- #1 Be Queen Bee
96% matchVery Positive95% of 243 reviews2026
Dev: Three Blanket StudioPub: Jungle Game Lab
Windows
"Be Queen Bee" is an action-strategy game where you become the Queen Bee and command your swarm with pheromones. Defeat predators, seize flower fields to escape hunger, evolve your swarm with honey, and strategize in real time to secure victory.
Why similar: Action RTS 29% ★, Wargame 21.3%, RTS 19.5%, PvE 9.2%, Top-Down 6.4%
- #2 Battle For Cosmos
97% 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 39.3% ★, RTS 21.5%, Wargame 11.4%, Space 7%, Strategy 6.7%
- #3 Sword & Banner
96% 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 37.6% ★, Wargame 23.8%, RTS 13%, PvE 6.9%, War 5.9%
- #4 Retaliation Path of Kingdoms
95% 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 35.2% ★, Wargame 27.2%, RTS 25.8%, Strategy 11.8%
- #5 Stickman World Battle
94% match8 user reviews13% of 8 reviews2024
Dev: Sergey MezhakovPub: Sergey Mezhakov
Windows
Stickman World Battle - new exciting and thrilling real-time strategy with famous stickman heroes!
Why similar: Action RTS 27% ★, Wargame 22.9%, RTS 21.7%, Strategy 10.9%, War 4.6%
- #6 Bataliron
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ruben Minasyan
Windows
Bataliron is a modern warfare RTS game that focuses on personnel development, online command, fire support, and unit assistance on the battlefield, leveraging modern technologies.
Why similar: Action RTS 33.5% ★, RTS 22.4%, Wargame 20.3%, Strategy 9.9%, Top-Down 5.7%
- #7 Knights vs Aliens
93% 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 40.5% ★, RTS 16.1%, PvE 10%, Top-Down 8.2%, Wargame 7.4%
- #8 SwarmFleet
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fortell Games
Windows
"Ender’s Game" meets "Battleship" in fast-paced 3D RTS!
Why similar: Action RTS 34.4% ★, Wargame 22.8%, RTS 16%, PvE 9%, Arcade 6%
- #9 EXITOR
92% 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 37.5% ★, RTS 25.3%, Strategy 11.2%, Top-Down 6.5%, PvE 6.5%
- #10 Annexation
91% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Hotkey Clicker
Windows · Mac · Linux
Annexation is a fast-paced real-time strategy game with old-school roots. Build bases, train armies, and outmaneuver your enemy to claim victory. Start by playing the campaign and then challenge yourself in Arcade Missions, which bring the intensity of multiplayer RTS into a single-player setting.
Why similar: Action RTS 42.3% ★, RTS 22%, PvE 11.7%, Strategy 8%, Arcade 7.9%
- #11 RTS Outpost
90% 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 31.8% ★, RTS 23.7%, Wargame 21.1%, Strategy 8.2%, PvE 4.9%
- #12 Speak of The Crown
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Phillip Donnelly
Windows · Mac
Command a fantasy army using only your voice in this real-time strategy game where speech controls the battlefield.
Why similar: Action RTS 32.3% ★, Wargame 22.2%, RTS 20.7%, Top-Down 6.5%, Strategy 6.4%
- #13 Imperium Eternal
89% 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 32.1% ★, Wargame 23.8%, RTS 22.7%, Strategy 9.8%, War 6.1%
- #14 Helion Conflict
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GoraGames
Windows · Mac
Real-time strategy stripped to the decision. Every factory you hold builds without pause - you choose where those ships go, and can turn them in mid-flight. Commander mode adds the war economy: iron and gold networks, turrets, satellites, orbital strikes. Up to eight online.
Why similar: Action RTS 30.9% ★, RTS 22.1%, Wargame 18.7%, Strategy 9.1%, Top-Down 5.2%
- #15 Prince Rystiya's Starfleet
87% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: Rystiya
Windows
Conquer the entire galaxy or fight quick custom battles in this free space RTS!
