- #1 Demra: Rifts of War
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Funtraum Games
Windows
Classic 90s RTS gameplay mixed with direct hero control and grid-based real-time movement. Command your army and wield powerful light magic to fend off the demon invasion.
Why similar: Action RTS 32.8% ★, RTS 21.3%, Isometric 14.4%, Strategy 8.5%, Base Building 7.1%
- #2 MythTerra
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Svarog's Forge
Windows
The goblin tribes have descended from the wastelands, and only you can stop them. In this high-fantasy pixel art RTS, you must unite the fractured realms of humans, elves, and dwarves. Build your base, manage resources, and unleash powerful magic to defend your kingdom from the goblin horde.
Why similar: Action RTS 45.9% ★, RTS 22.5%, Strategy 11.2%, Base Building 7.6%, Medieval 3%
- #3 Forsaking Valhalla
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stemmlar Technologies
Windows
A survival RTS game where you defend your village against relentless waves of Norse mythological creatures. Build defenses, train warriors, and gather resources to survive as long as possible. If your Town Hall falls, it's game over. How long will you last?
Why similar: Action RTS 41.2% ★, RTS 20.9%, PvE 11.4%, Base Building 8.7%, Strategy 8.2%
- #4 EXITOR
96% matchNo user reviews2023
Dev: Lvl26Devs
Windows
A difficult, fast-paced action, real-time strategy game in which you embark on an exciting journey, fighting against a wide variety of dangerous enemies whilst levelling up your different characters.
Why similar: Action RTS 40.9% ★, RTS 24.7%, Strategy 14.2%, Action 6.9%, PvE 6.7%
- #5 Battle For Cosmos
94% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: Oscar Makes Games
Windows
Battle For Cosmos is a fast-paced, action-packed RTS set in space. With a focus on the battle it is perfect for those who want a thrilling and engaging strategy game without the unnecessary filler. Take control of your empire, build your defenses, and conquer the cosmos!
Why similar: Action RTS 51% ★, RTS 24.9%, Strategy 10%, PvE 7.3%, 2D 3%
- #6 Command & Conquer™ and The Covert Operations™
94% matchMostly Positive73% of 447 reviews2024
Dev: Westwood StudiosPub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 37%
The legendary RTS game which started it all. Will you side with the humanistic GDI or bring the world to its knees with Kane and the Brotherhood of Nod. Your adversaries are without mercy. And so are you.
Why similar: Action RTS 40% ★, RTS 33.4%, Strategy 18.4%, Action 8.2%
- #7 Ad Astra: Sci-Fi Tower Defense
93% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Azure Moon Games Ltd.
Windows
Lose yourself in an indie solo-dev. treasure that harkens back to arcade classics! All while thumping along to killer retro-inspired beats by Ovani sound. Embark on an epic tower defense adventure against awe-inspiring machine monstrosities, made by a devoted gamer for devoted gamers.
Why similar: Action RTS 42.5% ★, RTS 22.1%, Base Building 10.7%, Strategy 8.8%, Arcade 5.7%
- #8 Taste of Power: Medieval
92% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: OneOcean
Windows
Master the art of war in brutal action-RTS across an alternate medieval world. Lead Europe, China or the Timurids to supremacy through strategic brilliance and lightning-fast tactics. Expand your realm, advance powerful technologies and lead massive armies. DISCOVER NEW HORIZONS OF THE MEDIEVAL WARS
Why similar: Action RTS 42.7% ★, RTS 32.7%, Strategy 14.7%, Medieval 8%, Combat 1.8%
- #9 Command & Conquer Red Alert™, Counterstrike™ and The Aftermath™
91% matchMostly Positive80% of 410 reviews2024
Dev: Westwood StudiosPub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 31%
Surrender is not an option
Why similar: Action RTS 44.2% ★, RTS 27.6%, Strategy 20.8%, Action 7.4%
- #10 Cheeselords
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Paweł Murias
Windows
An RTS where you fight, build, and recruit on faraway planets. Decadent aristocrats will pay a fortune for the delicious cheese from the most alien of worlds. Armed with modern controls and your trusty army, bring home the cheddar 🧀
Why similar: Action RTS 50.7% ★, RTS 23%, Strategy 11.8%, Base Building 10%, Pixel Graphics 2.9%
- #11 Icon: Voidfall
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ArxTec
Windows
Become Arafel, The Dark, in this story-driven RTS prequel to Icon. Corrupt the Choir, spread living corruption across Atrum, evolve monstrous armies, and bring an empire to ruin as you set the stage for the coming Voidfall.
