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Best Strategy Video Games of All Time

The Best Video Games of All Time list contains Strategy games with the highest composite score released in the last dozen or so years. Please take note that the scores of old and new games cannot always be compared. Unfortunately not every classic title still can be bought.

Current TOP 10 Best Video Games of All Time: Flashout 3D, Apex Legends, The Witcher 3: Hearts of Stone, IL-2 Sturmovik: Flying Circus - Volume I, Yakuza 2, Ico, Yakuza: Kenzan!, Yakuza 5, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Flashout 2.

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Genre: Strategy
Composite Score Editors Score Users Score
1
9.5
Total War: Rome II
Strategy
2
9.5
Europa Universalis IV
Strategy
3
9.5
RimWorld
Strategy
4
9.5
Black & White
Strategy
5
9.5
Sid Meier's Civilization IV
Strategy
6
9.0
Empire: Total War
Strategy
7
9.0
Company of Heroes 2
Strategy
8
9.0
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars
Strategy
9
9.0
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
Strategy
10
9.0
Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne
Strategy
11
9.0
Company of Heroes
Strategy
12
9.0
Sid Meier's Civilization VI
Strategy
13
9.0
Desperados III
Strategy
14
9.0
StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm
Strategy
15
9.0
Homeworld Remastered Collection
Strategy
16
9.0
Napoleon: Total War
Strategy
17
9.0
Sid Meier's Civilization V
Strategy
18
9.0
Rome: Total War
Strategy
19
9.0
Total War: Shogun 2
Strategy
20
9.0
Anno 2070
Strategy
21
9.0
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Strategy
22
9.0
Europa Universalis II
Strategy
23
9.0
This War of Mine
Strategy
24
9.0
Medieval: Total War
Strategy
25
9.0
Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs
Strategy
26
9.0
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword
Strategy
27
9.0
Endless Space
Strategy
28
9.0
Sid Meier's Civilization V: Brave New World
Strategy
29
9.0
XCOM: Enemy Within
Strategy
30
9.0
Nexus: The Jupiter Incident
Strategy
31
9.0
Ghost Master
Strategy
32
9.0
Wargame: AirLand Battle
Strategy
33
9.0
Pikmin 3 Deluxe
Strategy
34
9.0
Into the Breach
Strategy
35
9.0
The Witcher Adventure Game
Strategy
36
9.0
Port Royale
Strategy
37
9.0
Space Rangers 2: Dominators
Strategy
38
8.5
Total War: Warhammer III
Strategy
39
8.5
Command & Conquer: Generals - Zero Hour
Strategy
40
8.5
Jagged Alliance 3
Strategy
41
8.5
Hearts of Iron IV
Strategy
42
8.5
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3
Strategy
43
8.5
Might & Magic: Heroes VI
Strategy
44
8.5
Total War: Warhammer
Strategy
45
8.5
Songs of Conquest
Strategy
46
8.5
Crusader Kings III
Strategy
47
8.5
Endless Legend
Strategy
48
8.5
Cities: Skylines
Strategy
49
8.5
Endless Space 2
Strategy
50
8.5
Total War: Three Kingdoms
Strategy
51
8.5
This is the Police
Strategy
52
8.5
Age of Wonders 4
Strategy
53
8.5
XCOM 2
Strategy
54
8.5
Total War: Warhammer II
Strategy
55
8.5
Stronghold: Crusader II
Strategy
56
8.5
Frostpunk
Strategy
57
8.5
Age of Empires III
Strategy
58
8.5
Anno 1404
Strategy
59
8.5
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
Strategy
60
8.5
Northgard
Strategy
61
8.5
Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties
Strategy
62
8.5
Crusader Kings II
Strategy
63
8.5
Imperator: Rome
Strategy
64
8.5
Company of Heroes 3
Strategy
65
8.5
Wargame: European Escalation
Strategy
66
8.5
Commandos 2: Men of Courage
Strategy
67
8.5
Star Wars: Empire At War
Strategy
68
8.5
Stellaris
Strategy
69
8.5
BattleTech
Strategy
70
8.5
Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
Strategy
71
8.5
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth II
Strategy
72
8.5
Total War: Shogun 2 - Fall of the Samurai
Strategy
73
8.5
Age of Mythology
Strategy
74
8.5
Homeworld 2
Strategy
75
8.5
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos
Strategy
76
8.5
World in Conflict
Strategy
77
8.5
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War
Strategy
78
8.5
Empire Earth
Strategy
79
8.5
Age of Wonders: Planetfall
Strategy
80
8.5
Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth
Strategy
81
8.5
Planet Coaster
Strategy
82
8.5
Soldiers: Heroes of World War II
Strategy
83
8.5
Empire Earth II
Strategy
84
8.5
Commandos 3: Destination Berlin
Strategy
85
8.5
Sins of a Solar Empire
Strategy
86
8.5
Stronghold
Strategy
87
8.5
Act of War: Direct Action
Strategy
88
8.5
SpellForce: The Order of Dawn
Strategy
89
8.5
Tropico (2001)
Strategy
90
8.5
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising
Strategy
91
8.5
Gears Tactics
Strategy
92
8.5
King's Bounty: The Legend
Strategy
93
8.5
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization
Strategy
94
8.5
Silent Storm
Strategy
95
8.5
Earth 2160
Strategy
96
8.5
Patrician III: Rise of the Hanse
Strategy
97
8.5
Ground Control 2: Operation Exodus
Strategy
98
8.5
Medieval: Total War - Viking Invasion
Strategy
99
8.5
Combat Mission 2: Barbarossa to Berlin
Strategy
100
8.5
Homeworld: Cataclysm
Strategy
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