Why similar: Action RTS 33.9% ★, RTS 22.6%, Wargame 20.8%, Strategy 9.7%, Space 4.3%
- #16 Battlespace Command
86% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Wirraway SoftwarePub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Take command of modern warfare across land, air, and sea in a real-time strategy sandbox. Direct every unit, from infantry to aircraft carriers, across vast, real-world scale battlefields where sensors, strategy, and coordination decide the outcome.
Why similar: Action RTS 40.3% ★, Wargame 26.2%, RTS 19%, War 8.3%, Strategy 6.3%
- #17 Wardoll
86% match8 user reviews63% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: X Roman
Windows
Wardoll is wargame campaign that you play as a doll on a commander vs commander game mode. Build, spawn toy soldiers and send them to battle! In a top down perspective you can experience a backyard battle with riflemans, tanks and AT but also your doll has a special gun that you can use.
Why similar: Wargame 31.3%, RTS 28.9%, Action RTS 24.7% ★, Strategy 9.2%, War 5.8%
- #18 Last Front
85% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Murzin Studio
Windows
Modern armies, unique commanders, tactical battles. In Last Front, each faction offers its own style of war and exclusive units. Build your base, lead your army, and prove your superiority on the battlefield.
Why similar: Action RTS 29.7% ★, Wargame 23.1%, RTS 21.1%, PvE 7.2%, Top-Down 6.4%
- #19 Military Defense
84% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Taranau Aliaksei
Windows
Protect the base from an alien invasion. Place cannons and destroy the invaders. Upgrade cannons to resist the enemies.
Why similar: Action RTS 28% ★, Wargame 22%, RTS 20%, Strategy 6.6%, Top-Down 6.1%
- #20 Hive Striker: Dissonance
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ocelot Forge
Windows
A post-apocalyptic real-time strategy game. Deploy your mobile base, gather resources, build defenses, and train armies to fight back against The Dissonance — an alien hive consuming the wasteland. Play solo or team up with up to 8 players online.
Why similar: Action RTS 31.4% ★, Wargame 21%, RTS 15.8%, PvE 8.7%, Top-Down 5.7%
- #21 Critter Chaos TD
82% 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 41.4% ★, Wargame 25.9%, RTS 19.8%, Strategy 7.9%, Pixel Graphics 3.1%
- #22 Galaxy Trek
84% 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 52.1% ★, RTS 21.7%, Space 11.5%, Strategy 8.4%, Action 4%
- #23 Stickman WW2
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sergey MezhakovPub: Sergey Mezhakov
Windows
Join the historic battles of World War II in the new game Stickman WW2
Why similar: Action RTS 26.6% ★, Wargame 22.6%, RTS 21.6%, Strategy 10.9%, War 4.9%
- #24 Space Alliance: Frontier
81% match8 user reviews50% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Black Lime Studio
Windows
Get ready to protect the entire solar system from an unprecedented threat - the D'Ahari, a race of insect-like aliens. Control an entire fleet of spaceships, trade with other races of an Alliance, and develop your own space station.
Why similar: Action RTS 29.7% ★, RTS 19.6%, Wargame 18.2%, Space 8.2%, Aliens 6.3%
- #25 Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin
81% matchMixed52% of 3,151 reviews2023
Dev: Frontier Developments
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Wage a campaign of brutal conquest in this realm-shattering real-time strategy game set in the Warhammer Age of Sigmar universe. Become a warlord and lead four unique factions to conquer the wild and savage Realm of Ghur in tense and tactical battles.
Why similar: Action RTS 32.9% ★, RTS 20.6%, Wargame 20%, Lore-Rich 9.7%, Strategy 6.2%
- #26 PERIMETER: Legate Edition
80% matchVery Positive93% of 153 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: Action RTS 32% ★, RTS 20.6%, Lore-Rich 9.8%, Top-Down 7.4%, Space 6.5%
- #27 Hermertia Wars
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hermertia Studios Co-operative Inc.
