- #1 Godsworn
97% matchVery Positive93% of 820 reviews2024
Dev: Thunderoak Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Godsworn is a classic mythological RTS. Experience an epic fantasy retelling of the Baltic Crusades, where pagan gods and their tribes clash against crusaders and armies of heaven. Choose a divine hero, rally worshippers alongside mythical creatures, and smite the unworthy!
Why similar: Real-Time 24.7% ★, Action RTS 19% ★, RTS 12.5%, Base Building 7.6%, PvE 6%
- #2 SiegeBorn
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Prince Game Studio
Windows
SiegeBorn is a top-down action RTS. Lead your troops, command powerful siege engines, and defeat the enemies!
Why similar: Real-Time 32% ★, Action RTS 27.8% ★, RTS 15.3%, PvE 8.6%, Top-Down 4.6%
- #3 Pursuit of Power® 2 : The Chaos Dimension
96% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2022
Dev: Precision Games, LLC
Windows
Pursuit of Power® 2 : The Chaos Dimension is a fast-paced real-time strategy game with pixel art. You assume the role of a powerful Shadow Knight, Stalker, or Mage. Upgrade abilities. Dynamic world events. Manage fortresses. Campaign and skirmish (local or network).
Why similar: Real-Time 32.5% ★, Action RTS 25.5% ★, RTS 20.5%, Co-op 5%, Fantasy 4.6%
- #4 Fragment's Moonrise
95% matchMixed66% of 47 reviews2020
Dev: Yyanthire Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Fragment’s Moonrise is a challenging Simplified RTS where you command a squad every step of the way. Fight powerful enemies who will test your tactical maneuvering skills to their very limits. Research a vast number of new spells and unleash them against the evil that looms across the land.
Why similar: Action RTS 31.8% ★, Real-Time 27.1% ★, RTS 16.6%, PvE 7.5%, Strategy 4.7%
- #5 Tyrium
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sceptical Orange
Windows
Tyrium is a real-time strategy game where you build a base, collect the valuable mineral Tyrium, and command tanks, rocket launchers, and infantry. Fight for map control, upgrade units, and experience two campaign levels. More content and game modes are coming soon!
Why similar: Real-Time 32.7% ★, Action RTS 29.3% ★, RTS 16.9%, Base Building 7.1%, Top-Down 4.9%
- #6 A Byte War
94% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2026
Dev: STELLAR
Windows · Linux
A Byte War is a real time strategy game where you lead a race of block-based machines against a machine threat from another dimension. Construct buildings from blocks arranged in various patterns and leverage your machines to convert the world around you.
Why similar: Real-Time 31.2% ★, Action RTS 22.2% ★, RTS 18%, Base Building 11%, Building 4.6%
- #7 Classic Tower Defense 2
93% matchPositive95% of 20 reviews2026
Dev: Blacksmith Forge
Windows
Classic tower defense rules meet modern systems. Build medieval towers, face adaptive waves, and experiment with upgrades, modifiers, and roguelike progression.
Why similar: Action RTS 32.9% ★, RTS 21.2%, Dragons 14.9% ★, Strategy 8.2%, Base Building 4.8%
- #8 Pact
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Liberation Games
Windows
Build your alliance of evil as you regain your lost power in this classically-inspired fantasy RTS. Choose how your enthusiastically loyal minions will build, plunder, and pillage their way across an ever-shifting battlefield, guiding them to new opportunities and allies on your path to domination.
Why similar: RTS 23.4%, Dragons 18.2% ★, Base Building 13.9%, PvE 13.4%, Strategy 10.3%
- #9 Forsaking Valhalla
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stemmlar Technologies
Windows
A survival RTS game where you defend your village against relentless waves of Norse mythological creatures. Build defenses, train warriors, and gather resources to survive as long as possible. If your Town Hall falls, it's game over. How long will you last?
