- #1 DSS 2: War Industry
96% matchVery Positive84% of 187 reviews2025
Dev: vikingfabian
Windows · Linux
In this real-time grand strategy game, command armies, build cities, and manage a dynamic economy. Establish automated supply routes within your territory to streamline production. Fortify your defenses and brace for intense battles. Can you lead your empire to dominance?
Why similar: Wargame 26.2%, RTS 21.9%, City Builder 15.5%, Medieval 9.8%, Procedural Generation 9.5%
- #2 Diplomacy is Not an Option
95% matchVery Positive86% of 12,512 reviews2024
Dev: Door 407
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Diplomacy is Not an Option is a strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Build your town and defenses, raise huge armies and fight against massive hordes of enemies. How long can you survive?
Why similar: RTS 16.2%, Base Building 14.5%, Resource Management 14.1%, Medieval 12.6%, Historical 12.4%
- #3 Ancestors Legacy
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,643 reviews2018
Dev: Destructive Creations
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Ancestors Legacy is a squad-based real time strategy with a strong focus on tactics. Inspired by medieval European history, it brings to life four different nations and their conflicts, usually solved by war.
Why similar: RTS 36.9%, Strategy 17.5%, Medieval 16.2%, Historical 11.7%, Tactical 8.3%
- #4 Cossacks 3
94% matchVery Positive82% of 16,115 reviews2016
Dev: GSC Game World
Windows · Linux
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 50.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Cossacks 3 is the return of RTS classics. Obtain resources, build cities and research technologies while taking command of great armies, crushing enemies in grand historical warfares on land and sea!
Why similar: RTS 27.4%, Isometric 13.4%, City Builder 12.9%, Base Building 11.8%, Strategy 11.5%
- #5 Stronghold: Warlords
94% matchMixed65% of 5,310 reviews2021
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!
Why similar: RTS 17.3%, City Builder 15.6%, Real Time Tactics 11.3%, Isometric 10.5%, Base Building 9.5%
- #6 War Selection
93% matchVery Positive85% of 23,502 reviews2019
Dev: Glyph Worlds
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 70%
War Selection is a compelling RTS game featuring base building, resource extraction and warfare. Evolve from a stone age tribe to a distinct industrial nation with unique game mechanics and battle for supremacy with dozens of players on a unique procedurally generated map.
Why similar: RTS 34.2%, Base Building 21.7%, Strategy 13.9%, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Military 11.2%
- #7 Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition
92% matchVery Positive86% of 95,309 reviews2021
Dev: World's EdgePub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 14.3 hrsMean: 77.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Celebrating its first year of delighting millions of global players, the award-winning and best-selling strategy franchise continues with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition, putting you at the center of even more epic historical battles that shaped the world.
Why similar: RTS 31%, Base Building 13.8%, Strategy 12.3%, City Builder 11.8%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #8 Mandate Order
91% matchMostly Positive77% of 897 reviews2026
Dev: Digital Sky
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Mandate Order is a Warring States war city-builder set in ancient China. Build a stronghold, manage industries and logistics, recruit scholars from the Hundred Schools of Thought, raise armies, and command real-time tactical battles with thousands of soldiers.
Why similar: Wargame 18.9%, RTS 16.9%, City Builder 14.6%, Base Building 9.5%, Military 8.8%
- #9 Ancient Wars: Medieval Crusades
91% matchVery Positive83% of 90 reviews2024
Dev: JOTASOFT STUDIOS
Windows
New Real Time Strategy Game based on medieval times, where you will control powerful factions and empires, with large-scale epic battles, asymmetric civilizations, unit customization system with RPG elements, dynamic AI, 8K support and much more.
Why similar: RTS 23.8%, Wargame 22.8%, City Builder 15.5%, Real Time Tactics 11.2%, Historical 8.4%
- #10 Empires Apart
90% matchMixed68% of 2,492 reviews2018
Dev: DESTINYbitPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 61%
An exciting free-to-play Real Time Strategy game set in medieval times. Uniquely designed factions, customization options, singleplayer and multiplayer gameplay. Gather resources, raise an army and lead your civilization to victory in a classic RTS, brought to the modern age.
