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.
Age of Mythology: Retold
Mythological real-time strategy with base building and god powers
90% positive
24K reviews
ENDLESS Space™ 2
Turn-based space 4X with distinct factions and political management
83% positive
23K reviews
Going Medieval
Medieval colony sim with multilevel building and siege defense
89% positive
21K reviews
Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)
Medieval real-time strategy built around desert castles and sieges
97% positive
21K reviews
Brutal Legend
Open-world action adventure mixing heavy metal and troop battles
93% positive
20K reviews
Victoria II
Historical grand strategy built around politics, industry, and population
92% positive
20K reviews
Wargame: Red Dragon
Large-scale Cold War RTS with land, air, and naval combat
89% positive
20K reviews
Mechabellum
Tactical mech auto-battler built around positioning and unit counters
84% positive
19K reviews
Aliens: Dark Descent
Real-time squad tactics where every marine death is permanent
88% positive
19K reviews
Age of History 3
Single-player grand strategy across history and the far future
85% positive
19K reviews
Company of Heroes
World War II RTS built around cover and destructible battlefields
94% positive
19K reviews
Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War
Combat-focused turn-based 4X warfare in the Warhammer 40,000 universe
82% positive
19K reviews
Dungeons 3
Dungeon-building strategy with real-time invasions of the surface world
94% positive
19K reviews
Infection Free Zone
Zombie survival city builder set on real-world street maps
81% positive
19K reviews
Stronghold Crusader 2
Medieval real-time strategy mixing castle building, sieges, and desert economies
72% positive
18K reviews
Dawn of Man
Prehistoric survival city builder spanning the Stone to Iron Age
87% positive
18K reviews
IXION
Space station survival city-builder with punishing resource management
79% positive
18K reviews
Rome: Total War™ - Collection
Turn-based Roman conquest campaigns with real-time battles and barbarian invasions
95% positive
17K reviews
Desperados III
Isometric Wild West stealth tactics built around coordinated takedowns
97% positive
17K reviews
Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion
Real-time space strategy blending empire management with large fleet battles
93% positive
16K reviews
Cossacks 3
Historical real-time strategy with vast armies and economic management
82% positive
16K reviews
WARNO
Cold War real-time tactics with customizable NATO and Warsaw Pact forces
80% positive
16K reviews
Command & Conquer™ Red Alert™ 3
Alternate-history RTS with three factions and land, air, naval warfare
85% positive
16K reviews
Iron Harvest
Alternate-history RTS with base building and dieselpunk mech warfare
73% positive
16K reviews