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Bretonnian knights charge into battle
The best strategy games on PC

By Fraser Brown Last updated

Updated! From real-time classics to modern turn-based favorites, these are the best strategy games on PC.

Updated!
Left: Blade, a vampire bathed in red light. Center: A chained-up king with an iron crown. Right: Revan, a force sensitive wielding a lightsaber.
Summer Game Fest no-shows: The big games that were absent from 2026's showcases

By Harvey Randall, Jody Macgregor, Ted Litchfield, Rory Norris Published

NO SHOWS Who's out for Summer? Who's out forever?

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XCOM is getting a miniatures game from the company that brought Fallout to tabletop

By Justin Wagner Published

News Plastic tactics.

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Only diehard XCOM fans will have a chance at beating our latest quiz

By Robin Valentine Published

CUT CONTENT Dissecting XCOM 2's alien autopsies.

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One of the Chosen in XCOM 2: War of the Chosen.
XCOM 2 is $2.40, and its excellent DLC War of the Chosen ain't far off—making the all-time tactical strategy great cheaper than takeout

By Harvey Randall Published

News Other entries in the series are also cheap as chips, too.

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A Muton alien soldier in XCOM 2.
For a limited time you can get all the XCOM games for just $10—yes, even that one

By Robin Valentine Published

NEWS That's $269 and 100s of hours' worth of the best turn-based tactics around.

NEWS
XCOM 2 with Warhammer 40,000 customization and weapons modded in
When 2K removed its annoying launcher it broke a bunch of XCOM 2 mods

By Jody Macgregor Published

News I've managed to find a fix, though.

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XCOM 2: Shen's Last Gift DLC
The mother of all XCOM 2 mods just got its first update in a year, with 9445 words of patch notes proving it worthy of the Long War name

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Long War of the Chosen 1.2 is now live on Steam with "a ton of new content and tweaks."

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One of the Chosen in XCOM 2: War of the Chosen.
XCOM 2 is just $3 on Steam for a day—cheaper than the bus I took into work this morning, or 1/5th of a World of Warcraft subscription

By Harvey Randall Published

News So cheap it feels like an alien PSYOP.

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One of the Chosen in XCOM 2: War of the Chosen.
I love that Jake Solomon is following his life sim passions, but just give me a minute to mourn XCOM

By Robin Valentine Published

EX-COM The turn-based strategy genre is more alive than ever, but I've lost hope we'll ever get another great sequel to the series that shaped it.

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