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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.

Related: Strategy, Base Building, Multiplayer, War

1,318 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.

1,318 games

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Knights of Honor II: Sovereign
Knights of Honor II: Sovereign
Real-time medieval grand strategy with court management and tactical battles
76% positive 5,198 reviews
Company of Heroes - Legacy Edition Demo
Company of Heroes - Legacy Edition
World War II strategy with cover-based squads and destructible terrain
92% positive 5,064 reviews
Command & Conquer™ 4 Tiberian Twilight
Command & Conquer™ 4 Tiberian Twilight
Sci-fi real-time strategy with mobile bases and class-based armies
16% positive 5,016 reviews
Steel Division: Normandy 44
Steel Division: Normandy 44
Real-time strategy commanding World War II divisions in Normandy
73% positive 4,990 reviews
Total War: PHARAOH DYNASTIES
Total War: PHARAOH DYNASTIES
Bronze Age strategy combining turn-based campaigns with real-time battles
77% positive 4,986 reviews
Pioneers of Pagonia
Pioneers of Pagonia
Fantasy colony sim with visible supply chains and four-player co-op
81% positive 4,943 reviews
Supremacy: 1914
Supremacy: 1914
Real-time World War I grand strategy with massive multiplayer campaigns
74% positive Free
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising
Single-player RTS with four mini-campaigns and commander challenges
85% positive 4,873 reviews
Sailing Era Demo
Sailing Era
Historical sailing RPG with trade, exploration, and naval combat
77% positive 4,820 reviews
Cold Waters
Cold Waters
Cold War submarine simulation with real-time naval battles and sonar tactics
86% positive 4,808 reviews
Silica AI
Silica
Sci-fi strategy shooter with top-down command and frontline combat
75% positive 4,787 reviews
Zero-K
Zero-K
Free real-time strategy with physics-driven combat and terrain manipulation
93% positive Free
Anomaly: Warzone Earth
Anomaly: Warzone Earth
Reverse tower defense strategy where you guide a convoy past alien turrets
87% positive 4,693 reviews
Last Train Home Demo
Last Train Home
Real-time tactics and train management amid the Russian Civil War
86% positive 4,689 reviews
Creeper World 4 Demo
Creeper World 4
3D real-time strategy against a physics-driven flood of Creeper
94% positive 4,683 reviews
Stronghold: Warlords Demo
Stronghold: Warlords
Real-time castle-building strategy with East Asian sieges and recruitable warlords
65% positive 4,674 reviews
Total War: SHOGUN 2 - Complete Edition
Total War: SHOGUN 2 - Complete Edition
Historical grand strategy with real-time battles for control of Japan
17% positive 4,619 reviews
Warpips
Warpips
Strategy auto-battler where you deploy troops and call airstrikes
87% positive 4,583 reviews
Defense Grid: The Awakening Demo
Defense Grid: The Awakening
Sci-fi tower defense where tower placement shapes enemy routes
96% positive 4,524 reviews
Men of War: Assault Squad Demo
Men of War: Assault Squad
World War II real-time tactics with direct unit control
87% positive 4,406 reviews
Battle Realms: Zen Edition
Battle Realms: Zen Edition
Martial arts fantasy RTS where terrain and weather shape battles
88% positive 4,392 reviews
Touhou Big Big Battle
Touhou Big Big Battle
Free-to-play Touhou strategy battles with armies and collectible cards
80% positive Free
Grey Goo
Grey Goo
Sci-fi real-time strategy with base building and a mobile faction
68% positive 4,335 reviews
NEBULOUS: Fleet Command Demo
NEBULOUS: Fleet Command
Real-time space fleet tactics with detailed sensors and electronic warfare
81% positive 4,305 reviews