Unblocked Strategy Games
Strategy games reward planning over reflexes. Here you will find tower defense, territory battles, city and civilization building, and classic thinking games such as go, shogi, xiangqi and hex.
18 games on this page ↓
All 18 strategy games
top pick!📱Compact Conflict
Turn-based territory war for up to four sides, where temples raise troops and earn faith for powerful upgrades.
Canvas Tower Defense
Endless neon tower defense with four turret types, three maps, and ten upgrade levels per stat.
📱Dots and Boxes
The notebook game of joining dots, where finishing a square claims it and earns you another line.
📱Game of the Amazons
Slide an amazon, shoot an arrow, burn a square. Keep enough open board for your pieces while the other side runs out.
📱Go
Claim more of the board than your rival by surrounding open points and capturing stones on three grid sizes.
Hel's Trial
An old warrior crosses Hel's hall one turn at a time, trading soul power for every blow on the way to the gate.
📱Hex
Red links top to bottom, Blue links left to right. Whoever finishes an unbroken chain first takes the game.
📱Hnefatafl
A king and four guards try to slip out to a corner while eight raiders close in on a 7x7 board.
📱Nine Men's Morris
Form rows of three on a 24-point board to take enemy pieces, then slide and fly until your rival is down to two.
📱OrbitSwarm
Launch swarms of tiny ships from planet to planet and conquer the whole star map before the red AI does.
📱Shogi
The Japanese cousin of chess, played on a nine-by-nine grid where captured pieces can return to fight for you.
📱Surakarta
A two-sided capture game from Java where a stone can only take an enemy after riding around a curved loop at the board's corners.
📱Xiangqi
Play Chinese chess on a 9x10 board with a river and two palaces, versus a three-level computer or a friend on the same screen.
Elematter
Build Earth, Water, Air and Fire towers that each beat one element, and hold a winding road for twenty waves.
Evolving Civilization
A text-based idle game that starts with one cell and grows into a city with jobs, buildings and research.
Hex Formation
Line a winding path with three kinds of turrets on a hex map and keep ten waves of rolling enemies from escaping.
📱IsoCity
Arrange roads, waterways and buildings on a tiny isometric plot and shape a town however you like.
PoliGuard
Line a winding road with seven types of glowing geometric towers and hold off endless waves of red invaders.
Where to start
New to this shelf? These are our first recommendations.
Canvas Tower Defense
Place and upgrade turrets along a path, then see how many waves your layout can hold.
Compact Conflict
Turn-based conquest on random maps. Temples and upgrades decide who ends up with the most land.
Go
Start on the 9x9 board. The rules fit on a card, and the strategy is famous for its depth.
Hex
Two players race to connect their sides of a diamond board. A game can never end in a draw.
Planning beats speed
In most of these games you can pause, look at the whole situation, and decide. Tower defense asks where to spend limited resources before the next wave. Territory games ask which fight to pick and which to avoid.
Abstract strategy boards
Some of the deepest games on the site have no luck at all. Go, shogi, xiangqi, hex and the game of the amazons give both sides the same information, so every win comes from better planning. Most offer a computer opponent and a two-player mode.
General strategy advice
Invest early. Economy upgrades, cheap defenses and income buildings usually pay off more than an early attack. Then specialize. Spreading resources evenly across every option tends to lose to a focused plan.
Strategy Games FAQ
Which strategy game should a beginner try first?
Dots and boxes and hex have very short rule lists, so you can start playing within a minute. Once those feel easy, move on to tower defense or a territory game.
Are there turn-based strategy games?
Yes. All of the board-style strategy games are turn-based, so you can take as long as you like on each move.