- #1 Door Kickers
97% matchVery Positive94% of 9,993 reviews2014
Dev: KillHouse Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Door Kickers is an innovative realtime strategy game that puts you in charge of a SWAT team and lets you command them during a tactical intervention.
Why similar: Tactical 30.5%, Strategy 21.9%, Top-Down 17.4%, Simulation 7.1%, Real Time Tactics 5.4%
- #2 Door Kickers 2: Task Force North
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 13,016 reviews2025
Dev: KillHouse Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 27.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Command military Special Ops Teams in gripping tactical combat against a Middle East-based terrorist network. Sequel to RockPaperShotgun's "Best Tactics Game of 2014".
Why similar: Military 19.4%, Tactical 16.2%, Top-Down 15.6%, Strategy 11.5%, Real Time Tactics 10.3%
- #3 Plan A
96% matchVery Positive89% of 297 reviews2021
Dev: GFX47
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 31%
Carefully plan your team's tactics in close quarters battles. Use the timeline to synchronize each door breach, grenade throw and room entry with precision. Watch your team execute your plan autonomously in epic cinematic replays. Take on challenging roguelike campaigns or standalone missions.
Why similar: Military 17.4%, Strategy 12.1%, Top-Down 11.9%, Tactical 11.3%, Real Time Tactics 9.1%
- #4 Breach & Clear
95% matchVery Positive82% of 2,428 reviews2014
Dev: Mighty Rabbit StudiosPub: Gun Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Breach & Clear brings deep tactical strategy simulation to PC, Mac and Linux! Build your Special Operations team, plan and execute advanced missions, and own every angle.Choose your real-world squad -- US Army Rangers, Germany's KSK, Canada’s JTF2, UK SAS, and more -- and take on a variety of foes with different skill-sets and...
Why similar: Strategy 30%, Tactical 28.8%, Military 15%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.2%, Simulation 7.3%
- #5 Black One Blood Brothers
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,396 reviews2022
Dev: Helios Studio
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Black One Blood Brothers is a tactical military shooter game where strategy and coordination are key. Command a squad of top operators, with unique skills, through high-risk missions around the globe. Customize your crew, plan your missions, and adjust on the fly for a vast replayability.
Why similar: Military 30.3%, Tactical 20.8%, Strategy 15.9%, Simulation 10.7%, Level Editor 7.9%
- #6 Phantom Brigade
94% matchVery Positive81% of 4,280 reviews2023
Dev: Brace Yourself Games
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 17.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Phantom Brigade 2.0 is a cinematic, tactical mech strategy game with a revolutionary timeline-based command system. See the future, predict enemy actions, and plot your counterattack on the timeline! Recruit and level up your squad of rebels to retake war-torn Fyrland from the Kaskad occupation.
Why similar: Military 19.9%, Tactical 14.8%, Strategy 13.8%, Time Manipulation 11.7% ★, Real Time Tactics 8.9%
- #7 GROUND BRANCH
93% matchVery Positive89% of 23,351 reviews2018
Dev: BlackFoot StudiosPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
From one of the developers behind the original Rainbow Six® and Ghost Recon® games, comes a thinking-man's first-person shooter featuring in-depth character and weapon customization. Take your time. Think ahead. Get the job done.
Why similar: Military 37.8%, Tactical 33.6%, Gun Customization 10.4%, Simulation 7.1%, Strategy 4.9%
- #8 Police Stories
92% matchVery Positive85% of 9,574 reviews2019
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 73%
A fresh take on top-down shooters with an emphasis on tactics that forces you to make split second decisions. Neutralize criminals, rescue civilians and defuse bombs in Single Player mode or Co-op. And remember - shooting first is not an option!
Why similar: Strategy 27.4%, Tactical 27.3%, Top-Down Shooter 14.1%, Simulation 13.1%, Action 8.5%
- #9 Due Process
91% matchVery Positive81% of 8,492 reviews2020
Dev: Giant Enemy Crab
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 66%
A PVP tactical FPS about PLANNING & EXECUTION. Sound strategy and good teamwork are essential for victory because new PROCEDURALLY-GENERATED MAPS are delivered every week. You'll face a new tactical challenge every round.
Why similar: Tactical 34.8%, Strategy 28.6%, Simulation 15.8%, Character Customization 10.4%, Procedural Generation 10.4%
- #10 MENACE
88% matchVery Positive91% of 11,482 reviews2026
Dev: Overhype StudiosPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 23.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Lead a strike force against an alien threat in this turn-based tactical RPG from the developers of Battle Brothers. Answer distress calls across different worlds, train and equip infantry, deploy tanks and mechs, and plan and execute missions in detailed turn-based battles.