Why similar: Action RTS 41.2% ★, RTS 24.4%, Strategy 12.8%, Action 6.1%, Base Building 4%
- #12 Arise Dark Lord
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Introversion Software
Windows
You are The Dark Lord! Raise an evil army, and crush the race of men. An action-strategy hybrid RTS, blending tower defence, base building and direct control of your Dark Lord avatar, currently in early development.
Why similar: Action RTS 44.6% ★, RTS 20.7%, Strategy 10.3%, Base Building 8.5%, Demons 4.4%
- #13 Command the Dead
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: David ReidPub: Admire Digital
Windows
You are not the soldier. You are the commander. Issue orders, manage the outbreak, and hold the line before the 72-hour window closes.
Why similar: Action RTS 48.2% ★, RTS 29.1%, Strategy 17.7%, 2D 3.2%, Combat 1.9%
- #14 Galaxy Trek
88% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Peritoma Studios
Windows
Galaxy Trek is a fun, simple and addictive indie game that will test your reflexes, strategy and skill. Each game you play is unique!
Why similar: Action RTS 59.2% ★, RTS 22%, Strategy 11.1%, Action 5.1%, 2D 1.9%
- #15 Steel Command
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Smitty Games
Windows
A classic RTS featuring traditional base-building, resource-driven warfare, PvP, skirmish, and a powerful, easy-to-use Mission Editor. Build your base. Secure the ECO. Conquer the battlefield.
Why similar: Action RTS 32.7% ★, RTS 30.1%, Strategy 13.7%, Base Building 12.8%, PvE 7.8%
- #16 Rush The Towers
86% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Ian Jowe
Windows
Will you break through enemy defenses, or watch your forces fall before the towers?
Why similar: Action RTS 45% ★, RTS 27%, Strategy 16.6%, Medieval 5%, Fantasy 2.4%
- #17 Counter Clash
85% matchPositive83% of 30 reviews2025
Dev: Bjenssen
Windows
A fast-paced RTS where your decisions, not optimal builds, decide the outcome. Jump straight into explosive battles, adapt on the fly, and outplay your enemies in the heat of combat.
Why similar: Action RTS 40% ★, RTS 18.6%, Base Building 10.4%, Strategy 7.7%, PvE 7.2%
- #18 Imperium Eternal
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: EPO GamesPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Immerse yourself in the ultimate real-time strategy war game where all of human history is at your command. Create powerful empires across all eras on a scale never seen before.
Why similar: Action RTS 37% ★, RTS 23.9%, Strategy 13.3%, Isometric 11%, Base Building 7.2%
- #19 Rokatusch
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NoserverStudios
Windows
Experience this Real-time Strategy-Game from First-person view in lowpoly look. Build your fort, command armies and fight together and/or against AI or real players.
Why similar: Action RTS 36.5% ★, RTS 24.5%, Strategy 10.1%, PvE 9.6%, Base Building 8.7%
- #20 General Chaos - MAJOR SNAFU
82% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Game Refuge Inc.
Windows
"Currently, GENERAL CHAOS - MAJOR SNAFU is considerably more than halfway to the finish line! This time around, its a sprite-based, multiplayer PC Game that uses an Xbox-style Game Controller &/or Keyboard & Mouse .
Why similar: Action RTS 42.9% ★, RTS 25.7%, Strategy 16.5%, PvE 6%, Action 4.7%
- #21 Break The Run
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: WinglessPub: Win
Windows
The enemy will dodge your skills. Discern their abilities, find a way to defeat them, and stop their advance. This is a strategic action RTS where you assemble a team of four characters and battle using hundreds of different skills.
Why similar: Action RTS 43.7% ★, RTS 22.1%, PvE 19.8%, Action 10%, 2D 4.4%
- #22 The Valiant
81% matchMixed66% of 335 reviews2022
Dev: KITE GamesPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Embark on a journey of brotherhood and redemption in The Valiant, a squad-based RTS set in 13th Century Europe and the Middle East. Command and level-up your medieval knights as you fight through an epic SP campaign, then take your skills online in both cooperative and competitive MP modes.
Why similar: Action RTS 37.4% ★, RTS 29.5%, Strategy 12.6%, PvE 7.4%, Medieval 7.4%
- #23 Dim Torment
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dykeyo
Windows
Action Real-Time Strategy Zones with Turn based map mode, awaken and entrench yourself in the torment, an expansive vista of shattered memories. Inhabit your physical memories and manage them with different strategies and trials. Embrace the prison, Navigate your fate, or shatter into slumber.
