- #1 Armed to the Gears
97% matchMixed63% of 212 reviews2020
Dev: Deonn Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Control a fully armed Mech and fight through cyberpunk cities, military bases and industrial ruins. Capture and defend territories, build turrets and structures, and wage war against powerful enemies!
Why similar: RTS 27.3%, Mechs 24.6% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Dystopian 10.3%, Top-Down 8.7%
- #2 PERIMETER: Legate Edition
96% matchVery Positive92% of 139 reviews2024
Dev: K-D LabPub: Association K-D Lab
Windows · Linux
Perimeter is a real-time strategy game with a destructible world. Utilize the environment for resource gathering and defense against enemies. Immerse yourself in the millennia-spanning history of the Chains of Worlds and lead a faction in the struggle for survival.
Why similar: RTS 30.3%, Lore-Rich 13.8%, Top-Down 10.2%, Robots 10%, Surreal 9.7%
- #3 Dying Breed
96% matchMostly Positive73% of 206 reviews2025
Dev: SarnayerPub: MicroProse Software
Windows · Mac
Golden-age RTS classic. Fast-paced action & strategic decision-making, battling evil arch-enemies, zombies, and retro-futuristic technologies. All to a '90s electro-metal soundtrack and FMV live-action cut scenes.
Why similar: RTS 32.6%, Base Building 22.4%, Dystopian 12.5%, Tactical 10.9%, Strategy 9.5%
- #4 Byte Lynx
95% matchVery Positive98% of 88 reviews2022
Dev: Artful Games
Windows
Byte Lynx is a fast-paced RTS with no units. Build defenses, dismantle your enemy, and steal their buildings in this deeply tactical building combat-based strategy game. Expand your arsenal across a series of diverse levels!
Why similar: RTS 33.7%, Base Building 24.9%, Tactical 10.7%, Strategy 8.9%, Top-Down 8.1%
- #5 Annihilate The Spance
94% matchVery Positive91% of 338 reviews2025
Dev: Skyglow Softworks
Windows
The Spance approaches, a vast and mysterious storm at the edge of humanity. Who shall claim its riches? Brave the perils of the depths in a story-rich singleplayer campaign with numerous distinct factions and bosses. An RTS base builder with huge battles, constant production, and autonomous ships.
Why similar: RTS 32.1%, Base Building 24.8%, Building 12.1%, Robots 10.5%, Strategy 7.2%
- #6 Executive Assault
94% matchVery Positive85% of 1,455 reviews2015
Dev: Hesketh Studios Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Executive Assault is an indie real-time strategy/first-person shooter where you can not only build your base and create armies, but also take control of your units and fight as one of them.
Why similar: RTS 46.4%, Base Building 18.5%, Strategy 14.4%, Robots 12.2%, Sci-fi 6.4%
- #7 Acid Planet
93% matchMostly Positive80% of 69 reviews2024
Dev: Adam Travers
Windows
Acid Planet is a caustic blend of horde-survival, tower-defense and strategy. Build, fight and evolve to survive against rampaging swarms of monsters and fearsome Kaiju.
Why similar: RTS 31.4%, Base Building 25.2%, Building 11.8%, Top-Down 11.1%, Strategy 9.3%
- #8 Alien Marauder
92% matchMixed63% of 341 reviews2021
Dev: Vexan Studio
Windows
“Alien Marauder” is a real-time strategy game with survival and confrontation theme. In this game, you will be the leader to a treacherous alien planet, build and defend base to survive against the vexan waves. Make the right decision!
Why similar: RTS 30.2%, Base Building 20.3%, Robots 11.9%, Building 11.7%, Top-Down 10.4%
- #9 Role of Hex
91% matchMostly Positive72% of 95 reviews2023
Dev: Verde
Windows
Role of Hex is a real-time strategy game where you defend your hexagonal base from the dangers of the universe. Gather upgrades and unlock special buildings to survive this hostile land as endless waves of enemies approach. But be quick, time is ticking and the waves are getting bigger.
Why similar: RTS 31.1%, Base Building 26.8%, Sci-fi 10.6%, Top-Down 9.6%, Tactical 9.3%
- #10 Mech Engineer
91% matchMostly Positive75% of 902 reviews2024
Dev: KiberKrekerPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 50%
A dark sci-fi mech assembling manager with semi-auto battles against mutating, alien bio-weapon.
