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.
Sailing Era
Historical sailing RPG with trade, exploration, and naval combat
79% positive
5,090 reviews
Command & Conquer™ 4 Tiberian Twilight
Sci-fi real-time strategy with mobile bases and class-based armies
17% positive
5,065 reviews
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation
Sci-fi real-time strategy with large armies and resource-point battles
74% positive
4,995 reviews
Overlord II
Third-person fantasy action RPG about commanding minions against an empire
89% positive
4,982 reviews
Knights and Merchants
Medieval real-time strategy focused on village economies and battles
85% positive
4,961 reviews
Silica
Sci-fi strategy shooter with top-down command and frontline combat
76% positive
4,935 reviews
Riichi City - Japanese Mahjong
Free-to-play online riichi mahjong with anime characters and detailed lessons
47% positive
Free
Stronghold 3 Gold
Medieval castle-building strategy with combat campaigns and nighttime sieges
33% positive
4,864 reviews
Shadow Tactics: Aiko's Choice
Isometric stealth tactics in Edo Japan with coordinated team attacks
93% positive
4,852 reviews
Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal
Top-down tower defense against a fluid enemy that floods terrain
96% positive
4,829 reviews
Cold Waters
Cold War submarine simulation with real-time naval battles and sonar tactics
87% positive
4,741 reviews
Creeper World 4
3D real-time strategy against a physics-driven flood of Creeper
95% positive
4,731 reviews
STAR WARS™ Galactic Battlegrounds Saga
Classic Star Wars real-time strategy with base building and large armies
91% positive
4,713 reviews
Anomaly: Warzone Earth
Reverse tower defense strategy where you guide a convoy past alien turrets
87% positive
4,693 reviews
R.U.S.E.™
World War II RTS built around bluffing and battlefield deception
96% positive
4,607 reviews
Survivalist: Invisible Strain
Open-world zombie colony sim built around relationships and survival
87% positive
4,557 reviews
Crying Suns
Space roguelite about commanding a fleet through a fallen empire
86% positive
4,551 reviews
Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance
Real-time tactics with persistent troops and scarce battlefield resources
83% positive
4,468 reviews
Wargame: Airland Battle
Cold War real-time strategy with air and ground battles
87% positive
4,455 reviews
NEBULOUS: Fleet Command
Real-time space fleet tactics with detailed sensors and electronic warfare
81% positive
4,435 reviews
Battle Realms: Zen Edition
Martial arts fantasy RTS where terrain and weather shape battles
89% positive
4,410 reviews
Zero-K
Free real-time strategy with physics-driven combat and terrain manipulation
94% positive
Free
Supremacy: 1914
Real-time World War I grand strategy with massive multiplayer campaigns
74% positive
Free
Cataclismo
Base-building strategy with modular fortresses against nightly monster attacks
89% positive
4,346 reviews