The Best Real-time Games

Update : Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War added at rank #1.
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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War (2025)

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PC Windows

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Definitive Edition is the ultimate Dawn of War experience, featuring the original Dawn of War and all its expansions, along with enhanced visuals, an improved camera, and 64-bit platform support.


  • real-time
  • strategy
  • warhammer-40k
  • tactical
  • battle
  • squad
  • resource
  • tabletop

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Space Menace 2 (2025)

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IOS iPhone Android PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Start small, expand your fleet, and rise to power as you navigate a galaxy full of opportunity and danger. This simple, non-traditional sci-fi RTS and space combat game offers strategic gameplay, evolving challenges, and satisfying ship customization through a variety of modules and upgrades.


  • real-time
  • strategy
  • tactical
  • mouse
  • touch-friendly
  • moddable
  • spaceships
  • sci-fi
  • pause

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Stronghold Crusader (2025)

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PC Windows

Gird your loins and sharpen your steel! Besiege 20 unique enemy lords and battle friends online, in this expanded remaster of the classic 'castle sim'. Relive history with new units, opponents, visuals, audio, campaigns, skirmish trails, co-op and larger maps.


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

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Broken Arrow (2025)

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Broken Arrow is a large-scale real-time modern warfare tactics game that combines the complexity of joint-forces wargaming with action-packed real-time tactics gameplay.

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  • real-time
  • strategy
  • tactical
  • wargame
  • modern
  • military
  • deckbuilder
  • war
  • tanks
  • realistic
  • simulated

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Final Outpost (2025)

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Android PC Windows IOS iPhone Mac OS Linux

Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?


  • real-time
  • colony
  • base-building
  • strategy
  • zombies
  • city-building
  • resource-management
  • survival
  • tower-defense
  • economy
  • simulation
  • building
  • post-apocalyptic
  • management

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Stick Infinite Kingdom (2025)

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IOS iPhone Android PC Windows

Master strategic gameplay as you build, train, and upgrade units to protect your statue and king. Switch between leaders, unlock chests, and compete on the leaderboard. With an immersive storyline, stunning visuals, and easy controls, it's an epic battle for survival!


  • real-time
  • strategy
  • tower-defense
  • heart-pounding
  • linear
  • third-person
  • discovery
  • action
  • magic
  • 3d
  • rich
  • anime
  • medieval
  • story
  • narrative

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Legacy of Sin ill-boding (2025)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

The world as we knew it no longer exists. Join the few remaining survivors, lead them, and build your city, feed your people and organize your defenses to survive the hordes of enemies attacking your kingdom, mankind's last kingdom, our hope. Can you turn a small village into a great realm?

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  • tactical
  • real-time
  • city-building
  • grand-strategy
  • strategy
  • tower-defense
  • rpg
  • agriculture
  • board-game
  • wargame
  • isometric
  • turn-based
  • building
  • anime
  • dungeon-crawler

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Rift Riff (2025)

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IOS iPhone Android Linux PC Windows Mac OS

Jump a rift, fight off monsters, plunder their world. A strategic mix of juicy tower loadouts, varied monster behaviors, and forgiving mechanics.


  • tower-defense
  • real-time
  • strategy
  • nonlinear
  • base-building
  • pve
  • minimalist
  • isometric
  • post-apocalyptic
  • pause

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Knights of the Crusades (2025)

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early access PC Windows

Travel to the Holy Land with the First Crusades. Rise from a humble knight to the founding father of a world-spanning holy order. Lead through war, faith, diplomacy, and cunning schemes. Experience a unique blend of RTS, city-building, and sandbox gameplay, and shape history!

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  • real-time
  • city-building
  • grand-strategy
  • strategy
  • sandbox
  • wargame
  • diplomacy
  • base-building
  • 4x
  • medieval
  • simulation

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Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware (2025)

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PC Windows

Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware is a free prequel to the original game. In a medieval fantasy world, you are to build settlements, raise huge armies, and defend against massive hordes of enemies. Learn how Ironbrow clan shaped the world's map the first time - if you survive, that is.

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  • colony
  • city-building
  • strategy
  • real-time
  • base-building
  • tower-defense
  • rts-game
  • building
  • economy
  • medieval
  • simulation
  • management
  • 3d
  • resource-management

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