- #1 Assault Commander RTS
97% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: VTDev Informatikai Kft.
Windows
Assault Commander RTS is a fast-paced real-time military strategy game. Fight a 30+ mission campaign with two distinct factions, build and defend your base, command land, air, and naval forces, unleash super weapons, and climb the ranked Conflict leaderboards.
Why similar: RTS 33.7%, Gun Customization 16.7% ★, Military 12.6%, Base Building 12%, Strategy 9.1%
- #2 W.A.R.D.
96% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Seventh Realm
Windows
Assume control of an evil intergalactic megacorporation in this sci-fi tower defense. Build a mining infrastructure on alien moons and exoplanets, exploit their precious resources, and defend your operation against defiant natives.
Why similar: RTS 21.1%, Gun Customization 14.5% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Tactical 11%, Resource Management 9%
- #3 Act of Aggression - Reboot Edition
96% matchMixed67% of 3,328 reviews2015
Dev: Eugen Systems
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Act of Aggression – Reboot Edition brings the techno-thriller RTS game Act of Aggression to a higher level. The Reboot Edition offers a full gameplay overhaul in skirmish mode against the AI and in your multiplayer battles.
Why similar: RTS 48%, Base Building 17.6%, Military 13.7%, Strategy 10.2%, Tactical 3.7%
- #4 Project 37
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cheese Wheel Industries LLC
Windows
Easy-to-control, action-packed RTS. Project 37 uses a unique lane-based movement system to help automate unit movement. The catch is, you'll need to constantly fight across multiple fronts at the same time.
Why similar: RTS 32.2%, Base Building 17.9%, Tanks 15.6% ★, Military 11.1%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #5 Glory to the Robots!
94% matchMixed64% of 14 reviews2022
Dev: Ilya873Pub: Piece Of Voxel
Windows
A game in the genre of management strategy. Here you can build your own factory for the production of robots, and on another planet, and extract resources and test robots on other different planets.
Why similar: Gun Customization 28.3% ★, RTS 19.7%, Base Building 18.2%, Resource Management 11.1%, Real Time Tactics 9%
- #6 Teryon Crisis
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dimetris Game
Windows
Build fortified bases, protect your ore and power networks, and command infantry, armor, aircraft and warships in a near-future single-player RTS. Lead an eight-mission campaign or customize skirmishes against rival AI commanders—with an AI ally at your side.
Why similar: RTS 24.7%, Tanks 14.9% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Military 10.6%, Tactical 8.4%
- #7 Halo Wars: Definitive Edition
93% matchVery Positive91% of 9,568 reviews2017
Dev: Ensemble StudiosPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Halo Wars: Definitive Edition is an enhanced version of the real-time strategy classic, Halo Wars, updated to run natively on PC. Halo Wars: Definitive Edition includes improved graphics, new achievements and all of the DLC created for the landmark real-time strategy game.
Why similar: RTS 46.6%, Base Building 22%, Strategy 10.3%, Military 7.9%, Sci-fi 5.1%
- #8 IronFlux
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ghost World Gaming
Windows
Three stranded civilizations fight for the ancient Monoliths of a living moon. Build a streaming economy, field armies on land, sea and air, and hold the map to ascend in a large-scale real-time strategy game.
Why similar: RTS 35.7%, Base Building 17.4%, Strategy 12.1%, Real Time Tactics 12%, Tactical 11.8%
- #9 Ironfields
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Divis Studio
Windows
A single-player RTS where you capture existing structures instead of building a base from scratch, and success comes more from good decisions than fast reactions.
Why similar: RTS 35.1%, Tanks 16.4% ★, Real Time Tactics 10.5%, Resource Management 9.8%, Sci-fi 7.4%
- #10 Kingdoms in Arms
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: IsegrimGames
Windows · Mac
Kingdoms in Arms is a strategy game where you build and manage your kingdom. Build cities, outposts and military camps to conquer the whole island. Besiege your enemies castles and bring down their walls with your siege engines like catapults and trebuchets. Control your armies in real time.
