Best Real-Time with Pause games on PC

Star Trek: Outposts Unknown

Colony-building strategy across alien worlds in the Star Trek universe

45% positive 198 reviews

Serpent in the Staglands

Party-based fantasy RPG with classless builds and no quest markers

63% positive 184 reviews

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Artist Life Simulator

A survival card game about making art and staying sane

79% positive 179 reviews

Everyone Dies

Solo first-person shooter about surviving endless waves of zombies

78% positive Free

Close Combat - Panthers in the Fog

World War II strategy linking Mortain operations to real-time battles

74% positive 174 reviews

Best Plumber

Top-down pipe puzzles where you race to route water

70% positive 168 reviews

Strategy & Tactics: Dark Ages

Turn-based board-game strategy with armies from an alternate Middle Ages

62% positive 165 reviews

Russian Roads

Off-road racing with Russian cars on dirt and mud

70% positive 162 reviews

For The Glory: A Europa Universalis Game

Historical grand strategy spanning centuries of diplomacy, trade, and war

73% positive 157 reviews

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Riot Operator

Real-time riot management with police deployments, formations, and medical support

27% positive 157 reviews

Deep Among the Swarm

Survival RTS where fueling a drill unleashes monster swarms

87% positive 141 reviews

Brigade E5: New Jagged Union

Squad-based tactical strategy with real-time combat and queued commands

76% positive 139 reviews

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Ceres

Tactical space RPG with squadron combat and ship hacking

51% positive 136 reviews

Holy Potatoes! A Spy Story?!

Spy agency management sim with genetically engineered potato agents

64% positive 135 reviews

Repterra

Base-building survival strategy with dinosaur swarms and rideable allies

89% positive 133 reviews

A-Train PC Classic

Railway management simulation where transport networks shape growing towns

73% positive 125 reviews

Smart City Plan

City builder balancing urban growth, public transport, and local laws

69% positive 124 reviews

Pocket Harvest

Farming management sim combining crop production with rural tourism

86% positive 124 reviews

BARRICADEZ

Side-scrolling tower defense about protecting a child from nightly hordes

78% positive 121 reviews

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Elengard: Ascension

Real-time-with-pause fantasy RPG with automatic or manually controlled attacks

75% positive 120 reviews

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Lord of Rigel

Turn-based space empire strategy with pausable real-time fleet battles

69% positive 119 reviews

Oh! Edo Towns

A town-building simulation with building combos in Edo-period Japan

87% positive 119 reviews

Civitatem

Medieval village builder with seasonal hazards, skilled workers, and raids

60% positive 117 reviews

TETRUX: Online

Falling-block puzzles with competitive play locally and online

86% positive 113 reviews