- #1 Impossible Creatures Steam Edition
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,801 reviews2015
Dev: Relic EntertainmentPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Impossible Creatures is a 3D RTS game that pits the player against an evil villain. Using Earth’s most formidable animals as building blocks, the player must create an army of genetically-altered mutant monsters in a titanic struggle to protect an unsuspecting world.
Why similar: RTS 29.8%, Real-Time 27.5% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Strategy 9.1%, War 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game is the closest match to Moduwar's core mechanic, allowing you to combine DNA from different animals to create unique, custom combat units.
- #2 Grey Goo
96% 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 36%, Aliens 14.7%, Base Building 12.3%, Sci-fi 10.7%, Strategy 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: It features a faction composed of sentient, morphing goo that perfectly captures the organic, alien RTS aesthetic.
- #3 WARSHIFT
96% 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 58.1%, Strategy 19.7%, Sci-fi 15.5%, Multiplayer 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: It features a unique morphing mechanic where your units and hero can shift forms to adapt to changing battlefield conditions.
- #4 Silica
94% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,752 reviews2023
Dev: Martin 'Dram' MelichárekPub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Silica blends FPS and RTS in epic, photorealistic battles. Choose to fight on the ground or command from above as humans or aliens. Dive into thrilling multiplayer combat or master strategic command. Are you ready to survive and conquer?
Why similar: RTS 30.5%, Aliens 21.3%, PvP 12.2%, Multiplayer 11.3%, Sci-fi 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: This title blends RTS and FPS gameplay with a heavy focus on alien versus human biological warfare and unit control.
- #5 Forged Battalion
95% 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 69.2%, Strategy 19.1%, Multiplayer 10.2%, Singleplayer 1.6%
Why You'll Like It: This RTS offers deep unit customization, allowing you to design and adapt your army's capabilities throughout the campaign.
- #6 Creeper World 4
94% matchVery Positive95% of 4,620 reviews2020
Dev: Knuckle Cracker
Windows
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 29.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
The unstoppable fluid enemy has returned and destroyed every world in its path! Defend against Creeper as it floods across the 3D terrain in this real time strategy game where the enemy is a fluid.
Why similar: RTS 26.2%, Wargame 21.4%, War 17.5%, Sci-fi 8.2%, Top-Down 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: The game centers on fluid, organic-like threats that require highly adaptive base-building and tactical positioning to overcome.
- #7 From Glory To Goo
92% 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: Action RTS 26.2% ★, RTS 23.4%, Base Building 19%, War 13.1%, Resource Management 12.9%
Why You'll Like It: It centers on managing organic, fluid-like threats and building defenses that must adapt to the encroaching enemy mass.
- #8 Alien Marauder
93% 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 21.1%, Base Building 15.5%, Wargame 14.4%, Aliens 12.4%, Resource Management 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on survival against massive alien swarms, requiring careful base-building and tactical unit management.
- #9 Rogue Command
91% 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: Action RTS 27.9% ★, RTS 23.7%, Base Building 17.3%, Resource Management 13.3%, Sci-fi 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game provides roguelite unit customization, forcing players to adapt their army composition based on random upgrades and environmental challenges.
- #10 Tempest Rising
89% 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 40.5%, Strategy 10.6%, Base Building 10.5%, Real-Time 9.2% ★, FMV 5.2% ★
Why You'll Like It: A classic RTS experience that captures the base-building intensity and resource management of the genre.
- #11 Darwinia
91% matchVery Positive80% of 1,120 reviews2005
Dev: Introversion Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 12 minMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 24%
Darwinia blends real-time strategy, action, and puzzles with a unique gesture-based control system. Save the Darwinians, battle viruses, and restore order in a retro-inspired digital world. Winner of multiple prestigious awards, including the Seumas McNally Grand Prize at IGF 2006.
Why similar: RTS 37.7%, Wargame 31%, Sci-fi 12.6%, Strategy 10.1%, 3D 6%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique, stylized take on digital-organic unit management that feels both nostalgic and innovative.
- #12 PERIMETER: Legate Edition
89% 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: Action RTS 26.8% ★, RTS 22.9%, Lore-Rich 10.2%, Top-Down 7.3%, Strategy 7%
Why You'll Like It: Features unique terrain manipulation and base-building mechanics that require constant adaptation to the environment.