Why similar: Action RTS 44.1% ★, RTS 26.3%, Strategy 14.8%, PvE 5.1%, Fantasy 2.6%
- #24 Defence of Nythrial
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fantasy Bytes Entertainment
Windows
Defence of Nythrial is a 2D, Top down, Tower Defence / Real Time Strategy Game.
Why similar: Action RTS 42.6% ★, RTS 27.5%, Strategy 15.9%, Medieval 4%, Pixel Graphics 3.2%
- #25 Glyphs Of The East
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Divider Interactive
Windows · Linux
Explore the dark, mystical land of Runetide in Glyphs of the East, a single-player real-time strategy game. Unravel ancient glyphs, harness their power, and command forces in a battle against the shadows. Master strategy and magic, as every move shapes your civilization's destiny.
Why similar: Action RTS 38.4% ★, RTS 21.7%, Isometric 11.2%, Base Building 8%, Strategy 7.7%
- #26 Mini Raid Leader
77% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2026
Dev: Ryan Swanson
Windows
Mini Raid Leader is a single-player Action RTS, in which you command an ever-growing party of heroes to take down powerful bosses.
Why similar: Action RTS 49.1% ★, RTS 11.8%, Strategy 11.2%, Isometric 9.9%, PvE 7.2%
- #27 Bacteria Wars
81% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2021
Dev: Patrick McGuinness
Windows
A real-time strategy game in which you fight to secure the victory of your Bacteria over the Cell Defense Force and other enemy Bacteria in a world where your units are your only resource, and where your mobile base will not be enough to keep you alive.
Why similar: Action RTS 37.7% ★, RTS 30.9%, Strategy 14%, Base Building 8.9%, Resource Management 2.5%
- #28 Red Chaos - The Strict Order
77% matchVery Positive85% of 92 reviews2025
Dev: Squarecut Games
Windows · Linux
The last world war didn't end conflict. The Iron Hand tyrannizes people, as the Resistance fights for liberation. In the resulting conflict high tech and brute force face off against guerrillas with unconventional tactics, leading to Red Chaos: A modern take on classic real-time strategy games.
Why similar: Action RTS 49.4% ★, RTS 25%, Isometric 9.6%, Strategy 8.6%, Base Building 7.5%
- #29 Prime Domination
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: A16
Windows
Prime Domination is a real-time strategy game where you build your base, manage finance, produce powerful military units, and battle against AI or other players in large-scale multiplayer matches with up to 10 commanders.
Why similar: Action RTS 39.2% ★, RTS 25.6%, Strategy 11.4%, Base Building 9.9%, PvE 8%
- #30 Knights vs Aliens
76% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: Prophetic Sky, IncPub: Eastbridge Game LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Command knights, aliens, and other historically dubious nations in a free real-time tower conquest game rebuilt from a 2009 iPad original. Grow armies, capture towers, and outmaneuver adaptive AI through 30 campaign levels.
Why similar: Action RTS 50.3% ★, RTS 17.9%, PvE 11.7%, Strategy 7.1%, Action 3.9%
- #31 Invasion: Phoenix
78% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: Millzen Studios
Windows
Invasion: Phoenix is a passion project by a solo developer and lifelong gamer. An alien empire hellbent on conquering Earth has arrived at our doorstep, and humanity is in total anarchy. Delve into this meticulously crafted 2D top-down pixel art RTS and sign up to reclaim Earth!
Why similar: Action RTS 42.2% ★, RTS 22%, PvE 11.9%, Strategy 8.1%, Arcade 7.8%
- #32 StarSim: BattleZone
74% matchMostly Positive70% of 10 reviews2025
Dev: Viktor Martynovsky
Windows
StarSim: BattleZone is a real-time strategy (RTS) game set in the StarSim universe. Take command of an army and lead your faction to victory. Gameplay includes classic RTS mechanics such as: building a base, gathering resources, researching new technologies, building defences, training units, etc.
Why similar: RTS 35.5%, Action RTS 24.4% ★, Strategy 16.6%, Base Building 14.7%, PvE 8.8%
- #33 Clankerfront
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lizz Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Clankerfront is a classic isometric RTS where AI research went too far and awakened the world’s home appliances against humanity. Build bases, command armies, fight solo or co-op, and defend the front from the clankers.
Why similar: Action RTS 46.2% ★, RTS 19.3%, PvE 11.5%, Isometric 9%, Base Building 6.8%
- #34 Classic Tower Defense 2
73% matchPositive96% of 25 reviews2026
Dev: Blacksmith Forge
Windows
Classic tower defense rules meet modern systems. Build medieval towers, face adaptive waves, and experiment with upgrades, modifiers, and roguelike progression.