Why similar: Action RTS 35.6% ★, RTS 19.7%, PvE 10.9%, Base Building 10.2%, Top-Down 6.8%
- #10 Stellar Empires
91% matchPositive93% of 14 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: Real-Time 25.9% ★, Action RTS 24.6% ★, RTS 20.4%, PvE 9.4%, Strategy 6%
- #11 StarSim: BattleZone
90% match8 user reviews63% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Viktor Martynovsky
Windows
StarSim: BattleZone is a real-time strategy (RTS) game set in the StarSim universe. Take command of an army and lead your faction to victory. Gameplay includes classic RTS mechanics such as: building a base, gathering resources, researching new technologies, building defences, training units, etc.
Why similar: RTS 30%, Action RTS 19% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Strategy 10%, Building 8.9%
- #12 The Valiant
89% matchMixed66% of 332 reviews2022
Dev: KITE GamesPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Embark on a journey of brotherhood and redemption in The Valiant, a squad-based RTS set in 13th Century Europe and the Middle East. Command and level-up your medieval knights as you fight through an epic SP campaign, then take your skills online in both cooperative and competitive MP modes.
Why similar: Action RTS 30.7% ★, RTS 26.4%, Medieval 9.9%, Strategy 8%, PvE 6.7%
- #13 TFC2: Collapse of The Bronze Age
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wield InteractivePub: MicroProse Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Lead a small band of warrior-farmers on an epic journey across the fall of the Bronze Age ancient empires, in a story-driven RTS where protecting your family and friends matters more than conquest. Gather resources, build your village, and adapt to a world in decline to survive the collapse.
Why similar: Action RTS 37.9% ★, Real-Time 28.9% ★, RTS 12.5%, Base Building 12.3%, Strategy 5.1%
- #14 Rokatusch
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NoserverStudios
Windows
Experience this Real-time Strategy-Game from First-person view in lowpoly look. Build your fort, command armies and fight together and/or against AI or real players.
Why similar: Action RTS 30.5% ★, RTS 22.2%, Base Building 9.9%, Medieval 9%, PvE 8.8%
- #15 Soul Rift
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mysak Danylo
Windows
Soul Rift is a mix of RPG and RTS in a magical world where you will take on the role of a wizard with an army of magical creatures. - Learn spells and use them in tactical battles. - Summon a variety of creatures. - Build magical structures that improve your abilities.
Why similar: Action RTS 30.1% ★, RTS 17.1%, Dragons 16.9% ★, PvE 9.5%, Base Building 8.9%
- #16 Counter Clash
86% matchPositive86% of 29 reviews2025
Dev: BjenssenPub: The CoLab
Windows
A fast-paced RTS where your decisions, not optimal builds, decide the outcome. Jump straight into explosive battles, adapt on the fly, and outplay your enemies in the heat of combat.
Why similar: Action RTS 34.4% ★, RTS 17.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Medieval 6.9%, PvE 6.8%
- #17 Castle War
86% matchMostly Positive73% of 30 reviews2023
Dev: Chaolys
Windows
In this real time strategy game, defeat your friends by destroying their castle. The last player with their castle still standing wins! Players must manage their economy, build their base and defenses, while producing and upgrading their units.
Why similar: Action RTS 29.6% ★, RTS 18.1%, Base Building 11.8%, Medieval 8.8%, Top-Down 7%
- #18 Annexation
85% 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 43.1% ★, RTS 21.7%, PvE 12.4%, Base Building 9%, Strategy 7.3%
- #19 Fortress Frenzy
84% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Mythforge Games
Windows
Start your world conquest with any faction you choose. Build and upgrade your production buildings. Plan and decide the composition of your army. Create your own ability deck. Challenge legendary boss to a fight. Embark on an immersive story campaign. Play with your friends.
Why similar: Action RTS 32.9% ★, RTS 17.7%, Base Building 11.1%, PvE 8.3%, Top-Down 6.6%
- #20 Steel Command
84% 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 28.5%, Action RTS 28.5% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Strategy 9.2%, PvE 7.5%
- #21 Executive Assault 2
83% matchVery Positive83% of 1,738 reviews2023
Dev: Hesketh Studios Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 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 31.2% ★, RTS 21.2%, Action RTS 17.1% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Building 7.4%
- #22 TFC: The Fertile Crescent
82% matchVery Positive89% of 370 reviews2024
Dev: Wield InteractivePub: MicroProse Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Gather resources, build your base, and lead your people to victory in this captivating reimagining of classic RTS, set in the Bronze Age. Secure fertile land, fend off raids, and stockpile food to generate knowledge and unlock powerful village advancements.