Why similar: RTS 31.6%, Base Building 17.8%, Resource Management 10.5%, Real Time Tactics 9.3%, Military 8.7%
- #11 Global Conflagration
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CTLN7
Windows
Global Conflagration is a real-time strategy game inspired by the classics featuring modern controls and streamlined mechanics. Build lots of tanks, infantry, helicopters and aircraft to destroy the enemy base.
Why similar: RTS 23%, Tanks 14.4% ★, Base Building 14%, Gun Customization 13.8% ★, Military 10.8%
- #12 SpaceFront
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pixel Herd
Windows
SpaceFront is a military real-time strategy game. Control Corgis, wage battles, build your army and defend the galaxy from soviet invasion! No game will be the same thanks to procedurally generated campaigns! Join the effort, join the SpaceFront!
Why similar: RTS 27.8%, Base Building 16.5%, Tactical 12.1%, Military 10.4%, Real Time Tactics 8.3%
- #13 Failover
89% 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 30.5%, Base Building 14%, Real Time Tactics 13.2%, Tactical 11.8%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #14 Human Protocol
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: IONAR Studio Games
Windows
Human Protocol is a real-time strategy game about humanity's war against a self-aware AI. Build your base, manage resources, command military units, strengthen your defenses, and survive increasingly dangerous enemy attacks.
Why similar: RTS 39.1%, Base Building 21.3%, Real Time Tactics 10.8%, Resource Management 10.6%, Strategy 10%
- #15 Rhodian Exodus
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kostas Kougios
Windows · Mac
Design your own tanks and vehicles, build an economy and supply network, expand across multiple maps, and command your army in a post-apocalyptic real-time strategy game.
Why similar: RTS 31.7%, Tanks 18.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Real Time Tactics 9.8%, Strategy 7.5%
- #16 Incarnus Warfare
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ludvik Koutny
Windows
Incarnus Warfare is a classic real-time strategy featuring moderate-scale unit combat and base building. The game focuses heavily on immersion in every aspect. Forget the real world around you, and once again, become a commander of a military task force, just like in your childhood.
Why similar: RTS 26%, Tanks 16.1% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Military 11.5%, Tactical 10.4%
- #17 Iron Command
86% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Silvester Langen
Windows
Command a war machine from inside the battlefield. Iron Command is a classic base-building RTS — harvest, build, research, attack — playable on your monitor or in VR, where the battlefield lies in front of you and your orders go out from a tablet on your wrist.
Why similar: RTS 34.9%, Base Building 20.1%, Tanks 15.4% ★, Resource Management 9.1%, Tactical 7%
- #18 Cult Defense
85% 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 33.5%, Base Building 17.7%, Tactical 10.7%, Resource Management 10.7%, Military 9.7%
- #19 Hunt or Pray
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rusty Clover
Windows
Four survivors. One enemy. Lead a doomed squad through a world ruled by the Singularity, which turned genetic engineering into a weapon. Fight tactical real-time battles against an enemy that learns and adapts to you. Scavenge when you can. Built on the design philosophy of Myth: The Fallen Lords.
Why similar: RTS 32.1%, Tactical 16.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Real Time Tactics 13.1%, Military 10.4%
- #20 Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Anniversary Edition (Classic)
84% matchVery Positive95% of 11,961 reviews2007
Dev: Relic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
All of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War in one glorious package. Play the genre-defining classic real time strategy game in all its blood-soaked glory, including four complete campaigns and nine full-fledged factions.
Why similar: RTS 48.9%, Base Building 20.2%, Strategy 12.2%, Tactical 10%, Sci-fi 5.9%
- #21 Starship Troopers: Terran Command
82% matchVery Positive87% of 12,051 reviews2022
Dev: The ArtistocratsPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 10.3 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 43.1%, Military 14.8%, Tactical 14.5%, Strategy 11.7%, Resource Management 7.7%
- #22 StrateZ
83% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2020
Dev: Kottabos Games
Windows
StrateZ is a casual post-apocalyptic RTS game where you fight to survive as one of three separate factions be it Survivor, Zombie or Marauder.
Why similar: RTS 44.2%, Base Building 20.4%, Post-apocalyptic 18%, Strategy 15.2%, 3D 1.6%
- #23 Soldiers, Inc.
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ArtGabi
Windows · Linux
Stand on guard of global safety, wage wars no one hears about, or start new ones. Once you have been a soldier. Choose between justice and money. Now you are a… Professional Soldier.
