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Which turn-based strategy games actually get played?

60 turn-based strategy games owned in at least 30 of the libraries read here, ranked by how many owners got past Steam’s two-hour refund window. Across all of them it’s 37%.

S4 games
  1. #1Sid Meier's Civilization V81% of 234
  2. #2Sid Meier's Civilization VI75% of 251
  3. #3Total War: WARHAMMER II73% of 67
  4. #4Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition74% of 62
A12 games
  1. #5Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth72% of 54
  2. #6Total War: ATTILA73% of 41
  3. #7Sid Meier's Civilization VII80% of 30
  4. #8Total War: WARHAMMER60% of 84
  5. #9Total War: THREE KINGDOMS73% of 33
  6. #10Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes72% of 32
  7. #11Frozen Synapse Prime64% of 33
  8. #12Total War: WARHAMMER III51% of 119
  9. #13ENDLESS Space™ - Definitive Edition50% of 115
  10. #14Galactic Civilizations III57% of 44
  11. #15Total War: EMPIRE - Definitive Edition52% of 77
  12. #16Total War: MEDIEVAL II - Definitive Edition52% of 77
B18 games
  1. #17Total War: NAPOLEON - Definitive Edition55% of 53
  2. #18Legends of Eisenwald58% of 31
  3. #19ENDLESS Space™ 249% of 83
  4. #20King's Bounty: Warriors of the North55% of 38
  5. #21HUMANKIND™46% of 56
  6. #22Armello44% of 70
  7. #23Eador. Masters of the Broken World44% of 52
  8. #24Rome: Total War42% of 65
  9. #25Age of Wonders III39% of 152
  10. #26Interplanetary38% of 52
  11. #27Interplanetary: Enhanced Edition38% of 52
  12. #28The Battle of Polytopia35% of 31
  13. #29ENDLESS Legend™36% of 167
  14. #30Warlock - Master of the Arcane35% of 57
  15. #31Terraformers33% of 33
  16. #32King's Bounty: The Legend33% of 42
  17. #33Total War: SHOGUN 235% of 186
  18. #34Heroes of Might & Magic III - HD Edition30% of 33
C15 games
  1. #35Age of Wonders: Planetfall30% of 46
  2. #36Niche - a genetics survival game28% of 53
  3. #37Old World27% of 52
  4. #38Small World23% of 35
  5. #39Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword24% of 66
  6. #40Ozymandias18% of 38
  7. #41Sid Meier's Civilization IV24% of 76
  8. #42Faeria20% of 66
  9. #43Etherlords II7% of 30
  10. #44King's Bounty: Dark Side9% of 34
  11. #45Sigma Theory3% of 30
  12. #46Rome: Total War - Alexander9% of 44

And 3 more: Through The Darkest of Times, Hexarchy, Hero's Hour.

D11 games
  1. #50King's Bounty: Crossworlds3% of 36
  2. #51Galactic Civilizations I: Ultimate Edition2% of 46
  3. #52King's Bounty: Armored Princess0% of 42
  4. #53Unity of Command: Stalingrad Campaign0% of 43
  5. #54Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization6% of 67
  6. #55X-COM: UFO Defense9% of 94
  7. #56Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Warlords3% of 66
  8. #57Fantasy General II8% of 92
  9. #58Galactic Civilizations II: Ultimate Edition6% of 87
  10. #59Sid Meier's Civilization III: Complete5% of 117
  11. #60Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War11% of 296

Counted from the Steam libraries read here, by the hours Steam has on each game; free games are left out, since Steam lists one as owned only once it has been played. A game owned in only a few libraries is pulled toward the kind’s 37% as if 60 more owners had played it like the typical one, so a lucky handful can’t top the list. S is the top 8%, A the next 20%, B the next 30%, C the next 25%, D the rest.