The best strategy games for the PC

Total War Warhammer II

 The Creative Assembly
 2017 year

We continue with more Warhammer, but in a totally different genre. From the strategy of management and combat in real time with bases and heroes, we move on to the strategy that focuses on diplomacy and pure and hard combat on a large scale, with hundreds of units on screen.

The Total War saga is well known on PC, and one of the mythical ones within the strategy, and this game with Warhammer units, based on the Warhammer Fantasy Battle board game, is one of the best we can find in compatible games.

At first it can be overwhelming, since we have before us a title that is based on battalion control and in which the strategy goes through where to locate the units and how to move them across the pitch, seeking to corner the enemy.

Each race has its own units, all are different between them and it is necessary to adapt to the complex battle system, but once we have it under control, we feel like a true general.

Within the entire catalog of available video games, the strategy titles still seem to be exclusive to PCs because they are controlled with a keyboard and mouse. This is because the accuracy of the keyboard and mouse combination as well as the shortcuts to the buttons in the controls cannot be compared, although attempts have been made to adapt the control to the control; it is a genre that has helped define the PC as a gaming platform, and there are some hugely important strategy titles in electronic sports. In short, it’s a veteran and a very important genre, and then we’ll see the best strategy games on PC.

Before we review our selection, however, let’s first clarify what a strategy game is. And depending on who we ask, DOTA 2 or the League of Legends can be considered strategy games if they are really action-oriented, both through the approach of a single controllable character and through the skills of each one.

Let’s take a look at the 20 best strategy games on PC, including RTS, management strategy, combat, heroes or big strategy. Let’s start with a game that is not only very current, but also a true classic.

Starcraft II

blizzard
2010 year

StarCraft is one of the mythical sagas of PC strategy. In fact, if we ask about a mythical company in strategy, Blizzard would be one of them, since they have two exponents who helped define gender (and create others like MOBA) and also have a large presence in the Do sports electronically

StarCraft II was launched in 2010 and is the sequel to StarCraft, a strategy game based on three races, all of which are very differentiated but perfectly balanced and face each other on the battlefield.

The player has to collect resources, expand the base and fight, so we’re faced with a very classic approach to real-time strategy.

Visually, it’s spectacular, although it adapts wonderfully to all types of teams, and in addition to a very complete multiplayer mode, it offers a story mode (one for each race) that is very careful at a narrative level.

StarCraft II is without a doubt one of the best strategy games on the PC.

Civilization VI

Firaxis
2016 year

We’re going back to a game that’s up-to-date since a new expansion has just started for him, but it’s a completely different game than Blizzard. And we move from real-time strategy to turn-based strategy.

Within the PC, Civilization is another of these mythical sagas, since Sid Meier’s Gut is the architect (well, this saga and so many others). It is a saga that invites us to create cities and expand our empire, both on the map and in time.

It’s one of those games that takes a good number of hours because the progress is slow (despite the high speed that we can choose), but it’s also the most rewarding.

It’s complicated because we have to keep a lot of things in mind, such as negotiating with other cities, but we also know how to reward if we get right.

In addition, there is something very funny, namely the deities or guides, different characters who can configure our line of action … or not. Can you imagine Gandhi developing Bomb H? Well, in Civilization VI, a civilization with Gandhi can get them in trouble.

It’s one of the best strategy games for the PC, and if you’ve ever heard of another spin and exit, Civilization is to blame.

Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War III

Relic entertainment
2017 year

Warhammer’s Dawn of War saga is very dear to PC gamers. And it’s a saga that filled that void in the years when StarCraft had no games or right between expansions. And he didn’t do anything wrong, you have to add

The third installment of the saga, launched in 2017, is the culmination of the franchise. Everything indicates that there will be no Dawn of War IV, since the game did not meet sales expectations, and that is a fatal mistake in a large company like SEGA.

However, real-time strategy lovers will find a great game in all three installments of the saga. There is base building, resource management, heroes, very different units from each other and a lot of spectacular action.

The story, as in StarCraft, is very, very important, so it is worth starting from the first. Without a doubt, it is one of the best real-time strategy games, and there is no need to have knowledge of Warhammer to enjoy.