Windows
Heroes from Hermertia’s 1000‑year history clash on floating islands where resources fade fast. Command a hero in action‑driven combat while building settlements, managing economies, and leading armies in a fast, hybrid Action‑RTS fight for survival.
Why similar: Action RTS 33.6% ★, RTS 24.8%, Wargame 16%, Lore-Rich 10.8%, Strategy 7.8%
- #28 Warpaws
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Slipgate Ironworks™
Windows
Let slip the dogs of war or embrace your inner feline and settle the age-old question of Cats vs Dogs, in this quick-to-learn classic RTS game where players fight over territory to eventually destroy their opponent’s base. One side may have nine lives, but even the good bois can get ruff!
Why similar: Action RTS 32.5% ★, Wargame 22.5%, RTS 18.8%, PvE 9.7%, Top-Down 5.8%
- #29 Anispo
78% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Devin Nickell
Windows
Anispo is a fast paced 2D real time strategy game set inside a digital warzone. Command streams of bytes of data, capture network nodes, reinforce your defenses, and outmaneuver computer controlled or online rivals across customizable cyber battlefields.
Why similar: Action RTS 38.1% ★, RTS 25.4%, Strategy 11%, PvE 7%, War 6.5%
- #30 Paper Battlefield
77% matchPositive93% of 40 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 31.5% ★, RTS 23.7%, Wargame 12.9%, War 9.1%, Strategy 7.4%
- #31 Alienshire
78% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: emagnetic
Windows
Alienshire is a classic real-time strategy game where you command an alien force, harvest biomass, build your army, and fight for control of a familiar landscape.
Why similar: RTS 31.4%, Action RTS 27.6% ★, Strategy 10.6%, Top-Down 8.5%, PvE 8%
- #32 Battle Among Stars - Alien War
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dewin DevPub: Dewin Games
Windows
Battle Among Stars – Alien War Five Houses. One galaxy. You are the heir thrown into the war. Command fleets, assemble modular units, forge fragile alliances — every decision reshapes the balance of power. Free demo available now.
Why similar: Action RTS 27.4% ★, RTS 24.1%, Lore-Rich 12.7%, Space 9.3%, Sci-fi 6.2%
- #33 Icon: Voidfall
76% 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 37.4% ★, RTS 24.8%, Strategy 10.1%, Lore-Rich 9.5%, Action 5%
- #34 STEEL PHANTOMS
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Coffee & CrashesPub: Critical Failure Studios
Windows · Mac
A modern military RTS. Command one of three armies - real tanks, drones, rocket artillery, and mobile AA. Cloak past defenses, hose drones with flak, rain ballistic strikes, and crush the enemy base. Battle friends online or skirmish vs AI. Tactics over twitch.
Why similar: Action RTS 34.1% ★, RTS 22.6%, Wargame 19.8%, Strategy 9.8%, War 5.3%
- #35 Epic Pixel War
75% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2024
Dev: evoloiduts
Windows
An action roguelike where you send armies of powerful units to fight against hordes of enemies and bosses, upgrading and finding new units as you go.
Why similar: Action RTS 30.3% ★, Wargame 25.1%, RTS 22.7%, Strategy 7.5%, War 6.2%
- #36 Terra Division
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ushanka Games
Windows
Combine FPS skill and RTS strategy in one game. From the strategic overview of a commander to the focused fire of a frontline soldier, every perspective serves the same purpose: absolute victory. Experience a war where every life has value and every order carries the weight of consequence.
Why similar: RTS 33%, Action RTS 28% ★, Strategy 10%, Top-Down 6.3%, War 5.5%
- #37 Command the Dead
74% 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 43.8% ★, RTS 29.7%, Strategy 13.9%, Top-Down 8.7%, 2D 3.9%
- #38 Prime Domination
74% 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 34.3% ★, RTS 25.1%, Wargame 15%, Strategy 8.6%, PvE 7.4%
- #39 Unforsaken
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tinyhag Games
Windows
A deep fantasy roguelike RTS where you must reclaim the realm from an ancient evil. Recruit immortal heroes, construct bases, command armies and be the last hope for this world. Control over ten powerful heroes and three unique factions in a new take on classical RTS.
