Classification Archive

Strategy

927 titles indexed

Titles indexed

122

Avg Steam rating

84%

Median reviews

24.5k

Avg Metacritic

79

Avg playtime

30h

Avg price

$7.26

Genre leaders

Most-reviewed

  1. #1Bloons TD 6354.0k reviews
  2. #2Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI349.9k reviews
  3. #3Sid Meier's Civilization® V204.3k reviews
  4. #4Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition162.5k reviews
  5. #5Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition139.9k reviews

Highest-rated

  1. #1Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition98% · 139.9k
  2. #2STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack98% · 39.4k
  3. #3Nubby's Number Factory98% · 9.4k
  4. #4Bloons TD 697% · 354.0k
  5. #5Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense97% · 14.8k

Most-played

  1. #1Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition169 h avg
  2. #2Sid Meier's Civilization® V149 h avg
  3. #3Shadowverse CCG140 h avg
  4. #4Master of Orion140 h avg
  5. #5Total War: ATTILA107 h avg

Rating distribution

  • Overwhelmingly 90+25 · 20.5%
  • Very positive 80–8943 · 35.2%
  • Mostly positive 70–7943 · 35.2%
  • Mixed 60–698 · 6.6%
  • Negative <603 · 2.5%

Release cadence

  • 7
    2011
  • 4
    2012
  • 5
    2013
  • 3
    2014
  • 6
    2015
  • 9
    2016
  • 6
    2017
  • 9
    2018
  • 7
    2019
  • 10
    2020
  • 7
    2021
  • 2
    2022
  • 5
    2023
  • 5
    2024
  • 4
    2025

Prolific studios in this genre

Relic Entertainment

5 titles · avg 93%

Team17 Digital Ltd

5 titles · avg 87%

Firaxis Games

5 titles · avg 80%

Ironhide Game Studio

3 titles · avg 96%

CREATIVE ASSEMBLY, Feral Interactive (Mac), Feral Interactive (Linux)

3 titles · avg 93%

Gas Powered Games

3 titles · avg 91%

Paradox Development Studio

3 titles · avg 84%

Firaxis Games, Aspyr (Mac), Aspyr (Linux)

3 titles · avg 81%

Distrust: Polar Survival (2017)
Distrust: Polar Survival (2017)

Adventure

DISTRUST is an isometric survival adventure with procedural generation on an Arctic research station lost in the endless dark of a polar…
The Escapists 2 (2017)
The Escapists 2 (2017)

Indie

Craft, Steal, Brawl and Escape! It’s time to bust out of the toughest prisons in the world as you return to the…
Darkwood (2017)
Darkwood (2017)

Action

Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in…
Castle Story (2017)
Castle Story (2017)

Indie

Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army…
Sudden Strike 4 (2017)
Sudden Strike 4 (2017)

Strategy

Sudden Strike is back! The beloved Real Time Strategy series returns, this time with bigger battlefields, more units, better graphics, new scenarios…
MINDNIGHT (2017)
MINDNIGHT (2017)

Free To Play

Inspired by the party games Werewolf and The Resistance, MINDNIGHT is a cyberpunk online social deduction game of deceit, accusations and unpredictability.…
The Long Dark (2017)
The Long Dark (2017)

Adventure

THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen…