These PC-exclusive tactics games are all doing something unique to innovate on the genre.
PC games have always managed to cover more niche and complex titles, with consoles tending to take on more accessible, higher-budget titles and games more suited to a controller. While the line between console and PC games is becoming increasingly thinner, and more indie games are now getting their time in the sun, so many games are released every year that it would be easy to miss the great games that have yet to make the leap to console.
Tactics games in particular have always been better suited for the PC since controlling multiple units and managing an often dense user interface can be a chore with a controller. These indie tactics games are a joy to play, and even better, many (if not all) of them can be played on low-end PCs. 8 Your Only Move Is Hustle — A Tactical Fighting Game
This 2D fighting game may have deceptively simplistic graphics with its stick-fight visual style, but Your Only Move Is Hustle is a complex, innovative game with a great deal of depth. This is in large part thanks to its turn-based approach to fighting games.
In Your Only Move Is Hustle, battles are determined not by who can memorize the best and most powerful combos, but by how well players read their opponents in the heat of battle; this makes Your Only Move Is Hustle both one of the most accessible and most innovative fighting games that money can buy. While Your Only Move Is Hustle is an extremely tactical game, it doesn’t allow players to control multiple units, making the overall experience quite different from the more tactics-focused games on this list. 7 Xenonauts 2 — XCOM-Inspired Tactics
This Early Access sequel to Xenonauts is another spiritual successor to old-school XCOM games, with an isometric perspective, tile-based tactics, and asymmetric sides battling it out on the war-torn streets of planet Earth.
Similarly to XCOM, Xenonauts 2 has players fighting off an asymmetric alien threat in tactical turn-based combat.