- #13 The Hive
90% matchMostly Positive73% of 417 reviews2016
Dev: Skydome Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
The Hive is a strategy game with RPG elements where you assume command as the insectoid hivemind. Build and expand your underground colony, harvest resources, and evolve your swarm using DNA. Will you survive in this hostile yet beautiful underworld?
Why similar: RTS 20.5%, Action RTS 18.1% ★, Aliens 16.9%, Base Building 13.3%, Resource Management 10%
Why You'll Like It: Features dark, organic, and underground RTS gameplay that emphasizes the development of a biological colony.
- #14 Starship Troopers: Terran Command
86% matchVery Positive87% of 11,704 reviews2022
Dev: The ArtistocratsPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Lead the Mobile Infantry in this RTS game set in the Starship Troopers film universe. Balance your army composition with a diverse set of unit types, overcome line-of-sight and line-of-fire challenges through tactical positioning, and use special abilities to smash the Arachnid hordes!
Why similar: RTS 28.1%, Real-Time 21.1% ★, War 11.3%, Strategy 10%, Wargame 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on tactical, large-scale combat against overwhelming alien swarms, emphasizing positioning and unit synergy.
- #15 Protolife
88% 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 31.9%, Base Building 24.1%, Aliens 16.3%, Sci-fi 10.9%, Strategy 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on adaptive tower defense and base-building against rapidly evolving organic threats.
- #16 Tooth and Tail
87% matchMostly Positive80% of 4,111 reviews2017
Dev: Pocketwatch Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Lead the revolution with an army of flamethrowing Boars, mustard gas-lobbing Skunks, and paratrooper-puking Owls. Tooth and Tail is a Real-Time-Strategy game featuring Single Player, Online Competitive Play, Split Screen, Replays, and more. Build a base, lead your army, eat your enemies!
Why similar: RTS 47.3%, Competitive 17.6% ★, Strategy 14.5%, Multiplayer 12.6%, Isometric 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: The game focuses on fast-paced, unit-centric combat that feels visceral and direct, stripping away complex base management for immediate tactical control.
- #17 Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation
85% matchMostly Positive74% of 4,922 reviews2016
Dev: Stardock Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
A massive-scale real-time strategy game where you command entire armies on a dynamic battlefield. Conquer multiple worlds across several single-player campaigns; or play with your friends in multiplayer combat.
Why similar: RTS 26.2%, Base Building 19.3%, Isometric 12.4%, PvP 11.3%, War 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: Provides large-scale RTS combat with deep unit management and a focus on massive, high-tech armies.
- #18 Five Nations
84% matchVery Positive83% of 265 reviews2021
Dev: SilverForge
Windows
Five Nations is a real-time sci-fi strategy game for PC platform. Encompassing tactical combat in space in real-time mixed with micromanagement of economy, construction, and production featuring different kind of single player modes.
Why similar: RTS 26.1%, Action RTS 25.1% ★, Aliens 12.5%, Isometric 10.1%, Sci-fi 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi RTS that emphasizes tactical unit positioning and base management within a space-faring setting.
- #19 Stellar Warfare
84% matchVery Positive84% of 406 reviews2021
Dev: Tense Games
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 45%
Space RTS with base building and ship customization. Personal passion project. More than 200 available ships, weapons and modules to design your fleet with. Contains a small campaign, several single and multiplayer game modes and a coop game mode. Also contains Wave defense!
Why similar: RTS 30.9%, Wargame 18.8%, Sci-fi 12.3%, PvP 11.4%, Multiplayer 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: Allows for extensive ship customization, letting players build and adapt their fleet to counter specific enemy threats.
- #20 War Selection
82% matchVery Positive85% of 23,033 reviews2019
Dev: Glyph Worlds
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 27.4 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 30.1%, Base Building 27.5%, War 12.8%, Multiplayer 11%, Strategy 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a broad base-building experience with multiple evolutionary paths that change how your civilization functions.
- #21 Operation: Polygon Storm
82% matchMostly Positive71% of 285 reviews2024
Dev: Toxic Studio
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 49%
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: Action RTS 28.4% ★, RTS 20.4%, Wargame 18%, Resource Management 9.5%, War 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Combines action-RTS elements with roguelite progression, rewarding players for adapting their unit loadouts.