Why similar: Mechs 49.4% ★, RTS 19.5%, Building 11.7%, Strategy 8.5%, Pixel Graphics 6.3%
- #11 Rogue Command
90% matchVery Positive92% of 546 reviews2024
Dev: feneq
Windows
Classic RTS gameplay fused with a modern roguelite. Shape your build each run by assembling an evolving arsenal of powerful units and facilities. Harvest resources, build out your base. Raise your army and call down orbital strikes to overcome the forces threatening your survival.
Why similar: RTS 34.2%, Base Building 22.7%, Building 13.2%, Tactical 12%, Strategy 9.1%
- #12 Tower Factory
88% matchVery Positive89% of 1,139 reviews2024
Dev: Gius Caminiti
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Tower Factory is a tower defense and automation game with roguelite elements. Optimize resource production using conveyor systems while defending against monster waves. Can you find and destroy the enemy tower before it's too late?
Why similar: RTS 49%, Base Building 36.4%, Building 14.6%
- #13 Expand & Exterminate: Terrytorial Disputes - Endless Base Defense
89% matchVery Positive81% of 58 reviews2023
Dev: Terryble Interactive
Windows
The best elements of Real-Time Strategy (RTS) and Tower Defense genres combined into a new Base Defense game. Defend against countless waves of enemies while you expand your base, gather resources, and research technologies to defeat the ever strengthening enemy units.
Why similar: RTS 33%, Mechs 26.9% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Top-Down 11.2%, Strategy 8.8%
- #14 Firebase Defence
89% matchMostly Positive75% of 61 reviews2019
Dev: Rasmus Agergaard
Windows
Firebase Defence is a new spin on the traditional tower defence gameplay. You have to defend yourself from the waves upon waves of incoming enemies. You are free to build, place and manage your available resources and units in any way you want. But failing to balance those will result in defeat!
Why similar: Base Building 25.5%, RTS 22%, Strategy 17.2%, Top-Down 9.4%, Building 8.4%
- #15 Bot Wars
87% matchVery Positive86% of 728 reviews2021
Dev: Frompy GamesPub: Big Play Games
Windows
Bot Wars is an action RTS about managing a squad of kill-bots and their bases as you work to take over all the capture points across the map. Featuring corporate kill bot armies, ranging from a firearms and beverage manufacturer to a lovecraftian burger cult.
Why similar: Dystopian 34.1%, Robots 31.4%, Strategy 19.2%, Sci-fi 15.3%
- #16 Executive Assault 2
86% matchVery Positive83% of 1,726 reviews2023
Dev: Hesketh Studios Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
The RTS/FPS phenomenon has moved into space! Build your base on an asteroid, command fleets of starships for epic battles, pilot fighters, mine and trade resources, assemble robots to defend or assault other stations. Take sole command or share the glory as you fight for control of the quadrant.
Why similar: RTS 38.8%, Base Building 22.4%, Building 14.4%, Robots 9.5%, Strategy 9.1%
- #17 Repel The Rifts
86% matchVery Positive86% of 313 reviews2025
Dev: RefinedBearGamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Linux
Repel the Rifts is a roguelite tower defense game where you lead a commander through an alien world, uncovering new terrain each wave, drafting powerful upgrades, and constructing defenses to hold back the chaos.
Why similar: Mechs 50.9% ★, Tactical 15.9%, Sci-fi 11.9%, Strategy 9.5%, Pixel Graphics 6.2%
- #18 D.O.T. Defence
84% matchVery Positive86% of 139 reviews2025
Dev: Rattleaxe Games
Windows · Linux
Welcome to the frontlines! Build towers, muster armies, and conquer the map. Challenge yourself in the single-player campaign following the Chroma Wars, survive relentless waves in solo defense, or battle it out in local matches against friends and AI bots. Victory comes with the last HQ standing!
Why similar: RTS 42.5%, Base Building 30%, Strategy 11.5%, Pixel Graphics 9.8%, 2D 6.1%
- #19 Battlefall: State of Conflict
85% matchMixed62% of 52 reviews2025
Dev: Kyoto Video Game ConcernPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Engage in a post-apocalyptic RTS showdown between three factions in Battlefall: State of Conflict.
