- #1 Planets Under Attack
97% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,241 reviews2012
Dev: Targem GamesPub: Topware Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Play as humans or robots in a brand new sci-fi strategy adventure! Travel into the far reaches of space, through cleverly designed star constellations and variable game modes, conquering enemy planets using 15 combinable technologies.
Why similar: Strategy 99.1%, Indie 0.9%
- #2 Mechabellum
96% matchVery Positive84% of 18,295 reviews2024
Dev: Game RiverPub: Dreamhaven
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 53.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Command massive armies in this epic mech auto-battler. Draft your troops, customize your units, master your formations, and crush enemies in spectacular 3D battles. All strategy, no clickfest. Outsmart opponents in 1v1, 2v2, free-for-all, or Survival Mode.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #3 Metal Fatigue
96% matchVery Positive94% of 468 reviews2018
Dev: ZonoPub: Nightdive Studios
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Metal Fatigue is a real-time strategy game taking the genre to new heights - literally. Build and customize your massive Combots to dominate the three battlefield levels simultaneously - from orbit, to the surface, and even underground!
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #4 Robot Rumble 2
95% matchMostly Positive79% of 249 reviews2024
Dev: Nerd Island Studios, LLC
Windows · Mac
Build your robot. Battle your robot. Robot Rumble 2 is the premier robot combat building simulator, where you create your robot from real-world inspired parts, then drive it in the arena to defeat other robots.
- #5 Executive Assault
94% 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: Strategy 96.9%, Indie 3.1%
- #6 Robowars
94% matchMixed46% of 292 reviews2014
Dev: N-Game Studios
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Robowars is back on Steam! Fight off troops of droids for freedom and honor in our classical tower defense game. Lead the forces of the Solar Union to protect the peaceful planet of Praymos from the aggressive Trade Confederation.
Why similar: Strategy 94.7%, Indie 5.3%
- #7 Clatter
93% matchVery Positive83% of 1,223 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Create and command your own customizable squads of fighting robots in this turn-based, arena tactics game.
Why similar: Strategy 92.6%, Indie 7.4%
- #8 Battlecruisers
91% matchVery Positive84% of 423 reviews2021
Dev: Mecha Weka
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 66%
A visually stunning RTS where players battle to build the ultimate automated floating Ultraweapon. Outsmart players or AIs by building a strategically superior Battlecruiser. Step aboard for unique, hand-drawn misadventure on Flooded Earth, explosive gameplay, and an addictive soundtrack. And nukes.
Why similar: Strategy 94.9%, Indie 5.1%
- #9 Rocket Bot Royale
90% matchVery Positive86% of 777 reviews2022
Dev: Winterpixel Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 51%
A frantic online Battle Royale set on destructible, sinking Islands! Fire rockets from your custom robo-tank to eliminate the competition using advanced tactics and powerful weapons.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #10 Ground Breakers
91% matchMostly Positive72% of 56 reviews2016
Dev: UnitedIndie
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Battle with robots on dynamic, randomly generated battlegrounds, as you attempt to take on the world in this unique turn-based strategy game.
Why similar: Strategy 94.6%, Indie 5.4%
- #11 GLADIABOTS - AI Combat Arena
89% matchVery Positive89% of 887 reviews2019
Dev: GFX47
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Assemble your robot squad, construct their AI and send them in the battle arena to see your strategy play out. Iterate, improve and repeat until you outsmart all your opponents and friends online.
Why similar: Strategy 98.7%, Indie 1.3%
- #12 Battle RC
88% matchVery Positive85% of 79 reviews2024
Dev: Blaster Games
Windows
Immerse yourself in this new robot combat game, battling others and building your own bots to prove who's best. Fight in single matches, rumbles, and tournaments, each testing your skills and strategy. Are you ready to dominate the arena and claim victory in Battle RC?
- #13 War Builder League
89% matchMixed58% of 174 reviews2019
Dev: The Cyber Prophet
Windows
“Build and Fight” multiplayer for mature players. Build your own Machine, join combat and win the battle using tactics and strategy.
Why similar: Strategy 84.1%, Indie 15.9%
- #14 Age Of Warbots
85% matchVery Positive86% of 123 reviews2025
Dev: VDimension
Windows
A sandbox battle simulator game where you can build your own shape-shifting warbots, program their AI, and watch them smash each other up on the battlefield! Join the battles yourself by taking control of the warbots! Use Steam Workshop to check out warbots created by players from around the world!
