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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.

GUILTY GEAR 2 -OVERTURE-
3D action strategy battles with frontline combat and troop commands
75% positive 535 reviews
Cultures - 8th Wonder of the World
Viking settlement strategy with trade routes and developing fighters
83% positive 524 reviews
Dark Future: Blood Red States (Classic)
Real-time car combat tactics with slow-motion orders and upgrades
62% positive 512 reviews
Sudden Strike Gold
World War II real-time strategy with large, destructible battlefields
88% positive 511 reviews
Builders of Egypt
Ancient Egyptian city builder balancing trade, temples, and defense
33% positive 509 reviews
Creeper World 2: Anniversary Edition
Side-view tower defense where digging helps contain a flowing enemy
90% positive 506 reviews
Darfall
Fantasy real-time strategy with daytime building and nighttime undead attacks
72% positive 504 reviews
Kingdom Under Fire: Heroes
Fantasy action strategy with hero combat and regiment command
76% positive 503 reviews
Ancient Wars: Sparta Definitive Edition
Ancient-world real-time strategy with customizable troops and naval battles
75% positive 496 reviews
Close Combat - Gateway to Caen
World War II tactical wargame spanning battles and campaigns near Caen
70% positive 495 reviews
Codename: Panzers, Phase One
World War II real-time strategy focused on tactical unit combat
91% positive 493 reviews
Romance of the Three Kingdoms XII with Power Up Kit
Historical strategy about rival warlords and real-time army battles
74% positive 493 reviews
Final Assault
VR World War II strategy with direct unit commands and airstrikes
92% positive 490 reviews
Metal Fatigue
Sci-fi real-time strategy with customizable mechs and three-layer battlefields
94% positive 486 reviews
Worbital
Real-time space strategy with planetary artillery and shifting gravity
89% positive 485 reviews
Winter Falling: Battle Tactics
Real-time medieval army tactics with pausable battles and campaign decisions
90% positive 485 reviews
Fleet Command
Real-time naval strategy with fleets of ships, aircraft, and submarines
88% positive 480 reviews
Mob Factory
Dungeon tower defense where enemy drops fuel automated factories
73% positive 478 reviews
Stalingrad
World War II real-time strategy across German and Soviet campaigns
87% positive 471 reviews
Control Craft 2
Real-time strategy with rapid troop commands and base captures
76% positive 469 reviews
Night is Coming
Colony survival strategy with nighttime monsters and temporary settlements
63% positive 469 reviews
Star Wolves
Mission-based space strategy RPG about leading a bounty hunter crew
84% positive 466 reviews
Final Upgrade
Space factory-building strategy game with custom ships and automated supply chains
76% positive 465 reviews
Space Reign
Space combat strategy with direct ship control and fleet commands
74% positive 460 reviews