This wasn’t the best year for strategy games both turn-based and real-time. We had a lot of early access games in Steam with many turning out to be turds and the turn-based genre having a trickle of releases. While the genre is picking up steam again we are far from the days of mega strategy games duking it out on PC or even consoles.

Pikmin 4

Pikmin 4 isn’t revolutionary, but it does what people wanted with the series to do. I’m surprised this Nintendo series has reached the number four at all. The third game came out over a decade ago and everyone expected the series to finally be dead. What we got was another cute addictive and whimsical adventure with new features and surprises.

Runner-Ups

Jagged Alliance 3

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Age of Wonders 4

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Advance Wars 1 + 2 Re-Boot Camp

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Disgaea 7: Vows of the Virtueless