Why similar: RTS 42.1%, Strategy 16%, Real Time Tactics 13.9%, Historical 9.5%, Tactical 8.7%
- #11 Dawn of Ages
89% matchMixed56% of 214 reviews2025
Dev: Stratosphere GamesPub: BoomBit
Windows
Experience authentic medieval warfare. Command vast armies in brutal mass battles, utilizing diverse weapons and tactics. Embark on historical campaigns against rival kingdoms or challenge real opponents in epic PvP wars.
Why similar: Medieval 33.2%, Strategy 24%, Historical 22.2%, Tactical 17.8%, Singleplayer 2.8%
- #12 Call to Arms
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 24,122 reviews2018
Dev: Digitalmindsoft
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Call to Arms offers an innovative mix of real-time strategy and 3rd, as well as 1st person controls. Set in the time of modern warfare, the game offers realistically modeled vehicles and heavy weaponry. Command your troops to victory or fight by yourself in the 3rd or 1st person action mode.
Why similar: RTS 37.9%, Military 21.7%, Strategy 21%, Tactical 10.3%, Third Person 4.6%
- #13 Master of Command
86% matchVery Positive92% of 3,925 reviews2025
Dev: Armchair Interactive
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Take command in Europe's greatest 18th-century war. Equip & customize regiments, manage supplies, and engage in brutal real-time battles across procedural campaigns. Resources and replacements are scarce, and keeping your best men alive may matter more than any single victory.
Why similar: RTS 21.9%, Wargame 18.7%, Military 10.9%, Real Time Tactics 10.7%, Historical 10.1%
- #14 Kingdom Wars 4
88% matchMixed66% of 240 reviews2021
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 39%
It's 1347, the time of the Hundred Years' War. In this historical grand strategy and RTS hybrid you play as one of 200 minor lords across medieval Europe, Africa or Middle East. Rise up to take over your Kingdom and be crowned, then fight to preserve your empire as Black Death descends on Europe.
Why similar: RTS 20%, Wargame 19.3%, City Builder 13%, Real Time Tactics 9.4%, Base Building 8.8%
- #15 Renaissance Kingdom Wars
86% matchMostly Positive72% of 170 reviews2024
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
The year is 1510. As wars rage across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, it is the age of gunpowder and mercenaries - that changed the course of history. You can do it as well, going from a leader of men to the ruler of an empire in this unique mix of RTS and grand strategy.
Why similar: Wargame 18.7%, RTS 18.2%, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Base Building 8.5%, Real Time Tactics 8.2%
- #16 Faces of War
87% matchVery Positive88% of 1,212 reviews2014
Dev: Best WayPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Faces of War puts you in the heart of World War II – not as a distant commander, but as the leader on the ground. Combining the tactical depth of real-time strategy with the immediacy of direct control, it lets you issue precise orders or jump straight into battle as one of your soldiers.
Why similar: RTS 56.8%, Strategy 37.7%, Action 5.5%
- #17 Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront
85% matchVery Positive85% of 33,822 reviews2021
Dev: Barbedwire StudiosPub: Digitalmindsoft
Windows
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 77.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Call to Arms - Gates of Hell is a realistic RTS/ RTT game that offers endless replay value. Command all types of troops in historical singleplayer, dynamic campaign, PvP and PvE battles. Are you ready for some serious immersion in World War 2?
Why similar: RTS 26.9%, Real Time Tactics 15.2%, Online Co-Op 14.6%, Historical 12.3%, Military 11.4%
- #18 Ukrainian Warfare: Gostomel Heroes
83% matchVery Positive91% of 1,904 reviews2026
Dev: Cats Who Play
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Ukrainian Warfare: Gostomel Heroes – is a real-time strategy game with a high degree of realism. Relive the Battle of Kiev (2022), a turning point in the Ukrainian conflict. Witness the Untold Story of 2022 Through the Eyes of Those Who Fought.