Why similar: Strategy 26%, Tactical 21.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.4%, Turn-Based Combat 11.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.5%
- #11 Radio Commander: Vietnam '64
90% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,042 reviews2019
Dev: Serious SimPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Use the radio to give commands to the soldiers on the battlefield. Keep track of the situation based on their voice reports only. Lead US platoons to clash with Vietcong in a realistic, innovative approach to the RTS genre. Make hard choices in a narrative driven experience, and face the outcome.
Why similar: Military 27.7%, Top-Down 18.8%, Strategy 18%, Real Time Tactics 15.6%, Simulation 12.1%
- #12 WARNO
89% matchMostly Positive80% of 15,442 reviews2024
Dev: Eugen Systems
Windows
Median: 15.7 hrsMean: 70.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Realistic, immersive, breathtaking. WARNO is the ultimate World War III battle simulator from the masters of strategy, Eugen Systems. A Cold War turns decisively hot as you command hundreds of units on a beautiful and brutal battlefield. Outsmart, outfight, and lead your forces to total victory.
Why similar: Military 31.4%, Strategy 18.4%, Real Time Tactics 15.8%, Tactical 13.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.6%
- #13 Arma Tactics
91% matchMostly Negative32% of 992 reviews2013
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Arma Tactics is a turn-based close-combat strategy game, where you take control of a four-member Special Forces team. There are no given strategies, rails to move on, or paths to follow; it‘s up to you to decide how you will play through both the story-driven missions and generated missions with randomized objectives.
Why similar: Strategy 41.4%, Military 26%, Tactical 22.8%, Indie 6.5%, Action 2.7%
- #14 Special Tactics
89% matchVery Positive83% of 126 reviews2016
Dev: Beast Mode Games
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 43%
ST brings the most intense, tactical-action experience to Steam. Select your custom loadout, plan out strategies and accomplish your objectives. Addictive Survival mode and unrivaled multiplayer including Squads (1 vs 1, 2 vs 2, 2 vs 1)
Why similar: Tactical 17.2%, Real Time Tactics 14%, Strategy 12.7%, Top-Down 11.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.6%
- #15 Master of Command
86% matchVery Positive92% of 3,361 reviews2025
Dev: Armchair Interactive
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 25.4 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Take command in Europe's greatest 18th-century war. Equip & customize regiments, manage supplies, and engage in brutal real-time battles across procedural campaigns. Resources and replacements are scarce, and keeping your best men alive may matter more than any single victory.
Why similar: Military 27%, Strategy 20%, Tactical 18.6%, Real Time Tactics 13.1%, Simulation 7.3%
- #16 Into the Breach
87% matchVery Positive94% of 21,909 reviews2018
Dev: Subset Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 31.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.
Why similar: Strategy 33.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.7%, Tactical 15%, Turn-Based Tactics 13%, Indie 7.1%
- #17 Intravenous
86% matchVery Positive90% of 5,443 reviews2021
Dev: Explosive Squat GamesPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Teeth-clenching stealth, followed by tactical hardcore gunplay for those not looking for a quiet way in. Intravenous redefines challenging stealth-action and will keep you on the edge of your seat!
Why similar: Tactical 36.5%, Top-Down 17.7%, Strategy 10.5%, Difficult 9.9%, Top-Down Shooter 9.9%
- #18 Dagger Directive
84% matchVery Positive84% of 625 reviews2025
Dev: Arcane Alpacas LLCPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Dagger Directive is a tactical FPS that allows you to approach each mission in your own way. Select equipment, decide the time of day, then move methodically to complete your mission. Enjoy the modern mechanics and old school graphics as you fight across a variety of missions and environments.
Why similar: Military 39.3%, Tactical 22.2%, Simulation 16.6%, Gun Customization 12.9%, Action 9%
- #19 Hot Brass
85% matchMostly Positive75% of 696 reviews2021
Dev: Walk with KingsPub: Treasure Hunters FanClub
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 45%
As an elite SWAT operator, think fast and put your tactics to the test to master a series of missions and save lives. Summon your team of up to four players in online and local co-op, or hone your skills solo. Don’t just be the best—be the best of the best.
