The Best Squad strategy Games

Update, : The Valiant added at rank #46.
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Heavenstrike Rivals (2016)

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Embark on an epic adventure in Heavenstrike Rivals, a strategy role-playing game with collectible card game elements. Battle fierce monsters, take on challenging quests and explore a vast open world filled with secrets and treasures. With a variety of weapons, armor, and skills at your disposal, you'll need to use strategy to defeat powerful bosses. The game combines CCG and strategy elements brilliantly, with lavish presentation and deep, highly compulsive gameplay.

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Pros:
  • Unique mix between board game, card game, and tactical RPG
  • Great character development
  • Impressive plot
  • Decent strategy elements
  • Fast forward option to speed up battles
Cons:
  • Plagued by pay walls
  • Not deep strategy
  • Designed to milk players of money
  • Energy system limits gameplay time
  • Confusing metagame

  • war-torn
  • player-vs-player
  • card
  • tactical
  • rpg
  • mobile
  • squad
  • strategy
  • easy-to-learn
  • battle
  • free-to-play
  • tacticians
  • fighter
  • turn-based
  • well-polished

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Chroma Squad (2015)

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In Chroma Squad, you become the leader of a group of five stunt actors who create their own Power Rangers-inspired TV show. Customize your studio, craft weapons, upgrade equipment, and fight in turn-based battles. Enjoy a branching storyline, skill trees, and a chiptune soundtrack.


Pros:
  • Simple mechanics
  • Charming pixel art style
  • Great soundtrack, Management sim elements
  • Entertaining story
Cons:
  • Random crafting system
  • Repetitive boss fights
  • Luck-based mecha battles
  • Lack of tutorial, Underwhelming difficulty for experienced strategy game players

  • tactical
  • turn-based
  • rpg
  • battle
  • squad
  • mech
  • strategy
  • crafting
  • combat
  • boss
  • superhero
  • isometric
  • management
  • fight
  • pixel

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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (2012)

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PC Windows maybe-IOS iPhone vita Xbox One Android Linux Mac OS Xbox 360 Playstation 3

XCOM: Enemy Unknown is a turn-based strategy game that puts you in charge of saving the Earth from a global alien invasion by managing resources, advancing technology, and planning combat strategies. With over 70 missions worldwide and customizable soldiers, this game provides an immersive experience that appeals to players who enjoy turn-based strategy games.


Pros:
  • Engaging and strategic turn-based combat system
  • Variety of classes and abilities to customize soldiers and build squad
  • Impressive graphics and sound design
  • Strategic depth and replayability
  • Long War mod adds even more gameplay
Cons:
  • Long War mod can be frustrating with high difficulty

  • turn-based
  • tactical
  • aliens
  • squad
  • strategy
  • cover
  • combat
  • battle
  • war

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Angel Legion (2019)

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Android IOS iPhone PC Windows

Idle or play whenever and wherever you want. Customize the looking of your favorite Angels. Automatically accumulate resources all the time.


  • idler
  • mature
  • rpg
  • strategy
  • character
  • squad
  • anime
  • adventure
  • customization
  • mmo
  • multiplayer

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VenusBlood FRONTIER International (2020)

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PC Windows

VenusBlood Frontier International is a strategy RPG, visual novel and adult content game in which you play as Loki, the grandson of Dark Lord Surt. Your goal is to conquer the floating island of Yggdrasil and bring back a powerful item that has been hidden there. You have various choices to make throughout the game, from corruting goddesses or letting them remain pure, to playing the game on normal or hard mode.

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Pros:
  • Extensive amount of choice
  • Clear story
  • Intuitive management system
  • High quality CGs
  • Variety of battle options
Cons:
  • Poor tutorials
  • Unintuitive path to unlock the story arc you want

  • visual-novel
  • strategy
  • rpg
  • turn-based
  • battle
  • tactical
  • simulation
  • demons
  • multiple-endings
  • squad

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Door Kickers (2015)

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early access PC Windows Nintendo Switch Linux Xbox One IOS iPhone Android

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.


  • tactical
  • top-down
  • strategy
  • squad
  • real-time
  • pause
  • shooter

7

Bug Heroes 2 (2014)

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Android

Scavenge for food and junk, fortify your base, build turrets, level up your heroes, equip weapons and armor, and survive! MOBA-like competitive & cooperative multiplayer Tons of single player content, including missions, an endless mode, and a base vs base skirmish mode 25 unique heroes to master - form your team of two Innovative squad based gameplay - control two heroes simultaneously Level up your Bug Heroes, increase their skills, and buy weapons, armor, and gear Scavenge for food, then defend your Food Stash with turrets and upgrades Complete missions, earn stars, and unlock a host of powerful upgrades Master both melee and ranged combat.

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  • moba
  • entertainment
  • twin-stick
  • competitive
  • multiplayer
  • strategy
  • action
  • cover
  • battle
  • squad
  • cooperative
  • endless
  • skill
  • combat
  • adventure

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Battleline: Steel Warfare (2016)

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PC Windows

Real time strategy meets tank shooter in Battleline. If you love sighting and delivering sabot rounds downrange as well as invading enemy territory with your tank guild, then Battleline is for you!

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  • tanks
  • artillery
  • simulation
  • chess
  • isometric
  • strategy
  • squad
  • stealth
  • driving
  • team
  • shooter

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Pikmin 3 (2013)

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wii u

Pikmin 3 is an engaging RTS game about time management, forward planning, and multitasking. With gorgeous graphics and a satisfyingly long campaign mode, you'll be challenged to manage a limited number of Pikmin to collect fruit, battle nocturnal creatures, and explore the alien planet. With its new characters, witty banter, and varied Pikmin powers, the game is a complete package filled with different control options. You'll be emotionally attached and haunted by the scarring Pikmin deaths in the narrative. Overall, Pikmin 3 is a must-play game that offers an intricate gameplay experience despite its cons.


Pros:
  • Varied Pikmin powers and exploration
  • Good pacing and addicting gameplay
  • Satisfying, long campaign mode
  • Gorgeous graphics and emotional attachment with Pikmin
  • Challenging mission mode with leaderboards and trackable stats
Cons:
  • Lack of content and replayability
  • Weak final enemy faced
  • Controls not well-optimized for hardware
  • Missing subtle humor from previous games due to lack of Piklopedia
  • Some textures not up to the mark

  • strategy
  • real-time
  • card
  • exploration
  • boss-fight
  • competitive
  • squad
  • boss
  • plant
  • puzzle
  • multiplayer
  • battle
  • time-management
  • cooperative
  • controller-support

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XCOM 2 (2016)

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PC Windows Playstation 4 Xbox One Mac OS Linux

XCOM 2 puts you in a fight for the survival of humanity against an alien force. Your job is to lead a squad of soldiers to liberate Earth. The game has an exciting blend of tactical, strategy, and RPG elements that will keep you glued to your screen.


Pros:
  • Fantastic turn-based tactics and strategy game
  • Highly engaging gameplay for all players
  • Great customization options for soldiers
  • Strict time pressure in most missions
  • Revamped soldier classes offer more game-changing abilities
Cons:
  • Long load times in and out of missions
  • Storyline is straightforward

  • turn-based
  • tactical
  • aliens
  • squad
  • strategy
  • cover
  • stealth
  • combat
  • sci-fi
  • war
  • mobile
  • dice
  • customization

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