Why similar: RTS 43.1%, Base Building 30.7%, Top-Down 14.8%, Strategy 11.4%
- #20 Tempest Rising
81% matchVery Positive88% of 10,866 reviews2025
Dev: Slipgate Ironworks™Pub: 3D Realms
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.1 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 65.9%, Strategy 16.9%, Base Building 15.7%, Top-Down 1.5%
- #21 Little Kingdom RTS
83% matchVery Positive86% of 65 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 35.5%, Base Building 25.5%, Strategy 10%, Top-Down 9.6%, Building 8.9%
- #22 Protolife
84% matchVery Positive86% of 465 reviews2018
Dev: Volcanic Giraffe
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Protolife is an unique tower-based strategy game which gives you a direct control over the builder robot in a struggle against the hungry proto-life organism.
Why similar: RTS 36.8%, Base Building 25.4%, Strategy 9.7%, Pixel Graphics 8.9%, Sci-fi 8.2%
- #23 Rusted Warfare - RTS
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 7,087 reviews2017
Dev: Corroding Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 32.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
{{An RTS inspired by the classics of the past!}} Making up for it's subpar retro graphics with fun gameplay and modern multi-threaded tech enabling huge battles to run smooth... Featuring singleplayer challenges, skirmish, sandbox, 10-player multiplayer & workshop modding.
Why similar: RTS 46.7%, Base Building 19.8%, Mechs 10.4% ★, Strategy 9.8%, Robots 5.3%
- #24 Phoenix Hope
82% matchMixed61% of 170 reviews2021
Dev: Honorable Pixel
Windows
Phoenix Hope is a pixel art 2D real-time, side-view strategy game in which you must develop your colony during the day and repel waves of monsters at night.
Why similar: RTS 29.1%, Base Building 26.7%, Building 12.5%, Strategy 12.5%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%
- #25 TDS - Tower Defense Strategy
80% matchVery Positive81% of 354 reviews2025
Dev: Blockage
Windows · Mac · Linux
TOWER ▪ DEFENSE ▪ STRATEGY. Control Vessels. Utilize their uniquely deep set of towers. Create an everchanging defense. Play with friends. Protect your Basin at all costs. An absolute Tower Defense, Real-Time Strategy Hybrid
Why similar: RTS 46.8%, Base Building 19.5%, Building 16.7%, Pixel Graphics 8.8%, Strategy 5.8%
- #26 Forged Battalion
82% matchMixed58% of 1,108 reviews2018
Dev: Petroglyph
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Customize your unique faction in a new take on real-time strategy as you fight in a variety of skirmish, solo, and multiplayer battles. You are not only a commander, but also an engineer – so you have ultimate control over your faction’s units, factories, superweapons and economy.
Why similar: RTS 74.7%, Strategy 20.1%, Indie 5.2%
- #27 Frontline Crisis
79% matchVery Positive89% of 370 reviews2024
Dev: BCQTPub: Gamersky Games
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Defend humanity's last hope, pilot a powerful mech, in Frontlines Crisis! A battlefield swarming with insects makes strategic and combat decisions crucial. Each decision will determine your fate. Defend humanity's last sanctuary, fight fiercely, and uphold human honor with wits and courage!
Why similar: RTS 37.7%, Mechs 31.8% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Strategy 9.7%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%
- #28 ReEarth
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 117 reviews2024
Dev: Jiangzuogongfang Shanghai Game Co.,Ltd
Windows
ReEarth is an exciting TD & (RTS) indie game. Here, you will play as humanity's last hope. You will fend off the oncoming swarms by continuously building your base and dispatching various types of units. Prepare for the challenge and save the future of humanity!
Why similar: RTS 45.9%, Mechs 27.4% ★, Building 13.9%, Strategy 12.9%
- #29 From Glory To Goo
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,455 reviews2024
Dev: Stratagem Blue
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 69%
From Glory To Goo is a Sci-Fi survival RTS set on an alien world. Serve as humanity's bulwark by establishing a colony and supporting your colonists still in orbit. But beware, for The Goo, a relentless and shape-shifting force approaches from all sides, even above and below.
Why similar: RTS 47.1%, Base Building 35%, Strategy 10.9%, Pixel Graphics 7%
- #30 Final Factory
78% matchMostly Positive79% of 300 reviews2024
Dev: Never Games Limited
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Final Factory blends factory building, spaceship design, and a rich universe to explore. Build a mega factory and command a massive fleet against the hostile local aliens. Discover new technologies and unlock the secrets of an ancient civilization as you explore an infinite cosmos.