Why similar: Action RTS 31.4% ★, Real-Time 25.9% ★, RTS 16.4%, Base Building 10.9%, Strategy 4.5%
- #23 Marshals of War: Orcblood
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sylvest Studios
Windows
Command powerful heroes and epic armies in Marshals of War: Orcblood, a stylized fantasy action Real Time Strategy game. Cast spells, defeat bosses, loot treasure, build defenses, and lead men, dwarves and elves to victory, in solo, or co-op against the orcs and their masters.
Why similar: Action RTS 27.4% ★, RTS 26.8%, Strategy 7.5%, RPG 7.2%, Co-op 6.8%
- #24 No King No Kingdom II
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fullmetal Developer
Windows
You are the King in the first-person strategy game. Manage villagers, collect resources and build your castle. Сreate army not only of knights, but also with griffins, trolls or even mighty dragons. Mount your favorite fantasy creature and join the battle. Rise royal scepter to lead your kingdom.
Why similar: Action RTS 27.9% ★, RTS 22.3%, Dragons 15.8% ★, RPG 10.8%, Strategy 9.2%
- #25 Age of Darkness: Final Stand
79% matchMostly Positive75% of 10,488 reviews2025
Dev: PlaySide
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Age of Darkness: Final Stand is a dark fantasy survival RTS where you must illuminate, build and defend humanity’s last bastion against hordes of Nightmares. Set in the remnants of a kingdom consumed by a deadly fog, you decide. Will you hide in the light? Or take back your world.
Why similar: Action RTS 29.7% ★, RTS 17.6%, Base Building 11.2%, PvE 9.3%, Medieval 6.9%
- #26 Defence of the Arcane Realms
81% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Levelhead Interactive
Windows
A 3D tower defender where you must strategically use a combination of magical powers, traps, and towers in order to defend your castle against hordes of orcs, undead, and other unsavory sorts.
Why similar: Real-Time 30.7% ★, Action RTS 27.5% ★, RTS 14.9%, Base Building 8.6%, Top-Down 5.8%
- #27 Red Chaos - The Strict Order
79% matchVery Positive87% of 86 reviews2025
Dev: Squarecut Games
Windows · Linux
The last world war didn't end conflict. The Iron Hand tyrannizes people, as the Resistance fights for liberation. In the resulting conflict high tech and brute force face off against guerrillas with unconventional tactics, leading to Red Chaos: A modern take on classic real-time strategy games.
Why similar: Action RTS 42.3% ★, RTS 23.2%, Base Building 8.6%, Top-Down 5.9%, Strategy 5.6%
- #28 Glyphs Of The East
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Divider Interactive
Windows · Linux
Explore the dark, mystical land of Runetide in Glyphs of the East, a single-player real-time strategy game. Unravel ancient glyphs, harness their power, and command forces in a battle against the shadows. Master strategy and magic, as every move shapes your civilization's destiny.
Why similar: Action RTS 33.1% ★, RTS 20.3%, Base Building 9.4%, Top-Down 6.8%, Medieval 6.5%
- #29 Random Realms Hero Under Siege
78% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: KizerGraphics
Windows
Random Realms Hero Under Siege is a fast-paced single player tower defense RTS where every match is a fresh roll of the dice. Build bases from randomized building options, lead a leveling hero and their army, and hold the line against escalating enemy waves.
Why similar: Action RTS 27.1% ★, RTS 18%, PvE 12.2%, Top-Down 10.7%, Base Building 9%
- #30 EVERGLORY
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Eduard Permyakov
Windows · Linux
Stockpile resources, build your settlement, raise an army, and wage war in this love letter to RTS classics. Experience the epic story through a fully scripted single-player campaign, then create your own scenarios and write the next chapter yourself.
