The Best Real-time strategy Games for Xbox Series X

Update : Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew added at rank #5.
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Aliens: Dark Descent (2023)

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Playstation 4 Xbox Series X Xbox Series X/s PC Windows Playstation 5 Xbox One

In Aliens: Dark Descent, you'll command a squad of Colonial Marines to halt a horrifying Xenomorph outbreak. With open levels, strategic gameplay, and intense squad shooting, you'll be kept on the edge of your seat. Customize your soldiers, manage your resources, and outsmart the deadliest creature mankind has ever faced. Can you stop the outbreak before it's too late?


What we like:
  • Immersive gameplay with a unique twist
  • Variety of enemies and maps
  • Rewarding squad building mechanics
  • Solid sound design
  • Well-executed level and environmental design
What could be improved:
  • Unmemorable characters
  • Limited customization options

  • squad
  • real-time
  • tactical
  • strategy
  • aliens
  • stealth
  • horror
  • survival-horror

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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.


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

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The DioField Chronicle (2022)

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Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox One Xbox Series X PC Windows

A gritty and immersive story brought to life with the latest technology. Introducing "Real Time Tactical Battle" (RTTB), a new, deeply strategic, real-time battle system. The beginnings of a new Strategy RPG, crafted by a skilled and experienced development team.


  • real-time
  • rpg
  • strategy
  • tactical
  • japanese
  • battle
  • political
  • jrpg
  • combat
  • war
  • pause

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The Valiant (2022)

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PC Windows Xbox Series X Playstation 5

Join Theoderich von Akenburg and his team of warriors on an epic journey filled with adventure and danger in The Valiant. Experience immersive squad-based RTS gameplay with a variety of units, each with unique skills to unlock. With multiple game modes, including PvP and co-op, and 15 hand-crafted single-player missions, The Valiant offers endless possibilities for strategy and combat.


What we like:
  • Good story
  • Well-designed characters
  • Solid graphics and music
  • Focus on tactics and decision-making
  • Infantry charges and cavalry trample abilities are great
What could be improved:
  • Slow and dull gameplay
  • Short length of gameplay
  • Lackluster multiplayer
  • Linear story with almost no choices
  • Awful replayability

  • real-time
  • strategy
  • medieval
  • squad
  • tactical
  • competitive
  • battle
  • historical
  • multiplayer

5

Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew (2023)

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PC Windows Playstation 4 Xbox Series X/s Playstation 5 Xbox Series X

In Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew, you'll lead a supernatural pirate crew on a thrilling treasure hunt. Use their unique abilities to outsmart enemies and infiltrate fortresses. With time-manipulating powers and strategic choices, you'll become a mastermind in this vibrant, pirate-themed stealth strategy game. Uncover backstories, explore exotic islands, and plot your own path in this epic adventure.


What we like:
  • Well-structured, challenging levels
  • Unique character abilities
  • Inventive, well-paced gameplay
  • Engaging story and characters
  • Non-linear gameplay allows for strategic choices
What could be improved:
  • Slow character progression
  • Simple, unchallenging non-combat scenarios
  • Limited use of time manipulation at higher difficulty levels

  • stealth
  • tactical
  • pirates
  • real-time
  • strategy
  • pause
  • heist
  • supernatural

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SpellForce: Conquest of Eo (2023)

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Xbox One PC Windows Playstation 5 l Xbox Series X

Turn-based fantasy epic set in the world of SpellForce. Grow your influence and power and fill your grimoire with arcane knowledge. Face off against magical competitors in your hunt for ancient artefacts.


  • turn-based
  • strategy
  • tactical
  • fantasy
  • rpg
  • 4x
  • grand-strategy
  • real-time
  • lore
  • crafting
  • combat
  • narrative
  • loot
  • battle

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Warpips (2021)

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Xbox Series X Nintendo Switch Playstation 5 Playstation 4 PC Windows Xbox One

Warpips is a physics-based combat game that will keep you entertained for hours. You get to assemble your army from a variety of infantry, vehicles and airplanes, and lead them to the battlefield without the stress of micromanagement. With each round lasting between 10-20 minutes, this game is easy to learn and hard to master. You can try out various randomly generated battles with multiple replay options, unlockable upgrade tree, and multiple strategic combinations that provide a unique gaming experience.


What we like:
  • Awesome graphics and soundtrack
  • Challenging gameplay that is easy to learn
  • Multiple units and upgrades available
  • Runs smoothly on Linux
  • Good value for its price
What could be improved:
  • Repetitive gameplay
  • No multiplayer or ability to play as other side's units
  • Units are consumable and get boring quickly
  • Lack of innovation and unit diversity

  • auto-battler
  • strategy
  • resource-management
  • tower-defense
  • real-time
  • war
  • 2.5d
  • base-building
  • wargame
  • tanks
  • tactical
  • combat
  • pixel
  • physics

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Dune: Spice Wars (2022)

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early access PC Windows Xbox Series X/s Xbox Series X l

A 4X real-time strategy game from the developers of the critically acclaimed Northgard. Set in Frank Herbert’s groundbreaking Dune universe, you must lead your faction and battle for control and dominance over the harsh desert planet of Arrakis.


  • real-time
  • 4x
  • economy
  • strategy
  • political
  • diplomacy
  • tactical
  • politics
  • grand-strategy
  • military
  • resource-management
  • resource
  • base-building
  • building

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Company of Heroes 3 (2023)

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PC Windows Xbox Series X/s Android Playstation 5 Xbox Series X

Company of Heroes 3 is an explosive real-time strategy game with stunning cinematic presentation and bombastic firefights. With its wide range of content, from single-player to co-op to PvP, and its brilliantly detailed maps and animations, Company of Heroes 3 is sure to provide hours of thrilling entertainment.


What we like:
  • Dynamic campaign mode
  • Beautiful visuals
  • Variety of factions with unique abilities and upgrades
  • Interesting tactical choices in the heat of battle
  • Scripted missions with bespoke objectives
What could be improved:
  • Campaign can be too easy at times
  • Not enough multiplayer maps at launch

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

10

Dice Legacy (2021)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox One Xbox Series X

Dice Legacy is a dice-based survival city builder set on a mysterious ringworld. Your ship has reached the shore of an uncharted continent. Roll and use your dice to gather resources, expand and defend your settlement, survive the winter and interact with the strange inhabitants of this eerie world.


  • city-building
  • dice
  • rogue-like
  • real-time
  • strategy
  • survival
  • colony
  • resource
  • medieval
  • board-game
  • resource-management

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