Why similar: Action RTS 31% ★, RTS 21.1%, Wargame 10.8%, PvE 9%, Lore-Rich 8.2%
- #40 Barkhan
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Glyph Worlds
Windows · Linux
A harsh sand planet has become the stage for a brutal war between three Great Clans. For the power over rare minerals each wants to prove their superiority. In the heat of dynamic battles with the enemy's troops, be prepared to face and attack giant Sand Snakes.
Why similar: Action RTS 27.9% ★, Wargame 21.5%, RTS 20.4%, PvE 6.2%, Top-Down 6%
- #41 FleetRush
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MrSherbet
Windows
Real-time naval strategy. Build your fleet, defend your base, and destroy the enemy. At your command — ships, submarines, aircraft, and defensive structures.
Why similar: Action RTS 34.6% ★, Wargame 26.8%, RTS 15.3%, PvE 9%, Strategy 5.9%
- #42 Peanut Butter Jelly Wars
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Adam KahmannPub: Shake Up Games
Windows
Peanut Butter Jelly Wars is a thrilling real-time strategy (RTS)-lite game where players face off in an epic battle to determine which spread reigns supreme!
Why similar: Action RTS 35% ★, Wargame 24%, RTS 20.1%, Top-Down 6.1%, Strategy 5.7%
- #43 StarNomads
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Barshem Interactive
Windows
Choose your ship, gather resources, build weapons, and upgrade. Colonize planets, protect your mothership, and destroy enemies in strategic combat. A multiplayer RTS roguelike with turn-based battles!
Why similar: Action RTS 29.2% ★, Wargame 20.3%, RTS 16.1%, PvE 8.2%, Top-Down 5.9%
- #44 Fleetfall - Galaxy Domination
70% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: Purple Owl
Windows
Fast real-time space conquest for 1-4 players. Capture planets, launch missile salvos, and outmaneuver friends in 10-minute Deathmatch blitzes — or scheme through 30 minutes of diplomacy, trade and betrayal in Hegemony mode. Cross-play with mobile; bots fill empty seats so a match always starts.
Why similar: RTS 28.2%, Action RTS 27.7% ★, Wargame 17.2%, Strategy 9.9%, Space 9%
- #45 MythTerra
71% 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 48.2% ★, RTS 26.5%, Strategy 10.2%, Top-Down 8.1%, 2D 3.6%
- #46 Extinction Eclipse
71% matchPositive85% of 34 reviews2022
Dev: TuanisApps
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are in command of the human fleet, searching for asteroids to mine, extract resources and build bases and more ships to defeat aliens invaders. This simple and short action RTS has a full and exciting campaign, and a skirmish mode that allows you to play a different mission on every match.
Why similar: Action RTS 37.6% ★, RTS 18.3%, Wargame 12.8%, Space 9.2%, Top-Down 6.8%
- #47 Xeno Command
71% matchVery Positive83% of 58 reviews2022
Dev: ChillyRoomPub: ChillyRoom
Windows
Defend galaxy against Alien invasion in the RTS offline game with roguelike fun
Why similar: Action RTS 33.9% ★, Wargame 22.5%, RTS 17.1%, Top-Down 5.8%, Space 5.2%
- #48 Stellar Empires
70% matchPositive93% of 15 reviews2023
Dev: Bros Ogon's
Windows
Indie strategy game where you take control of an Empire, lead it to complete domination by colonizing new planets! The goal of the game is simple - the player has an initial planet and he has to control the armies to capture the enemy planets.
