- #1 Machinefall
97% matchNo user reviews82% of 101 reviews2026
Dev: by Jan Zizka
Windows
Machinefall is a post-apocalyptic real time strategy game set on a fully playable global map. Lead humanity’s last survivors as they build bases, gather resources, and wage massive battles against an overwhelming machine swarm. Progress through technological eras from Stone Age to Atomic Age.
Why similar: RTS 16.1%, Action RTS 13.9% ★, Colony Sim 12.3%, Base Building 10.9%, Real Time Tactics 10.2%
- #2 Prime Domination
96% 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: RTS 22.1%, Action RTS 18.9% ★, Real Time Tactics 14%, Base Building 12%, Resource Management 6.8%
- #3 Towers & Goblins: The Last Stand
96% matchPositive87% of 22 reviews2025
Dev: Axella Games
Windows
Build towers, manage resources, and lead units to defend your kingdom against goblins. Every decision you make determines your kingdom's fate.
Why similar: RTS 18.2%, Action RTS 14.3% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Colony Sim 12.9%, City Builder 11.3%
- #4 Guanabara Warriors
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vinagre Design
Windows
Lead Brazilian indigenous tribes and European forces in an epic real-time strategy game set during the founding of Rio de Janeiro city, Brazil. Forge alliances, command armies, and shape the future of Guanabara Bay.
Why similar: RTS 22.1%, Action RTS 21.1% ★, Real Time Tactics 13.9%, Base Building 13.5%, Resource Management 10.7%
- #5 Orc Warchief: Prologue
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Iron Wolf StudioPub: Iron Wolf Studio
Windows
Prologue version of Orc Warchief. Become an Orc warchief and fight for survival of your race. Rebuild your village and train your warriors. Gather resources and craft your weapons. Raise your warbanner and gather The Horde.
Why similar: Action RTS 19.8% ★, RTS 17.4%, Real Time Tactics 15.3%, Colony Sim 15.2%, City Builder 12.1%
- #6 Failover
92% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Maksym Vostruhin
Windows
Take command of civil air defense under constant threat. Build radar networks, manage power and resources, and decide when to sound the sirens. Every choice has consequences. Hold your cities together as escalation turns survival into strategy.
Why similar: RTS 23%, Real Time Tactics 21.7%, Base Building 12.2%, Resource Management 11%, Strategy 8.4%
- #7 Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware
91% matchVery Positive92% of 802 reviews2025
Dev: Door 407
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware is a free prequel to the original game. In a medieval fantasy world, you are to build settlements, raise huge armies, and defend against massive hordes of enemies. Learn how Ironbrow clan shaped the world's map the first time - if you survive, that is.
Why similar: RTS 18.8%, Colony Sim 17.1%, City Builder 13.6%, Base Building 12.9%, Action RTS 12.8% ★
- #8 Bacteria Wars
93% 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: RTS 29.9%, Action RTS 20.4% ★, Real Time Tactics 17.5%, Base Building 12%, Strategy 9.2%
- #9 Bread & Bravery
91% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Ennoble Studios
Windows
Return to the era of knights and castles in a uniquely satisfying mix of Settlement Building, RTS and Castle Simulation genres. Manage complex and realistic medieval production chains, build your army and defences, satisfy the King and lead your people to prosperity. Will you succeed as a new lord?
Why similar: RTS 18.6%, Base Building 13%, City Builder 12.1%, Colony Sim 11.3%, Action RTS 10.6% ★
- #10 Oikizo
90% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: L2N Game Studio
Windows
Oikizo is a city-building game. Start by placing your first building and a few citizens, then make your city prosper. The strength of Oikizo lies in the ability to manage a city cooperatively with your friends.
Why similar: RTS 21.6%, Action RTS 20.8% ★, Colony Sim 18.6%, City Builder 14.7%, Base Building 8.9%
- #11 VENOY
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mathis WischeroppPub: LaboratoryGames
Windows
VENOY is a relaxing roguelite real-time strategy game with deep settler logistics, true sandbox freedom and exciting meta progression. Build your medieval colony, optimize production chains and defend it against enemies!
