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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.

Related: Strategy, Base Building, Multiplayer, War

1,214 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.

1,214 games

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Supremacy: 1914
Supremacy: 1914
Real-time World War I grand strategy with massive multiplayer campaigns
74% positive Free
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising
Single-player RTS with four mini-campaigns and commander challenges
85% positive 4,873 reviews
Sailing Era Demo
Sailing Era
Historical sailing RPG with trade, exploration, and naval combat
77% positive 4,820 reviews
Cold Waters
Cold Waters
Cold War submarine simulation with real-time naval battles and sonar tactics
86% positive 4,808 reviews
Zero-K
Zero-K
Free real-time strategy with physics-driven combat and terrain manipulation
93% positive Free
Anomaly: Warzone Earth
Anomaly: Warzone Earth
Reverse tower defense strategy where you guide a convoy past alien turrets
87% positive 4,693 reviews
Last Train Home Demo
Last Train Home
Real-time tactics and train management amid the Russian Civil War
86% positive 4,689 reviews
Creeper World 4 Demo
Creeper World 4
3D real-time strategy against a physics-driven flood of Creeper
94% positive 4,683 reviews
Stronghold: Warlords Demo
Stronghold: Warlords
Real-time castle-building strategy with East Asian sieges and recruitable warlords
65% positive 4,674 reviews
Total War: SHOGUN 2 - Complete Edition
Total War: SHOGUN 2 - Complete Edition
Historical grand strategy with real-time battles for control of Japan
17% positive 4,619 reviews
Warpips
Warpips
Strategy auto-battler where you deploy troops and call airstrikes
87% positive 4,583 reviews
Defense Grid: The Awakening Demo
Defense Grid: The Awakening
Sci-fi tower defense where tower placement shapes enemy routes
96% positive 4,524 reviews
Men of War: Assault Squad Demo
Men of War: Assault Squad
World War II real-time tactics with direct unit control
87% positive 4,406 reviews
Battle Realms: Zen Edition
Battle Realms: Zen Edition
Martial arts fantasy RTS where terrain and weather shape battles
88% positive 4,392 reviews
Touhou Big Big Battle
Touhou Big Big Battle
Free-to-play Touhou strategy battles with armies and collectible cards
80% positive Free
Grey Goo
Grey Goo
Sci-fi real-time strategy with base building and a mobile faction
68% positive 4,335 reviews
NEBULOUS: Fleet Command Demo
NEBULOUS: Fleet Command
Real-time space fleet tactics with detailed sensors and electronic warfare
81% positive 4,305 reviews
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
Action strategy combining mech combat, industrial construction, and alien base defense
95% positive Free
Overlord II Demo
Overlord II
Third-person fantasy action RPG about commanding minions against an empire
88% positive 4,258 reviews
Survivalist: Invisible Strain Demo
Survivalist: Invisible Strain
Open-world zombie colony sim built around relationships and survival
86% positive 4,252 reviews
Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal
Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal
Top-down tower defense against a fluid enemy that floods terrain
96% positive 4,239 reviews
STAR WARS™ Galactic Battlegrounds Saga
STAR WARS™ Galactic Battlegrounds Saga
Classic Star Wars real-time strategy with base building and large armies
92% positive 4,174 reviews
Master of Command Demo
Master of Command
Real-time tactical strategy about keeping an eighteenth-century army supplied
91% positive 4,141 reviews
Shadow Tactics: Aiko's Choice
Shadow Tactics: Aiko's Choice
Isometric stealth tactics in Edo Japan with coordinated team attacks
93% positive 4,105 reviews