The Best Real-time Games for Playstation 4

Update : Cyber Tower added at rank #30.
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Aliens: Dark Descent (2023)

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

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 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

3

Tooth and Tail (2017)

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90
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Playstation 4 Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Lead the revolution with an army of flamethrowing Boars, mustard gas-lobbing Skunks, and paratrooper-puking Owls. Tooth and Tail is a Real-Time-Strategy game featuring Single Player, Online Competitive Play, Split Screen, Replays, and more. Build a base, lead your army, eat your enemies!


  • real-time
  • strategy
  • multiplayer
  • pixel
  • war
  • resource
  • battle
  • political
  • controller-support

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Death Crown (2019)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Xbox One Playstation 4

Death Crown is a minimalist real time strategy game in a 1bit style, where you will be play Death herself, commanding her legions of death, and punishing humanity's Kingdom for its overconfidence.


  • real-time
  • minimalist
  • strategy
  • cooperative
  • local
  • fantasy
  • hex
  • tower-defense
  • base-building
  • pixel
  • dark
  • war
  • atmospheric
  • building
  • grid

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Tower of Time (2018)

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PC Windows Linux Xbox One Nintendo Switch Playstation 4

Tower of Time is a story-rich dungeon crawler with innovative real time combat. Set in the world of Artaria, you play as an anonymous character who has no name and seemingly little history. Explore the Tower with your party, discover various narrative threads that tie back to the present and foreshadow the future. With RPG tropes such as upgrading buildings to level up your heroes, finding blueprints and crafting special equipment also included, Tower of Time offers an incredibly varied gaming experience.


What we like:
  • Innovative real time combat system
  • Story-rich narrative
  • Varied team members with unique skills
  • Deep exploration encourages full discovery
  • RPG tropes included
What could be improved:
  • Occasional graphical hitches
  • No shortcut to select all heroes at once

  • rpg
  • real-time
  • pause
  • combat
  • dungeon-crawler
  • tactical
  • story
  • old-school
  • classic
  • strategy
  • battle
  • exploration
  • fight

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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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Minecraft Legends (2023)

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IOS iPhone PC Windows Playstation 5 Xbox Series X/s Playstation 4 Xbox One Nintendo Switch

Discover the mysteries of Minecraft Legends, a new action strategy game. Explore a gentle land of rich resources and lush biomes on the brink of destruction. The ravaging piglins have arrived, and it’s up to you to inspire your allies and lead them in strategic battles to save the Overworld!


  • strategy
  • real-time
  • battle
  • cooperative
  • tactical
  • resource
  • action-strategy
  • multiplayer
  • action

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Iron Harvest (2020)

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PC Windows Playstation 4

A classic real-time strategy game with an epic single player campaign, multiplayer & coop, set in the alternate reality of 1920+


  • mech
  • real-time
  • strategy
  • alternate
  • cover
  • tactical
  • war

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Desperados III (2020)

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PC Windows Playstation 4 Xbox One Mac OS Linux

Get ready to lead a gang of unique characters through a gripping story-driven tactical adventure in the Wild West. With stunning environments and countless ways to overcome obstacles, Desperados III offers a clean and satisfying stealth-strategy gameplay that rewards experimentation and strategic thinking. Explore the liberty to choose multiple paths and approaches to each situation while you plan your moves carefully.


What we like:
  • Clean and satisfying stealth-strategy gameplay
  • Multiple ways to approach each situation
  • Good level design
  • Fun characters with unique abilities
  • Wild West setting adds a unique twist to the genre
What could be improved:
  • Frequent need for quick saving and loading( if you are like me )
  • Limited enemy types
  • Some characters are less enjoyable to play as

  • stealth
  • tactical
  • real-time
  • western
  • isometric
  • strategy

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Legendary Heroes (2022)

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Xbox One Nintendo Switch IOS iPhone Android PC Windows Playstation 4

Legendary Heroes is a real-time RPG/strategy game with MOBA elements. Protect your towers and crush your opponents!


  • moba
  • real-time
  • rpg
  • tower-defense
  • action-adventure
  • tactical
  • magic
  • strategy
  • casual
  • action
  • 3d
  • fantasy
  • 4x

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