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Best free strategy games
Plan, build and outthink: tactics, management, card battlers and economy games you play in a browser tab. Some take five minutes, some will eat an evening.
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Zombies Per Minute
Build an automated factory, defend it from zombie waves, and climb the Zombies Per Minute leaderboard.
strategyidle+1 6 players -
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Airlinia
by u/runadev
Start an airline and grow it from a forgotten airstrip: buy aircraft, license airports and fly contracts between more than 46,000 real airports. Free, no sign-up, it runs in your browser.
strategy+1 5 players -
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Flip Buddies
by Vlad Palacio
A cozy twist on Othello: flip your opponent's pieces to take the board. Play solo or challenge a friend. A simple game, not an easy one.
strategypuzzle+1 5 players -
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Curbside Hauling
by David Berget · built with Claude Code
You just bought the town's only garbage company: one rusty pickup. Hire drivers, buy trucks, set routes, and win the city contracts.
strategy3d-1 5 players -
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InkDom
by u/Living-Inspection582
Draw a loop on the real map and the land inside is yours, until someone draws over it.
multiplayerstrategy0 5 players -
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Harvest Tycoon
by u/FryeMarcie
A patch of land to call your own. Plant, craft and trade, and grow a little farm into a thriving estate. Play for free on any device.
strategy0 5 players -
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Public Works
by David Berget · built with Claude Code
A deckbuilding roguelite about the crews who keep the city running: streets, sewers, and city hall.
cardsstrategy0 4 players -
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Sunset City: The Dark Tower
by did0f · built with Claude Code
Parkour across the rooftops of a procedurally generated port city and sneak past guards to reach the Black Tower.
3dracingstrategy0 4 players -
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0 3 players
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Mycel Ward
by David Berget · built with Claude Code
Grow a colony of fighting fungi and keep the pests off the heart-root. Three acts, twenty-one waves, a roguelite run each time.
strategy0 3 players -
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Bloodpawn
by u/sebalhag
Chess with four extra rules, terrain, skins, and animations. Play the computer or send a friend a link.
strategy0 3 players -
12
Hextale
by u/TheTrickmaster
The only Strategy Card Game where thousands of Tales unfold.
cardsstrategy0 3 players -
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Airline Pioneer
by u/emilianoabad
Build your airline empire from the dawn of commercial aviation.
strategy0 3 players -
14
162-0
by u/DucknestGames
Draft a hitter for all nine spots and build a roster that goes undefeated. Can you go 162-0?
strategysportseducational0 3 players -
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Capybara Delivery
by leocooout · built with Claude Code, Tripo3d, Suno, ElevenLabs
Ride a scooter around a capybara city delivering fruit orders, keeping the stack of fruit on your back from toppling over.
3dstrategy0 3 players -
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Claude of Tanks
by Kevin Liu
You drive one of 100+ detailed armored vehicles in bot or multiplayer tank battles, with armor angles, ammo types and turrets that get blown off.
3dshooterstrategy0 3 players -
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Kittens Game
by bloodrizer
Run a village of kittens from catnip farming to space travel.
idlestrategy0 2 players -
18
Vector Tango
by scobelverse
Little planes, big responsibility: an air traffic control game. 3rd place in the 2025 Vibe Coding Game Jam.
strategy0 2 players -
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RaceLore
by u/No_Committee987
A blind F1 draft: pick historic drivers and cars from memory, no ratings shown, then simulate a 16-race season.
sportsstrategy0 2 players -
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Tennis Career Sim
by u/quant_boy123
Create a player and play out a whole pro career week by week, from ITF to the Tour, with real ranking-points math.
sportsstrategy0 2 players -
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Friday Pit
by u/rroths
A scrap-bot auto battler: spend Scrap on a crew, charge the pit with leftovers, then watch the fight.
strategycards0 2 players -
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Lamplight: No-Limit Hold'em
by Narcissus · built with Claude Opus 5.5
Six-handed No-Limit Hold'em at $1/$2 against five bots, each with its own appetite for risk. Size them up, then take their chips.
cardsstrategy0 2 players -
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Orbital Defense Idle
by u/orbitaldefenseidle
Build orbital defenses, repel alien invasions, and expand your galactic empire — even while you sleep. Coming to Steam April 2027.
idlestrategy0 2 players -
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GridCity
by u/fabianolecce
Build your city in the style of classic SimCity (1989), entirely in the browser: zones, power, water, traffic, disasters, isometric 3D view. Free, no install required.
strategy3dsandbox0 2 players -
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Slow6
by u/ajwilkz
A quick two-player strategy game: every piece is in the open, every piece can be beaten. Make a 6 and bring it home.
strategy0 1 player -
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OpenTTD 15.3 Online
by u/gerk20
Play OpenTTD instantly in your browser! Import saves, access Online Content, and experience the full Transport Tycoon game without installing anything.
strategysports0 1 player -
28
SP13KTRA
by KilledByAPixel
You race an anti-gravity hover ship through procedurally generated neon city circuits in a game that fits in 13 kilobytes.