Why similar: Wargame 29%, RTS 25.9%, Real Time Tactics 13.9%, Military 9%, Historical 8.4%
- #19 Medieval Kingdom Wars
84% matchMostly Positive76% of 2,615 reviews2019
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Rewrite medieval history through bloody siege combat in a fusion of RTS and Grand Strategy genres. Rule, build, and serve your King as a minor lord in medieval Europe. Experience siege, field and naval combat with an unseen degree of brutality. Rogue-like progression, epic towns and battles await…
Why similar: RTS 23.8%, Wargame 21.6%, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 12.3%, Real Time Tactics 10.6%
- #20 Syrian Warfare
84% matchVery Positive87% of 5,573 reviews2017
Dev: Cats Who Play
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Real Time Strategy with a high degree of realism. The game is based on a true story.
Why similar: RTS 25.7%, Wargame 24.2%, Real Time Tactics 13.6%, Military 12.1%, Historical 9%
- #21 City States: Medieval
82% matchMixed64% of 53 reviews2026
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
You are the leader of a city-state in high medieval Europe. Expand your city through deep city-building systems, build a trade empire across the known world, and lead men to war to defend trade routes in a high-stakes struggle of global strategy and brutal warfare.
Why similar: RTS 22.1%, Wargame 19.5%, City Builder 13.7%, Strategy 8.5%, Base Building 7.5%
- #22 Sudden Strike 5
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 771 reviews2026
Dev: Kite GamesPub: Kalypso Media
Windows
Sudden Strike 5 delivers real-time tactics in epic WWII battles. A host of tactical options and more than 300 playable units open-up multiple approaches to reach your objectives in a 25 mission campaign on historical battlefields in Europe and North Africa.
Why similar: RTS 25%, Wargame 19.4%, Isometric 15.4%, Real Time Tactics 9.3%, Military 8.8%
- #23 Knights of the Crusades
81% matchMixed70% of 181 reviews2025
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
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!
Why similar: RTS 25.6%, Wargame 21.7%, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 10.3%, Medieval 8.6%
- #24 Iron Harvest
79% matchMostly Positive73% of 15,957 reviews2020
Dev: KING ArtPub: Prime Matter
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
A classic real-time strategy game with an epic single player campaign, multiplayer & coop, set in the alternate reality of 1920+
Why similar: RTS 49.8%, Base Building 20.2%, Online Co-Op 13.8%, Strategy 13.8%, Action 1.5%
- #25 TFC: The Fertile Crescent
78% matchVery Positive89% of 392 reviews2024
Dev: Wield InteractivePub: MicroProse Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Gather resources, build your base, and lead your people to victory in this captivating reimagining of classic RTS, set in the Bronze Age. Secure fertile land, fend off raids, and stockpile food to generate knowledge and unlock powerful village advancements.
Why similar: RTS 20.5%, City Builder 15.1%, Isometric 12.5%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Base Building 11.5%
- #26 Becastled
77% matchVery Positive82% of 5,597 reviews2025
Dev: Mana Potion Studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build a castle by day and defend it by night. Becastled blends cozy city-building with challenging tower defense strategy. Lead the Sun Kingdom’s last stand against the Moon Beasts and end the ancient conflict between light and darkness!
Why similar: RTS 22.8%, Base Building 20.7%, City Builder 18.8%, Strategy 10.9%, Medieval 10.3%
- #27 Coronation
80% matchMixed64% of 107 reviews2021
Dev: Twin Sword Studio
Windows
Coronation, an online medieval sandbox with player-built settlements, dungeons & economy.
Why similar: Wargame 24.3%, City Builder 16.3%, Real Time Tactics 12.5%, Base Building 11.8%, Medieval 9.6%
- #28 War Mongrels
79% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,485 reviews2021
Dev: Destructive Creations
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 58%
War Mongrels is an isometric real-time tactics game that takes place on the eastern front of World War II. Dynamic and tactical gameplay with stealth elements, tightly packed into a dark, fascinating story! Play on your own or in online co-op (PC).