Why similar: Gun Customization 26.1% ★, RTS 23.5%, Base Building 14.9%, Military 14.2%, Resource Management 6.9%
- #24 Star Pulse:The War
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Star Pulse
Windows
Star Pulse: The War is an independent real-time strategy game that merges science fiction with fantasy. Players will command a sci-fi faction, harnessing the power of star pulse to gather resources, construct buildings, train troops, and nurture heroes in the fight against invading magical forces.
Why similar: RTS 45.2%, Military 15.9%, Base Building 13.8%, Strategy 10.3%, Sci-fi 6.5%
- #25 Endzone Girls
80% matchPositive95% of 20 reviews2025
Dev: Aozora
Windows
《Endzone Girls》is a Tower Defense Game. You will collect resources and build fortifications before the zombies arrive to kill the zombies that invade your home. In the game, you will unlock different defensive buildings, create a unique style, defend your home in a world full of zombies.
Why similar: RTS 28.9%, Base Building 14.8%, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, Tactical 10.6%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #26 Critter Conquest
79% 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 37.7%, Base Building 20.3%, Real Time Tactics 12.8%, Strategy 12.3%, Resource Management 11.7%
- #27 Tempest Rising
77% matchVery Positive87% of 12,034 reviews2025
Dev: Slipgate Ironworks™Pub: 3D Realms
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Command distinct factions in a desperate struggle for power and resources in Tempest Rising - a classic RTS set on Earth after a nuclear war.
Why similar: RTS 66.2%, Base Building 13.8%, Strategy 13.2%, Military 3.2%, Action 1.4%
- #28 Planet X3 (DOS)
79% match6 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2023
Dev: 8-Bit Productions, LLCPub: NMSE & Co LLC
Windows · Mac
Planet X3 is a new retro real-time strategy game for DOS. You are up against the Protoids. You need to mine resources, build infrastructure and build offensive units to defeat them. All while protecting your bases. Relive the VGA, AdLib and keyboard controls experience of early 90s PC gaming.
Why similar: RTS 41.8%, Base Building 21.6%, Resource Management 14.9%, Strategy 14.3%, Futuristic 3.8%
- #29 TAVU
78% 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 29%, Base Building 18.7%, Tactical 11.7%, Resource Management 10.9%, Real Time Tactics 9.7%
- #30 Iron Wall Protocol
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ox Dynamics
Windows
An RTS and tower defense hybrid about holding a border. Draw the roads, raise the wall, spread your sensors, and hold one sector of a small country through seven days of rockets, tunnels and drones. Or go offensive: hunt down the launch sites and end the war early. Every campaign is a different war.
Why similar: RTS 38.6%, Base Building 19.7%, Military 15.8%, Tactical 9.3%, Strategy 8.9%
- #31 Crystal Commanders
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DB Creations, Inc.
Windows
Build. Command. Conquer. Take control in a fast-paced VR RTS packed with intense battles, dynamic defenses, and strategic depth. Survive brutal enemy waves, defeat epic bosses, and battle rivals online in explosive 1v1 multiplayer!
Why similar: RTS 42.7%, Base Building 21.9%, Military 11.9%, Strategy 11.3%, Sci-fi 4.8%
- #32 Supreme Commander 2
76% matchVery Positive88% of 12,990 reviews2010
Dev: Gas Powered GamesPub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Includes 47 Steam achievements, leaderboards, and stats!
Why similar: RTS 48.1%, Base Building 16%, Strategy 12.9%, Sci-fi 6.8%, Military 6.6%
- #33 Astro Industry Wars
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Abundant Pine Games
Windows
Astro Industry Wars is a lighthearted, futuristic real time strategy game with base building, economic production chains, colorful worlds, and lots of vehicles.
Why similar: RTS 42.9%, Base Building 24.9%, Sci-fi 6.9%, Tactical 6.5%, Resource Management 5.6%
- #34 TechGuardian: Territory Defense
74% matchMixed63% of 30 reviews2025
Dev: Apex HorizonPub: Liquid Meow
Windows
This is a sci-fi strategy game featuring a Defense Mode focused on tower defense and an Attack Mode focused on combat. The game includes over 30 different buildings and units, all of which can be upgraded through entry editing to enhance their performance and firepower.
