1# Total War: WARHAMMER - 2016
Windows
Mac
Addictive turn-based empire-building with colossal, real-time battles, all set in a world of legendary heroes, giant monsters, flying creatures and storms of magical power.
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The best 50 Real-time Strategy games daily generated by our specialised A.I. comparing over 40 000 video games across all platforms for Android, IOS (iPhone / iPad), Win Mobile, PS4 (Playstation 4), Xbox One, Switch, PC Windows, Mac OS and Linux. The order in this selection is not absolute, but the best games tends to be up in the list.
The latest addition in this selection are Bad North released the 30 December 2018 and ranked #41, HOST released the 1 July 2018 and ranked #33, Ancestors Legacy released the 21 May 2018 and ranked #3.
2# Homeworld Remastered Collection - 2015
Windows
Mac
Experience the epic space strategy games that redefined the RTS genre. Control your fleet and build an armada across more than 30 single-player missions. Choose unit types, fleet formations and flight tactics for each strategic situation.
3# Ancestors Legacy - 2018
Windows
One
The game combines resource management and base building with large-scale, squad-based battles across vast battlefields, all rendered in great detail thanks to the Unreal Engine 4 tech. Choosing one of the four available nations Viking, Anglo-Saxon, German, Slav you will be tasked with more than just conquering, raiding and pillaging enemy camps, villages and towns. Only by utilizing the full range of available tactical options, taking strategic advantage of the environment, and managing your temporary bases and settlements, will you emerge victorious.
4# StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void - 2015
Windows
Mac
The Warp Prism, the trademark Protoss air transport, now has the ability to pick up units at a longer, safe range, but still must get on point to unload any cargo or deploy its psionic field utilized to warp-in Protoss units. As for new units, the Protoss receive the Adept, a Gateway / Warp Gate unit which excels against light class units like the Terran Marine or Zerg Hydralisk and can use 'Psionic Transfer', creating a psionic copy of the unit to which the Adept teleports after a few seconds, favoring hit-and-run tactics. For new units, the Terrans receive the Cyclone, a Factory-built unit that uses its missile launcher system to lock on to targets and fire at both ground and air targets while moving, similar to the Protoss Phoenix. For new units, the Zerg receive the Ravager, an evolution from Roaches (akin to Lurkers from Hydralisks and Banelings from Zerglings) and can use a 'Corrosive Bile' special ability that acts like 'focused artillery', focusing a specific location and dealing damage to anything it hits, including air units.
5# Rise - 2016
Mac
Windows
Android
One
PS4
Experience our music-driven platform adventure and aim for the highest score! You can even use your own music! Go on a metaphysical journey to the sky and beyond collecting war letters for a loved one.
6# Tooth and Tail - 2017
Mac
Windows
PS4
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!
7# Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III - 2017
Windows
Mac
In Dawn of War III you will have no choice but to face your foes when a catastrophic weapon is found on the mysterious world of Acheron. With war raging and the planet under siege by the armies of greedy Ork warlord Gorgutz, ambitious Eldar seer Macha, and mighty Space Marine commander Gabriel Angelos, supremacy must ultimately be suspended for survival.
8# Infested Planet - 2014
Windows
Mac
Command a team of 5 elite soldiers against an alien horde of 100,000. Surrounded on all sides, you must outmaneuver and outsmart the enemy.
9# Northgard - 2017
Windows
Mac
After years of tireless explorations, brave Vikings have discovered a new land filled with mystery, danger and riches: Northgard. The boldest Northmen have set sail to explore and conquer these new shores, bring fame to their Clan and write history through conquest, trading, or devotion to the Gods. - Build your settlement on the newly discovered continent of Northgard - Assign your vikings to various jobs (Farmer, Warrior, Sailor, Loremaster...) - Manage your resources carefully and survive harsh winters and vicious foes - Expand and discover new territory with unique strategic opportunities - Achieve different victory conditions (Conquest, Fame, Lore, Trading...) - Play against your friends or against an AI with different difficulty levels and personalities
10# Company of Heroes - 2006
Windows
Mac
Command the company that changed the face of history! Battle your way across Europe as your troops make intuitive use of the terrain and buildings for cover and mount attacks on an equally intelligent enemy. Your Mission. Your Men. Your Decisions.
11# Grey Goo - 2015
Windows
Grey Goo is a real-time strategy (RTS) game that combines classic strategy mechanics and a balanced combat system with an emphasis on large-scale decision-making.
