Upcoming strategy games in winter 2026/27

Who’s on Air? Legend has it that a mysterious broadcast known as the "Midnight Channel" appears only on rainy nights. The day after it airs, a corpse is found in Inaba, a quiet and peaceful town in rural Japan suddenly thrown into turmoil. To uncover the truth behind these chilling mysteries, you and your friends form an investigation team to unravel the secrets of the Midnight Channel and the bizarre murders. As your adventure unfolds, you face off against "Shadows," eerie manifestations of individuals' darker selves. Together, you awaken a hidden power called "Persona"… Show more

Return to the RTS series’ roots with deeply satisfying strategy gameplay. Take command of four unique Warhammer 40,000 factions, including the Adeptus Mechanicus in their series debut! Fight through 70+ epic campaign missions, as well as the replayable Last Stand, Skirmish and multiplayer modes.

In this RPG, you befriend monsters from the Dragon Quest series, raise them up, synthesize new creatures, and pit them against other monsters in battle. Join fledgling monster wranglers Bianca and Nera as they set off on the adventure of a lifetime.

Get rich or die trying! In Tropico 7, you step into El Presidente’s shiny boots again to build your island nation and – literally – move mountains. As glorious leader you guide your loyal citizens (and your Swiss Bank Account) through the ages toward untold prosperity.

Experience a full remake of Romancing SaGa 3, featuring fully realized 3D graphics, refined gameplay systems, new musical arrangements, voice acting, and more. Choose from eight different protagonists and embark on a turn-based RPG adventure as you uncover the fate of the Child of Destiny.

Duel Alongside Your Partner and Forge Your Own Future!

Experience the events of the Great Calamity with higher resolution visuals and smoother performance on Nintendo Switch 2!

Beautiful Light is a PvPvP(vE) tactical first-person extraction shooter where 6 squads of 3 operators are tasked with entering, securing, and extracting an artifact in a hostile, horrific environment. Face other operators and player-controlled anomalies, but beware: mistakes can risk your life and gear.

Wood needed! Return to the green roots of Stronghold in this narrative prequel to the original 'castle sim'. Immerse yourself in a cinematic campaign, hone your siegecraft with new mechanics in skirmish mode and customise your castles with a wide selection of castle pieces and cosmetics.

The “Moon Holy Grail War” begins anew… The setting is a Spiritron virtual world called “SE.RA.PH.” built on the moon. Masters and Servants team up and fight for survival in pursuit of the “Holy Grail,” an omnipotent wish-granting device, in the Moon Holy Grail War which begins once again… This is a remake of Fate/EXTRA, the first Fate series RPG originally released on July 22, 2010, now revamped for modern hardware with an expanded scenario, refreshed character graphics, and dramatic command battles utilizing a highly strategic deck-building system.

Manage a game studio making the world’s greatest MMORPG. Hire designers, coders, and testers, create a fantasy world, then welcome hundreds of virtual players. If they get bored they will cancel their subscription and your investors will have your head. You can even play the game you create.

A board game where you play as a Duke sent to build and protect a village at the edge of the realm. Every choice you make will shape its future. But be aware: the board itself may not be all it seems... Will your village thrive or crumble beneath truths yet unknown? Are you really just... a Duke?

We’ve just learned the Moon is a giant alien doomsday factory, which is kind of a bummer. You've been chosen to operate a spaceship into the core and destroy it for us. Think fast, adapt under pressure, and deploy powerful combinations as you fight your way through in this real-time card battler.

FLASK is a roguelike autobattler about alchemical greed on the new frontier. Build unstoppable homunculi, barter with mutated merchants, and slay hordes of monsters to harvest their valuable blood. It's time to get bloody... Bloody rich!

Provoke explosive chain reactions and experiment ever-evolving combat strategies in this mech-building roguelike auto battler. Mix and match components and mech modules to discover powerful synergies, then watch each creation spring to life in satisfying combat sequences.

Build your deck, expand your kingdom, and defend your Haven! Recruit citizens, construct landmarks, and build powerful combos in this roguelike deckbuilder where each card is a citizen and each season brings new rewards, new threats, and new choices.

Tiny RTS is a 2D Pixel Real time Strategy game revolving around multiple factions that all have different Playstyles

Run a barely-stable nuclear reactor with your friends in this online co-op physics chaos game. Fix broken systems, manage radiation, survive power outages, and prevent a total meltdown before everything goes horribly wrong.

Patricide is an adventure RPG about girls who killed their father. It features a story of love and hate, hybrid action and turn-based combat, and cute anime-style heroines. Master the "emotion system" to weaken enemies through empathy, and survive a ruthless, suffocating modern society.

A minimalist factory game that doesn't quite work the way you expect. Choose modules carefully, place them on your machines, and watch them drastically change how each machine produces. Build your own factory with its own rules. Optimizing it can become an obsession!

A co-op autobattler roguelike where rival guilds journey toward the King’s castle, stopping at taverns to outbid each other for mercenaries and shape their builds with powerful scrolls. Survive the road and conquer the King’s Tournament.

Lead a nation through a roguelike strategy campaign where borders grow continuously. Choose your path, unlock technology and push the front.

Build and defend a settlement with an increasing number of gnomes. Gnomes chop wood, build things, and fight. Some become giants. Some become nanognomes. There are 52 buildings and 900 tech tree perks. The gnomes have options.

High Typer is an intense typing roguelike where every keystroke, word, and mistake feeds a physics-based scoring system. Build your run, improve your flow, and chase better results through sharper, faster typing.