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Top 60 Most Played Strategy Games on Steam in 2026
557.7K people are playing Strategy games on Steam right now across our top 60 tracked titles. Total War: WARHAMMER III leads with 64.7K concurrent players, followed by Slay the Spire 2 and Hearts of Iron IV. Player counts are steady across the top of the genre today.
TOP 6 MOST PLAYED STRATEGY
RANKS 7 THROUGH 60
ranked by current players07
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
Strategy
26.3K
▲ 0.1%
08
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
Strategy
25.6K
▼ 3.7%
09
Factorio
Strategy
22.6K
▲ 2.3%
10
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
Strategy
18.0K
▲ 0.7%
11
Stellaris
Strategy
15.1K
▼ 1.9%
12
Bloons TD 6
Strategy
14.4K
▼ 2.2%
13
Magic: The Gathering Arena
Strategy
13.2K
▲ 8.0%
14
Europa Universalis IV
Strategy
12.3K
▼ 2.1%
15
Sid Meier's Civilization VII
Strategy
12.1K
▲ 0.7%
16
Cities: Skylines II
Strategy
11.3K
▼ 0.6%
17
Cookie Clicker
Strategy
11.1K
▲ 0.4%
18
Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel
Strategy
10.7K
▼ 1.3%
19
Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition
Strategy
10.4K
▼ 3.9%
20
Balatro
Strategy
9.03K
▲ 2.2%
21
Cities: Skylines
Strategy
8.11K
▼ 0.6%
22
Manor Lords
Strategy
7.97K
▲ 3.9%
23
Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition
Strategy
6.69K
▲ 0.5%
24
Timberborn
Strategy
6.63K
▲ 1.3%
25
Victoria 3
Strategy
6.53K
▼ 4.9%
26
Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront
Strategy
6.08K
▼ 8.8%
27
Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition
Strategy
5.12K
▲ 3.4%
28
Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition
Strategy
5.09K
▲ 1.0%
29
Cell to Singularity - Evolution Never Ends
Strategy
4.95K
▲ 0.8%
30
Space Engineers
Strategy
4.88K
▲ 1.7%
31
X4: Foundations
Strategy
3.77K
▲ 0.6%
32
Company of Heroes 3
Strategy
3.59K
▼ 3.0%
33
Age of Empires II (Retired)
Strategy
3.18K
▼ 4.4%
34
Teardown
Strategy
999
▼ 18.6%
35
Farthest Frontier
Strategy
998
▼ 10.0%
36
Broken Arrow
Strategy
998
▼ 41.4%
37
Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword
Strategy
997
▼ 30.8%
38
Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite
Strategy
996
▼ 31.0%
39
Dota Underlords
Strategy
996
▲ 0.0%
40
Idling to Rule the Gods
Strategy
992
▼ 12.8%
41
Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete
Strategy
989
▼ 28.1%
42
Total War: ATTILA
Strategy
989
▼ 9.7%
43
Hydroneer
Strategy
980
▼ 8.2%
44
Hotel Architect
Strategy
977
▲ 0.0%
45
Anno 1800
Strategy
973
▼ 7.5%
46
Panzer Corps 2
Strategy
972
▲ 0.0%
47
STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack
Strategy
971
▼ 3.8%
48
Catan Universe
Strategy
962
▲ 0.0%
49
Age of Empires: Definitive Edition
Strategy
955
▲ 0.0%
50
PlateUp!
Strategy
951
▼ 5.8%
51
BATTLETECH
Strategy
947
▼ 30.1%
52
Blue Prince
Strategy
944
▼ 24.2%
53
The Sims™ 3
Strategy
932
▼ 21.8%
54
Total War: ROME REMASTERED
Strategy
931
▲ 0.0%
55
RISK: Global Domination
Strategy
927
▼ 36.2%
56
Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition
Strategy
908
▼ 53.6%
57
Songs of Syx
Strategy
896
▲ 0.0%
58
Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms
Strategy
891
▼ 54.2%
59
Dyson Sphere Program
Strategy
883
▼ 38.7%
60
Amazing Cultivation Simulator
Strategy
882
▲ 0.0%