3dracingstrategy0 1 player -
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Tentpole
by jesseberger
You spin a reel of movie posters and take a genre, director or actor from each into your own film, then see how it does at the box office.
strategyweird0 0 players -
30
Silent Shark
by epaga
You command a WWII submarine, plotting contacts on a map and working out torpedo solutions by hand in the free browser demo.
strategy0 0 players -
31
Matle
You guess which pieces go on the hidden squares of a real checkmate position, with Wordle-style hints after each try.
dailypuzzlestrategy0 0 players -
32
Boardle
You guess the five-move sequence that solves today's chess puzzle, with Wordle-style feedback on each move.
dailypuzzlestrategy0 0 players -
33
blunder.clinic
You get realistic chess positions from real games and pick a move that doesn't throw the position away.
dailypuzzlestrategy0 0 players -
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Chessguessr
You guess the next five moves that were actually played in a real chess game, with color hints after each try.
dailypuzzlestrategy0 0 players -
35
Read the Tape
You look at five hidden real stock charts and call each one up or down with a chosen confidence, then see how you did against coin flips.
dailystrategy0 0 players -
36
Slay the Web
by Oskar Rough
You fight your way across a map of monsters by playing cards from a deck you add to after each battle.
cardsstrategy0 0 players -
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Ronin
by Andrew Taylor
You place chess pieces on a 6x6 board, sudoku-style, so that each region holds one of each piece and no two pieces of the same type attack each other.
dailypuzzlestrategy0 0 players -
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Royal Family
by CoffeeFirst Games
You place six chess pieces on a 5x5 board so every coloured zone gets one piece and none of them attack each other.
dailypuzzlestrategy0 0 players -
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Rogule
by Chris McCormick
You get one try each day at a tiny emoji dungeon crawler, where everyone faces the same dungeon.
dailyretrostrategy0 0 players -
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Chessle
by Jack Li
You guess the day's chess opening move by move, with Wordle-style colours for each move.
dailypuzzlestrategy0 0 players -
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Brew Boss
by @lukeswissman · built with Claude Code
You run a small isometric café, taking customers' orders, making their drinks and spending the money on upgrades.
strategyidle0 0 players -
42
Hired Swords
by @Titanztommy · built with Claude Code
You recruit a team of pixel mercenaries, arrange them for synergies and watch them auto-battle ghost teams of other players.
strategyretro0 0 players -
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Clickwasher TD
by @hamsteroforion · built with Claude Code
You place towers to defend a citadel from waves of cartoon enemies and spend the gold on an incremental research tree.
strategyidle0 0 players -
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Graviton
by @sivaguru_shiva · built with bolt and cursor and claude
You orbit a star, slingshot through gravity wells and fire curving photon beams at waves of enemy ships.
shooterstrategy0 0 players -
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Jellingstone
by @hansent · built with Codex
You guide a Viking chief around a voxel coast, gathering wood and food and building palisades before raiders land.
strategy3d0 0 players -
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Idle Tactics: Ascension
by h4rd
You gear up a pixel hero who fights on his own, gambling on loot and timing when to take on bosses.
idlestrategy0 0 players -
47
ZiwZiw
by @lordahmed3d · built with Cursor
You race your pieces around a board to reach the enemy base first, sending the other player back to start when you land on them.
strategymultiplayer0 0 players -
48
Theme Park Builder
built with Codex (GPT)
You place paths, rides and snack stands on an isometric plot and keep your guests happy and the park clean.
sandboxstrategy0 0 players -
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Asterism
built with Codex (GPT)
You draw from a deck of named stars and link them into constellations to light up the night sky.
cardsstrategy0 0 players -
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Civis
by Daniele Veneroni
You found cities, research technologies and expand your empire turn by turn in a small 4X strategy game.
strategy0 0 players -
51
openScope
by openscope
You direct aircraft around a real airport by typing air traffic control commands for headings, altitudes and landings.
strategyeducational0 0 players -
52
Ancient Beast
by FreezingMoon
You summon and command fantasy creatures in turn-based hex battles against a friend on the same screen.
strategy0 0 players -
53
Bagh Chal
by sumn2u
You play the Nepali hunt game as tigers or goats against an AI, trapping or capturing across a 5x5 board.
strategy0 0 players -
54
Wall Go
by Gary Chu
You move pieces and build walls on a 7x7 board to fence off the most territory, against a friend or an AI.