Why similar: RTS 31.7%, Base Building 15.2%, Resource Management 10.9%, Tactical 8.7%, Strategy 7.4%
- #35 Defcon Zero: Frontlines of Tomorrow
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TriArts
Windows
Defcon Zero is a classic real-time strategy game set on planet Eros, where you dive into the story of ERA, the last beacon of civilization. Build your base, gather resources, engage your enemies and make strategic choices to prevail in combat. Are you ready to command the frontlines of tomorrow?
Why similar: RTS 32.2%, Base Building 18.7%, Military 15.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, Tactical 10.1%
- #36 Joint Task Force
76% matchVery Positive88% of 336 reviews2007
Dev: Most Wanted EntertainmentPub: HD Publishing
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Joint Task Force is the real-time strategy (RTS) game where you command the frontline forces in tomorrow's most hazardous conflicts. Lead twenty dramatic missions in explosive war-zones including the Middle East, Central Asia, and the Balkans.
Why similar: RTS 47.7%, Strategy 20%, Military 18.5%, Action 13.8%
- #37 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: RTS 35.2%, Base Building 16.5%, Real Time Tactics 10.3%, Military 9.3%, Strategy 9.1%
- #38 RTS Outpost
73% 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 35.5%, Base Building 13.8%, Military 9.9%, Real Time Tactics 9.5%, Tanks 9.4% ★
- #39 Steel Command
73% 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 43.4%, Base Building 22.3%, Strategy 11.5%, Military 10.5%, Sci-fi 4.2%
- #40 Hyperwar
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Andreas Steinhorst
Windows
Hyperwar is an RTS game with many classic elements such as base building, research, unit production and resource gathering, but it also contains new approaches and ideas. Paired with modern graphics and a freely moving camera, this game is a completely new experience in the genre.
Why similar: RTS 36.3%, Base Building 16.6%, Military 14.8%, Strategy 8.1%, Tanks 7.7% ★
- #41 BallsCommander
71% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: TobselGames
Windows · Mac
Command adorable little balls in quick tactical battles that last just a few minutes. Race the clock on global solo leaderboards or challenge a friend online. Capture sectors, protect your Mother Ball, and pretend the rematch was always part of the plan.
Why similar: RTS 42.4%, Strategy 15.5%, Real Time Tactics 14.2%, Tactical 13.9%, Action 8.8%
- #42 Scrappy TD
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Scrappy Games
Windows · Linux
Scrappy TD is a steampunk tower defense game with co-op and PvP modes. Place towers, build mazes, and outsmart foes. Play solo or challenge your friends in several game modes.
Why similar: RTS 28.7%, Gun Customization 11.1% ★, Strategy 9.3%, Action 9.3%, Post-apocalyptic 8.8%
- #43 Bull3000VRTS
72% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2022
Dev: Robin KrausePub: Rob Gaming
Windows
VR RTS meets shooter: command armies and fight with your own aim on the Andromeda front. Capture building slots, manage 3 resources, and win fair 1v1 and 2v2 battles.
Why similar: RTS 30%, Base Building 17.9%, Military 11.6%, Tactical 10.3%, Real Time Tactics 9.7%
- #44 Dying Hope
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 109 Below
Windows
Dying Hope is a space marine RTS centered around base building and survival. Set in a post apocalyptic future you command a cohort of humanity's remaining military personnel designated as Earth's final hope on an alien outpost planet.
Why similar: RTS 24.3%, Base Building 16.4%, Tanks 16.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, Military 9.7%
- #45 Under the Ruin
70% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: YETS
Windows
Lead a squad into the ruins, scavenging resources while fending off relentless swarms. In this unique, expansion-style tower defense game, explore regions, grow your forces, and stop the cataclysm to save humanity.
Why similar: Gun Customization 27.1% ★, Tactical 14.2%, Base Building 11.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #46 War Untold
69% matchPositive83% of 18 reviews2025
Dev: Green Giraffe
Windows
War Untold is an RTS wargame spanning both land and air warfare. Employ powerful tanks and devastating airstrikes to punch through the enemy's front line, or dig in with infantry and mortars to withstand an oncoming onslaught. The choice is yours, commander.