Why similar: RTS 22.3%, Isometric 15.6%, Online Co-Op 14.3%, Real Time Tactics 12.1%, Military 10.6%
- #29 Men of War II
77% matchMixed61% of 7,460 reviews2024
Dev: Best WayPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows · Linux
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 21.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Experience warfare like never before! Men of War II, the anticipated sequel to the highly acclaimed RTS franchise is here with all-new units, locations, campaigns, game modes and true trademarks of the series: historical fidelity and action-filled gameplay on the Eastern and Western Fronts of WWII.
Why similar: RTS 21.8%, Wargame 21%, Online Co-Op 13.8%, Real Time Tactics 10.8%, Military 9%
- #30 DRONE PERSPECTIVE
76% matchVery Positive90% of 100 reviews2025
Dev: Demetri LindPub: VEIL Production
Windows
Real-time dynamic tactics with the strong focus on squad positioning and collaboration. Connect to the warzone from your home PC and orchestrate modern military operations from the Drone Perspective.
Why similar: Wargame 26.3%, RTS 22.7%, Isometric 11.7%, Real Time Tactics 11.6%, Military 9.9%
- #31 Extremely Realistic Siege Warfare Simulator
78% matchMixed54% of 375 reviews2022
Dev: Screambox Studio
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Extremely Realistic Siege Warfare Simulator is a physics-based tactical strategy game where you must lead a military force in a fantasy medieval world. Build an army. Construct siege equipment. Experience epic battles. Lead your people to victory!!
Why similar: RTS 37.5%, Wargame 37.2%, Strategy 11.1%, Tactical 10.7%, Action 3.5%
- #32 Tabletop Tavern
73% matchVery Positive90% of 1,980 reviews2026
Dev: TJPub: Frostbloom
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Tabletop Tavern is a roguelike RTS where you build an army from scratch and command them across a brutal campaign. Recruit diverse units, create devastating synergies, and make tactical choices that shape the fate of every run.
Why similar: Wargame 22.9%, RTS 22.2%, Isometric 12.9%, Real Time Tactics 11.2%, Historical 8.4%
- #33 Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition
75% matchVery Positive86% of 54,714 reviews2020
Dev: World's EdgePub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 44.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Lead powerful civilizations across the globe, master strategies and tactics, and relive history in co op battles—now remastered in stunning 4K and modernized gameplay.
Why similar: RTS 26.8%, Base Building 15.6%, City Builder 13.3%, Strategy 11.8%, Military 10.4%
- #34 Battlefield Commander WWII
74% matchMostly Positive70% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: Sword of SteelPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Battlefield Commander WWII is a real-time tactical game where you lead the soldiers and vehicles that battled across the globe during this time in history. Play hundreds of unique units across multiple game modes.
Why similar: RTS 26.3%, Wargame 25.7%, Real Time Tactics 13.6%, Military 9.5%, Historical 9.4%
- #35 Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition
71% matchVery Positive92% of 11,558 reviews2025
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 34.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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.
Why similar: RTS 18.9%, City Builder 17%, Real Time Tactics 12.3%, Isometric 10.6%, Base Building 10.2%
- #36 Andalia
75% matchVery Positive85% of 60 reviews2021
Dev: Joel St.Pub: Sundust
Windows
Andalia is a fantasy real-time strategy game (RTS) with a diverse range of civilisations, resources and environments. Build up your town and lead your forces into war against enemy players. Alternatively you may construct a monument and hold it long enough to reach victory.
Why similar: RTS 45.5%, Base Building 21.8%, Medieval 12.9%, Strategy 12%, Resource Management 5.7%
- #37 Veil of Crows
76% matchMixed50% of 480 reviews2018
Dev: Kerry FawdrayPub: Humble Sage Games
Windows
Veil of crows is a sandbox style real-time strategy game set in a chaotic medieval world. From violent, and overtly bloody battles, to completely destructible castles, RPG style hero development, and meaningful interactions with other factions. Trade, extort, and conquer!
Why similar: RTS 44%, Medieval 29%, Strategy 25.9%, Singleplayer 1.1%
- #38 Open The Gates!
