Strategy Games are one of the things the Nintendo Switch is genuinely for. The ones worth playing start with Fire Emblem Three Houses, Pikmin 4, Advance Wars 1+2 Re-Boot Camp.
A home console you can take with you, which turns out to matter more than raw power. The strongest first-party library of any modern machine, plus an indie catalogue that fits portable play perfectly.
This is one of its strengths. First-party everything — platformers, adventure, strategy RPGs, party games — and indies, which suit handheld sessions better than they suit a television.
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.
Follow the link for hand-written recommendations if you want more like it.
Follow the link for hand-written recommendations if you want more like it.
Follow the link for hand-written recommendations if you want more like it.
Follow the link for hand-written recommendations if you want more like it.
Follow the link for hand-written recommendations if you want more like it.
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.
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.
Fire Emblem Three Houses is the usual first answer, and there are 5 in the library we cover.
Yes — it is one of the things the machine is known for, and there are 5 in the library we cover.
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.
From the games this site covers on the Nintendo Switch, matched against hand-mapped gameplay categories rather than a storefront's genre tag. A page only exists where there are at least four, which is why some console and genre combinations have no page at all.
Or browse the whole Nintendo Switch library.