List of video games, filtered by genre(s): Real Time Strategy (RTS)
Plants vs. Zombies
May 5, 2009
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★ 3.8
Plants vs. Zombies is a tower defense game in which players protect their suburban home from waves of approaching zombies by placing various plants on a grid-based lawn. Each plant …
Android
Mac
Nintendo DSi
PC (Microsoft Windows)
PlayStation 3
PlayStation Vita
Windows Phone
Xbox 360
iOS
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Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings
Sep 30, 1999
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★ 4.2
Take control of a powerful civilization. Lead them through 1000 years of the Middle Ages to riches and greatness. Will you Intimidate the world into following you by using military …
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos
Jul 3, 2002
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★ 4.3
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos is a real-time strategy game set in the high fantasy world of Azeroth. Players control one of four factions, the Human Alliance, Orcish Horde, Night …
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Brütal Legend
Oct 13, 2009
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★ 3.3
Brütal Legend is an action-adventure that marries visceral action combat with open-world freedom. Set in a universe somewhere between Lord of the Rings and Spinal Tap, it’s a fresh take …
StarCraft
Mar 31, 1998
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★ 4.2
StarCraft is a real-time strategy game set in a distant sector of the Milky Way galaxy in the 26th century. Players command one of three species across separate campaigns: the …
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne
Jul 1, 2003
· Expansion
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★ 4.4
Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne adds a host of new features to the game, including four new campaigns that take you across the frozen continent of Northrend. Explore new maps …
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
Jul 27, 2010
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★ 4.0
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is a science fiction real-time strategy game and the sequel to the original StarCraft. Set four years after the events of Brood War, the game …
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Final Fantasy XIII-2
Dec 15, 2011
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★ 3.4
Final Fantasy XIII‑2 is a story-driven JRPG that blends fast-paced, party-based combat with time-travel exploration. Lead a dynamic duo across branching timelines and varied environments, recruit and customize powerful allies, …
Spore
Sep 4, 2008
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★ 3.3
From Single Cell to Galactic God, evolve your creature in a universe of your own creations. Play through Spore's five evolutionary stages: Cell, Creature, Tribe, Civilization, and Space. Each stage …
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Company of Heroes
Sep 12, 2006
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★ 3.8
Command the company that changed the face of history! Battle your way across Europe as your troops make intuitive use of the terrain and buildings for cover and mount attacks …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
iOS
Total War: Shogun 2
Mar 15, 2011
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★ 3.8
In Total War: Shogun 2 you choose from one of 9 (10 with Ikko-Ikki dlc) clans, each with their own unique traits and skills and each with their own RPG-style …
Linux
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Company of Heroes 2
Jun 25, 2013
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★ 3.4
Experience the ultimate WWII RTS platform with COH2 and its standalone expansions. This package includes the base game, which you can then upgrade by purchasing The Western Front Armies, Ardennes …
Linux
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War
Sep 20, 2004
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★ 3.9
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War is a revolutionary science fiction real-time strategy (RTS) game set in the violent, post-apocalyptic universe of the 41st Millennium. Utilizing the exceptional game design skills …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Age of Empires III
Oct 18, 2005
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★ 3.5
In this highly anticipated next installment in the Age of Empires franchise from Ensemble Studios, Age of Empires III places players in the time period of roughly 1500–1850, picking up …
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Stellaris
May 9, 2016
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★ 3.8
Stellaris is a real-time 4X grand strategy game set in a procedurally generated galaxy. Players control an interstellar civilization, exploring star systems connected by hyperlane networks, colonizing habitable worlds, and …
Pikmin
Oct 26, 2001
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★ 3.9
Pikmin is a whole new breed of gameplay from Nintendo. The quirky, life-under-the-microscope title delivers a unique experience like few before it with a blend of real-time strategy, adventure, and …
Nintendo GameCube
Tropico 4
Aug 26, 2011
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★ 3.4
Fancy being a dictator? Well this is the ideal time! Build a Tropico and control who and what happens in it. Juggle foreign relations and run a nuclear program! Apply …
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Xbox 360
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
Dec 6, 2016
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★ 3.9
Skillfully hide from and sneak past the enemies fields of view, take their formations apart and hide their bodies to cover your tracks. Quick Save will enable you to execute …
Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition
May 29, 2020
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★ 4.3
Discover the origins of Shulk as he and his companions clash against a seemingly-unstoppable mechanical menace. Wield a future-seeing blade, chain together attacks, and carefully position your party members in …
Nintendo Switch
Plague Inc: Evolved
Sep 18, 2015
· Remake
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★ 3.4
Plague Inc: Evolved is a unique mix of high strategy and terrifyingly realistic simulation. Your pathogen has just infected 'Patient Zero' - now you must bring about the end of …
Age of Mythology
Oct 30, 2002
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★ 4.0
Age of Mythology is a real-time strategy game developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft Game Studios. Drawing inspiration from Greek, Egyptian, and Norse mythology rather than historical events, …
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Pikmin 3
Jul 13, 2013
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★ 4.1
Explore an alien world like no other in the third edition of Nintendo's strategic adventure series. In Pikmin 3, players take command of three explorers and a legion of adorable …
Wii U
StarCraft: Brood War
Dec 18, 1998
· Expansion
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★ 4.3
In the distant future, the newly formed Terran Dominion faces the arrival of two hostile alien races: the savage Zerg and the enigmatic Protoss. Gather resources and expand your forces …
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Sanctum 2
May 15, 2013
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★ 3.1
In Sanctum 2, you will have to utilize elements of multiple gameplay genres to succeed. Build towers and walls during the building phase before the enemies attack, then jump into …
Tyranny
Nov 10, 2016
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★ 3.7
Experience a story-driven RPG where your choices mean all the difference in the world.
