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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 launched it at all. Across all of them it’s 51%.

S4 games
  1. #1Sid Meier's Civilization V90% of 234
  2. #2Sid Meier's Civilization VI84% of 251
  3. #3Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition87% of 62
  4. #4Total War: EMPIRE - Definitive Edition82% of 77
A12 games
  1. #5Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth85% of 54
  2. #6Total War: WARHAMMER II81% of 67
  3. #7Total War: ATTILA88% of 41
  4. #8Total War: MEDIEVAL II - Definitive Edition77% of 77
  5. #9Sid Meier's Civilization VII87% of 30
  6. #10Total War: WARHAMMER70% of 84
  7. #11Frozen Synapse Prime82% of 33
  8. #12Total War: NAPOLEON - Definitive Edition74% of 53
  9. #13ENDLESS Space™ - Definitive Edition66% of 115
  10. #14Total War: THREE KINGDOMS79% of 33
  11. #15Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes78% of 32
  12. #16Eador. Masters of the Broken World71% of 52
B18 games
  1. #17Rome: Total War68% of 65
  2. #18Warlock - Master of the Arcane68% of 57
  3. #19Galactic Civilizations III68% of 44
  4. #20Legends of Eisenwald71% of 31
  5. #21Small World69% of 35
  6. #22Armello63% of 70
  7. #23Niche - a genetics survival game64% of 53
  8. #24ENDLESS Space™ 259% of 83
  9. #25King's Bounty: Warriors of the North63% of 38
  10. #26Age of Wonders III56% of 152
  11. #27King's Bounty: The Legend60% of 42
  12. #28The Battle of Polytopia61% of 31
  13. #29Total War: WARHAMMER III53% of 119
  14. #30HUMANKIND™54% of 56
  15. #31Heroes of Might & Magic III - HD Edition55% of 33
  16. #32Interplanetary: Enhanced Edition48% of 52
  17. #33Ozymandias47% of 38
  18. #34Terraformers45% of 33
C15 games
  1. #35Age of Wonders: Planetfall46% of 46
  2. #36Total War: SHOGUN 247% of 186
  3. #37Old World42% of 52
  4. #38ENDLESS Legend™45% of 167
  5. #39Interplanetary40% of 52
  6. #40Faeria38% of 66
  7. #41Sid Meier's Civilization IV37% of 76
  8. #42Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword35% of 66
  9. #43Hero's Hour23% of 40
  10. #44Hexarchy21% of 38
  11. #45Rome: Total War - Alexander23% of 44
  12. #46Etherlords II7% of 30

And 3 more: King's Bounty: Crossworlds, King's Bounty: Dark Side, X-COM: UFO Defense.

D11 games
  1. #50Sigma Theory3% of 30
  2. #51Through The Darkest of Times6% of 33
  3. #52Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization19% of 67
  4. #53Galactic Civilizations II: Ultimate Edition22% of 87
  5. #54Galactic Civilizations I: Ultimate Edition9% of 46
  6. #55Sid Meier's Civilization III: Complete22% of 117
  7. #56King's Bounty: Armored Princess5% of 42
  8. #57Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Warlords11% of 66
  9. #58Unity of Command: Stalingrad Campaign0% of 43
  10. #59Fantasy General II10% of 92
  11. #60Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War19% 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 51% 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.