The Best Real-time strategy Games for Android

Update, : Spellsword added at rank #44.
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Northgard (2018)

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Join the Viking explorers in Northgard, a new land filled with danger, riches, and mystery. Assemble your settlement, assign your vikings to various jobs, and manage your resources carefully to survive harsh winters and fend off vicious beasts. Expand, conquer, trade or become a God in a game that offers unique strategies and victory conditions. With multi-level AI and dedicated servers, you can play against your friends and grind your way up to the final Norse God rank.


Pro:
  • Fun and addicting RTS game
  • Focuses on core mechanics of building and expanding settlement with minimal micromanagement
  • Offers a less time-consuming experience compared to other RTS games
  • Immersive atmosphere with breathtaking landscapes
  • Challenges players to think strategically and make tough decisions
Cons:
  • Slow-paced gameplay for RTS games
  • Inconsistent balancing with some clans being overpowered
  • Low playerbase

  • strategy
  • real-time
  • city-building
  • trading
  • resource-management
  • military
  • mythology
  • tile
  • vikings
  • simulation
  • management
  • 4x
  • base-building
  • multiplayer
  • war

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Company of Heroes (2006)

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PC Windows Android IOS iPhone

Delivering a visceral WWII gaming experience, Company of Heroes redefines RTS by bringing the sacrifice of heroic soldiers, war-ravaged environments, and dynamic battlefields to life. Please visit the "Company of Heroes - Legacy Edition" page for additional user reviews.


  • strategy
  • real-time
  • world-war-2
  • tactical
  • tanks
  • war
  • artillery
  • battle
  • squad
  • cover
  • resource

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The Riftbreaker (2021)

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Xbox Series X PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Android

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.

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Pro:
  • 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
Cons:
  • Fairly demanding on PC
  • Lacks gameplay depth in research and weaponry
  • Cumbersome weapon and armor upgrades

  • survival
  • base-building
  • tower-defense
  • resource-management
  • mech
  • real-time
  • strategy
  • rpg
  • bullet-hell
  • aliens
  • top-down
  • action
  • resource
  • shooter
  • arpg

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Total War: MEDIEVAL II (2022)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows Android IOS iPhone

Spanning the most turbulent era in Western history, your quest for territory and power takes you through Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and even onto the shores of the New World.

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  • real-time
  • turn-based
  • strategy
  • empire
  • medieval
  • tactical
  • mech
  • battlefield
  • war
  • resource
  • battle
  • waves

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Iron Marines (2017)

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IOS iPhone Android Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Real-time strategy battles in amazing sci-fi worlds! Command brave soldiers, mighty mechas and powerful aliens to face the greatest challenges in hostile alien worlds. The galaxy needs you!

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  • real-time
  • strategy
  • cartoony
  • aliens
  • space
  • sci-fi
  • 2d
  • comedy
  • tower-defense
  • military

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ICBM (2020)

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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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Iron Marines Invasion (2022)

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Iron Marines Invasion is an immersive and thrilling real-time strategy game that will put you in the shoes of a galactic commander battling against an existential threat to space-faring life. You'll have to deploy and command a wide variety of units that attacks all on their own, while also building base defenses that work well in combination. With twice as many levels as the original game, Iron Marines Invasion offers you an expansive campaign to planet hop and fight in new locales.

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Pro:
  • Immersive gameplay
  • Wide variety of units to command
  • Real-time battles
  • Twice as many levels as the original game
  • Thrilling setpiece battles
Cons:
  • Confusing level navigation menu
  • Fewer ways to customize progression through the game
  • Fewer base game unit packs available
  • Some unit duplication in roles
  • Attempts to monetize players too heavily with additional purchases

  • real-time
  • strategy
  • tactical
  • dungeon-eering
  • driller
  • squad
  • all-time
  • retro-futuristic

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Rusted Warfare - RTS (2020)

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{{An RTS inspired by the classics of the past!}} Making up for it's subpar retro graphics with fun gameplay and modern multi-threaded tech enabling huge battles to run smooth... Featuring singleplayer challenges, skirmish, sandbox, 10-player multiplayer & workshop modding.

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  • real-time
  • strategy
  • base-building
  • sandbox
  • moddable
  • 10-player
  • pause
  • multiplayer

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Command & Conquer: Rivals PVP (2018)

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Greetings, players! As part of this update, we’ve fixed some behind-the-battleground issues that may have affected your game. Thanks for playing.

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  • real-time
  • strategy
  • tanks
  • tactical
  • battle

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Element (2018)

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Xbox 360 Xbox One PC Windows Android Linux Mac OS IOS iPhone Nintendo Switch

Element is a realtime strategy space game for people who don't have time to play realtime strategy space games. Generate energy, mine element, build attack and defence units, and destroy the enemy while maintaining a balance between earth, air and water.

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  • strategy
  • 4x
  • real-time
  • wargame
  • destruction
  • post-apocalyptic
  • grand-strategy
  • base-building
  • resource
  • space
  • tactical
  • sci-fi
  • building
  • fantasy
  • war

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