Why similar: Real Time Tactics 36.5%, Top-Down 18.5%, Strategy 16%, Tactical 12.8%, Simulation 7.4%
- #20 Zero Hour
83% matchMostly Positive78% of 33,114 reviews2024
Dev: AttritoM7 Productions
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Zero Hour is a tactical FPS with online team-based game play that takes place in a variety of fictional locations interpreted in Bangladesh with Real-life scale & resource management. It brings a grounded, close quarter combat experience to the game.
Why similar: Tactical 39.5%, Military 31.4%, Strategy 14.1%, Simulation 6.7%, Action 6.1%
- #21 Recon Control
84% matchVery Positive83% of 139 reviews2021
Dev: Dmitry KozlovPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 39%
Recon Control is a turn-based strategy and 2D platformer hybrid focused on combat. Lead your special operations squad through a set of challenging and deadly missions.
Why similar: Military 25%, Strategy 18.6%, Tactical 16.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.1%
- #22 Welcome Back, Commander
82% matchVery Positive82% of 238 reviews2025
Dev: S.C. 16 BIT NIGHTS S.R.L.
Windows
Commander, your strike team is to dive deep into the contaminated city of Sun Stone and get some answers before the mysterious deadly plague spreads . Good luck Commander!
Why similar: Military 19.7%, Tactical 17.2%, Top-Down 16.9%, Strategy 13.9%, Real Time Tactics 11.8%
- #23 Phantom Squad
81% matchVery Positive82% of 512 reviews2025
Dev: Ctrl FreakPub: Super Rare Originals
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Phantom Squad is a 1-4 player co-op tactical top-down shooter blending fast-paced combat with real-time strategy. Play solo or team up through online co-op and matchmaking, coordinating movement, positioning, and split-second decisions to survive intense, high-risk missions.
Why similar: Tactical 34.8%, Military 26.6%, Real Time Tactics 18.3%, Top-Down Shooter 12.8%, Top-Down 3.9%
- #24 Thunder Tier One
82% matchMixed69% of 5,579 reviews2021
Dev: KRAFTON, Inc.
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Thunder Tier One is a realistic top-down shooter where you join an elite special operations team tasked with stopping a dangerous terrorist organization wreaking havoc across the fictional Eastern European country of Salobia.
Why similar: Military 23.4%, Tactical 18%, Top-Down 17.4%, Top-Down Shooter 9.8%, Real Time Tactics 9.7%
- #25 Intravenous 2
80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 4,458 reviews2024
Dev: Explosive Squat GamesPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Intravenous 2 is the ultimate blend of tactical gameplay and immersive storytelling. Will you embrace the shadows or confront your foes head-on? The choice is yours. Experience a new era of tactical stealth action. Save lives. Uncover secrets. Take vengeance.
Why similar: Tactical 29.1%, Gun Customization 21.2%, Top-Down 18.9%, Top-Down Shooter 11.5%, Simulation 6.4%
- #26 Mud and Blood
81% matchVery Positive87% of 852 reviews2021
Dev: urbgames
Windows
Median: 22.0 hrsMean: 51.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Mud and Blood, the cult classic flash real time strategy game, returns with its signature take on infantry tactics. Command a small squad through brutal battles against unfair odds. This is combat. Experience the chaos and unceremonious violence of modern war, where every decision counts.
Why similar: Military 20.5%, Top-Down 17.4%, Strategy 15.4%, Tactical 15.2%, Real Time Tactics 13.7%
- #27 SWAT Commander
78% matchMostly Positive80% of 672 reviews2025
Dev: Red Mountain GamesPub: Ritual Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Take charge of a SWAT unit as an elite operator. Command a specialized AI squad or team up in co-op to seize suspects, rescue civilians, and restore order. Study the briefing, kit out your team, and execute your plan with disciplined precision.
Why similar: Military 31.9%, Tactical 24.8%, Gun Customization 14.2%, Real Time Tactics 10.1%, Simulation 7.5%
- #28 Fights in Tight Spaces
79% matchVery Positive90% of 3,852 reviews2021
Dev: Ground ShatterPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 69%
A stylish blend of deck-building, turn-based tactics, and thrilling animated fight sequences in classic action-movie settings. Learn to balance your hand, momentum, and positioning to overcome the odds to defeat your adversaries. Build your deck, control the space and live to fight another day.
Why similar: Strategy 37.9%, Tactical 15%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.9%, Turn-Based Combat 11.4%, Action 8.6%
- #29 DRONE PERSPECTIVE
77% matchVery Positive92% of 95 reviews2025
Dev: Demetri LindPub: VEIL Production
Windows
Real-time dynamic tactics with the strong focus on squad positioning and collaboration. Connect to the warzone from your home PC and orchestrate modern military operations from the Drone Perspective.
