The Best Real-time strategy Games

Update, : Minecraft Legends added at rank #49.
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BattleZone 98 Redux (2016)

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PC Windows IOS iPhone Mac OS

One of the greatest sci-fi strategy games of all time returns with remastered visuals, online multiplayer and near unlimited mod content from Steam Workshop. Experience thrilling first person action and acclaimed RTS in this explosive alternate vision of the 1960s space race.


  • tanks
  • strategy
  • first-person
  • real-time
  • 1990s
  • shooter
  • classic
  • cult
  • sci-fi
  • slap-fight
  • battle
  • booby-traps
  • stargate
  • alternate
  • cover-up

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Battle Realms: Zen Edition (2019)

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early access PC Windows

Return of the Classic, now remastered! Battle Realms is a fantasy RTS inspired by the stories told in martial- arts movies and oriental mythology. Develop your peasants into a highly trained and deadly efficient clan of warriors who are ready to die with your name on their lips.

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  • strategy
  • real-time
  • horses
  • resource

3

Dungeons 3 (2017)

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PC Windows Linux Mac OS Playstation 4 Xbox One

In Dungeons 3, you are a Dungeon Lord who has enlisted the help of the dark elf Thalya to defeat the forces of good. Build your own underground dungeon filled with traps and structures, and raise an army with creatures such as orcs and zombies. With randomly generated levels and a new co-op mode, this dungeon sim offers endless hours of fun for any evil conqueror.


Pros:
  • Fun dungeon building mechanics
  • Above-ground combat adds variety
  • Lots of Easter eggs and pop culture references
  • Great narrator
  • Fun to play with a partner or friend
Cons:
  • Some cringy jokes
  • Mechanics can feel a bit dumbed down
  • Graphics are decent but not amazing

  • dungeon
  • strategy
  • simulation
  • real-time
  • cooperative
  • management
  • protagonist
  • dark
  • comedy
  • funny

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Age of Mythology: Extended Edition (2014)

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Mac OS PC Windows

Age of Mythology is back! Choose your god and take to the battlefield in this classic, upgraded with full Steamworks integration and enhanced features.

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  • real-time
  • mythology
  • strategy
  • resource
  • historical
  • military
  • buildings
  • online
  • economy
  • single-player
  • nostalgia

5

Stronghold Legends (2009)

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PC Windows

Catapult werewolves over castle walls, incinerate troops with dragon fire and command the Knights of the Round Table! This remaster of the mythical ‘castle sim’ features Steam multiplayer, Workshop support, new maps, achievements and DLC campaigns.


  • real-time
  • medieval
  • castle-building
  • strategy
  • dragon
  • economy
  • fantasy
  • colony
  • simulation
  • city-building

6

SpellForce (2006)

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PC Windows IOS iPhone

Included in the Platinum Edition are three titles:SpellForce: The Order of DawnIn a world beyond imagination...In their immeasurable greed and constant thirst for power, the thirteen most powerful Mages of all time doomed the land, hurling it into an endless spiral of chaos and despair.


  • strategy
  • rpg
  • real-time
  • fantasy

7

DEFCON (2006)

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PC Windows Linux Mac OS

Inspired by the 1983 cult classic film, Wargames, DEFCON superbly evokes the tension, paranoia and suspicion of the Cold War era, playing on the fascinating aspects of psychological gameplay that occur during strategic nuclear warfare. You play a General hidden deep within an underground bunker.


  • real-time
  • strategy
  • war
  • multiplayer
  • military
  • submarine
  • online
  • atmospheric
  • naval
  • survival
  • tactical
  • resource
  • cold
  • full-scale
  • real-world

8

Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath (2008)

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PC Windows Xbox One Xbox 360

In the name of Kane! The Command & Conquer™ series continues to thrive with Command & Conquer™ 3: Kane’s Wrath. As the expansion pack to the critically-acclaimed and fan favorite, Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars™, this Real-time Strategy (RTS) game returns to the Tiberium Universe with Kane at the center of an epic new...


  • real-time
  • strategy
  • tanks

9

Airships: Conquer the Skies (2018)

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Linux PC Windows Mac OS

Construct mighty steampunk airships and fly them into battle, waging war and conquering the skies!


  • grand-strategy
  • real-time
  • naval
  • steampunk
  • strategy
  • i
  • wargame
  • 4x
  • authentic
  • pvp
  • data-driven
  • cooperative
  • mech
  • combat
  • tanks

10

Halo Wars 2 (2017)

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Xbox 360 PC Windows Xbox One

After decades adrift and declared “lost with all hands,” the brave crew of the UNSC Spirit of Fire are mysteriously awoken above an ancient Forerunner haven known as the Ark. In Halo Wars 2, Captain Cutter and his crew will face one of humanity’s most formidable threats yet: The Banished – a fierce and powerful Brute faction led by a cunning and lethal warrior known as Atriox. Halo Wars 2 delivers real-time strategy at the speed of Halo combat. Get ready to lead armies of Spartans and other Halo fighting forces like Warthogs, Scorpions and exciting new units in a brutal war against a terrifying new enemy on the biggest Halo battlefield yet.


  • real-time
  • strategy
  • card
  • battle
  • multiplayer
  • first-person
  • shooter

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