Why similar: RTS 29%, Tanks 15.9% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Tactical 10.4%, Military 9.7%
- #47 Heroes of Orn: Darkness
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BM Studios LLC
Windows
Inspired by Majesty, Heroes of Orn: Darkness is a fantasy base building RTS with a twist - you cannot directly control your units. Build and upgrade your kingdom to gain power and resources. Influence your heroes' decisions and empower them by issuing quests, casting spells, and creating shops.
Why similar: RTS 43.6%, Base Building 23.8%, Resource Management 11.8%, Strategy 11.1%, Real Time Tactics 7.3%
- #48 Conflict 3048
70% match9 user reviews67% of 9 reviews2022
Dev: Matt Lloyd
Windows
Real-time strategy and tactics on an alien world! Command super space soldiers against an array of alien hordes. Commander - we need you!
Why similar: RTS 46.7%, Strategy 16.1%, Real Time Tactics 15.3%, Tactical 13%, Sci-fi 8.4%
- #49 Overseas Wars
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio 213
Windows
Overseas Wars is a fantasy real-time strategy game set in the era of galleons, pirates, and new world. At the head of a colony, gang, or tribe, you must develop your base and fight to destroy anything that threatens it.
Why similar: RTS 39.2%, Base Building 18.9%, Real Time Tactics 12.7%, Resource Management 11%, Military 8.2%
- #50 Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
69% matchVery Positive92% of 1,210 reviews2007
Dev: Relic EntertainmentPub: SEGA
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 42%
The next chapter in the #1 rated RTS franchise thrusts players into a hellish war torn landscape to command two battle-hardened armies in relentless campaigns for honor and country. Players lead the tenacious British 2nd Army during the heroic World War II liberation of Caen, France, and command the German Panzer Elite as they struggle...
Why similar: RTS 46%, Strategy 16.5%, Military 9.9%, Tactical 7.7%, Tanks 7.6% ★
- #51 Dawn of Embers
68% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: DTX Studios
Windows
Dawn of Embers is a real-time strategy game in development by DTX Studios. Build a walled town, gather and trade, command armies of soldiers and siege engines, and master four schools of magic against AI commanders or other players.
Why similar: RTS 39.1%, Base Building 21.1%, Resource Management 9.9%, Strategy 9.8%, Military 7.9%
- #52 Rival Commanders
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Miz
Windows
A fast-paced casual real-time strategy game where you command stylized armies, deploy powerful units, and outsmart rivals in explosive top-down battles.
Why similar: RTS 42.1%, Strategy 14%, Military 13.8%, Tactical 13.3%, Action 11.2%
- #53 Terminal squad: Swarmites
68% matchMixed61% of 31 reviews2020
Dev: WinDARitiesPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Terminal squad: swarmites is a game with indirect control where you must erect a chain of buildings, which generate resources for construction or the combat units for destruction of an enemy.
Why similar: RTS 27.3%, Base Building 16%, Military 12.8%, Tactical 9.9%, Resource Management 6.7%
- #54 Pintsized Platoon
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Unhinged Interactive
Windows
Tiny soldiers on a battlefield you can blow to pieces. Parachute your pint-sized squad into a hostile front, carve up the terrain, strategically place your units in cover, build your way forward and fight to the far edge.
Why similar: RTS 39.7%, Real Time Tactics 16.6%, Military 16.5%, Tactical 13.8%, Strategy 11.8%
- #55 Immortal Generals
66% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: Nomad Interactive
Windows
Immortal Generals is an action-packed real-time strategy (RTS) game set in a futuristic global conflict. Build fortified bases, manage your economy, command advanced armies, and turn the tide of battle with devastating nuclear and biological superweapons in multiplayer warfare.
Why similar: RTS 35%, Real Time Tactics 12%, Strategy 11.5%, Military 11.4%, Action 9.8%
- #56 World Order
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TGR Studios
Windows
World order is revolutionary sci-fi real-time strategy, the main feature of which are modular units
Why similar: RTS 34.1%, Military 13%, Real Time Tactics 11%, Tactical 9.4%, Strategy 8.3%