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
1,319 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Demo Imagine Earth
Real-time planetary city builder balancing expansion against climate damage
82% positive
971 reviews
Battlevoid: Harbinger
Space strategy roguelike with turn-based travel and real-time fleet combat
79% positive
971 reviews
Demo Mech Engineer
Mech-building strategy simulation with resource management and semi-automated battles
73% positive
971 reviews
Ultimate General: American Revolution
Real-time Revolutionary War strategy where orders may arrive too late
54% positive
970 reviews
Galcon 2: Galactic Conquest
Multiplayer space strategy where ship swarms conquer planets in real time
84% positive
Free
Gold Gold Adventure Gold
Fantasy city-building strategy with a divine pet to train
68% positive
957 reviews
Demo Battlestations: Midway
World War II fleet strategy with direct air and sea combat
77% positive
956 reviews
Creeper World: Anniversary Edition
Top-down tower defense against a floodlike enemy that spreads across maps
97% positive
956 reviews
Dropzone
Real-time arena strategy with customizable mechs and objective-based battles
69% positive
Free
BattleGroupVR
First-person VR space strategy commanding fleets from a flagship
92% positive
951 reviews
Flesh Eaters
Real-time zombie survival strategy built around scavenging and squad defense
73% positive
948 reviews
miniBONG
Idle roguelike RPG built around loot and character customization
79% positive
942 reviews
Ancestors Legacy Free Peasant Edition
Free medieval real-time strategy built around squad-based battles
79% positive
Free
World War III: Black Gold
Near-future real-time strategy with base building and reshaped terrain
63% positive
912 reviews
Operation: New Earth
Persistent sci-fi MMO strategy with base building and territorial warfare
61% positive
Free
Rome: Total War™ - Alexander
Historical strategy expansion following Alexander's conquest of Persia
74% positive
909 reviews
Demo Mud and Blood
Top-down World War II squad tactics across procedurally generated battlefields
86% positive
905 reviews
Command & Conquer Renegade™
First-person shooter with tank combat in a strategy game's world
83% positive
904 reviews
Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter
World War II naval simulation defending convoys from U-boats
73% positive
902 reviews
Airborne Empire
Open-world city builder with a flying city and pirate battles
85% positive
902 reviews
Cultures - Northland
Viking city-building strategy with trade routes and mythological quests
86% positive
899 reviews
Mushroom Wars 2
Short real-time strategy battles with mushroom armies and hero skills
60% positive
897 reviews
Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware
Medieval city-building strategy with real-time defense against large enemy armies
92% positive
Free
Battlezone: Combat Commander
First-person shooter and real-time strategy with tanks and base building
89% positive
891 reviews