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 78 reviews2022
Dev: Robin van der Horst
Windows
Build, manage and defend your medieval castle in this crazy sidescroller RTS game. Build walls, towers and traps to protect your fortress from enemy sieges before launching your own. Command powerful siege weapons and design the perfect strategy to take back the empire.
Why similar: RTS 26.8%, City Builder 15.1%, Base Building 13.9%, Real Time Tactics 12.8%, Military 12%
- #39 Little Kingdom RTS
72% matchVery Positive86% of 80 reviews2025
Dev: MyDreamForeverPub: Andgo Games
Windows
Little Kingdom RTS is an indie real-time strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Gather resources, build settlements, raise walls, and grow your small kingdom. Command an army of knights, archers, and mages to fight off rival kingdoms, orcs, and undead.
Why similar: RTS 31.4%, Base Building 17%, Real Time Tactics 14.2%, Resource Management 13.5%, Medieval 12.6%
- #40 Taste of Power
73% matchMixed67% of 68 reviews2019
Dev: OneOcean LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Show your strategic talents in Taste of Power! It's a RTS set in an alternate medieval world, where Europe, Middle East, and China confront each other. Develop unique technologies and lead warriors into an epic battlefield – the victory is yours!
Why similar: RTS 41.8%, Strategy 22.7%, Base Building 21.2%, Medieval 14.2%
- #41 The Valiant
72% matchMixed66% of 336 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: RTS 43.9%, Medieval 16.7%, Strategy 15.7%, Online Co-Op 14.9%, Isometric 7.7%
- #42 Operation: Polygon Storm
71% matchMixed70% of 292 reviews2024
Dev: Toxic Studio
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 50%
A fastpaced, military tug-of-war game with minimal micromanagement. Choose and deploy from a mix of specialized military units to overwhelm the enemy. Experiment with a huge variety of unit compositions, synergies, abilities, and upgrades to lead your army to victory!
Why similar: Wargame 27.4%, RTS 23.2%, Real Time Tactics 12.2%, Military 9.8%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #43 Strategos
69% matchVery Positive86% of 249 reviews2026
Dev: Strategos GamesPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Strategos is a real-time tactics wargame set in classical antiquity. Simulate large-scale battles with over 120 factions, and 250+ units, from the ancient world. Create custom battles, or take command of historical ones.
Why similar: Wargame 24.1%, RTS 20.8%, Real Time Tactics 12.3%, Historical 9.7%, Military 8.9%
- #44 Tempest Rising
68% matchVery Positive87% of 11,874 reviews2025
Dev: Slipgate Ironworks™Pub: 3D Realms
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Command distinct factions in a desperate struggle for power and resources in Tempest Rising - a classic RTS set on Earth after a nuclear war.
Why similar: RTS 57.7%, Strategy 16.6%, Base Building 10.4%, Isometric 6.3%, Wargame 5.2%
- #45 March of Empires
73% matchMixed62% of 1,854 reviews2017
Dev: Gameloft
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 76.0 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Claim your title as Shogun, Highland King, Northern Tsar or Desert Sultan and join this genre-redefining strategy game where you will wage constant war for real territorial conquest! Fortify your castle, fuel a massive army, and enter the ultimate fight for realm domination!
Why similar: Wargame 25.4%, RTS 20.1%, City Builder 13.3%, Base Building 11.6%, Medieval 10.5%
- #46 Sons of Valhalla
70% matchMixed67% of 976 reviews2024
Dev: Pixel Chest
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Sons of Valhalla is a roguelike strategy game set in the Viking Age. Build fortresses, gather warriors, and lay siege to enemy strongholds, engaging in personal combat as you raid and conquer across England.
Why similar: Medieval 23%, Military 19.9%, Historical 19.6%, Strategy 16%, Third Person 15.4%
- #47 Countryballs at War
68% matchVery Positive92% of 83 reviews2025
Dev: SHN Games
Windows
Countryballs at War is a grand strategy wargame that combines turn-based empire building with real-time battles. Lead any countryball nation, expand your territory through conquest or diplomacy, and rise as the ultimate superpower.
