The best strategy games like Final Fantasy Tactics Advance are Final Fantasy Tactics, Final Fantasy Tactics A2 and Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark. Below are 9, each with the reason it is here — and, at the end, what filtering to strategy costs you.
Filtering to strategy means you want to be making decisions rather than executing them. It is the right filter when what you liked was the planning.
What you get: Losing that teaches you something. A good strategy game makes the reason you lost legible, so the next attempt is different rather than just longer.
What made Final Fantasy Tactics Advance worth playing in the first place is covered on the full list. This page is the strategy part of that answer, and only the strategy part.
The original, harder and far darker, and the deepest job system in the genre.
The direct sequel, with the law system rebuilt to be fair.
An indie built directly on Final Fantasy Tactics with a kinder difficulty.
Systems-heavy tactics from the same designers.
The genre's current standard, with the roster-building to match.
Modern turn-based tactics with a serious story.
The best new tactical RPG in years.
Squad-based tactics with a campaign long enough to live in.
Tactics where taking your turn means driving the unit under fire.
Pace and immediacy. Strategy games are slow by design, and the good ones expect you to sit with a screen for a while before anything happens.
The full list is on games like Final Fantasy Tactics Advance — 9 picks, no genre filter.
Final Fantasy Tactics. The original, harder and far darker, and the deepest job system in the genre.
No. Final Fantasy Tactics Advance released on the Game Boy Advance, but a recommendation is only useful if you can play it, so the picks above span platforms and eras. What they share is the genre and the reason.
Scale. Tactics is one battle, unit by unit. Strategy is the campaign around it — economy, territory, and which battles to fight at all.
Turn-based ones, yes; the genre started on consoles. Real-time strategy is genuinely worse without a mouse, with a handful of exceptions built for the pad.
By hand. Each pick was written for the full Final Fantasy Tactics Advance list first, on what the game actually does, and this page is the part of that list that is strategy — never a genre tag lookup, which is how "best racing games like Super Mario 64" used to be a page on this site.
Or read the strategy guide for where to start in the genre generally.