Why similar: RTS 28.5%, Base Building 19.1%, Action RTS 15% ★, Strategy 10.6%, Medieval 8.6%
- #31 WarBreeds
77% matchPositive90% of 21 reviews2023
Dev: Red Orb EntertainmentPub: SNEG
Windows
Warbreeds is a strategy game where the objective is to become the ruler of the fallen Empire. Defeat your enemies and steal their genetic material to expand your clan’s skills and firepower. Engineer and customize your army with a vast mixture of advanced bio-technological weaponry.
Why similar: Real-Time 35.6% ★, Action RTS 33% ★, RTS 16.6%, Top-Down 5.9%, Strategy 4.6%
- #32 Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Definitive Edition
74% matchVery Positive85% of 11,534 reviews2025
Dev: Relic EntertainmentPub: Relic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 23.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Definitive Edition is the ultimate Dawn of War experience, featuring the original Dawn of War and all its expansions, along with enhanced visuals, an improved camera, and 64-bit platform support.
Why similar: RTS 28%, Action RTS 26.3% ★, Base Building 13.1%, PvE 9.1%, Strategy 7.4%
- #33 Evolution Tag 2
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CoolyoshiPub: Flying Turnip Studios
Windows
A unique twist on the MOBA genre. Evolve, survive, build bases, control armies, and fight other players in an intense 10vs5 match between humans and the undead. There is also a multiplayer PvE survival game mode, and a multiplayer RPG mode!
Why similar: Action RTS 36.4% ★, RTS 17.2%, Base Building 13%, Building 6%, Magic 5.6%
- #34 The Old War
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Warchest Studios
Windows
The Old War is a co-op dark fantasy strategy game where you train and upgrade a shared persistent army in a hostile world. Every victory makes your army stronger, and every defeat is a devastating blow.
Why similar: Action RTS 34.3% ★, RTS 20.2%, Base Building 12.4%, Medieval 7.5%, Strategy 5.1%
- #35 Uncrewed 2
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quite Different Mechanics
Windows
Uncrewed 2 is a real-time strategy game that lets the player design units from the ground up. Wheels, treads, walker legs, and rocket engines - the game offers a variety of propulsion options, as well as the ability to craft your own weapons.
Why similar: Action RTS 36.9% ★, RTS 22.9%, Base Building 9.6%, Top-Down 8.2%, Building 7.7%
- #36 Zero-K
75% matchVery Positive94% of 4,280 reviews2018
Dev: Zero-K Team
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 33.4 hrs≥1hr: 67%
With 100+ truly unique units, Zero-K is an RTS of freedom and creativity, tempered by a decade of refinement. Sculpt land into a castle and throw invaders off it with a Jugglenaut. Explore a massive campaign, solo or co-op. Hop online for epic 32 player battles or fast paced 1v1, on 100s of maps.
Why similar: Real-Time 42.1% ★, RTS 34.7%, Strategy 10.2%, Multiplayer 5.6%, Co-op 4.1%
- #37 Arcane Wilds
73% matchPositive84% of 19 reviews2024
Dev: Avancadia
Windows · Linux
Arcane Wilds is a western themed fantasy RTS with a unique twist on resource management. Gather, steal, and transport resources to use them in battle strategically. Embark on a new journey, survive missions, face mystical creatures in battle and loot treasures to build and upgrade your home island.
Why similar: Action RTS 22.9% ★, RTS 22.3%, Base Building 13.5%, PvE 8.7%, Magic 6.3%
- #38 Fractured Alliance
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tense Games
Windows
A classics inspired real-time strategy game with a brand new story and exciting units! Command varied forces, gather resources, build your base, adapt tactics, and dominate vast landscapes. Script your legacy in rich campaigns and dynamic multiplayer battles. Shape the destiny of the world!