- #15 Rustbucket Rumble
87% matchMixed56% of 378 reviews2015
Dev: Reactor ZeroPub: Scrap Yard Productions, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Rustbuckle Rumble is a side-scrolling, team-based, arena combat game - WITH ROBOTS! Inspiration for the mechanics was taken from classic run and gun games mixed with more modern, class-based, multiplayer shooters. It’s capture-the-flag where the players are the flags.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #16 Perimeter
86% matchVery Positive85% of 259 reviews2014
Dev: K-D LabPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Perimeter is an innovative Real-Time-Strategy game that pits players against each other or AI opponents in a life and death struggle to seize territory and establish crucial protective “perimeters.” Players will be introduced to the game’s unique terraforming feature, allowing them to move, build, construct and destroy the map...
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #17 Robot Arena III
86% matchMostly Negative28% of 325 reviews2016
Dev: Gabriel InteractivePub: Octopus Tree
Windows
Create custom robots in the Bot Lab and battle to find out who is the mightiest ‘bot builder of them all!
- #18 Armor Clash
84% matchMixed69% of 85 reviews2015
Dev: Windforce
Windows · Mac · Linux
Armor Clash is an RTS game of modern warfare, containing classic features like base building, unit training etc. Players can pick modern armors such as M1A2, T-14 to form identical legions. With realistic effects and fast paced battle, players will enjoy commanding their armored forces to break down the enemy.
Why similar: Strategy 92.5%, Indie 7.5%
- #19 Neon Phonk Robots
80% matchVery Positive91% of 57 reviews2024
Dev: Wild Monkey
Windows
A GAME FOR REAL PHONK FANS! INFECTIOUS BEATS, EXPLOSIONS, ROBOTS, NEON, BASSES, GUNS, FUNK!!! CREATE YOUR OWN DRONE ARMY AND TEAR YOUR ENEMIES TO SHREDS! AND OF COURSE, TURN THE VOLUME UP TO FULL! AFTER ALL, THESE ARE NEON PHONK ROBOTS!!!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #20 Machines At War 3
83% matchMostly Positive76% of 85 reviews2014
Dev: Isotope 244 LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 24 minMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 29%
Real time strategy game featuring over 130 different types of units and technologies, 21 campaign missions with characters and an intriguing story, unlimited random map skirmishes with many customizable settings, network multiplayer to challenge your friends, and so much more in this RTS!
Why similar: Strategy 93.6%, Indie 6.4%
- #21 AirMech
81% matchVery Positive84% of 10,812 reviews2018
Dev: Carbon Games
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 67%
AirMech® Strike is a fast paced Action-RTS game that can be played solo, coop, or competitively online. Earn Kudos and Experience in battle and unlock a wide collection of AirMechs and Units while you practice the perfect strategy to emerge victorious!
Why similar: Strategy 96.5%, Indie 3.5%
- #22 Earth 2150 Trilogy
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,004 reviews2013
Dev: Reality Pump StudiosPub: Topware Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 20.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Your heroes and your armies will need strong leadership to take them on a spellbinding odyssey that has everything a gamer’s heart could wish for breathtaking worlds in space, battles against cunning enemies and even downright treason from your own government faction - are you up to it?
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #23 Slam Bolt Scrappers
82% matchMixed55% of 55 reviews2013
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Build and brawl in this fast and frantic mash-up! Race your opponents to build the most powerful towers in Slam Bolt City while defending against deceptively adorable baddies and hugely epic bosses. Create weapons that shoot lasers, drills, missiles, and more to annihilate your adversary.
Why similar: Strategy 92%, Indie 8%
- #24 RoBros
82% matchMixed54% of 85 reviews2017
Dev: Team B.R.O.S.
Windows
Robros is a robot-themed, action-strategy escort shooter where you control two robots to get them to fight their way out of a factory filled with rogue robots. The gameplay is split in two phases: planning and action. The first phase is planning your escape by plotting a vector path on a 2D map.
Why similar: Strategy 93.1%, Indie 6.9%
- #25 ROBO OH
79% matchVery Positive100% of 66 reviews2020
Dev: Foxy Boxy Games
Windows
FC-style robots fighting game!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #26 Combots
78% matchVery Positive90% of 605 reviews2021
Dev: HardEdge Games
Windows
Combots is a multiplayer robot war shooter set in fully procedurally generated maps with the physical environment.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #27 Rocket Bots
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 70 reviews2020
Dev: ic3bug
Windows · Linux
Rocket Bots is a fast-paced FPS where you destroy waves of hacked robots in simple compact arenas. Build custom ones via Steam Workshop and fight for divine glory.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #28 Zero-K
76% matchVery Positive94% of 4,227 reviews2018
Dev: Zero-K Team
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 33.5 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: Strategy 94.6%, Indie 5.4%
- #29 Rover Builder
77% matchMixed68% of 81 reviews2022
Dev: Hatfuls GamesPub: PQube
Windows
Rover Builder is a 3D engineering sim tasking you to create the right rover to complete the job. Unleash your creativity in the garage, building vehicles using an impressive array of parts, materials and machinery. Or try your hand at level editor - creating entire missions and levels from scratch!