- #22 Line War
81% matchVery Positive80% of 1,158 reviews2022
Dev: Studio Centurion
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 71%
A new type of RTS with elements from 4X, Wargame, and Real-Time Tactics. Draw commands and execute a superior strategy to defeat your opponent, focusing on high-level decisions rather than constant micromanagement.
Why similar: Action RTS 23.4% ★, RTS 21.1%, Wargame 10.8%, War 8.5%, PvP 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features unique, territory-based RTS mechanics that require constant adaptation and strategic movement.
- #23 Tactical Warfare
81% matchMixed67% of 63 reviews2025
Dev: Mizrab
Windows
The enemy attack on your base is imminent; secure your defenses, mobilize your troops, reinforce key positions, and get ready for the next battle. RTS Tactical Warfare will test your resilience and strategic prowess.
Why similar: RTS 18.5%, FMV 16.7% ★, Real-Time 15.9% ★, Base Building 13.4%, War 12%
Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes tactical positioning and base management in a war-torn environment.
- #24 Battlefall: State of Conflict
80% 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: Real-Time 20.4% ★, Action RTS 15.4% ★, RTS 12.5%, Wargame 9.9%, Base Building 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A modern RTS that focuses on base-building and tactical combat in a sci-fi setting.
- #25 Eyes of War
79% matchMostly Positive79% of 321 reviews2025
Dev: Good Mood Games
Windows · Linux
Eyes of War is a real-time strategy game set in the medieval era, offering both single-player and multiplayer experiences where you can control every unit in character mode. Build your castle, lead your army, and dominate the map. Eyes of War invites you to epic battles of the medieval era!
Why similar: RTS 27.8%, Wargame 20.7%, Isometric 15%, Base Building 14.4%, Resource Management 12.5%
Why You'll Like It: A stylized RTS that blends traditional base-building with modern combat mechanics.
- #26 Crustacean Nations
78% matchVery Positive93% of 505 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 28.2% ★, RTS 19.2%, Base Building 17.8%, Resource Management 10.3%, War 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A casual, action-oriented RTS with unique, biological-themed unit designs.
- #27 Calyx
76% 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: Action RTS 21.9% ★, RTS 19.3%, Base Building 14.8%, Isometric 11.4%, Resource Management 11.1%
- #28 The Scouring
76% matchVery Positive89% of 1,084 reviews2025
Dev: Orc Group
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 68%
The Scouring is an RTS with fast pace, high attention to detail and next generation experience. Lead humans or orcs in a Classic Mode or use one of powerful Heroes to fight for victory! Play alone or with friends. Use our modding tools to create maps and custom game modes! Join The Scouring!
Why similar: Action RTS 25.7% ★, RTS 22.1%, Base Building 14.5%, War 14.5%, PvP 9.8%
- #29 Siege of Centauri
79% matchMixed66% of 448 reviews2019
Dev: Stardock Entertainment
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Defend against thousands of enemies in this explosive tower defense game. Deploy upgradable towers and unleash powerful orbital abilities as you try to protect Earth's first colony world from destruction.
Why similar: Real-Time 31.3% ★, Competitive 19.2% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Isometric 12.1%, War 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on defensive strategy against overwhelming alien forces, requiring precise unit placement.
- #30 Swarm Queen
77% matchVery Positive93% of 378 reviews2017
Dev: Helmi Bastami
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A quick-to-learn but challenging real-time strategy game where you spawn an army of space-bugs that control themselves.
Why similar: RTS 23.8%, Aliens 19.5%, Action RTS 19.3% ★, War 12.6%, Wargame 9%
- #31 Firmament Wars
77% matchMixed65% of 55 reviews2018
Dev: Neverworks Games
Windows
Firmament Wars is a multiplayer strategy game with fast-paced real-time warfare. Build a wall, fire cannons, and launch missiles on your way to victory! Select from 7 government types and compete with up to 8 players on a variety of maps! Go forth and conquer!
Why similar: Real-Time 32.7% ★, RTS 17%, Strategy 12.5%, War 11.2%, Wargame 11.1%
- #32 Andalia
75% matchVery Positive85% of 54 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 29.8%, Base Building 20.7%, War 11%, PvP 10.9%, Multiplayer 10.5%
- #33 Art of War: Red Tides
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 6,952 reviews2016
Dev: Game Science
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Art of War: Red Tides is a fair multiplayer strategy game that allows different teams on the same platform (e.g. smartphones, PC, etc.) to battle against each other. You will encounter players around the world!