12# Halo Wars 2 - 2017
Windows
One
Its the Halo experience youve dreamed of controlling entire armies of Marines, Warthogs, Scorpion tanks, and Spartans on the battlefield from the Commanders point of view. Halo Wars 2 is a real-time strategy game playable in native 4K Ultra HD graphics with HDR on the Xbox One X and Windows 10. Players will command overwhelming firepower in large-scale battles against a terrifying threat facing the UNSC and all of humanity.
13# Interloper - 2015
Mac
Windows
Interloper is an online multiplayer real-time strategy game with matches that take only 5 minutes. Instead of destroying your opponent, you win by claiming domain. By predicting your opponent's movements, you corner them to claim the entire map.
14# Majesty - 2015
Mac
Windows
Android
Win
Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim is a real-time strategy video game developed by Cyberlore Studios, and published by MicroProse for Windows in March 2000. Infogrames released the expansion pack Majesty: The Northern Expansion for Windows in March 2001, and Majesty Gold Edition, a compilation for Windows bundling Majesty and The Northern Expansion, in January 2002. Linux Game Publishing released a Linux port of Majesty Gold Edition in April 2003. Majesty Gold Edition was re-released by Paradox Interactive under the name Majesty Gold HD Edition in March 2012, adding support for higher resolutions and including two downloadable quests that were incompatible with the original release of Majesty: The Northern Expansion.
15# Ultimate General: Gettysburg - 2015
Windows
Mac
A Tactical Battle Simulator that allows you to command thousands of soldiers as a Union or Confederate General. The game features the most accurately created map, a non-linear battle campaign, complex morale, innovative control mechanics and smart AI.
16# War Planet Online: Global Conquest - 2017
Windows
Android
Win
Build your army, dominate your region and lead your alliance to conquer the globe!
17# Ant Raid - 2011
Windows
Android
Jump into the hilarious story of an ant colony trying to survive swarms of fellow insects, mutated into mindless monsters! - Slide To Play (score: 4/4, "Must Have") ------------------ "Ant Raid shows how sneaky the casual RTS is. "
18# Mushroom Wars - 2013
Windows
Mushroom Wars is a dynamic real-time strategy game, where smart strategy meets furious action in epic PvP and PvE battles.
19# Pikmin 3 - 2013
Explore an alien world like no other in the third edition of Nintendo's strategic adventure series. In Pikmin 3, players take command of three explorers and a legion of adorable Pikmin in a fight for survival. By employing the unique abilities of these tiny Pikmin creatures, players will solve puzzles, battle dangerous predators, and recover food needed to save the explorers’ depleted home planet.
20# Little King's Story - 2009
Windows
Your are the new king, Corobo who have the power to charm people and make them follow orders. Manage your empire and go on an adventure meet dangerous enemies, including boss battles, in this cute fantasy simulation.
21# Battlefleet Gothic: Armada - 2016
Windows
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada is the RTS videogame adaptation of Games Workshop’s classic tabletop game, pitting the Chaos, Imperium, Eldar, and Orks against each other in visceral space-battles.
22# 8-Bit Armies - 2016
Windows
PS4
8-Bit Armies is a retro Real-Time Strategy game. With a colorful, blocky voxel art style, 8-Bit Armies is Petroglyph's most fast-paced, friendly, and accessible RTS game to date. Featuring a campaign of 25 single-player missions, 10 co-op missions, multiplayer and skirmish modes.
23# Ashes of the Singularity - 2016
Windows
From the people who brought you Sins of a Solar Empire comes a new massive real-time strategy game, Ashes of the Singularity. Take command of an interstellar empire as you battle across the surface of entire worlds.
24# AI War: Fleet Command - 2009
Windows
Mac
"You are outgunned. You are massively outnumbered. You must win." These are your orders. Humanity has already fought its war against the machines -- and lost. AI death squads stand watch over every planet and every wormhole, the few remaining human settlements are held captive in orbiting bubbles, and the AIs have turned their...
25# Auralux: Constellations - 2016
Windows
Android
Auralux: Constellations is the awaited sequel to Auralux, the critically acclaimed minimalistic Real Time Strategy game. Explore a dozen new gameplay mechanics through each constellation, one new feature at a time. It's Real-Time Strategy, deconstructed.
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