Why similar: Strategy 95%, Indie 5%
- #30 Bot Wars
76% 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: Strategy 100%
- #31 Forts
75% matchVery Positive92% of 24,366 reviews2017
Dev: EarthWork Games
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 23.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Unleash your creativity and strategic prowess in Forts, the exhilarating physics-based RTS! Design, construct, and customize imposing fortresses, bristling with devastating firepower, and blast your opponent’s buildings to rubble!
Why similar: Strategy 94.7%, Indie 5.3%
- #32 Armor Clash 3
78% matchMixed55% of 154 reviews2019
Dev: Windforce
Windows · Mac · Linux
Armor Clash 3 is an old-school modern warfare RTS game with base building and navies. There are 3 factions with unique units, buildings and technology systems. There are both skirmish and challenge modes. The battle is fast-paced, with realistic graphics and physical effects, and the performance is also optimized.
Why similar: Strategy 92.8%, Indie 7.2%
- #33 Alien Robot Monsters
77% matchVery Positive85% of 124 reviews2015
Dev: Kraftix Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Epic sci-fi tower defense action with 16-bit era look and feel, pitching your colonists against an almost endless horde of hostile alien robots who strongly oppose your attempts of colonizing their planet! Deluxe version includes the soundtrack!
Why similar: Strategy 92.5%, Indie 7.5%
- #34 Animal Revolt Battle Simulator
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 6,594 reviews2022
Dev: VDimension
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 67%
The ultimate physics-based, sandbox battle simulator where you can create funny battles between all sorts of ragdoll creatures! You can also make your own monsters with the unit creator or even join the battles yourself in the first-person mode!
Why similar: Strategy 91.1%, Indie 8.9%
- #35 Rusted Warfare - RTS
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 7,087 reviews2017
Dev: Corroding Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 32.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
{{An RTS inspired by the classics of the past!}} Making up for it's subpar retro graphics with fun gameplay and modern multi-threaded tech enabling huge battles to run smooth... Featuring singleplayer challenges, skirmish, sandbox, 10-player multiplayer & workshop modding.
Why similar: Strategy 96%, Indie 4%
- #36 WARSHIFT
74% 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: Strategy 93.8%, Indie 6.2%
- #37 Crush Your Enemies
74% matchVery Positive81% of 439 reviews2016
Dev: Vile MonarchPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Go back to the awesome glory days of Real-Time Strategy games. Crush Your Enemies has everything you love of the genre: Planning, choosing different types of units, managing resources, taking enemy territory and outwitting your opponent with the ingenious formations of your men.
Why similar: Strategy 92.5%, Indie 7.5%
- #38 Wooden Battles
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 524 reviews2017
Dev: SP Digital Arts Inc.
Windows
Build a wooden fort, place your units, watch the mayhem!
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #39 World War III: Black Gold
75% matchMixed63% of 908 reviews2013
Dev: Reality PumpPub: Topware Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 22.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Actual Armies. Actual Weapons. Actual Political Issues.World War III - Black Gold takes the player to the near future. The political crisis has been going on for months, leading to worldwide turmoil. A secret conference of the UN Central Geological Commission reveals that worldwide oil reserves have reached dangerously low levels: Oil...
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #40 World War II: Panzer Claws
73% matchMixed70% of 671 reviews2013
Pub: Topware Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
WORLD WAR II: PANZER CLAWS [aka Frontline Attack: War over Europe] pushes back the boundaries of real-time strategy gaming!Take control of the Allied, German, or the Russian in the harsh reality of the battlefields of World War II.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #41 Vektor Wars
73% matchMixed68% of 73 reviews2015
Dev: Integer Overflow
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 33%
Certified 100% pure arcade action, rendered in eye-melting neon vectors, Vektor Wars is classic first-person blasting for the shooter connoisseur.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #42 Run Build Pew!