strategy0 0 players -
55
Kingdom Architect
by trymnilsen
You gather resources, build houses and farms, and grow a small medieval settlement tile by tile.
strategyretro0 0 players -
56
FactorishJS
by msakuta
You lay mines, conveyor belts and furnaces to build a small Factorio-style automated factory.
strategysandbox0 0 players -
57
WandereRL
by red-kangaroo
You explore procedurally generated worlds in a small classic roguelike, looking for a distant castle.
retrostrategy0 0 players -
58
Microcity
by eliot-akira
You zone land, lay roads and power, and grow a tiny city in a simulation based on Micropolis.
strategysandbox0 0 players -
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Cimulity
by zeikar
You zone residential, commercial and industrial land and balance a budget in a minimal city sim.
strategysandbox0 0 players -
60
Der Fürsorger
by Mirco Kraenz and Matthias Möser
You route a traveling caretaker between cities and trade goods to keep every town from starving.
strategypuzzle0 0 players -
61
BrowserHack
by Lu Wang
You play the classic roguelike NetHack, compiled to run in the browser, descending the Dungeons of Doom in ASCII.
retrostrategy0 0 players -
62
Gridland
by Doublespeak Games
You match tiles to gather wood, stone and food by day, then fight off monsters with the same grid when night falls.
puzzlestrategy0 0 players -
63
Sleeping Beauty
by Ondřej Žára
You explore a castle dungeon in a text-mode roguelike made in seven days, fighting through rooms toward the sleeping princess.
retrostrategy0 0 players -
64
generals.io
You grow an army across a fog-covered grid map and try to capture the enemy general's tile before they take yours.
strategymultiplayer0 0 players -
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Territorial.io
by David Tschacher
You expand your color across a map by sending troops into neutral and enemy land, fighting other players for territory.
strategymultiplayer0 0 players -
66
Brewing Disaster
by Adrien Guéret
You duel rival wizards over a shared cauldron, playing ingredient cards so they hit exactly 0 or 13 putridity before you do, and add new cards to your deck after each win.
cardsstrategy0 0 players -
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Templar's Final Stand
by Leo Kuo
You move a Knight Templar across a grid battlefield, killing soldiers and picking up gear while keeping your carried load under 13.
strategy0 0 players -
68
XIII Days to Save the Kingdom
by Benjamin Brown
You lead an army across a map by clicking, fighting battles, finding treasure and upgrading troops to carry a crown to the capital within 13 days.
strategy0 0 players -
69
Empire of Sugar
by Almut Kieffer-Jones · built with Claude Code
You spread unicorns turn by turn across seven cloud-covered boards, uncovering tiles and scoring against the designer's own best result.
strategy0 0 players -
70
Gjallarhorn
by Dan Prince
You drag Norse gods from your hand onto a board to attack giants and use their powers, clearing 26 hand-built puzzles.
puzzlestrategy0 0 players -
71
Porklike
by Krystman
You lead a pig down randomly generated dungeon floors in a turn-based roguelike, bumping into monsters and using curses and relics.
strategyretro0 0 players -
72
Goldfish
by Ondřej Žára
You explore colorful underwater maps full of hostile sea creatures in a short, winnable ASCII roguelike.
strategyretro0 0 players -
73
Ashes of Ulthar
by Elliot Nelson
You bend a village of pixel-art villagers to your will, gathering resources on the keyboard before time runs out as ash falls from the sky.
strategyhorror0 0 players -
74
Clayhistoric
by @eylamkeshet · built with Codex
You lead a clay caveman tribe in an arena, gathering resources and hauling them back to your cave before rivals do.
strategy3d0 0 players -
75
The Far Colony
by @MoeMagicLantern · built with Codex
You grow an alien organism across the lunar dust, spreading organs while human machines try to burn it out.
strategyweird0 0 players -
76
Reach the Relay
by @nomadhothouse · built with Claude Code
You escort a VIP through the ruins of an AI apocalypse in a turn-based, SNES-style RPG, picking a route and surviving the fights.
strategyretro0 0 players -
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Slay the Spore
by @op__nico · built with Antigravity (Gemini), Codex
You evolve a creature through roguelike battles, picking mutations as you go, like Slay the Spire crossed with Spore.
strategycards0 0 players -
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MiniTown
built with Codex (GPT)
You lay out roads and zones in a tiny voxel town and watch residents move in, commute to work and light up their homes at night.
sandboxstrategy0 0 players
Every game here is free and runs in your browser with nothing to install. The order comes from players on Joystumble: thumbs up and down (weighted so a few votes don't outrank many), then how many people played. Made one that belongs here? Submit it.