Why similar: Wargame 34.1%, Strategy 18.7%, Real Time Tactics 18.4%, Military 11.5%, Historical 8.9%
- #48 Vedelem: The Golden Horde
69% matchVery Positive89% of 796 reviews2021
Dev: Castle RoachesPub: Breda University of Applied Sciences
Windows
Védelem: The Golden Horde is a medieval Real Time Strategy and Survival game set in the 13th century. Build, expand and defend your lands against the deadliest Mongolian invasion ever witnessed. They will seek to destroy your walls and salt your earth. Will you survive the Golden Horde?
Why similar: RTS 18.2%, Wargame 17.6%, City Builder 11%, Base Building 10.1%, Real Time Tactics 8.6%
- #49 Waronoi
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 69 reviews2020
Dev: MFCPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Command modern military armies by zooming out and issuing orders to large formations, or zooming in to issue orders to individual squads and vehicles. Waronoi is the real-time strategy war game.
Why similar: RTS 34.7%, Wargame 33.6%, Strategy 16.5%, Military 13.7%, Indie 0.9%
- #50 Stronghold: Definitive Edition
67% matchVery Positive86% of 10,331 reviews2023
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Greetings sire! Your stronghold awaits you. Build a castle economy, besiege unforgettable villains and return to the 'castle sim' that started it all. Experience this classic RTS with upgraded visuals, modernised gameplay, Steam multiplayer and a new campaign.
Why similar: RTS 19.1%, City Builder 16.9%, Real Time Tactics 12%, Isometric 11.7%, Base Building 9.7%
- #51 Three Kingdoms: Innovatory
69% matchMixed59% of 981 reviews2024
Dev: 瞬息万变工作室Pub: Moment HK
Windows
This is a classic historical simulation + real-time strategy game, where you will go back to the era of the Three Kingdoms and play as various renowned sovereigns.
Why similar: Wargame 27.7%, RTS 25.5%, Real Time Tactics 13.5%, Historical 7.9%, Strategy 7.4%
- #52 Kingdoms Reborn
67% matchVery Positive90% of 9,712 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.
Why similar: City Builder 32.2%, Base Building 16.1%, RTS 15.8%, Resource Management 10.1%, Medieval 9%
- #53 Going Medieval
64% matchVery Positive89% of 21,328 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 32.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
Why similar: RTS 24.5%, City Builder 16.8%, Base Building 13.9%, Procedural Generation 13%, Real Time Tactics 12.6%
- #54 War of Dots
64% matchVery Positive81% of 6,906 reviews2026
Dev: TeaAndPython
Windows · Mac
Median: 54 minMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Easy to learn, hard to master. A simple & free RTS game.
Why similar: RTS 27.4%, Wargame 24.7%, Strategy 14.3%, Real Time Tactics 12.4%, Military 9.1%
- #55 BANNERMEN
70% matchMixed53% of 296 reviews2019
Dev: Pathos Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
A singleplayer fast-paced classic RTS game in which you take on the role of a fallen lord on his journey back to become one of the mightiest in the medieval realm of Valtoria.
Why similar: RTS 21.5%, Wargame 18.7%, Base Building 13.5%, City Builder 12.8%, Real Time Tactics 12.6%
- #56 Heavyarms Assemble: WWII
68% matchMixed66% of 86 reviews2023
Dev: XR Studio
Windows
This is a strategy game with the theme of WWII. As a battlefield commander, maintaining your army's motivation and satisfaction, promoting your generals, managing your own economy, dealing with your friends' armies, and real time grand battle. What kind of commander will you become in the process?
Why similar: Wargame 22.6%, RTS 20.2%, Real Time Tactics 11.2%, Base Building 10.9%, Historical 10.7%
- #57 Empire of the Ants
66% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,154 reviews2024
Dev: Tower FivePub: Microids
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Conquer enemy nests and lead your colony through the perils of the forest in this groundbreaking RTS. Empire of the Ants is a photorealistic, third-person real-time strategy game where you command your insect legions in epic battles.
Why similar: Wargame 26.8%, RTS 24.8%, Real Time Tactics 13.3%, Resource Management 10.4%, Third Person 8.7%