Why similar: RTS 42.2%, War 19.3%, Multiplayer 16.5%, Strategy 14.1%, PvP 3.4%
- #34 Executive Assault 2
73% 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: Real-Time 26.1% ★, RTS 21.8%, Base Building 13.8%, Action RTS 12.8% ★, War 8.4%
- #35 Executive Assault
74% 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 31.2%, Real-Time 22.5% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Strategy 9.9%, War 9.8%
- #36 Xeno Command
74% matchVery Positive84% of 55 reviews2022
Dev: ChillyRoomPub: ChillyRoom
Windows
Defend galaxy against Alien invasion in the RTS offline game with roguelike fun
Why similar: Action RTS 26.6% ★, RTS 18%, Wargame 16.2%, Base Building 11.5%, Aliens 10.8%
- #37 Earth vs Mars
72% matchVery Positive88% of 73 reviews2025
Dev: Relic EntertainmentPub: Relic Labs
Windows
Faced with a terrifying Martian invasion, you must lead Earth’s forces in a battle for our planet’s future. Create powerful human-creature super soldiers to fight an alien menace in this turn-based strategy game.
Why similar: Aliens 33%, PvP 19.7%, Wargame 17.3%, Multiplayer 12.3%, Strategy 7.9%
- #38 Annihilate The Spance
71% 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 28.8%, Base Building 24.3%, War 15.7%, Resource Management 12.1%, Sci-fi 8.4%
- #39 DRONE PERSPECTIVE
71% matchVery Positive92% of 90 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: Action RTS 24.6% ★, RTS 22.5%, Wargame 18.6%, War 14.5%, Isometric 9%
- #40 Age of Mythology: Retold
69% matchVery Positive91% of 21,438 reviews2024
Dev: World's EdgePub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 36.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Play as mythological Gods and smite your enemies in this award-winning, mythological Real-Time Strategy classic given new life. Wage war across timeless campaigns, fierce skirmishes, and god-powered multiplayer modes.
Why similar: RTS 19%, Action RTS 17.9% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Lore-Rich 11.1%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #41 FATAL ERROR - RTS
72% matchVery Positive95% of 66 reviews2021
Dev: Jeffrey Lu
Windows
FATAL ERROR is a real-time strategy game on the digital battlefields of a computer world under attack. With your TAC-AID and advanced programming, you must eliminate all threats to the Mainframe and take the fight to the viruses. Discover an abstract world of limitless potential…and lurking dangers.
Why similar: RTS 34.4%, Base Building 23.4%, Lore-Rich 16.1%, Top-Down 9.1%, Strategy 9%
- #42 8-Bit Invaders!
73% matchVery Positive83% of 444 reviews2016
Dev: Petroglyph
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
8-Bit Invaders! is a fast-paced, retro Real-Time Strategy game for the PC. Control the military might of the Galactic Marine Corps or Invade with the devastating power of the Cranioids! Mine, Build, and Fight your way to victory! Conquering the Multiverse was never so easy.
Why similar: RTS 32.7%, Aliens 16.4%, War 12.6%, Strategy 12%, Multiplayer 9.7%
- #43 Bot Wars
71% 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: Wargame 52.9%, Sci-fi 25.6%, Strategy 21.5%
- #44 3 Days War
70% matchVery Positive84% of 707 reviews2023
Dev: 荆棘鸟工作室
Windows
3 Days War is a unique multiplayer strategy war game. Integrating the mechanics of RTS+4X, it allows dozens of players to engage in a three-day real-time strategy competitionon. Commanders, use your skills, strategies, games and even deception to become the ultimate winner!
Why similar: RTS 28.3%, Wargame 20%, Base Building 17%, War 13%, PvP 12.6%
- #45 Natural Selection 2
70% matchVery Positive85% of 13,305 reviews2012
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A fast paced multiplayer shooter that pits aliens against humans in a strategic and action-packed struggle for survival!
Why similar: RTS 25.6%, Aliens 19.2%, Competitive 17.6% ★, Multiplayer 15.8%, Strategy 11.1%
- #46 ShellMobile: Titan Rampart
67% matchVery Positive98% of 206 reviews2025
Dev: 红景天娱乐
Windows
On the cosmic frontier, humanity has fought alien species for a century. As traditional defenses fall to new-gen alien mechs, tech giant ShellMobile—human-centered at its core—kindles new hope via breakthroughs in extraterrestrial titanium ore research.