Why similar: RTS 24.8%, Colony Sim 19.4%, City Builder 13.9%, Base Building 12.4%, Strategy 9.3%
- #12 A Modest Legacy
89% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2023
Dev: Happy Viking Studios
Windows
Welcome to A Modest Legacy, a medieval, real time strategy game. Here you will use city building and combat tactics to conquer your enemies in hopes to be the last kingdom standing. Good luck!
Why similar: RTS 21.3%, Action RTS 15.5% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Real Time Tactics 12.8%, City Builder 11.7%
- #13 EASY RTS
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Olivette Noa
Windows · Linux
a minimalist rts game where decision-making is at the heart of simple and intuitive gameplay. Compete or cooperate with your friends online to build the best base.
Why similar: RTS 21.7%, Action RTS 21% ★, Real Time Tactics 15.5%, City Builder 14.2%, Base Building 10.2%
- #14 Cult Defense
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Paulo Schmidt
Windows · Linux
Defend your cult from the police and military. Build shrines, raise followers, and prepare for the attack.
Why similar: RTS 25.4%, Base Building 15.6%, Action RTS 15.1% ★, Resource Management 11.4%, Real Time Tactics 7.9%
- #15 Defender's Dynasty
86% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Hyper Cloud Games
Windows · Mac
A 2D Strategic Base Defender game set in Medieval times. As relentless Waves of enemy forces threaten your Stronghold, you must gather Resources, Fortify your Defenses and lead your Rebellion. Prepare to strengthen your Base and manage your Resources. But beaware of the Storms!
Why similar: Action RTS 18.8% ★, Base Building 15.2%, City Builder 14.1%, Real Time Tactics 14.1%, RTS 13.5%
- #16 RTS Outpost
86% 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: RTS 25.3%, Action RTS 21.4% ★, Real Time Tactics 14.7%, Base Building 11.4%, Strategy 7.7%
- #17 Keep
85% 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 27.4% ★, RTS 23.4%, Real Time Tactics 19.6%, Base Building 14.1%, Strategy 5.6%
- #18 Paddle Protectors
84% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Huhi Games
Windows
Paddle Protectors is an mix of tower defense, real-time strategy and city-building. You will fight against crabs. Establish farms and factories to produce ammunition and resources, fortify your land, lead your soldiers and tanks.
Why similar: Action RTS 21.2% ★, RTS 19.8%, City Builder 13.9%, Real Time Tactics 13.8%, Military 9.2%
- #19 Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition
83% 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 29.8%, Base Building 17.9%, City Builder 10.9%, Action RTS 10.5% ★, Resource Management 9.9%
- #20 Ruin or Victory
84% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2022
Dev: Wedge End Games
Windows
Ruin or Victory is a modern take and evolution of the classic RTS genre with added detail, continuity, and strategic depth while remaining accessible and well-paced. Devise your strategy, manage and expand your economy, and choose your warriors' equipment and tactics.
Why similar: Action RTS 20.9% ★, RTS 18.3%, Real Time Tactics 15.5%, Base Building 14%, City Builder 10.7%
- #21 Grey Galactic
82% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Alex McGeePub: Blue Quill Studios LLC
Windows
Grey Galactic is a real time strategy game in space where you build up your planets and ships to conquer your enemies. Develop your empire and fleet of spaceships to destroy your enemies and take over the galaxy! Do you have what it takes to become the best Fleet Captain the UFMC has ever seen?
Why similar: RTS 22.8%, Action RTS 22.5% ★, Real Time Tactics 17.2%, Base Building 8.1%, Strategy 6.1%
- #22 Yãkoana: Dreams of Resistance
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Minimol Games
Windows · Mac
Yãkoana: Dreams of Resistance is a strategy game with roguelite and tower defense elements. Defend your people’s legacy against colonizers, mastering the land and awakening ancient powers in a relentless fight for freedom.
Why similar: RTS 21.9%, Action RTS 17.8% ★, Base Building 15%, Real Time Tactics 13%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #23 Territory: Farming and Warfare
79% matchVery Positive85% of 755 reviews2026
Dev: Wit Studio
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 21.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.
