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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.

  • Continuous strategic decision-making
  • Unit and resource management
  • Real-time tactical combat

Related: Strategy, Base Building, Multiplayer, War

612 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.

War Hospital
War Hospital
Top-down hospital management with wartime triage and hard choices
61% positive 1,280 reviews
RAILGRADE
RAILGRADE
Mission-based railway strategy centered on building industrial supply chains
85% positive 1,277 reviews
Tower Factory
Tower Factory
Tower defense driven by conveyor-belt factories on procedurally generated maps
90% positive 1,257 reviews
Supreme Ruler Ultimate
Supreme Ruler Ultimate
Real-time grand strategy controlling nations from World War II onward
77% positive 1,255 reviews
NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION: Souzou
NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION: Souzou
Historical grand strategy about governing and conquering Sengoku Japan
87% positive 1,244 reviews
Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter
Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter
World War II naval simulation defending convoys from U-boats
74% positive 1,231 reviews
Cossacks II: Battle for Europe
Cossacks II: Battle for Europe
Napoleonic real-time strategy with large armies and morale-driven battles
81% positive 1,229 reviews
Attack on Toys
Attack on Toys
Toy-soldier shooting and real-time strategy with base building
93% positive 1,218 reviews
Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
World War II real-time strategy with British and German campaigns
92% positive 1,210 reviews
The Settlers: New Allies
The Settlers: New Allies
Real-time strategy with settlement building and online skirmishes
49% positive 1,210 reviews
Carrier Command: Gaea Mission
Carrier Command: Gaea Mission
Sci-fi strategy and action built around carrier-led island conquest
48% positive 1,185 reviews
Toy Soldiers: Complete
Toy Soldiers: Complete
Tower defense across miniature wars with player-controlled guns and vehicles
78% positive 1,185 reviews
Home Wars
Home Wars
Toy soldier strategy against invading bugs with first-person battles
79% positive 1,185 reviews
Line War
Line War
Real-time strategy game where drawn lines direct armies
80% positive 1,182 reviews
Yokai Art: Night Parade of One Hundred Demons
Yokai Art: Night Parade of One Hundred Demons
Grid-based tower defense against yokai with upgradeable units
89% positive 1,182 reviews
SHOGUN: Total War™ - Collection
SHOGUN: Total War™ - Collection
Historical strategy mixing turn-based conquest with real-time samurai battles
89% positive 1,180 reviews
Empire of the Ants
Empire of the Ants
Third-person real-time strategy with ant armies and forest battles
76% positive 1,167 reviews
Infectonator: Survivors
Infectonator: Survivors
Squad-based zombie survival strategy with scavenging and permanent death
67% positive 1,165 reviews
Battlezone 98 Redux
Battlezone 98 Redux
First-person tank combat and real-time strategy across the solar system
91% positive 1,143 reviews
Commandos 3: Destination Berlin
Commandos 3: Destination Berlin
Real-time tactics with stealth raids across World War II Europe
62% positive 1,138 reviews
Graviteam Tactics: Mius-Front
Graviteam Tactics: Mius-Front
World War II battalion tactics with turn-based planning and real-time battles
89% positive 1,137 reviews
Darwinia
Darwinia
Real-time strategy and action against viruses in a digital world
80% positive 1,133 reviews
Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty
Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty
Real-time World War II stealth tactics across eight missions
89% positive 1,124 reviews
Praetorians - HD Remaster
Praetorians - HD Remaster
Roman real-time strategy centered on positioning and unit combinations
92% positive 1,119 reviews