Linux
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Rome: Total War
Sep 22, 2004
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★ 4.0
Set during the rule of the late Roman Republic and the early Roman Empire, Rome: Total War is a real-time tactics and turn-based strategy game that takes place across Europe, …
Europa Universalis IV
Aug 13, 2013
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★ 4.0
Rule your land and dominate the world with unparalleled freedom, depth and historical accuracy. Write a new history of the world and build an empire for the ages.
Linux
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Sunless Sea
Feb 6, 2015
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★ 3.4
Play as the captain of a steamship on an underwater ocean surrounding the fictional city of Fallen London. Manage your ship's fuel and food supplies as you try not to …
Dungeon of the Endless
Oct 27, 2014
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★ 3.3
In Dungeon of the Endless, the player takes the role of the survivors of a prison spaceship, its escape pod having crashed to the surface of a strange planet. To …
Medieval II: Total War
Nov 10, 2006
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★ 4.1
Take command of your armies and expand your reign. Conquer, destroy, rebuild and improve the cities of the greatest medieval nations of the Western and Middle Eastern world. Employ diplomacy …
Linux
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
Sep 25, 2007
· Standalone Expansion/DLC
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★ 3.8
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 …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Star Wars: Empire at War
Feb 16, 2006
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★ 3.6
From the lives of soldiers to the deaths of planets, you are the supreme galactic commander. It is a time of galactic civil war. Take up the reins of the …
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Total War: Warhammer
May 24, 2016
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★ 3.8
A unique combination of colossal real-time battles and an addictive turn-based sandbox campaign game of statecraft, politics and empire building, Total War: WARHAMMER will deliver hundreds of hours of absorbing …
Linux
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
RimWorld
Oct 17, 2018
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★ 4.3
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Linux
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Pikmin 2
Apr 29, 2004
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★ 4.1
In Pikmin 2, Captain Olimar returns to the planet he was originally stranded on, to collect trinkets for his failing company to sell back at home. The game features a …
Nintendo GameCube
Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor
Apr 7, 2009
· Standalone Expansion/DLC
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★ 3.8
Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor is the expansion to the Game of the Year winner and highest rated real time strategy franchise Company of Heroes. Featuring new campaigns to …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm
Mar 12, 2013
· Standalone Expansion/DLC
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★ 4.1
You are Sarah Kerrigan, former Queen of Blades. Once the most feared entity in the galaxy, you now wait in a cell in the depths of a high-security research laboratory. …
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion
Jun 12, 2012
· Standalone Expansion/DLC
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★ 3.5
The Next Installment to the Award-Winning RTS. While many were hopeful that diplomacy would finally end the war, differing opinions on what should be done, along with the depleted power …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Banished
Feb 18, 2014
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★ 3.4
Welcome to the world of Banished! In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Empire: Total War
Mar 3, 2009
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★ 3.5
Empire: Total War introduces a host of revolutionary new features, including true 3D naval combat. For the first time in the Total War series, you will be able to intuitively …
Sid Meier's Pirates!