Why similar: RTS 15.2%, Base Building 14.7%, City Builder 12.7%, Real Time Tactics 12.3%, Colony Sim 11.9%
- #24 Plebs
82% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2023
Dev: PixelWhipped
Windows
A low-stress strategy game where logistics, not clicks, is the key to victory. Guide your Plebs as they gather resources, mine ores, and craft weapons to expand your ancient nation's settlement, conquer the land, and defeat your enemies.
Why similar: RTS 19.5%, Base Building 15.6%, City Builder 13.6%, Real Time Tactics 13.3%, Resource Management 12.1%
- #25 We Are The Wall
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NorthWall Studio
Windows · Mac
We Are The Wall is a city-builder / RTS where you lead a hardy dwarf settlement fighting to protect their mountain home. Train armies, gather vital resources, explore the surrounding lands, and defend the Heart of the Mountain at all costs. We Are The Wall!
Why similar: RTS 22.9%, Base Building 21.1%, City Builder 16.6%, Real Time Tactics 11.8%, Strategy 8.6%
- #26 Age of Respair
80% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Respair Games
Windows
Age of Respair is a medieval strategy castle-builder. Build massive castles with fortifications while managing resources and production chains. Assemble a large army and lay siege to enemy castles. Lead your people and bring respair to your kingdom🏰⚔️
Why similar: Real Time Tactics 16.6%, Colony Sim 16.1%, RTS 15.7%, Base Building 15.7%, City Builder 14%
- #27 Architect of the Union
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: No more Sleep
Windows · Linux
A tower defense RTS where you are in the middle of the army instead of just overlooking it. Based in an apocalyptic Soviet Union.
Why similar: RTS 20.2%, Action RTS 15.6% ★, City Builder 12.6%, Real Time Tactics 11.2%, Base Building 10.4%
- #28 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: Base Building 23.9%, RTS 19.5%, City Builder 15.5%, Colony Sim 15%, Strategy 7.5%
- #29 Micro Wars
78% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Micro Wars
Windows · Linux
Micro Wars is a fast-paced RTS that throws you into the action in short, intense online battles featuring up to 8 players. Tailor your strategy with a variety of commanders and units, build your base, and micro your way to victory. Hone your skills with the campaign, and then climb the ladder ranks!
Why similar: RTS 19.9%, Action RTS 19.7% ★, Real Time Tactics 15.3%, Base Building 13%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #30 Anthill Village
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lychee Game Labs
Windows
Now that ants have evolved thumbs, they're unstoppable! Help them build villages, scour the land for resources and fend off creatures 100 times their own size.
Why similar: RTS 21.2%, Colony Sim 17.6%, Action RTS 16.3% ★, Base Building 13.4%, City Builder 12.8%
- #31 LouLan Kingdom
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MockingCrown Games
Windows
Loulan Kingdom is a city-building survival and real-time strategy game. As the ruler of Loulan, you must build your city amid a perilous desert oasis, grow your power through the Silk Road, and fight to protect your kingdom—until the very end.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.5%, RTS 17.4%, Real Time Tactics 16.3%, City Builder 13.8%, Base Building 13.1%
- #32 Little Kingdom RTS
75% 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 21.8%, Action RTS 17.3% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Real Time Tactics 14.9%, Resource Management 10.8%
- #33 Unforsaken
75% 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: RTS 22.4%, Action RTS 20.7% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Real Time Tactics 14.8%, Management 5.9%
- #34 Giantfall
73% matchPositive100% of 13 reviews2026
Dev: Birchwood Games
Windows
Build your medieval kingdom. Raise an army. Defend against towering Giants and monstrous creatures as they lay siege to everything you've built
Why similar: RTS 18.6%, Colony Sim 16.4%, Base Building 16.4%, Action RTS 16.3% ★, Real Time Tactics 11.6%
- #35 Recovery Syndicate
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bumblebee Studios
Windows
Recovery Syndicate is a prequel to Abeyance, in which you are the leader of one of the factions trying to reconstruct the economy of the galaxy. You must build and manage your colony's resources carefully, while watching out for rival factions who are also vying for supremacy.