Why similar: Base Building 32.3%, RTS 22.2%, Building 15.6%, Strategy 10.2%, Sci-fi 9.9%
- #31 Grey Goo
79% matchMixed68% of 4,315 reviews2015
Dev: PetroglyphPub: Six Foot
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Fight for control of a frontier world. Gather resources, build your base, and command your forces in battle. Survive long enough to unleash your ultimate weapon - THE EPIC.
Why similar: RTS 43.4%, Mechs 15.1% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Strategy 12.3%, Sci-fi 8.4%
- #32 Metal Fatigue
77% matchVery Positive94% of 468 reviews2018
Dev: ZonoPub: Nightdive Studios
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Metal Fatigue is a real-time strategy game taking the genre to new heights - literally. Build and customize your massive Combots to dominate the three battlefield levels simultaneously - from orbit, to the surface, and even underground!
Why similar: RTS 38%, Mechs 27.3% ★, Strategy 21.9%, Robots 12.8%
- #33 Moduwar
75% matchVery Positive89% of 124 reviews2025
Dev: Biohex StudiosPub: Firesquid
Windows · Linux
Moduwar is an adaptive organic RTS where you control an alien creature, Modu - and your body is your army. Grow new organs, split, merge and mutate them into unique units that adapt to your needs as you fight against human and alien threats in single and multiplayer modes.
Why similar: RTS 34.4%, Base Building 23.4%, Lore-Rich 16.1%, Top-Down 9.1%, Strategy 9%
- #34 Here Comes The Swarm
74% matchVery Positive88% of 161 reviews2026
Dev: CableHook Games
Windows
Here Comes the Swarm is a survival RTS with a pause button! Create your strategy, build, manage, and defend your settlements at your own pace. Take the fight to the hive mind and lead expeditions to deliver a deadly blow and eradicate your foes. Will you reclaim Ulora from the relentless Swarm?
Why similar: RTS 43.7%, Base Building 32.5%, Strategy 12.8%, Top-Down 11%
- #35 Cyber Tower 2048
74% matchVery Positive87% of 101 reviews2025
Dev: Galactic Geckon
Windows
Cyber Tower 2048 is an action tower defense game where players fight insectoids by building defenses and developing tactics.
Why similar: Robots 42.8%, Top-Down 18.1%, Sci-fi 11.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.8%, Strategy 9.6%
- #36 Hexworld
75% matchMostly Positive80% of 89 reviews2023
Dev: Volcanic Giraffe
Windows
Hexworld is a tactical autobattle RTS where you control the travelling kingdom-island, manage your tiles, collect and upgrade buildings, crash into other islands and watch your rare precious giant golem inevitably fall off the cliff on his way to the front lines.
Why similar: RTS 45.1%, Strategy 15.5%, Building 14.5%, Top-Down 12.7%, Tactical 12.1%
- #37 Last Outpost
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 78 reviews2025
Dev: Troyd Games
Windows
Last Outpost is a minimalist Base Building & Strategy game where you build and defend your outpost in zombie apocalypse. Choose your vehicle and loadout before embarking on your adventure. Use your abilities and control your units to eliminate all threats. Will you manage to defend your outpost?
Why similar: RTS 40.7%, Base Building 28%, Strategy 11.6%, Tactical 9.5%, Pixel Graphics 8%
- #38 Freaking Meatbags
76% matchVery Positive86% of 173 reviews2015
Dev: Wild FactorPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 37%
Land on a planet, pick up some rocks, leave before the solar system explodes. Oh, and don't die in the nightly robot attacks! Freaking Meatbags is a humorous real-time strategy game that's all about building a base, mixing meatbag DNA, then convincing those dolts to help you gather resources.
Why similar: RTS 29%, Strategy 17.9%, Base Building 13.3%, Robots 12%, Building 7.9%
- #39 Neural Shock
73% matchVery Positive95% of 66 reviews2024
Dev: Hardwired Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Control your Hero to aid your Turrets and Traps in battle in this grim, dark Tower Defense & Action RPG with a scifi-grindhouse aesthetic. Create deadly weapon barrages and fuse together Bleed, Burn, Shock, Freeze, Stun and many more elements to annihilate your enemies.