Nov 22, 2004
· Remake
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★ 3.8
Based on Sid Meier's original masterpiece, Pirates!, Sid Meier's Pirates! has you facing countless dogged enemies, wooing fair maidens and raising the Jolly Roger on the high seas in pursuit …
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising
Mar 12, 2009
· Standalone Expansion/DLC
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★ 3.2
Red Alert 3: Uprising features four new mini-campaigns, giving players a deeper dive into the storyline's of the Soviets, the Allies, the Empire of the Rising Sun and a unique …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Dark Crusade
Oct 9, 2006
· Standalone Expansion/DLC
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★ 4.1
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Dark Crusade is a real-time strategy game set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Players command one of several factions, each with distinct units and …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Satellite Reign
Aug 27, 2015
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★ 3.0
Satellite Reign is a real-time, class-based strategy game. You control a team of four agents, each with distinct and unique abilities, collectively battling for control of a simulated, living cyberpunk …
Linux
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Halo Wars
Feb 26, 2009
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★ 3.2
The Covenant has declared war on humanity, and Harvest is the first battleground. Set 21 years before the events of Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo Wars is an exciting real-time strategy …
Xbox 360
Minion Masters
May 24, 2019
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★ 2.5
Minion Masters: The realm's greatest Masters face off in a never-ending conflict for glory. Will you play Control, Aggressive, Swarm or Giant Minions? Choose a Master matching your playstyle and …
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
Oct 25, 2000
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★ 4.1
The Soviets are back and this time they’re on American soil. Fight for the red, white, and blue – or just the red. But be careful – the mystical madman …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3
Oct 28, 2008
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★ 3.4
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 is set in an alternate reality from World War II, in which the Western Allies fought the Soviet Union. In Red Alert 3 the …
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Retribution
Mar 1, 2011
· Expansion
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★ 3.6
Command any of the six unique factions in the next standalone expansion of the critically acclaimed Dawn of War real-time strategy franchise. Choose to build a massive army or lead …
Linux
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
RollerCoaster Tycoon 2
Oct 15, 2002
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★ 4.1
Stretch your imagination further to build bigger parks and higher coasters! Break ground and start from scratch, open the gates to a remarkable Six Flags park, or just create the …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Winter Assault
Sep 23, 2005
· Expansion
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★ 3.7
This expansion adds all-new units and strategies to the exciting gameplay offered by Dawn of War. The Imperial Guard brings new weaponry, including heavy armor, new troop units as well …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Soulstorm
Mar 4, 2008
· Expansion
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★ 3.7
The third and final expansion to the genre-defining and critically-acclaimed RTS, Dawn of War. In Soulstorm, two new armies are introduced - Sisters of Battle and Dark Eldar - raising …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Anomaly: Warzone Earth
Apr 8, 2011
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★ 2.9
Anomaly Warzone Earth is an extraordinary mixture of action and strategy in a reversed tower defense formula. The game tasks you with saving a near-future Earth from an alien onslaught. …
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising
Mar 11, 2010
· Expansion
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★ 3.7
In Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising you will take command of the Blood Ravens and defend the sector against the Chaos Space Marines of the Black Legion. Purge the …
Linux
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Northgard
Mar 7, 2018
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★ 3.3
Northgard is a strategy game based on Norse mythology in which you control a clan of Vikings vying for the control of a mysterious newfound continent. - Build your settlement …
Command & Conquer: Red Alert
Nov 22, 1996
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★ 4.0
Travel to an alternate universe where dark experiments have permanently altered time. Or have they? Soviet tanks crush city after city while Allied cruisers shell bases. Spies lurk, landmines await, …
Hearts of Iron IV
Jun 6, 2016
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★ 3.6
Victory is at your fingertips! Your ability to lead your nation is your supreme weapon, the strategy game Hearts of Iron IV lets you take command of any nation in …
Linux
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Planetary Annihilation
Sep 5, 2014
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★ 2.8
Colonize solar systems, annihilate homeworlds, and exterminate your foes in epic interplanetary battles with multiple players and thousands of units. Planetary Annihilation takes strategy gaming to a never-before-seen scale -- …
Linux
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness
Dec 5, 1995
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★ 4.1
Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness is a Strategy video game published by Blizzard Entertainment released on 1995 for MS-DOS. Warcraft 2 is a successor of the popular Warcraft real-time strategy …
DOS
Mac
Battlerite
Nov 8, 2017
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★ 3.3
Battlerite is a Team Arena Brawler focused on adrenaline-fueled player vs player combat. Short and intense matches, stripped of random elements to optimize the action. Welcome to a world where …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Xbox One