Why similar: RTS 20.8%, Real Time Tactics 15.8%, Colony Sim 15.7%, Base Building 13.8%, City Builder 13.1%
- #36 Hell of Men : Blood Brothers
76% matchMixed69% of 29 reviews2021
Dev: Whacky Squad Studio
Windows
Hell of Men: Blood Brothers is a real-time strategy game, developed by one person, in which you will have to collect resources, build your base, train your army by choosing your soldiers wisely and fight.
Why similar: RTS 20.8%, Action RTS 18.2% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Real Time Tactics 9.4%, Military 8.6%
- #37 Field & Sky
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Orbitami Entertainment
Windows
Field & Sky is a realistic open-world homestead builder where you inherit family land and shape it into a thriving rural property. Build farms, raise livestock, connect to a nearby town, and explore your land from above or at ground level at your own pace.
Why similar: RTS 21.1%, Action RTS 20.3% ★, Colony Sim 18.7%, Real Time Tactics 15.2%, City Builder 14.8%
- #38 They Fear The Mist
72% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Hidden Shadows Games
Windows
They Fear The Mist is a real-time strategy game, where you command your Troops, build your Settlement, fight off thousands of Enemies and explore the Unknowns of the Mist. Take command of your people and defend them from the incoming hordes… Can you survive?
Why similar: RTS 22.5%, Action RTS 18% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Real Time Tactics 13.4%, City Builder 8.8%
- #39 Tactical Warfare: Siege Survival
72% matchPositive85% of 39 reviews2024
Dev: Mizrab
Windows
Immerse yourself in Tactical Warfare, a captivating mini-game of the base game where you defend your base against relentless enemy waves. Strategize, fortify, and survive to emerge victorious. Wishlist now for exclusive access to the playtest and full game on November 29, 2024!.
Why similar: RTS 19.1%, Action RTS 17.1% ★, Colony Sim 16.2%, City Builder 12.9%, Real Time Tactics 12.8%
- #40 Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 21,047 reviews2013
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader HD throws you into historic battles and castle sieges from the Crusades with fiendish AI opponents, new units, 4 historical campaigns and over 100 unique skirmish missions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.1%, Real Time Tactics 15.8%, Base Building 13.8%, City Builder 12.8%, Military 10.2%
- #41 Vedelem: The Golden Horde
73% 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 19.3%, Base Building 14.4%, Real Time Tactics 13.8%, City Builder 11.2%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #42 十面冲突 Clash of ten sides
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 爱玩小灰
Windows
《十面冲突》是一款即时策略对战竞技游戏,在游戏中,玩家雇佣武装力量进行对战,有各种各样的兵种等你来雇佣,注意彼此的出兵种类,这样你才能知己知彼,百战百胜。干掉对方的基地,胜利就是你的,你能成功吗?那就来挑战吧!
Why similar: RTS 24.9%, Action RTS 23.5% ★, Real Time Tactics 17.9%, Base Building 10.8%, War 8.1%
- #43 Raga
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gameparic
Windows
Raga is a game set in the Slavic realities, in which the cultures of the East and the West intertwine. The gameplay combines elements of a city-builder and an extensive economy known from RTS games. The game is saturated with many elements of Slavic mysticism, full of beliefs, myths, and monsters.
Why similar: RTS 21%, Action RTS 20.9% ★, Real Time Tactics 14.9%, City Builder 13.2%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #44 Paper Battlefield
70% 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: RTS 26.1%, Action RTS 21.8% ★, Base Building 18.4%, War 10%, Real Time Tactics 8.4%
- #45 Bee Island
70% matchVery Positive87% of 1,692 reviews2023
Dev: Lemma Arts
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Play solo or in co-op with friends, take control of the hive and protect it from enemies. Build factories and defence, research technologies and, if necessary, use nuclear weapons, but do not let the enemies harm the queen!
Why similar: Action RTS 18.8% ★, RTS 16.7%, Colony Sim 14.4%, Base Building 13.3%, City Builder 12.1%
- #46 Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition
70% 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 27.8%, Base Building 21.8%, City Builder 13.3%, Military 10.9%, Strategy 9.8%
- #47 TAVU
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Juhani Viitanen
Windows
TAVU is a PvE RTS game with a tactical combat system. Build your bases and defend them against waves of enemy attacks. Upgrade your units and destroy enemy bases to gain new territories and resources.