Why similar: Military 26.1%, Strategy 23.3%, Tactical 20.1%, Real Time Tactics 16.4%, Simulation 6%
- #30 Cyber Knights: Flashpoint
76% matchVery Positive94% of 2,846 reviews2025
Dev: Trese Brothers
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 20.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Cyberpunk mercenaries RPG! Turn-based squad tactics with unique heist-planning strategy. Build your crew wisely; their stories will become interwoven with your own. Pull off heists with powerful cyberware, faction connections, multiclassing, weapon modding, stealth, hacking, and more!
Why similar: Military 27.7%, Tactical 20.8%, Strategy 18%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.1%
- #31 Tactical Combat Department
79% matchMixed63% of 115 reviews2022
Dev: LukasHPub: Render System
Windows
Tactical Combat Department is a tactical turn-based strategy game inspired by Swat games. You command a special intervention squad that intervenes in various situations and environments.
Why similar: Military 29%, Tactical 18.1%, Strategy 14.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.1%
- #32 Call to Arms
78% matchMostly Positive79% of 23,955 reviews2018
Dev: Digitalmindsoft
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Call to Arms offers an innovative mix of real-time strategy and 3rd, as well as 1st person controls. Set in the time of modern warfare, the game offers realistically modeled vehicles and heavy weaponry. Command your troops to victory or fight by yourself in the 3rd or 1st person action mode.
Why similar: Strategy 35.8%, Military 34.4%, Tactical 15.3%, Simulation 6.7%, Action 5.3%
- #33 Tactical Breach Wizards
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 11,707 reviews2024
Dev: Suspicious Developments
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
In Tactical Breach Wizards, you lead a team of renegade wizards in kevlar through turn-based battles to unravel a modern conspiracy plot. Combine their unique spells in clever ways, or rewind time to try every crazy plan you can think of to punch a Traffic Warlock through a 4th story window.
Why similar: Military 27.9%, Tactical 25.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.6%, Strategy 12.5%
- #34 End State
77% matchMixed63% of 137 reviews2022
Dev: Finger Squad
Windows
End State is a turn-based tactics game where you manage a mercenary company tracking down a terrorists in a war-torn country. Hire, gear up and gain experience for your mercenaries. Take on rebels and criminal gangs, do side contracts and explore Brekovia.
Why similar: Strategy 21%, Military 19.7%, Tactical 15.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.5%, Turn-Based Combat 6.7%
- #35 Classified: France '44
74% matchMostly Positive72% of 964 reviews2024
Dev: Absolutely GamesPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 21.8 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Command an elite team of allied special operators in Nazi-occupied France wreaking havoc in the run up to D-Day in this ambitious turn-based tactics game. Take on the might of Germany's war machine and launch daring raids in occupied territory. Can you do enough to ensure Allied victory?
Why similar: Military 25.3%, Tactical 20.5%, Strategy 17.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.9%, Turn-Based Combat 10.4%
- #36 Operation Osama Bin Laden
75% matchVery Positive86% of 51 reviews2021
Dev: Shrimasis Rout
Windows
Upon discovering the location of the Al-Qaeda leader in exile, the US Army sends their best commandos to northern Pakistan. Take control of these commandos, send them behind enemy territories on a hazardous mission, and bring them back alive.
Why similar: Military 24.8%, Strategy 17.9%, Top-Down 16.6%, Tactical 14.9%, Real Time Tactics 13.9%
- #37 Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront
73% matchVery Positive85% of 32,016 reviews2021
Dev: Barbedwire StudiosPub: Digitalmindsoft
Windows
Median: 14.5 hrsMean: 73.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Call to Arms - Gates of Hell is a realistic RTS/ RTT game that offers endless replay value. Command all types of troops in historical singleplayer, dynamic campaign, PvP and PvE battles. Are you ready for some serious immersion in World War 2?
Why similar: Military 26.6%, Strategy 22.4%, Real Time Tactics 17.5%, Moddable 11.4% ★, Level Editor 10.3%
- #38 Templar Battleforce
75% matchVery Positive93% of 976 reviews2015
Dev: Trese Brothers
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%
An addictive mix of strategic combat and army building, with the precision of an RPG. Design your squad members' exact build of equipment and talents to create unique fireteam combinations. Step into the pilot suit of a Leviathan mech, lead the Templar Knights in turn-based tactical warfare.
