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.
Risen Kingdom
Real-time strategy and settlement defense against nightly undead attacks
78% positive
459 reviews
Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown
Medieval fantasy city builder with moral choices and real-time combat
58% positive
458 reviews
Hegemony Rome: The Rise of Caesar
Real-time strategy about Caesar's war for control of Gaul
61% positive
450 reviews
Great Houses of Calderia
Feudal grand strategy with family politics and real-time battles
61% positive
444 reviews
Swarm Queen
Real-time strategy where alien bugs fight on their own
93% positive
412 reviews
Seven Kingdoms 2 HD
Isometric real-time strategy with trade, diplomacy, espionage, and conquest
81% positive
407 reviews
Commandos 3 - HD Remaster
World War II real-time tactics with commandos behind enemy lines
62% positive
400 reviews
TFC: The Fertile Crescent
Bronze Age real-time strategy built around food and fertile land
89% positive
400 reviews
Lord of the Other World
Multiplayer strategy game about building cities and trading across continents
76% positive
Free
Rift Riff
Tower defense across monster worlds with a flexible, wave-by-wave approach
95% positive
394 reviews
Jumbo Airport Story
Airport management sim about placing shops and planning international flights
91% positive
392 reviews
SpellForce 2: Faith in Destiny
Fantasy RPG and real-time strategy with quests and armies
61% positive
389 reviews
Loopstructor
Top-down tower defense with vehicles patrolling tracks you build
83% positive
384 reviews
Cossacks: Art of War
Real-time strategy with five campaigns of historical battles
82% positive
380 reviews
Extremely Realistic Siege Warfare Simulator
Physics-based siege strategy with armies you command and castles you breach
54% positive
Free
TDS - Tower Defense Strategy
Tower defense meets real-time strategy as you mine and fight
82% positive
374 reviews
Retro Commander
Post-apocalyptic real-time strategy with faction technologies and changing weather
77% positive
Free
Firefight
Top-down World War II tactics with detailed tank and infantry simulation
85% positive
372 reviews
SpellForce 2 - Demons of the Past
Fantasy RPG and real-time strategy with armies and quests
49% positive
369 reviews
Submarine Titans
Underwater real-time strategy with three factions and vertical combat
87% positive
368 reviews
Of Life and Land
Colony-building strategy game where settlements reshape living ecosystems
86% positive
367 reviews
Annihilate The Spance
Space RTS with autonomous fleets and strategic base building
90% positive
366 reviews
Skirmish Line
Top-down World War II defense with randomized Japanese assaults
88% positive
365 reviews
The White Laboratory
Physics-based tower defense where you build robots from parts
78% positive
362 reviews