Why similar: Action RTS 43.6% ★, RTS 25.8%, Strategy 14.1%, Base Building 4.7%, PvE 3.7%
- #35 Immortal Magus
75% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: AcroGames
Windows
Immortal Magus is a throwback to old 'artillery' games such as Scorched Earth or Pocket Tanks, but in a fantasy setting. In a simple mixture of turn-based and real-time strategy, defeat your enemy by hurling spells and summoning Units in destructible environments.
Why similar: Action RTS 45.4% ★, RTS 29.2%, Strategy 16.8%, Pixel Graphics 3.2%, 2D 3%
- #36 Retaliation Path of Kingdoms
74% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: MNZ SoftwarePub: Xteam Software Solutions srl
Windows
Path of Kingdoms is a strategy game where the player must defeat all the factions of the kingdom to reach the goal, each faction has a story that evolves as it conquers territories.
Why similar: Action RTS 46.1% ★, RTS 30.2%, Strategy 18%, Fantasy 3%, Combat 2%
- #37 Kingdom Under Fire: A War of Heroes (GOLD Edition)
73% matchVery Positive85% of 280 reviews2022
Dev: Bloom TechnologyPub: IncrediSoft
Windows
- World first to achieve a successful serverless online gaming feature by utilizing Locus Chain Blockchain technology - RPG game mode with multi-play capability - Unique RTS/RPG Hybrid
Why similar: Action RTS 41.7% ★, RTS 30.5%, Strategy 17.8%, Action 7.3%, 2D 2.7%
- #38 Sword & Banner
73% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Bitrot Games
Windows
Mount & Blade meets Total War with classic RTS controls - brought to life in pixel art. Lead your warband across a living fantasy world, raid settlements, trade goods, and fight large-scale tactical battles with formations, dynamic weather, and an army you build from peasants to knights.
Why similar: Action RTS 49.7% ★, RTS 15.3%, Strategy 8.7%, PvE 8.6%, Isometric 7.4%
- #39 Breeze of Ashes
71% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Chocolate Ship Games
Windows
Command a nomadic empire where your base is as mobile as your fleet. Capture vital sectors to dynamically terraform the battlefield. Customize capital ships, issue sector-wide doctrines, and out-macro your foes. You aren’t just fighting on the map—you are rewriting it.
Why similar: Action RTS 40.1% ★, RTS 21.2%, Isometric 12%, PvE 9.6%, Strategy 7.5%
- #40 Stronghold Siege
72% matchPositive100% of 13 reviews2024
Dev: Override
Windows
Command your army against a relentless demon horde in this intense real-time strategy game. Master strategy and resource management to conquer the enemy's stronghold while defending your own in the ultimate battle for survival.
Why similar: Action RTS 40.8% ★, RTS 23.5%, Strategy 9.4%, Demons 7%, PvE 6.9%
- #41 Drift Wars
72% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: BRZDRIFT
Windows · Linux
A new style of RTS that focuses heavily on terraforming and changing terrain to different types to overcome your opponent ! Inspired by old-school RTSes but with next-generation RTS ideas !
Why similar: Action RTS 50.5% ★, RTS 30.4%, Strategy 18.4%, Indie 0.8%
- #42 BURGGEIST
71% matchVery Positive97% of 263 reviews2024
Dev: GHRIAN STUDIO
Windows
With the walking fortress Burggeist at your command, fight back the enemies and build "the Tower."
Why similar: Action RTS 53% ★, Strategy 13.3%, PvE 12.8%, RTS 7.5%, Action 6.2%
- #43 Keep
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Parall Peak LTD
Windows
Keep is a WW2-themed strategy shooter where you place flak turrets to defend your fortress, then jump into first-person mode to shoot down enemy planes. Switch between tactical planning and direct combat in a fast-paced blend of strategy and action
Why similar: Action RTS 51.6% ★, RTS 24.7%, Base Building 10.6%, Strategy 8.6%, Action 3.1%
- #44 Critter Chaos TD
70% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Chaos Creations
Windows
Critter Chaos TD is a fast, frantic and chaotic Tower Defence game in which you must rid the world of the evil Critters. Build stations and guns to fortify your defences and prevent the various types of Critters from reaching your base.
Why similar: Action RTS 51.6% ★, RTS 22%, Strategy 11.4%, Base Building 8.7%, Pixel Graphics 2.8%
- #45 Age of Bricks
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: stoggi
Windows · Mac · Linux
A real-time strategy multiplayer classic. Build your base brick by brick, then raise an army against your friends online. Or save your friendship and team up together to defeat a hard army.
