The Best Real-time strategy Games - Page 5

Update : Subterfuge added at rank #1.
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Total War: Warhammer III (2022)

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Mac OS Linux PC Windows

The cataclysmic conclusion to the Total War: WARHAMMER trilogy is here. Rally your forces and step into the Realm of Chaos, a dimension of mind-bending horror where the very fate of the world will be decided. Will you conquer your Daemons… or command them?


  • strategy
  • real-time
  • grand-strategy
  • tactical
  • dwarves
  • fantasy
  • turn-based
  • dark
  • cooperative
  • war

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Age of Empires IV (2021)

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Xbox One) PC Windows (Xbox Series X/s Xbox Series X/s Xbox One

Age of Empires IV is an immersive real-time strategy game set in the medieval age, featuring 8 diverse civilizations, three ways to win a match, challenge missions and stunning visuals and audio designs. Players can choose their difficulty level and explore documentary-driven campaigns or team up with friends for AI battles or online multiplayer matches.


What we like:
  • Intuitive UI
  • Realistic units & weapons
  • Three ways to win a match
  • Stunning visuals & audio designs
  • Challenge missions
  • Documentary-driven campaigns
  • Team up with friends for AI battles or online multiplayer matches
  • Educational elements
What could be improved:
  • Minor issues with HUD and unpolished animations

  • real-time
  • strategy
  • historical
  • battle
  • economy
  • military
  • resource

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The Riftbreaker (2021)

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Xbox Series X PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 4 Playstation 5

The Riftbreaker is a base building, survival game with action RPG elements that borrows from a lot of other games. Play as Ashley S. Nowak and enter the hostile planet Galatea 37 in your powerful Mecha-suit to build a base and defend yourself against thousands of creatures trying to eliminate you. The Riftbreaker offers high-quality graphics, great sound and music, flexible custom difficulty settings, varied biomes, and hours of gameplay that provides endless replayability.


What we like:
  • Good storyline and rewarding gaming experience
  • Customizable gameplay options
  • Hours of gameplay with almost endless replayability
  • Exciting and balanced base building, resource gathering, and combat
  • High-quality graphics, great sound and music
What could be improved:
  • Fairly demanding on PC
  • Lacks gameplay depth in research and weaponry
  • Cumbersome weapon and armor upgrades

  • survival
  • base-building
  • strategy
  • real-time
  • tower-defense
  • mech
  • resource-management
  • resource
  • rpg
  • cooperative
  • aliens
  • action
  • economy
  • building
  • shooter

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Grand Tactician: The Civil War 1861-1865 (2021)

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PC Windows

Take command of the Union or the Confederacy. Prepare your nation for war, recruit and organize great armies and fleets under legendary commanders like Grant, Lee, Jackson or Farragut, plan cunning maneuvers on an epic campaign map and defeat your enemies in real-time battles!


  • tactical
  • economy
  • historical
  • strategy
  • real-time
  • naval
  • hardcore
  • war
  • battle
  • grand-strategy
  • run-of-the-mill
  • combat
  • wargame
  • trains

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Carrier Command 2 (2021)

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Mac OS PC Windows

Carrier Command 2 is the real-time strategy game that puts you in command of a futuristic carrier capable of deploying a vast array of aircraft and amphibious units. Compete against AI or human players and hop into every single vehicle to take matters into your own hands!

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  • real-time
  • strategy
  • grand-strategy
  • wargame
  • simulation
  • vehicle
  • first-person
  • futuristic
  • tactical
  • 3d
  • pvp
  • character
  • war
  • action-adventure
  • management

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Blitzkrieg 2 Anthology (2021)

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PC Windows

Return to the bloody battlefields of World War II in this epic sequel. Blitzkrieg 2 returns you to the gritty realism of WWII battles while pushing your focus into new, strategic opportunities during global war!


  • world-war-2
  • real-time
  • strategy
  • tactical
  • historical
  • military
  • battle
  • war
  • europe
  • tanks

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Total War: Rome Remastered (2021)

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Linux PC Windows Mac OS

Total War: ROME REMASTERED lets you relive the legacy that defined the award-winning strategy game series. Remastered to 4K with multiple improvements to visuals as well as refinements to gameplay, it’s time to revisit a true classic. Not everyone gets a second chance to conquer the Roman Empire.

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  • strategy
  • battle
  • real-time
  • historical
  • tactical
  • turn-based
  • war
  • empire
  • military
  • grand-strategy
  • naval
  • economy

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Stronghold: Warlords (2021)

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PC Windows Mac OS

Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!


  • real-time
  • economy
  • strategy
  • medieval
  • military
  • city-building
  • historical
  • colony
  • simulation
  • building
  • tactical

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The Unexpected Quest (2020)

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PC Windows j Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch Mac OS Android Xbox One Linux

"The Unexpected Quest" is a strategy and management simulation game that takes place in a fantasy world where you play as a group of dwarves trying to rebuild their lives after a shipwreck. The game features fun gameplay mechanics with puzzles and the ability to strategize.


What we like:
  • Fun gameplay mechanics
  • Engaging puzzles
  • Strategy element
What could be improved:
  • Combat can be unsatisfying
  • Limited replay value

  • time-management
  • real-time
  • strategy
  • clicker
  • management
  • fantasy
  • same-adventure
  • medieval
  • base-building
  • city-building
  • building
  • sims
  • point-and-click
  • exploration
  • adventure

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ICBM (2020)

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Android PC Windows

ICBM is a real-time strategy game of nuclear destruction. Research new technologies, build up your nuclear stockpile and use a combination of ships, planes and missiles to strike at the heart of your opponents’ cities while keeping your population safe from harm.


  • real-time
  • cold
  • war
  • outbreak
  • tactical
  • destruction
  • naval
  • strategy
  • submarine
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • moddable
  • pvp
  • manipulation
  • time

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