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.
Rise of Nations: Extended Edition
Historical real-time strategy spanning ancient cities to modern warfare
95% positive
16K reviews
Age of Empires: Definitive Edition
Historical real-time strategy about building civilizations and conquering rivals
84% positive
16K reviews
A Total War Saga: THRONES OF BRITANNIA
Historical grand strategy across Viking-age Britain with real-time battles
71% positive
15K reviews
Kingdom Heroes 8
Three Kingdoms strategy RPG with large real-time battlefield clashes
54% positive
15K reviews
Planetary Annihilation: TITANS
Large-scale sci-fi RTS battles spanning multiple destructible planets
84% positive
15K reviews
Tropico 5
Island city builder where your ruling dynasty spans centuries
79% positive
14K reviews
Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance
Large-scale sci-fi RTS with base building and massive armies
97% positive
14K reviews
Bad North: Jotunn Edition
Real-time tactics roguelite about defending islands from Viking raids
93% positive
14K reviews
Homeworld Remastered Collection
Space real-time strategy across two remastered fleet campaigns
88% positive
14K reviews
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Anniversary Edition (Classic)
Squad-based real-time strategy with tactical combat and RPG progression
88% positive
14K reviews
Total War: ROME REMASTERED
Historical grand strategy combining turn-based empire management with real-time battles
77% positive
14K reviews
Outpost: Infinity Siege
First-person shooting and tower defense with loot-driven outpost building
65% positive
14K reviews
Door Kickers 2: Task Force North
Top-down real-time tactics built around planning close-quarters raids
96% positive
14K reviews
Dune: Spice Wars
Real-time 4X strategy mixing spice economics, politics, espionage, and war
79% positive
14K reviews
Natural Selection 2
Team-based sci-fi shooter mixing marine-alien combat with real-time strategy
85% positive
13K reviews
Evil Genius 2: World Domination
Satirical spy-fi strategy game about building and defending an evil lair
69% positive
13K reviews
Supreme Commander 2
Large-scale sci-fi RTS with customizable armies and researchable war machines
88% positive
13K reviews
From the Depths
Physics-based combat sandbox for building customizable ships and aircraft
89% positive
13K reviews
Tropico 4
Caribbean city builder mixing economic management with political satire
92% positive
13K reviews
Anno 2070™
Near-future city builder centered on island economies and environmental choices
60% positive
13K reviews
Diplomacy is Not an Option
Medieval base-building RTS against relentless hordes of enemies
86% positive
13K reviews
Freeman: Guerrilla Warfare
Sandbox strategy shooter combining squad command with first-person firefights
64% positive
12K reviews
Mitos.is: The Game
Free-to-play multiplayer survival game where cells grow by eating others
81% positive
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Starship Troopers: Terran Command
Single-player sci-fi RTS about holding ground against endless bug swarms
87% positive
12K reviews