Why similar: Action RTS 40.5% ★, RTS 21.3%, PvE 8.6%, Base Building 8.6%, Isometric 7.3%
- #46 Paper Battlefield
69% matchPositive92% of 39 reviews2025
Dev: Bros Ogon's
Windows
A strategy where battles are limited only by the boundaries of the notebook! Experience a unique real-time strategy experience where every battle unfolds on the pages of a sketchbook, and all your units and structures are drawn with ink!
Why similar: Action RTS 38.7% ★, RTS 25.9%, Base Building 13%, Strategy 10.6%, PvE 8.5%
- #47 Our Last Stand
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Maurice
Windows
Our Last Stand is a tower defence game that allows you to command a powerful mech and defend against relentless waves of enemies. Play on different worlds to gather resources, unlock advanced technology, and level your commander to gain powerful new abilities. Build defend, survive.
Why similar: Action RTS 42.2% ★, RTS 27.2%, Strategy 15.6%, Base Building 7.3%, PvE 6.2%
- #48 Astra Defender
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Yokereba
Windows · Linux
Blast through enemies, build defenses, launch fighters, and upgrade your way to victory in this fast-paced space shooter/action RTS hybrid.
Why similar: Action RTS 47.9% ★, RTS 21.4%, Strategy 10.2%, Base Building 7.4%, Arcade 6.6%
- #49 Elyndorh
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Filip Gichev
Windows
Command armies of wizards, gather resources, and build magical structures to dominate the battlefield. Use powerful spells, customize your hero, and outsmart opponents in intense solo or multiplayer battles.
Why similar: Action RTS 52.6% ★, RTS 22.5%, Strategy 10.3%, Base Building 7.2%, Action 3.8%
- #50 Abyssal Dominion
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Doggy Stylez Gaming
Windows
Command gore-soaked demon armies in brutal pixel-art RTS battles! Conquer worlds match-by-match, unlock blueprints to create and evolve your unstoppable faction, and dictate victory by choosing your servants' twisted buildings
Why similar: Action RTS 44.2% ★, RTS 27.8%, Strategy 15%, Demons 6.5%, Pixel Graphics 3.3%
- #51 Songs of the Chalice
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: vodasoft_tm
Windows
Song of the Chalice is a simple 3D realtime strategy for a single player with tower defense mechanics, inspired by the events of the Hussite era (1419-1420).
Why similar: Action RTS 47.6% ★, RTS 29%, Strategy 16.1%, Medieval 4.6%, Action 2%
- #52 Necuratu
69% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: Tobop Productions
Windows
Vampire real-time strategy game. Players take on the role of the ancient vampire who has been looted and must find his loved one - and potentially cause havoc.
Why similar: Action RTS 46.2% ★, RTS 27.7%, Strategy 16.3%, Base Building 9%, Indie 0.7%
- #53 Centurion Rex
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Neguli
Windows · Mac
Command legions of dinosaur-riding roman riflemen in this historically accurate RTS.
Why similar: Action RTS 40.2% ★, RTS 22.8%, Isometric 12.2%, Strategy 9.2%, Medieval 3.7%
- #54 Random Realms Hero Under Siege
68% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: KizerGraphics
Windows
Random Realms Hero Under Siege is a fast-paced single player tower defense RTS where every match is a fresh roll of the dice. Build bases from randomized building options, lead a leveling hero and their army, and hold the line against escalating enemy waves.
Why similar: Action RTS 33.2% ★, RTS 20.3%, PvE 13.6%, Strategy 11.1%, Base Building 8.1%
- #55 Minion Slayer
69% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2022
Dev: TansanGames
Windows
Prevent the invasion of the minions that stimulate the desire for challenge and prove that you are a slayer physically and mentally.
Why similar: Action RTS 46% ★, RTS 27.5%, Strategy 13.1%, Base Building 6.7%, 2D 2.3%
- #56 RTS Outpost
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Murat Yucel
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build your base, command your army, and wage real-time PvP war on a living conquest map. Clear a frontier of monsters and alien UFOs, join a faction, team up with friends, and climb the seasonal ranks. A classic base-building RTS with modern military firepower, ad-free on desktop.
Why similar: Action RTS 41.5% ★, RTS 27.5%, Strategy 12.4%, Base Building 8.8%, PvE 6%
- #57 Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Definitive Edition
63% matchVery Positive86% of 12,609 reviews2025
Dev: Relic EntertainmentPub: Relic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 24.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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.
Why similar: Action RTS 32.6% ★, RTS 32.4%, Base Building 12.1%, Strategy 11.8%, PvE 10%