Why similar: Strategy 21.4%, Tactical 20.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.6%, Turn-Based Combat 9.1%
- #39 SPARTA 2035 Prologue & Sea of Pirates DLC
72% matchVery Positive82% of 85 reviews2025
Dev: Lipsar Studio
Windows
Turn-based tactics & strategy about an elite mercenary squad with an old-school action-movie vibe. Command Sparta: recruit distinctive fighters, upgrade your base, run missions, and decide Africa’s future—no point-blank misses, with real ballistics.
Why similar: Strategy 28.6%, Tactical 19.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.3%, Top-Down 9.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.5%
- #40 Zero Orders Tactics
71% matchVery Positive92% of 110 reviews2024
Dev: Pauloondra
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 71%
🌋⚔ Terraforming + Into The Breach! An experimental puzzle strategy where you are not commanding your troops - now, you are shaping the battlefield itself! Nothing is random*, everything is predictable*, and the battlefield is changing. Every turn. By you.
Why similar: Strategy 30.5%, Tactical 22%, Turn-Based Strategy 14%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.7%, Turn-Based Combat 8.8%
- #41 Godless Tactics
73% matchVery Positive95% of 110 reviews2020
Dev: Ice Arrow Games
Windows
Lead an elite strike team through the wars of a reborn civilisation, and decide the fate of humanity through your achievements and choices. Traverse a dynamic war-map, engage in fast, turn-based battles, and explore the world of 2952.
Why similar: Strategy 69.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.6%, Singleplayer 2.9%
- #42 Survivor Squad: Gauntlets
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 163 reviews2015
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Command your Squad of Survivors in a game where Line of Sight is extremely important, you cannot shoot what you cannot see. Develop your formations, move as a unit and cover every corner. Leave no man behind!
Why similar: Strategy 38.1%, Top-Down 26.5%, Real Time Tactics 13.4%, Indie 10.4%, Action 10%
- #43 Invisible, Inc.
70% matchVery Positive91% of 5,734 reviews2015
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Take control of Invisible's agents in the field and infiltrate the world's most dangerous corporations. Stealth, precision, and teamwork are essential in high-stakes, high-profit missions, where every move may cost an agent their life.
Why similar: Strategy 26%, Tactical 22.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.1%, Difficult 8.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.3%
- #44 EXFIL
71% matchMixed49% of 851 reviews2024
Dev: Tiny Leviathan
Windows
EXFIL delivers raw tactical FPS intensity with no distractions. No loot grinding, no gimmicks, just pure realism. EXFIL tests your strategy, comms, and teamwork in high-stakes tactical engagements. Will your squad rise to the challenge?
Why similar: Military 28.8%, Tactical 20.3%, Gun Customization 18%, Strategy 17.3%, Simulation 8.8%
- #45 OPERATOR
68% matchVery Positive85% of 6,018 reviews2023
Dev: VECTOR INTERACTIVE PTY LTD
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%
In OPERATOR, you will play as an elite Tier 1 operator undergoing dangerous clandestine operations all over the globe. With a strategic, measured, and unforgiving style of gameplay. You are the tactical advantage, Good luck.
Why similar: Tactical 27%, Gun Customization 23.5%, Strategy 20.7%, Simulation 12.4%, Character Customization 7.7%
- #46 Insurgency: Sandstorm
69% matchVery Positive85% of 131,980 reviews2018
Dev: New World InteractivePub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 56.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Insurgency: Sandstorm is a hardcore tactical FPS built on lethal close-quarters combat and ruthless intensity. Every bullet count, every step matters, and teamwork is your only path to survival in the brutality of modern warfare.
Why similar: Military 52.2%, Tactical 32.5%, Action 6.8%, Simulation 4.4%, Difficult 2.9%
- #47 Ready or Not
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 329,531 reviews2023
Dev: VOID Interactive
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 34.2 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Ready or Not is an intense, tactical, first-person shooter that depicts a modern-day world in which SWAT police units are called to defuse hostile and confronting situations.
Why similar: Tactical 65.5%, Gun Customization 23.7%, Action 7%, Singleplayer 3.8%
- #48 Invasion Machine
71% matchMixed66% of 624 reviews2020
Dev: Pixel Machine
Windows
Modern-warfare RTS/sandbox game inspired by the real conflicts in the Middle East. Fight a counter-insurgency war, protect the civilian population, casevac your wounded and decide how the world sees your struggle. And remember - no one gets left behind.