Why similar: Real-Time 29.4% ★, Action RTS 22.1% ★, RTS 19.5%, Base Building 10.8%, Top-Down 5%
- #39 The Rebellion
74% matchMixed67% of 30 reviews2021
Dev: Caz Game Design
Windows
The Rebellion is a brand new take on real-time strategy enabling you to seamlessly transition into 3rd person to join your warriors in battle. Build your village, equip each unit with powerful weapons and armor, and secure absolute victory for your faction!
Why similar: Action RTS 25.9% ★, RTS 22.2%, Base Building 11.4%, PvE 10.4%, Medieval 10.1%
- #40 Global Conflagration
72% 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: Real-Time 27.6% ★, Action RTS 27.6% ★, RTS 17.8%, Base Building 11.2%, Strategy 4.8%
- #41 Drift Wars
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: BRZDRIFT
Windows · Linux
A new style of RTS that focuses heavily on terraforming and changing terrain to different types to overcome your opponent ! Inspired by old-school RTSes but with next-generation RTS ideas !
Why similar: Action RTS 43.8% ★, RTS 28.6%, Strategy 12.3%, Top-Down 7.5%, 3D 4.9%
- #42 Battlefall: State of Conflict
70% matchMixed63% of 54 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 29.7% ★, Action RTS 24.9% ★, RTS 14.7%, Base Building 9.5%, Co-op 6%
- #43 Dragonhold
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 116 reviews2025
Dev: Exis Games
Windows
Dragonhold is a dragon-riding extraction ARPG. Dive into missions, fight on dragonback and on foot, loot powerful gear, then extract (at any time) back to your island to grow your town and rebuild Dragonhold castle. Playable solo or in online co-op.
Why similar: Dragons 26.1% ★, Loot 15%, Base Building 12.5%, PvE 9.6%, Medieval 7.4%
- #44 RTS Hero
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Henrique Cardoso
Windows
I want to make RTS (real time strategy) both approachable and deep. Taking direct control of a hero feels natural, and swapping is instant! Pick different heroes with unique abilities, playstyles, and buildings! This RTS has simple design with deep strategy, SinglePlayer, Online: Co-Op and Versus!
Why similar: Action RTS 30.3% ★, RTS 18.6%, Base Building 12.4%, PvE 9.4%, Top-Down 6.3%
- #45 Earth 2160
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,551 reviews2006
Dev: Reality Pump StudiosPub: Topware Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
After the destruction of the EARTH in 2150, the leaders of the Eurasian Dynasty escaped on board an evacuation fleet. Now they are fighting for the survival of the human species. Their base is one large building comprising of smaller variable parts.
Why similar: Real-Time 51% ★, RTS 25.2%, Base Building 16.4%, Strategy 6.3%, Co-op 0.6%
- #46 Endeavor: Rite of Passage
69% matchPositive86% of 35 reviews2025
Dev: Endeavor
Windows
Take command of powerful armies with intuitive player controls and classic RTS features and feel. Control powerful super-weapons and elite units through a 21-mission campaign. Continue the fight on 16 skirmish and 8 unique survival maps.
Why similar: Action RTS 34.2% ★, RTS 21.2%, Base Building 11.9%, Top-Down 8.1%, Building 7.5%
- #47 YiShi
71% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Indie March Studios
Windows
Play as a healer, ensure the survival of your warriors through spells and enhancements fighting against hordes of green skins.
Why similar: Action RTS 51.5% ★, PvE 11.2%, Magic 10.7%, Strategy 8.6%, Fantasy 7.1%
- #48 TDS - Tower Defense Strategy
68% matchVery Positive81% of 363 reviews2025
Dev: Blockage
Windows · Mac · Linux
TOWER ▪ DEFENSE ▪ STRATEGY. Control Vessels. Utilize their uniquely deep set of towers. Create an everchanging defense. Play with friends. Protect your Basin at all costs. An absolute Tower Defense, Real-Time Strategy Hybrid
Why similar: Action RTS 29.2% ★, RTS 22.9%, PvE 9.6%, Base Building 8.6%, Building 7.7%
- #49 Empyrean Frontier
72% matchMixed68% of 22 reviews2018
Dev: Galdor Studios
Windows
Empyrean Frontier is an epic real time strategy game that mixes classic RTS gameplay with a multi-stage campaign in which the player commands a fleet of ships through a galactic map. Boss battles, base building, planet destroying superweapons, and tactical skirmishes create a unique blend of genres.