Why similar: RTS 23%, Action RTS 18.2% ★, Base Building 17.3%, Real Time Tactics 16.8%, Resource Management 12.2%
- #48 Afterglow Fortress
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Blacksword Studio
Windows · Linux
A cute hand-drawn 2D medieval RTS game. Gather resources, build your base, develop by day, and defend against monster hordes at night to protect your realm.
Why similar: Action RTS 26.3% ★, Real Time Tactics 19.4%, RTS 18.3%, City Builder 14.7%, Base Building 9.4%
- #49 After Long Night
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 459 reviews2025
Dev: 疯狗工作室Pub: OKJOY
Windows
After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.
Why similar: RTS 21.4%, Colony Sim 16.9%, Base Building 14.9%, City Builder 11.1%, Resource Management 10.8%
- #50 Kingdom Of Force
71% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2020
Dev: Razer TeamPub: Hydra Game Studio
Windows
KOF is a magic background real-time strategy game, which is based on the method of dispatching troops to occupy the city, and combines the elements of resource collection, construction, upgrading, tower defense and so on.
Why similar: RTS 21.8%, Real Time Tactics 16.1%, Base Building 15.3%, Colony Sim 14.4%, City Builder 12.4%
- #51 Critter Conquest
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NoMicro Studio
Windows
Command tiny critters in a fast paced woodland strategy game. Send swarms between burrows, capture territory, build your colony, and push back enemy creatures.
Why similar: RTS 30%, Real Time Tactics 22.2%, Base Building 18.8%, Resource Management 13.3%, Strategy 11.5%
- #52 Magnery Reign
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: REDIZITPub: REDIZIT Game Studio
Windows
Feel yourself as the manager of your city. Build a settlement, strengthen your defenses, repel attacks, trade, loose and enjoy the long-awaited victory.
Why similar: RTS 19.5%, Colony Sim 16.9%, Base Building 14.4%, City Builder 12.3%, Real Time Tactics 10.8%
- #53 Coloniser
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Cantos Games
Windows
A survival-first multiplayer RTS. Secure a foothold, outlast rivals, and earn the right to build your colony in massive persistent worlds.
Why similar: RTS 18.8%, Action RTS 16.9% ★, Real Time Tactics 13.8%, City Builder 11.9%, Base Building 11.8%
- #54 Crustacean Nations
68% matchVery Positive93% of 526 reviews2022
Dev: Team Beans
Windows
🦀Crustacean Nations🦀 is a real-time strategy game about total crab warfare. Build a sprawling sand castle and amass huge armies to dominate the beach and become the one true crustacean nation!
Why similar: Action RTS 27.6% ★, RTS 22.4%, Base Building 19.2%, Resource Management 11%, Strategy 7.3%
- #55 Steel Command
66% 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: RTS 33.6%, Action RTS 20.4% ★, Base Building 20.1%, Strategy 10.4%, Military 7.6%
- #56 In Game Leader
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: saveja1s
Windows
Become your teams In-Game Leader and lead your team of 5 agents to victory.
Why similar: RTS 26.5%, Action RTS 25.4% ★, Real Time Tactics 18.6%, Strategy 10%, Military 6%
- #57 Stronghold 2: Steam Edition
68% matchVery Positive89% of 5,758 reviews2017
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Tax, torture or treat your peasants! Rehabilitate criminals or sentence them to death? Decide as you enjoy jousting over a lavish banquet, all while under siege from the warmongering Lord Barclay.
Why similar: RTS 16%, Colony Sim 15.3%, Real Time Tactics 15%, City Builder 12.9%, Base Building 11.9%
- #58 Iron Expedition
65% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Amberlight Games
Windows
A unique mix of RTS and Action: take control of a powerful combat mech, build your base, raise an army, and fight alongside your forces on the battlefield.
Why similar: RTS 27.1%, Action RTS 25.3% ★, Base Building 17.5%, Real Time Tactics 7%, Military 6.9%