Why similar: Action RTS 27.1% ★, RTS 23.2%, PvE 10%, War 7.8%, Space 7.6%
- #49 Okashi Towers
69% matchPositive95% of 43 reviews2024
Dev: Blekoh
Windows
Okashi Towers is a Real Time Strategy game with Tower Defense elements. Gather candy resources to build tower units or go on offense and summon creatures to attack other player bases. Join with up to 8 players and choose one of the four factions that fits your play style best
Why similar: Action RTS 31.2% ★, RTS 21%, Wargame 20.8%, Strategy 6.5%, PvE 6.5%
- #50 Fungal Front
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mkay Productions
Windows
A fast-paced action RTS set on Mycopia, a living fungal planet that fights back. Harvest serum, build your base, and command armies of humans or Shroomies across single-player missions, co-op, and online PvP.
Why similar: Action RTS 29.8% ★, Wargame 20.6%, RTS 16.8%, PvE 8.8%, Top-Down 6.1%
- #51 Drums & Steel
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: OuterBounds
Windows
Command formations of 18th-century armies in real-time strategic combat. Maneuver infantry, cavalry, and artillery through skirmishes and campaigns. May the best army win.
Why similar: Action RTS 36.7% ★, RTS 20.9%, Wargame 20%, Top-Down 6.1%, Strategy 6%
- #52 Warlapse
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Bad Engine Studio
Windows · Linux
War isn't heroism — it's ruthless order and maneuver. Across 7 ages from the Stone Age to modern times, encircle the enemy, cut their supply, and break morale to melt them in the killbox. Lead veterans through Campaign, dive into fast Skirmishes, or mod tomorrow's wars with your own units!
Why similar: Action RTS 33.3% ★, RTS 22%, Wargame 20.8%, Strategy 9.1%, Top-Down 5.4%
- #53 Techfront
66% matchPositive81% of 21 reviews2026
Dev: nucleus_genius
Windows
TECHFRONT is a sci-fi RTS featuring tens of thousands of units. Build bases and wage war across land, air, and sea using tanks, aircraft, fleets, submarines, nuclear missiles, and gigantic combat robots.
Why similar: Wargame 30%, RTS 28.4%, Strategy 12.6%, Top-Down 9.4%, War 6.9%
- #54 Apocalypseed
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fliptico
Windows · Mac
Apocalypseed is a 2D real-time strategy game where you are the invasion. Devour humans to harvest flesh, build and strengthen an army of alien plants, and evolve your creatures into new forms with unique abilities. Crush the human resistance as it deploys increasingly dangerous threats to stop you.
Why similar: Action RTS 38.8% ★, RTS 25.8%, Strategy 8%, PvE 6.5%, Pixel Graphics 4.7%
- #55 Interstellar Survivor
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FrostbyteGames
Windows
Inspired by Space Invaders and Vampire Survivors, Interstellar Survivor is a space shooter where you face an endless onslaught of asteroids!
Why similar: Action RTS 29.5% ★, Wargame 20.2%, RTS 18.7%, Arcade 7.3%, Top-Down 6.2%
- #56 Stronghold Siege
67% 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 35.3% ★, RTS 22.8%, Wargame 18.7%, Strategy 7%, War 7%
- #57 Intercept Line
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KinatoPub: Kinato Games
Windows
You command Ukraine's air defense. Every night — missiles and drone swarms, and always fewer interceptors than targets. By day it's your turn: deep strikes past enemy radars. And when orders aren't enough — take the stick yourself.
Why similar: Action RTS 28% ★, Wargame 27.3%, RTS 20.1%, Strategy 9.8%, Top-Down 6.1%
- #58 Crimson Freedom
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Yboga dooPub: Stardock Entertainment
Windows
Story-driven RTS set on Mars! Build bases, command armies and uncover the choices and failures of humanity. Each campaign offers a radically different perspective on the struggle for humanity's future, a conflict between freedom, control and a frenzied pursuit for immortality through AI.
Why similar: Action RTS 33.3% ★, Wargame 23.1%, RTS 22.5%, Sci-fi 6%, Strategy 5.9%