Why similar: Real-Time 32.6% ★, Action RTS 22.1% ★, RTS 21.3%, Base Building 12%, Strategy 11.3%
- #50 Lornsword Winter Chronicle
71% matchMixed67% of 43 reviews2019
Dev: Tower Five
Windows
Lornsword Winter Chronicle is a story-driven action strategy game. Be the general on the battlefield and take direct action to command your soldiers and set up your economy. The Lorn Empire counts on you, keep your mind pure and your Lornsword sharp!
Why similar: Real-Time 33.5% ★, Action RTS 26% ★, RTS 20.3%, Strategy 5.5%, Co-op 5.2%
- #51 Crustacean Nations
69% matchVery Positive92% of 511 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 41.8% ★, RTS 20.6%, Base Building 15.8%, Strategy 7%, Top-Down 6.3%
- #52 Taste of Power: Medieval
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: OneOcean
Windows
Master the art of war in brutal action-RTS across an alternate medieval world. Lead Europe, China or the Timurids to supremacy through strategic brilliance and lightning-fast tactics. Expand your realm, advance powerful technologies and lead massive armies. DISCOVER NEW HORIZONS OF THE MEDIEVAL WARS
Why similar: Action RTS 41.3% ★, RTS 34.3%, Medieval 12.6%, Strategy 11%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #53 Tempest Rising
66% matchVery Positive88% of 11,317 reviews2025
Dev: Slipgate Ironworks™Pub: 3D Realms
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.6 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 49.2%, Real-Time 13.9% ★, Strategy 12%, Base Building 10.6%, Action RTS 8.2% ★
- #54 Moduwar
67% matchVery Positive87% of 129 reviews2025
Dev: Biohex StudiosPub: Firesquid
Windows · Linux
Moduwar is an adaptive organic RTS where you control an alien creature, Modu - and your body is your army. Grow new organs, split, merge and mutate them into unique units that adapt to your needs as you fight against human and alien threats in single and multiplayer modes.
Why similar: Real-Time 30.4% ★, Action RTS 23.6% ★, RTS 17.9%, Base Building 11%, Top-Down 5.3%
- #55 Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Anniversary Edition (Classic)
70% matchVery Positive95% of 11,827 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 36.6%, Real-Time 30.5% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Strategy 11.2%, Multiplayer 4.3%
- #56 Zeta Leporis RTS
68% matchPositive86% of 22 reviews2024
Dev: Jason Gieske
Windows
A sci-fi real-time strategy game. An existential war among asteroids in classic RTS style. Build and defend, produce and upgrade, attack and annihilate!
Why similar: Real-Time 39.4% ★, RTS 23.8%, Base Building 11.4%, PvE 8.9%, Strategy 6.4%
- #57 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: Real-Time 27.6% ★, Action RTS 25.7% ★, RTS 17.3%, Base Building 9.8%, Medieval 6.7%
- #58 Empires and Tribes
67% matchMixed66% of 419 reviews2023
Dev: White Vertex Studios
Windows · Mac
Empires and Tribes is a unique hybrid of a medieval city builder and a role-playing game. You will undertake the duties of a mayor in the 13th century and manage the expansion of your city, ensure the production of resources and raise a powerful army to protect yourself from rival principalities.
Why similar: Real-Time 38.3% ★, RTS 17.8%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 9.3%, Medieval 9.2%
- #59 Tribes
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Catastrophe Studios
Windows
In a stone-age like war, stuck on a lush, isolated island, its down to you to command your tribe to conquer and colonize the island by any means! Tribes offers skirmish, multiplayer and a full campaign mode for you to experience with friends or alone!!!
Why similar: Real-Time 37.9% ★, Action RTS 29% ★, RTS 14.1%, Base Building 10.4%, Strategy 7.6%