can stage coups and rebel against your Lord for more power. As a King, it’s quite easy to lose the Kingdom through invasion or uprising.
But as long as there’s a member of your bloodline still alive, you’ll always have a chance to win it all back. Don’t be put off by its apparent complexity - it may rely a lot on stat- screens and number crunching, but the more you play the more you learn. Buyer’s Guide: Pick a bundle with the most expansion packs, including the latest (Old Gods), which is a must buy. Don’t worry too much about any skin packs you see. And look out for Horse Lords - on its way.
XCOM: Enemy Unknown. The best strategy game for playing dress- up with your dolls. XCOM was a surprise hit, but it deserves all the praise it gets. It’s a turn- based strategy and tactics game that sees you fending off an alien invasion in a dynamic single- player campaign. It’s a remake of the classic X- Com games, and as remakes go, it’s one of the best. You send teams of up to six special forces soldiers into battle against everything from little grey aliens, to robots, to the occasional scuttling insect thing.
It’s a tactically dense set of skirmishes set in fields, towns and aboard alien ships, and it’s all held together by a light strategic layer. It’s presented like an ant farm, and you’ll research new tech, perform autopsies, and beg for funding from a shadowy government agency. In a word, it’s fantastic.
A year after it launched, the Enemy Within expansion added a brand new shifty faction, the EXALT terrorists, and game- changing mechanical and genetic augmentations for XCOM soldiers. It enhanced the base game considerably, but ultimately the narrative remained mostly the same.
Buyer’s Guide: A few bits of DLC are available, but all you really need is the base game and the Enemy Within expansion. Company of Heroes 2: Ardennes Assault. The best dynamic campaign in a strategy game. Company of Heroes 2 was great, but it didn't quite match the magic of its predecessor. Then Ardennes Assault came along.