Why similar: Dystopian 27.1%, Strategy 22.6%, Pixel Graphics 12.9%, Sci-fi 12.4%, Top-Down 9%
- #40 Warpips
71% matchVery Positive87% of 5,047 reviews2022
Dev: Skirmish Mode GamesPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Warpips is the ultimate quick to learn but amazingly deep tug-of-war strategy game. Deploy the right composition of soldiers, tanks, helicopters and planes in this tight, streamlined strategy-focused war game. Compose the best army, research the right tech; overwhelm your enemy!
Why similar: RTS 44.3%, Base Building 19.3%, Tactical 13.2%, Strategy 12.4%, Pixel Graphics 7.6%
- #41 Gods Against Machines
72% matchVery Positive81% of 104 reviews2024
Dev: Silver Eye Studios
Windows
Your world is under attack by a ruthless race of machines, and you are its only hope. Cast epic spells, summon minions or buildings, and destroy the enemy before they conquer your home in this action roguelite strategy game!
Why similar: Top-Down 32.6%, Strategy 26.2%, Robots 21.7%, Building 19.6%
- #42 Buggos
71% matchVery Positive88% of 1,349 reviews2022
Dev: Intrepid Marmot
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Lead your hive to victory in 'Buggos', an RTS Auto Battler! Customize your swarm with 120+ evolutions and conquer humanity. Strategy meets bug chaos!
Why similar: RTS 28.8%, Base Building 25%, Building 13.8%, Strategy 10.8%, Level Editor 7.2%
- #43 Codex of Victory
73% matchMixed69% of 397 reviews2017
Dev: Ino-Co PlusPub: AKPublish pty ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 96%
In this sci-fi turn-based strategy with real-time base-building elements, you’ll be defending human territories against the transhuman Augments. Expand your HQ, and manufacture and upgrade an army of advanced drones to wage interplanetary war for Humanity!
Why similar: Mechs 29.9% ★, Base Building 21.1%, Robots 12.2%, Strategy 8.8%, Tactical 8.7%
- #44 Calyx
68% matchVery Positive89% of 308 reviews2026
Dev: Studio 568
Windows
A strategy game with a new kind of enemy, Calyx puts you in charge of a space mining outpost, locked in battle against powerful plant-aliens. Build your base, gather resources, assemble your forces, and take on the Calyx. With only an out-of-date AI for company, can you survive?
Why similar: RTS 39.4%, Base Building 27.6%, Top-Down 12.3%, Strategy 10.5%, Sci-fi 10.2%
- #45 Air Defender
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 250 reviews2025
Dev: ROTOR3
Windows
Command the sky in a tense real-time strategy simulation where you manage a nation's air defenses. Analyze radar contacts, scramble interceptor jets, and make split-second decisions to protect your airspace from hostile threats.
Why similar: RTS 55.1%, Strategy 21.2%, Top-Down 16.5%, 2D 7.2%
- #46 Flesh Eaters
72% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,351 reviews2016
Dev: S.C. 16 BIT NIGHTS S.R.L.
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Flesh Eaters is retro style single player RTS zombie survival game with resource gathering and crafting. Zombies are everywhere! You must gather resources to build barricades, upgrade weapons and armour and explore the city under the siege of the dead
Why similar: RTS 38.4%, Indie 31.9%, Tactical 11.7%, Top-Down 11.2%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%
- #47 Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,761 reviews2014
Dev: Knuckle Cracker
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 77.0 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Creeper World 3 is what happens when cellular automata takes over a strategy simulation. Instead of discrete units that attack your base, a fluid-like substance spreads over the terraformable terrain. Your base, your weapons, your strategy... you must adapt them all.
Why similar: RTS 36.3%, Strategy 19.4%, Base Building 12.9%, Level Editor 10.8%, Sci-fi 8.8%
- #48 Death Ring: Second Impact
69% matchVery Positive85% of 163 reviews2025
Dev: Rouge Mecha
Windows
Death Ring: Second Impact is a turn-based Roguelite strategy game. As the commander of the "Griffin" squadron, you must lead your Mechas and Pilots to resist the threat of mutated monsters and approaching to the secrets hidden behind the Death Ring.
Why similar: Mechs 45.7% ★, Top-Down 12.1%, Strategy 12%, Robots 11.4%, Tactical 11.1%
- #49 Kaiju Wars
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 269 reviews2022
Dev: Foolish Mortals Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Play out a Kaiju movie as the (hopelessly) outclassed military in this stylish 2D turn-based strategy game. Construct buildings and defend your city with cannon-fodder tanks, jets and more as the devastating kaiju grow in power with every attack.