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 560 reviews2022
Dev: Knight Owl Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
You’re being Bounty-Hunted! Run, Build your ship piece-by-piece and make it work with the parts you find, Destroy outposts and waves of fleets, and Pick your battles carefully to overcome your hunters in this Fast-Paced Top-Down Action Roguelite Shooter.
Why similar: Strategy 96.6%, Indie 3.4%
- #43 Operation: Polygon Storm
68% 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: Strategy 100%
- #44 Multiwinia
72% matchVery Positive82% of 600 reviews2008
Dev: Introversion Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 12 minMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 25%
Multiwinia is a fast-paced, retro-inspired RTS that blends arcade action with strategic depth. Command armies of Multiwinians in multiplayer battles across vibrant, nostalgic environments. With simple controls and dynamic gameplay, it offers endless fun and challenge for players of all skill levels.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #45 RoboSquare
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 248 reviews2021
Dev: Fizzostia
Windows
Want to assert your dominance with other robots? Why not try pushing them off a giant floating platform! RoboSquare is a quick action-packed PVP game, where you strive to become number one! Jump in and start throwing others around!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #46 Armor Clash II
71% matchMixed60% of 116 reviews2017
Dev: Windforce
Windows · Mac · Linux
Armor Clash II is an old-school RTS game, with classic features like base building, modern armors and navies etc. 2 factions and sub-factions for each one, from high tech stealth destroyers to hardcore battleships. In Skirmishes players build base from the start, while in the Random Generated Mission, fast paced combats start immediately.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #47 Revenge of the Titans
70% matchVery Positive82% of 1,250 reviews2011
Dev: Puppygames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The ultimate mash-up of Real-time Strategy and Tower Defense!
Why similar: Strategy 93.2%, Indie 6.8%
- #48 Uprising: Join or Die
70% matchVery Positive84% of 113 reviews2016
Dev: Cyclone StudiosPub: Ziggurat
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Uprising offers more strategy than a military sim, and more action strategy than a shoot'em up. Using your hi-tech assault tank, loaded with powerful weapons, you need to establish tidal bases, mine for power, build factories and direct legions of allied units against the enemy
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #49 World Of Robots
68% matchMixed59% of 350 reviews2022
Dev: Super Games Studio
Windows
World of Robots is the tactical online shooter with simple controls
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #50 Northend Tower Defense
65% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,398 reviews2024
Dev: Northend Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Jump into a realtime strategy, action filled battlefield, deploy relentless soldiers, unlock powerful troops and vehicles, upgrade your army, decimate the enemy. If that's not enough, jump into a chaotic Zombie mode, with traps, fun upgrades, and a new gameplay!
Why similar: Strategy 91.9%, Indie 8.1%
- #51 Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,144 reviews2020
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Command the Nimbatus and craft drones out of hundreds of different parts. Survive unknown threats in a fully destructible, procedural universe, compete against other players in different arenas or enjoy complete creative freedom in the sandbox.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #52 Mech Havoc
62% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 562 reviews2025
Dev: Mid DevelopmentPub: Pretty Soon
Windows
Sandbox of destruction. Billion different ways to build your mech. Feel the weight and impact of obliteration in this modern old school mech combat sim.
Why similar: Strategy 93.7%, Indie 6.3%
- #53 Battlezone 98 Redux
67% matchVery Positive91% of 1,119 reviews2016
Dev: Big Boat InteractivePub: Rebellion
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
One of the greatest sci-fi strategy games of all time returns with remastered visuals, online multiplayer and near unlimited mod content from Steam Workshop. Experience thrilling first person action and acclaimed RTS in this explosive alternate vision of the 1960s space race.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #54 Tempest Rising
61% 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: Strategy 100%
- #55 Earth 2140
69% matchMixed68% of 673 reviews2013
Dev: Reality Pump StudiosPub: Topware Interactive ACE
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
The year is 2140. After numerous wars and several environmental disasters, only two world powers remain; the United Civilized States (»UCS«), covering the American continent, Western Europe and North Africa, and the Eurasian Dynasty (»ED«) covering the coherent landmasses of Eastern Europe and Asia.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #56 Bot Battles
69% matchMixed70% of 50 reviews2019
Dev: Superstruct
Windows · Mac
Build your bot and battle against other players. Be the last bot standing to win the game.
- #57 Bomb Bots Arena
66% matchVery Positive84% of 653 reviews2020
Dev: Tiny Roar
Windows · Mac
Send your Bomb Bots into online arenas or blast your friends off the couch locally in Bomb Bots Arena! Bomb Bots Arena is a pure multiplayer experience with every element of the game tailored to please competitive and casual gamers alike.
Why similar: Indie 100%
