Top 25 of the best strategy games for Android

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Updated on 09 February 2020: after the maintenance Mobile play is often associated with easier occasional food. Think of match 3 puzzler, endless runners and typing idling clicker.

Although there are many such games in the Google Play Store, but we consider this for unfair characterization. Have you seen the number of high quality strategy games there?

From real-time strategy games to tense round-based tactical affairs, you can achieve a true strategic experience with your Android device.

And no, we do not accept tower defense games in this list. This subgenre deserves its own top 25, and we need each entry to summarize the pure strategy brigade.

This does not mean that the following list is missing tactical variety. From the hardcore to the bright and airy end of the spectrum, developers really started to combine different genres and play styles under the banner of strategy game.

1 xcom: enemy inside

Publisher: 2K games Available to: iOS + Android + Steam Genre: Strategy Learn More about Xcom: Enemy Within

Partly basic builders, partly international diplomacy, partly tactical fighters. XCOM has everything and this updated version adds psyonic powers, crazy Mech suits and a stack of more content.

2 Banner Saga 2

Publisher: Stoische Studio Available to: iOS + Android Genre: RPG, Strategy Learn more about Banner Saga 2

This beautiful Nordic fantasy game puts you together with its predecessor in tactical round-based battles, but also asks you to meet difficult decisions about the composition of your tour group and intervene in important events.

3 Iron Marines

Publisher: Ironhip Game Studio Available to: iOS + Android Genre: Strategy Learn more about Iron Marines

The manufacturer of the incomparable Kingdom Rush series proves that it can defense both classic RTS and Tower Defense. Iron Marines is well balanced to look good and generally something very special.

4 Chaos Reborn: Adventure

Publisher: Big blue bubble available on: iOS + Android Genre: Strategy Learn more about Chaos Reborn: Adventures

We do not praise a game often that it is not very mobile, but in Chaos Reborn's case that's a virtue. This is a profound and comprehensive strategy game that punishes your mistakes and rewards you for clever thinking.

5 Templar Battleforce

Publisher: Cory Tres available to: iOS + Android Genre: Card / board game, RPG, Strategy Learn more about Templar Battleforce RPG Full Game HD

If XCom could not satisfy your strategy list somehow, Templar Battleforce should be your next station. Build a team of villains dressed in armor before they send them into glorious lattice-based battles.

6 Tropico

Publisher: Feral Interactive available to: iOS + Android Genre: Strategy Learn more about Tropico

Tropico is certainly the best urban maker on the market and a detailed, responsive, appealing and entertaining PC connection that feels at home on the iPad. It looks nice and sounds like that too.

7 Heroakademie 2

Publisher: Robot Entertainment Available to: iOS Learn more about Hero Academy 2

Hero Academy 2 starts slowly, but develops into a brilliant tactical round-based experience. It is also an extremely polished, complex affair.

8 The men of midnight

Developer: Chilli Hugger Software Publisher: Chilli Hugger Software Available to: iOS + Android Genre: Adventure, RPG, Strategy Learn More about The Lords of Midnight

You could argue that The Lords of Midnight is a role-playing game, but it has a strong strategic element if you work to build a fantasy army.

9 Destroy your enemies

Publisher: Gambitious available to: iOS + Android Genre: Strategy Learn more about Crush Your Enemies

An adventure in retro style, but with lively, minute slaughter. It's just not a sharp RTS, but a funny game full of bad drunk, half drunk barbarians.

10 Plague Inc.

Developer: Ndem Creations Available to: iOS + Android + Steam Genre: Simulation, Strategy Learn more about Plague Inc.

We are all used to defending life in our strategy games - Plague Inc. commissions them to destroy as much as possible by spreading and mutating a terrible virus. It's dark, man.

11 out there

Developer: Mi-Clos Studio Publisher: Mi-Clos Studio available to: iOS + Android + Steam Genre: Strategy Learn more about Out There

There is no FTL for Android, but there is a good alternative. It is a consequence of difficult strategic decisions when jumping from star system to star system, search for materials and attack enemy aliens.

