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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Relentless Expanse
Real-time space strategy about conquering planets with fleets of ships
88% positive
Free
三国志猛将传
Real-time strategy focused on warfare rather than domestic management
57% positive
114 reviews
Shiny Ski Resort
Ski resort management sim linking hotel expansion with competitive skiing
92% positive
114 reviews
Galactic Ruler
Pausable space strategy with empire management and planetary battles
53% positive
113 reviews
Shrot
Action-focused real-time strategy with horses, tractors, and tank battles
87% positive
113 reviews
Farm Defense
Tower defense with a crop market that changes each wave
72% positive
Free
Demo Open Wheel Manager 2
Open-wheel racing management sim with hiring, car development, and race strategy
73% positive
112 reviews
Demo Empires in Ruins
Turn-based empire management with real-time tower defense battles
70% positive
111 reviews
Attack at Dawn: North Africa
WWII wargame with real-time battles or simultaneous turn-based orders
84% positive
110 reviews
Fracture the Flag
Real-time strategy about claiming land and destroying enemy flags
67% positive
109 reviews
Demo Screeps: Arena
Programming strategy game where your code fights other players' bots
80% positive
108 reviews
Defensurvivor
Tower defense strategy with randomized survivors and timed zombie sieges
72% positive
108 reviews
Kiloton
Cold War strategy built around diplomacy, proxy wars, and nuclear escalation
96% positive
108 reviews
O.R.B: Off-World Resource Base
Space real-time strategy with fleet battles in three dimensions
79% positive
107 reviews
Element TD
Tower defense where elemental combinations determine which towers you build
74% positive
107 reviews
Defence to death
Tower defense with resource mining and click-based attacks on monsters
60% positive
107 reviews
Demo Eufloria Classic
Real-time strategy with plantlike armies competing for resources in space
71% positive
107 reviews
Demo PAGO FOREST: TOWER DEFENSE
Fantasy tower defense with lane-based battles against advancing monsters
93% positive
106 reviews
Demo The First Million
Incremental roguelike deckbuilder about combining cards to grow your income
76% positive
105 reviews
Empire Earth II: Gold Edition
Real-time strategy with empire building across thousands of years
89% positive
104 reviews
Demo ShoreTiles
Tile-based island building with real-time defense against nightly sea creatures
71% positive
104 reviews
Haegemonia: The Solon Heritage
Space real-time strategy combining empire building with fleet battles
66% positive
103 reviews
War Wind
Fantasy real-time strategy with troops carried from scenario to scenario
81% positive
Free
七雄纷争
Multiplayer strategy built around cross-server wars for cities and territory
72% positive
Free