Searching for the best mobile strategy games for IOS and Android? Well, you’ve come to the right place. Strategy games are most loved by people who love critical thinking.

We’ve put together a list of the very best strategy games you can download and play right from your mobile device so that you don’t have to spend the time searching through thousands of games to find a couple of good ones.

If however, you think you’ve got a strategy game that competes with those on this list, we’d love for you to comment about it in the section below, so that we can add it to our list (Thanks to you of course) and others around the world can enjoy the games you love as well.

Metal Slug Attack

Anyone who has ever played games at an arcade may remember the popular Metal Slug franchise. Fortunately, these days you can play directly from your mobile. This Metal Slug game is slightly different from the one I personally played back in the day but it’s still pretty fun. In this game, you can build up a team and equip various weapons to take on its campaign mode as well as other players online.

King of thieves

In this unique game, the objective is to steal as many gems as possible and become the King of thieves. You have to play smart and sneak through enemy bases without getting caught. This game is highly addictive, I have spent countless hours on it as well. You’re able to create your own little base with traps placed in a strategic way so that players find it difficult to steal your gems. Build your collection of gems and become the King of thieves… if you dare.

Chess

Chess has always been a strategy board game that people played at least 1500 years back. Now you can play it on your mobile too and challenge yourself against other players globally.

Hexonia

An extremely fun and addictive turn based strategy game where your objective is to outlast other tribes and conquer the land. There are around 10 different troops that you can train and send out to explore, attack opponents, and capture villages as your own. You can build various buildings to level up your Villages and connect them using roads. With higher level villages you can send out more troops.

Clash of Clans

Clash of clans is one of the most popular multiplayer combat strategy Games on mobile. Build your village, train your troops and go to battle against millions of players online taking valuable resources such as Gold, and Elixer. There are currently 24 different troops to train each with their own pros and cons. You can use potions too that’ll give you the edge in your attacks.

Clash Royale

Another game by Supercell featuring some of the popular troops from Clash of Clans. Clash Royale is a real-time head-to-head strategy game where every second counts. Collect and upgrade over 100 unique playable cards which you’ll use to take out the enemy tower before they get a chance to take our yours. Try competing against millions of players in real-time in this fast-paced strategy game.

Mushroom wars 2

This is a real-time fast-paced strategy game where the goal is to capture all existing enemy bases. You can train more mushroom units by upgrading your mushroom village. There are 2 other types of buildings including towers that defend a certain radius, and forges that produce weapons to make your mushroom army even more powerful!

In co-op mode, you can play against up to 3 other teams at a single time. Strategically attack whenever you see the opportunity.

Royal Revolt 2

Build your own Kingdom and lead your army to victory in this action-packed tower defense mobile strategy game. Craft a powerful castle defense that can withstand any attack from a range of troops, obstacles, and tower types. Form Alliances and play with your friends or join players from around the globe while testing your skill to become the most powerful King or Queen in Royal Revolt 2.

Fallout Shelter

Create a brighter future underground after a catastrophic nuclear fallout. Look after a community as a Vault-Tech overseer and craft the perfect vault. Send dwellers above to explore the wasteland and claim left over loot. Every now and then random incidents will occur that will disrupt your thriving community, prepare your dwellers to defend themselves against threats from the outside… and within.

Mindustry

Create elaborate supply chains of various types of ore with the use of conveyor belts to produce turrets that will help you defend waves of enemies in this resource management real-time strategy masterpiece. Compete against other players on up to 4 different teams and destroy their cores to win. There is also an Infinite Sandbox mode that you can use to create and test out better design arrangements. Spawn enemies on request to see how resistant your base is against threats.

Badland Brawl

This award-winning game for most competitive is an explosive multiplayer brawler. Collect and sling your clones into battle in an organized fashion to create devastating chain reactions!

It features fun, intuitive, and unique physics. Tribes that you can create to play with friends and people from around the world. Not only can you play with your friends but against them too in this real-time battle brawler.

Plants vs Zombies™ 2

You can now play the hit action-strategy game plants vs zombies directly from your mobile device. I remember playing this on PC way back in the early 2000s. Now you can even play against other players in the PVP Arena to test whose Zombie-bashing strategy is the best. There are hundreds of Plants and Zombies to discover including newer ones.

Enyo

Enyo is a tactical turn-based game where the objective is to defeat opponents in a strategic manner. You have a limited variety of possible moves and can only get hit up to three times. Opponents can hit you directly but you’ll have to push or pull them into lava pits or deadly spiked walls using only a shield and a hook. Every move counts in this strategy game, do you think you’ve got what it takes to complete every mission I’m the least moves possible?

Kingdom Guard

A very fun and addictive strategy game for the more casual players. Merge characters of the same type together in this Tower Defense Strategy game. Protect your dragon egg, upgrade your castle, Join alliances and attack other players online to claim some loot. This is one of the coolest Sandbox Strategy Tower Defense games out there, so be sure to give it a try!

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