Best RTS games on PC
Real-time strategy games center on making strategic decisions while action continues without fixed turns, often through controlling units, gathering resources, building bases, and directing combat.
- Continuous strategic decision-making
- Unit and resource management
- Real-time tactical combat
Related: Strategy, Base Building, Multiplayer, War
1,214 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Distant Worlds: Universe
Pausable real-time space strategy with sprawling galaxies and automated commerce
71% positive
1,492 reviews
Nebuchadnezzar
Mesopotamian city builder centered on trade and supply chains
79% positive
1,487 reviews
StarDrive
Real-time space strategy with custom ships and galactic conquest
45% positive
1,485 reviews
Demo Ground of Aces – The World War II Airbase Builder
A World War II base builder focused on aircraft and crews
82% positive
1,482 reviews
Port Royale 4
Caribbean trade strategy with colony building and turn-based naval battles
57% positive
1,446 reviews
Frontline 1942: Battles of the World War 2
Free-to-play World War II shooter centered on team objectives
56% positive
Free
SpellForce 3 Fallen God
Real-time strategy and role-playing about a troll tribe's survival
86% positive
1,392 reviews
Army Men RTS
Real-time strategy battles between plastic soldiers across household spaces
88% positive
1,388 reviews
Executive Assault
Real-time strategy with first-person control of robots, tanks, and aircraft
85% positive
1,379 reviews
ZeroSpace
Sci-fi real-time strategy mixing army battles with role-playing choices
79% positive
1,366 reviews
Toy Shire: Room One
Tower defense with toy soldiers and attacks on enemy territory
94% positive
Free
We Are The Dwarves
Real-time tactical adventure with dwarf astronauts and time-slowing squad commands
78% positive
1,356 reviews
Command & Conquer™ Tiberian Sun™ and Firestorm™
Real-time strategy with destructible terrain and units that gain experience
90% positive
1,352 reviews
Big Bia
Turn-based strategy roguelite where anything can end up as food
72% positive
1,341 reviews
ICBM: Escalation
Global real-time strategy with diplomacy, invasions, and nuclear escalation
83% positive
1,332 reviews
CastleStorm
Real-time castle defense with aimed artillery and physics-based destruction
90% positive
1,316 reviews
Men of War: Assault Squad 2 - Cold War
Cold War real-time strategy with randomized U.S. and Soviet campaigns
26% positive
1,287 reviews
Dungeon Keeper™ 2
Dungeon-building strategy game about managing monsters and repelling heroes
92% positive
1,284 reviews
Supreme Ruler Ultimate
Real-time grand strategy controlling nations from World War II onward
77% positive
1,283 reviews
Home Wars
Toy soldier strategy against invading bugs with first-person battles
76% positive
1,278 reviews
Imperial Glory
Turn-based empire strategy with real-time land and naval battles
77% positive
1,276 reviews
OpenFront
Real-time strategy with hundreds of players sharing a world map
85% positive
1,269 reviews
Demo Tower Factory
Tower defense driven by conveyor-belt factories on procedurally generated maps
88% positive
1,253 reviews
Majesty 2
Fantasy real-time strategy with independent heroes steered by gold
68% positive
1,251 reviews