12 Taspenstadt

Available to: iOS Learn more about Pocket City

Although it is less impressive than Tropico, Pocket City remains an absolute enjoyment of a premium urban maker. In particular, he manages to better connect intuitivity with strategic depth than most others.

13 Battle of Clans

Developer: Super Cell available to: iOS + Android Genre: Strategy, Tower Defense Learn more about Clash of Clans

OOOH, controversial choice. But it is not denying that Clash has made something very interesting with the strategy genre, it really makes it very social power and the defense is as important as an all-out attack.

14 Frozen Synapse Prime

Developer: Double Eleven Publisher: Double Eleven Available to: iOS + Android + PS Vita ... Genre: Sagittarius, Strategy Learn more about Frozen Synapse Prime

Frozen Synapse Prime is a round-based strategy game with a turn - you and the other players move at the same time. Therefore, it is just about predicting what your opponent will do, how to react to its movements.

15 HoPlit

Developer: Magma Fortress Publisher: Magma Fortress Available to: iOS + Android Genre: Roleplaying, Strategy Learn more about HoPlite

A brilliant slim, stunning strategy game in which your old warrior executes a round-based dance with a series of mythical beasts. Much more tactical than it looks.

16 Clash Royale

Publisher: Super Cell available to: iOS + Android Learn more about Clash Royale

It contains elements of the tower defense, the MOBA and even the card warning. But basically Clash Royale is just a really entertaining, very chic mobile strategy game.

17 StrikeFleet Omega

Developer: Harbrained Schemes Publisher: 6Wells available to: iOS + Android Genre: Strategy, Tower Defense Learn more about StrikeFleet Omega

Like Flight Control mixed with the restart of Battlestar Galactica, StrikeFleet Omega lets you draw flight paths for your combat ships to defend a dwindling room fleet.

18 Kingdom: New countries

Available to: iOS + Android Genre: Adventure, Strategy Learn more about Kingdom: New Lands

Kingdom: New Lands, one of the most gentlest and reassuring strategy games on this list, lets her king on a horse from left to right, collect themes and build a medieval kingdom.

19 slaughter plans

Publisher: C4M Productions Available to: iOS Genre: Strategy Learn more about BattlePlans

BattlePlans combines elements of RTS, MOBA and basic defense with an appealing cartoon art style. The result is an appealing strategy game that remains exactly the right side of casual.

20 GREED CORP HD

Developer: Avantgard Games Publisher: Invictus available to: iOS + Steam Genre: Strategy Learn more about Greed Corp HD

Greed Corp HD may have started life on Xbox Live Arcade, but on Android finds a more natural home. If you combine strategic game with a deep board game aesthetics and a meaty single player campaign, there is a lot to do.

21 Motorsport Manager 3

Available to: iOS + Android + Switch Genre: Sport, Strategy Learn more about Motorsport Manager 3

For strategy games, it does not have to go to war and violence. With Motorsport Manager Mobile 3, you are planning the path of an elite racing team to victory and it is just as exciting as the other games on this list.

22 Total was Battles: Kingdom

Publisher: The Creative Assembly Available to: iOS + Android Genre: Strategy Learn more about Total War Battles: Kingdom

The Total War series is a strategy heavyweight on the PC and has also proven on the phone as a strategy heavyweight. Total was Battles: Kingdom offers urban planning, tense battles and an excellent presentation.

23 The campfire: abandoned countries

Publisher: Xigma games available to: iOS + Android + Steam Genre: Strategy Learn more about The Bonfire: Forsaken Lands

An appealing and intuitive strategy game that offers real consequences for your decisions if you want to get your village alive and thriving.

24 Command & Conquer: Rivals

Publisher: Electronic Arts Available to: iOS + Android Genre: Strategy Learn more about Command & Conquer: Rivals This is not the Command & Conquer experience to remember, but some of his RTS components succeed successfully with a refined mobile strategy experience. ### 25 Star Trek: Fleet Command Developer: Digit Game Studios Publisher: Scopely Available to: iOS + Android Genre: Strategy Learn more about Star Trek: Fleet Command Star Trek: Fleet Command is a fancy 4x strategy game for mobile devices with sympathetic monetization and a flexible, missions-based progress system. It also uses his license well.