Why similar: Mechs 33.9% ★, Base Building 20.1%, Tactical 15.9%, Strategy 8.7%, Action-Adventure 8.7%
- #50 Extremely Realistic Siege Warfare Simulator
71% matchMixed55% of 354 reviews2022
Dev: Screambox Studio
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 42%
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 51.2%, Building 20.8%, Tactical 14.6%, Strategy 13.5%
- #51 ERA ONE
66% matchVery Positive86% of 1,348 reviews2025
Dev: Team Complex LTD
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Era One is an innovative space game that combines elements of real-time strategy, base building, space survival, and tactical battles. Players can create and customize their bases from scratch, construct various types of structures and warships, manage fleets, and engage in tactical space battles.
Why similar: RTS 46.5%, Base Building 29.9%, Strategy 11%, Story Rich 6.9%, Sci-fi 5.7%
- #52 Artificial Defense
70% matchVery Positive82% of 210 reviews2016
Dev: Thiemo Bolder, ONEMANGAMES
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Artificial Defense is a one man made, real time strategy game combining orbital shooter and tower defense components within an electrifying, virtual reality setting. You are the machine, a mighty computer-system defending its servers against swarms of intruding creeps.
Why similar: Strategy 71.3%, Indie 28.7%
- #53 Desperate Place
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 292 reviews2025
Dev: BruceGalaxy
Windows
Desperate Place is a strategic tower defense game where you play as a crew member who wakes up early on a damaged colonization starship. Stranded on an unknown planet, you must gather resources, repair the ship, and defend against alien monsters to survive and escape.
Why similar: Base Building 31.1%, Building 18%, Top-Down 16.1%, Strategy 12.8%, Sci-fi 11.3%
- #54 WARSHIFT
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 697 reviews2016
Dev: Cyril Megem
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Unique mix of Action, RTS and RPG gameplay elements that forms an innovative game genre. You can build base, manage troops, and then come down to keep your enemy at gunpoint in the dynamic battle and customize your main characters.
Why similar: RTS 49.7%, Mechs 20.1% ★, Strategy 16.5%, Sci-fi 8.6%, Indie 5.1%
- #55 Battlecruisers
67% matchVery Positive84% of 423 reviews2021
Dev: Mecha Weka
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 66%
A visually stunning RTS where players battle to build the ultimate automated floating Ultraweapon. Outsmart players or AIs by building a strategically superior Battlecruiser. Step aboard for unique, hand-drawn misadventure on Flooded Earth, explosive gameplay, and an addictive soundtrack. And nukes.
Why similar: RTS 39.1%, Robots 18.1%, Building 12.6%, Tactical 11.8%, Strategy 10.4%
- #56 Creeper World IXE
66% matchMostly Positive70% of 851 reviews2024
Dev: Knuckle Cracker
Windows
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
The unstoppable alien force known as The Creeper has returned, devouring thousands of worlds in its path, and yours is next. Battle against the Creeper fluid in a groundbreaking pixel-level simulation to prove that humanity will rule the galaxy forever!
Why similar: RTS 49.5%, Level Editor 12.7%, Strategy 10.6%, Tactical 8.5%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%
- #57 Vectorio
66% matchVery Positive81% of 388 reviews2023
Dev: BN Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build. Automate. Defend.
Why similar: Base Building 66.6%, Strategy 23%, 2D 10.4%
- #58 Nuclear Dawn
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 2,481 reviews2011
Dev: GameConnectPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Explore war-torn post-apocalyptic landscapes and take fight against enemies using various weapons in this FPS/RTS hybrid.
Why similar: RTS 31.7%, Base Building 14.4%, Dystopian 13.8%, Strategy 12.8%, Tactical 9.9%
- #59 Gods of the Fallen Land
68% matchVery Positive82% of 119 reviews2017
Dev: Crow's Key Studios
Windows
Gods of the Fallen Land is an action-strategy game centered around base building and villager management. Take on the role of a leader trying to rebuild humanity in a broken and dangerous world. Lead your followers into battle and make strategic decisions on what to develop and build to survive.
Why similar: RTS 39.7%, Base Building 26.3%, Strategy 25%, Indie 8.9%