Strategy games under 5 hours
Explore the top 25 Strategy games that take under 5 hours to play, ranked by Metacritic score.
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Games are ordered by Metacritic score, highest first. Games without a Metacritic score appear last.
1. Company of Heroes - Legacy Edition
~0.7 hours to beat · Metacritic 93
2. Braid
~5 hours to beat · Metacritic 90
3. Factorio Demo
~1 hours to beat · Metacritic 90
4. Mass Effect™ 3 N7 Digital Deluxe Edition (2012)
~3.3 hours to beat · Metacritic 89
5. Rhythm Doctor
~4 hours to beat · Metacritic 89
6. World in Conflict: Soviet Assault
~4 hours to beat · Metacritic 89
7. Let's! Revolution!
~0.7 hours to beat · Metacritic 88
8. Dispatch Demo
~0.8 hours to beat · Metacritic 87
9. Monster Train 2
~2.5 hours to beat · Metacritic 87
10. Orcs Must Die! Unchained
~2.5 hours to beat · Metacritic 87
11. Monster Train
~2.5 hours to beat · Metacritic 86
12. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Anniversary Edition
~1.2 hours to beat · Metacritic 86
13. Chaos Reborn
~0.1 hours to beat · Metacritic 85
14. Solium Infernum
~5 hours to beat · Metacritic 85
15. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Anniversary Edition
~5 hours to beat · Metacritic 85
16. 80 Days
~3 hours to beat · Metacritic 84
17. DEFCON
~1.1 hours to beat · Metacritic 84
18. Sub Command
~2 hours to beat · Metacritic 84
19. Wingspan
~1.6 hours to beat · Metacritic 84
20. Drop Duchy
~1 hours to beat · Metacritic 83
21. ISLANDERS: New Shores
~0.7 hours to beat · Metacritic 83
22. Monaco
~1 hours to beat · Metacritic 83
23. Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition
~0.6 hours to beat · Metacritic 83
24. Quilts and Cats of Calico
~4.2 hours to beat · Metacritic 83
25. Silent Storm
~3 hours to beat · Metacritic 83