Why similar: Military 32.2%, Strategy 26.6%, Tactical 12%, Simulation 11.3%, Real Time Tactics 10.3%
- #49 Infested Planet
70% matchVery Positive94% of 3,025 reviews2014
Dev: Rocket Bear Games
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Command a team of 5 elite soldiers against an alien horde of 100,000. Surrounded on all sides, you must outmaneuver and outsmart the enemy.
Why similar: Strategy 43.2%, Top-Down 27.4%, Tactical 12.7%, Action 7.4%, Indie 6.8%
- #50 Diplomacy is Not an Option
67% matchVery Positive85% of 11,951 reviews2024
Dev: Door 407
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Diplomacy is Not an Option is a strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Build your town and defenses, raise huge armies and fight against massive hordes of enemies. How long can you survive?
Why similar: Military 29.9%, Tactical 21.2%, Strategy 19.7%, Level Editor 12.8%, Simulation 10.3%
- #51 ZERO Sievert
66% matchVery Positive85% of 14,857 reviews2024
Dev: CABO StudioPub: Modern Wolf
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Now with over 600,000 copies sold, ZERO Sievert is a tense top-down extraction shooter that challenges you to scavenge a procedurally-generated wasteland, loot gear, and explore what’s left of a devastated world. When the odds are stacked against you, you’ll need to do more than just survive...
Why similar: Top-Down 39.2%, Strategy 26.4%, Simulation 14.3%, Action 8.5%, Indie 8.4%
- #52 Quarantine
72% matchMixed60% of 437 reviews2017
Dev: SproingPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Quarantine is an intense turn-based strategy game about waging war on pandemic disease. Recruit a team of specialized operatives to deploy on worldwide missions. Research the contagion, upgrade your tech, and quarantine the outbreak before it kills us all.
Why similar: Strategy 39%, Tactical 20.1%, Simulation 14.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 10%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.7%
- #53 Insurgency
68% matchVery Positive92% of 124,773 reviews2014
Dev: New World Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 35.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Take to the streets for intense close quarters combat, where a team's survival depends upon securing crucial strongholds and destroying enemy supply in this multiplayer and cooperative Source Engine based experience.
Why similar: Tactical 35.4%, Military 35.4%, Strategy 13.5%, Action 7.2%, Simulation 4.9%
- #54 Break the Loop
66% matchVery Positive85% of 88 reviews2024
Dev: Mastodonte
Windows
Break the Loop is a turn-based Rogue-like RPG. Compose your team and create a timeline by selecting the events you'll go through. Each decision will bring you one step closer to the ultimate threat, but will you have accumulated enough power to stop the apocalypse?
Why similar: Strategy 38.9%, Turn-Based Combat 15.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.7%, Difficult 10.6%, Indie 10.1%
- #55 Aliens: Dark Descent
65% matchVery Positive88% of 18,082 reviews2023
Dev: Tindalos InteractivePub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Drop into the gripping journey of Aliens: Dark Descent, a squad-based, single-player action game in the iconic Alien franchise. Lead your soldiers in real-time to stop a new and terrifying kind of Xenomorph outbreak on Planet Lethe.
Why similar: Strategy 29.9%, Tactical 26.6%, Real Time Tactics 16.1%, Top-Down 14.9%, Action 6.5%
- #56 Xenopurge
64% matchVery Positive87% of 404 reviews2025
Dev: TrapticsPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Xenopurge is a tactical auto-battler where you are a Commander tasked with purging the Xenos threat. Operate from a remote command center, issuing indirect orders via multi-screen interfaces. Plan routes, set priorities, and adapt as missions escalate and feel the true weight of being in command.
Why similar: Strategy 29.9%, Real Time Tactics 24.9%, Tactical 22.3%, Simulation 12.7%, Procedural Generation 7.7%
- #57 Steel Division 2
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 9,492 reviews2019
Dev: Eugen Systems
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 52.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Steel Division 2 is a historically-accurate WW2 real-time strategy game set on the Eastern Front. Features 1:1-scale turn-based army management and real-time tactical battles with thousands of men at your order.
Why similar: Military 29.6%, Strategy 27.8%, Tactical 16%, Simulation 8.1%, Moddable 7.2% ★
- #58 Leave No One Behind: Ia Drang
69% matchMixed42% of 305 reviews2022
Dev: Gaming 301
Windows
Leave No One Behind is tactical real time strategy war game. Experience some of the hardest battles fought during the Vietnam War in 1965 between US Army and the Army of the Northern Vietnam for landing zones X-Ray and Albany and for Plei Me special forces camp.
Why similar: Strategy 28.6%, Top-Down 21%, Real Time Tactics 18.3%, Military 16.2%, Tactical 13.2%