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
1,318 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition
Real-time strategy with desert city building and castle siege warfare
91% positive
11K reviews
Kingdom Rush Frontiers - Tower Defense
Fantasy tower defense with upgradeable towers, heroes, and tough bosses
96% positive
11K reviews
Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion
Real-time space strategy blending empire management with large fleet battles
93% positive
11K reviews
Stronghold Kingdoms
Medieval MMO strategy about building castles and ruling through factions
63% positive
Free
Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance
Large-scale sci-fi RTS with base building and massive armies
96% positive
10K reviews
Tempest Rising
Base-building RTS about rival factions fighting over mysterious vines
87% positive
10K reviews
Stronghold: Definitive Edition
Medieval castle-building RTS balancing settlement economics and siege warfare
86% positive
10K reviews
Tropico 5
Island city builder where your ruling dynasty spans centuries
79% positive
10K reviews
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2
Real-time space strategy built around fleet-scale Warhammer 40,000 battles
73% positive
10K reviews
Castle Story
Castle-building strategy game with crumbling structures on floating islands
68% positive
10K reviews
Planetbase
Single-player space colony sim about building a self-sufficient outpost
79% positive
9,927 reviews
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Stormgate
Top-down real-time strategy with base building and three warring factions
49% positive
Free
Age of Darkness: Final Stand
Dark fantasy RTS about building defenses against massive hordes
74% positive
9,898 reviews
Starship Troopers: Terran Command
Single-player sci-fi RTS about holding ground against endless bug swarms
87% positive
9,511 reviews
Demo The King is Watching
Roguelite kingdom defense where workers only work while you watch
85% positive
9,447 reviews
Terra Invicta
Solar-system grand strategy about factions shaping humanity's alien response
79% positive
9,429 reviews
Norland
Medieval colony sim about noble families, politics, and survival
79% positive
9,410 reviews
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Anniversary Edition (Classic)
Sci-fi real-time strategy with squad combat, cover, and morale
95% positive
9,327 reviews
Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars™
Sci-fi real-time strategy with three campaigns and live-action storytelling
89% positive
9,302 reviews
Stronghold HD (2012)
Medieval strategy game about building castles and surviving sieges
95% positive
9,282 reviews
Halo Wars: Definitive Edition
Accessible sci-fi RTS with base building and large-army battles
92% positive
9,176 reviews
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Kingdoms Reborn
Medieval city builder with card-based growth and multiplayer kingdoms
89% positive
9,164 reviews
Natural Selection 2
Team-based sci-fi shooter mixing marine-alien combat with real-time strategy
85% positive
9,044 reviews
Colony Survival
Colony-building survival game with workers and nightly monster attacks
91% positive
8,894 reviews