Why similar: Wargame 22.7%, RTS 22.3%, Base Building 18.6%, Strategy 8.8%, War 7.6%
- #47 Gemini Wars
73% matchMostly Negative32% of 165 reviews2012
Dev: Camel 101
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Take control of a fleet commander returned from exile, rise through the ranks of the United Space Federation forces and join an epic war across the stars.
Why similar: Real-Time 24.7% ★, RTS 14.7%, Wargame 12.7%, Base Building 11.8%, War 11.3%
- #48 Dune: Spice Wars
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 13,257 reviews2023
Dev: Shiro GamesPub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A 4X real-time strategy game from the developers of the critically acclaimed Northgard. Set in Frank Herbert’s groundbreaking Dune universe, you must lead your faction and battle for control and dominance over the harsh desert planet of Arrakis.
Why similar: RTS 25%, Base Building 17%, War 16.5%, Sci-fi 13.1%, PvP 10%
- #49 Waronoi
69% 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 30.4%, Wargame 22.1%, Strategy 13.1%, War 12.9%, Top-Down 8.7%
- #50 WAR PARTY
69% matchMixed69% of 455 reviews2019
Dev: Rogueside
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
War Party is a strategy game where you enter a prehistoric world of Dinosaurs, Cavemen and Magic! Build up your chosen faction, gather resources, explore the land and command them against enemy tribes and wildlife! Will your story be about Life, Death or Balance? Can you survive?
Why similar: Real-Time 25.9% ★, RTS 16.8%, Base Building 12.5%, War 10.6%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #51 Codex of Victory
70% 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: Base Building 28.4%, Wargame 27.7%, Sci-fi 14.8%, Aliens 14.5%, Strategy 11.1%
- #52 X-Morph: Defense
67% matchVery Positive92% of 4,073 reviews2017
Dev: EXOR Studios
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Unique fusion of a top-down shooter and tower defense strategy. You are the invader! Use destructive weapons or lead your enemies into a maze of towers. Strategize in the build mode by carefully selecting various types of alien towers or throw yourself right into the heat of the battle.
Why similar: Aliens 32.8%, Isometric 22.6%, Sci-fi 15.8%, Strategy 14%, Top-Down 11.7%
- #53 IDUN Prologue - Frontline Survival
66% matchVery Positive89% of 81 reviews2025
Dev: IDUN InteractivePub: Surefire.Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Step into the arena with IDUN: Prologue, a thrilling slice of our full-length defense RTS where real-time strategy meets rogue-lite chaos. Fight your way through unique mission objectives with overwhelming swarms of enemies.
Why similar: RTS 21.8%, Wargame 17.7%, Base Building 15.9%, War 12.1%, Sci-fi 10.5%
- #54 Iron Harvest
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 15,723 reviews2020
Dev: KING ArtPub: Prime Matter
Windows
Median: 3.2 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 27.2%, Base Building 16%, Real-Time 15.7% ★, War 12.6%, Competitive 7.4% ★
- #55 Age of Undead
68% matchMostly Positive73% of 95 reviews2022
Dev: Insane Dreamers
Windows
Age of Undead is a multi-genre game (turn-based, RTS, FPS) that allows you to face the frightful Zombie Apocalypse with 3 unique factions: the Army, the Infected, and the Survivors. Make strategic choices in the Campaign, then go into battle and fight to survive!
Why similar: RTS 23.6%, Action RTS 20.4% ★, War 15.1%, Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #56 Strain Tactics
68% matchVery Positive85% of 239 reviews2017
Dev: Touch Dimensions Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Strain Tactics is a real-time-with-pause tactical game, where you command a squad of soldiers to liberate earth from an alien infestation. Using your helibase, deploy your custom squad and provide air support. Remember to keep your crew sane and motivated while staying clear of alien contamination!
Why similar: Aliens 36.7%, Strategy 25.2%, Top-Down 18.5%, Sci-fi 17.1%, Singleplayer 2.5%
- #57 Warpips
65% 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 28.9%, War 18.9%, Resource Management 14.5%, Base Building 13.7%, Wargame 12.2%