Best PS5 Strategy Games – Top 40 Ranked by Critic and Member Scores

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Ranked by IGDB critic score and CritScore member ratings · 40 games · each with at least 4 critic reviews

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1
Baldur's Gate III
2020StadiaPS5Series X|S+3
Role-playing (RPG) · Adventure
Critic 95 · Members 9.0 · 1 rating · not yet in list score
2
Divinity: Original Sin II - Definitive Edition
2018iOSPS5Series X|S+6
Role-playing (RPG) · Adventure
Critic 93
3
Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew
2023PS5Series X|SPC
Role-playing (RPG) · Indie
Critic 93
4
Dragon Age: The Veilguard
2024PS5Series X|SPC
Role-playing (RPG) · Adventure
Critic 91
5
Balatro
2024iOSPS5Series X|S+7
Card & Board Game · Indie
Critic 91
6
Blue Prince
2025PS5Series X|SPC+2
Indie · Adventure
Critic 91
7
Star Wars Zero Company
2026PS5Series X|SPC
Tactical · Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Critic 91
8
Two Point Museum
2025PS5Series X|SPC+3
Indie · Simulator
Critic 90
9
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
2024PS5Series X|SPC+1
Role-playing (RPG) · Adventure
Critic 89
10
Cult of the Lamb
2022PS5Series X|SPC+5
Role-playing (RPG) · Hack and slash/Beat 'em up
Critic 89
11
Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes
2024PS5Series X|SPC+3
Role-playing (RPG) · Indie
Critic 88
12
Hardspace: Shipbreaker
2020PS5Series X|SPC
Simulator
Critic 88
13
Hard West 2
2022PS5Series X|SPC
Role-playing (RPG) · Tactical
Critic 88
14
Death Howl
2025PS5Series X|SPC+1
Card & Board Game · Indie
Critic 88
15
Two Point Hospital
2018PS5Series X|SPC+6
Indie · Simulator
Critic 87
16
SteamWorld Heist II
2024PS5Series X|SPC+3
Role-playing (RPG) · Indie
Critic 87
17
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
2016PS5PCXONE+4
Indie · Tactical
Critic 86
18
Marvel's Midnight Suns
2022PS5Series X|SPC+3
Role-playing (RPG) · Tactical
Critic 86
19
Jagged Alliance 3
2023PS5Series X|SPC+2
Role-playing (RPG) · Tactical
Critic 86
20
Unicorn Overlord
2024PS5Series X|SSwitch+1
Role-playing (RPG) · Tactical
Critic 86
21
Triangle Strategy
2022Meta Quest 2PS5Series X|S+2
Role-playing (RPG) · Tactical
Critic 85
22
Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess
2024PS5Series X|SPC+3
Hack and slash/Beat 'em up
Critic 85
23
Monster Train
2020iOSPS5Series X|S+4
Role-playing (RPG) · Card & Board Game
Critic 85
24
Tactics Ogre: Reborn
2022PS5PCSwitch+1
Role-playing (RPG) · Tactical
Critic 85
25
Fantasian Neo Dimension
2024PS5Series X|SPC+2
Role-playing (RPG) · Adventure
Critic 85
26
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III
2017StadiaPS5PC+3
Role-playing (RPG) · Adventure
Critic 84
27
Before We Leave
2020PS5Series X|SPC+4
Indie · Simulator
Critic 84
28
Aliens: Dark Descent
2023PS5Series X|SPC+2
Adventure
Critic 84
29
OTXO
2023PS5PCSwitch+1
Fighting · Indie
Critic 84
30
Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley
2024PS5Series X|SPC+4
Role-playing (RPG) · Music
Critic 84
31
Planet Coaster
2016PS5Series X|SPC+3
Simulator
Critic 83
32
Persona 5 Tactica
2023PS5Series X|SPC+3
Role-playing (RPG) · Tactical
Critic 83
33
Yomawari: Midnight Shadows
2017PS5PCVita+1
Adventure · Puzzle
Critic 83
34
Anno 1800
2019PS5Series X|SPC
Simulator · Real Time Strategy (RTS)
Critic 83
35
Darkest Dungeon II
2021PS5Series X|SPC+5
Role-playing (RPG) · Indie
Critic 83
36
Shovel Knight Dig
2022iOSPS5Series X|S+3
Indie · Adventure
Critic 83
37
Age of Empires IV
2021PS5Series X|SPC+1
Real Time Strategy (RTS)
Critic 82
38
This War of Mine
2014iOSPS5Series X|S+7
Indie · Adventure
Critic 82
39
The Long Dark
2017PS5Series X|SPC+5
Indie · Adventure
Critic 82
40
Frostpunk 2
2024PS5Series X|SPC+1
Indie · Simulator
Critic 82