Best Real-Time Strategy Games
264 Real-Time Strategy games, ranked by the Rank and Play community.
StarCraft II: Trilogy
Released: Dec 31, 2015
Critic rating: 87.0 / 100 • 43 votes
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS)
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player
This Bundle includes: - StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty - StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm - StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void
Against the Storm
Released: Dec 8, 2023
Critic rating: 90.5 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Simulator, Strategy, Indie
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
A roguelite city builder set in a fantasy world tormented by the everlasting rain.
Rome: Total War
Released: Sep 22, 2004
Critic rating: 91.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Simulator, Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Tactical
Platforms: Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
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, North Africa and the Near East.
Pikmin 2
Released: Apr 29, 2004
Critic rating: 87.0 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Adventure
Platforms: Nintendo GameCube
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
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.
Shogun: Total War
Released: Jun 13, 2000
Critic rating: 90.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Tactical
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Set against the backdrop of the Sengoku Jidai (Warring States) period from the 15th to the beginning of the 17th century, Shogun: Total War is a real-time tactics and turn-based strategy game with a strong focus on historical authenticity.
Sins of a Solar Empire
Released: Feb 4, 2008
Critic rating: 91.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Strategy, Tactical
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Sins of a Solar Empire is a 2008 science fiction real-time strategy computer game developed by Ironclad Games and published by Stardock Entertainment for Microsoft Windows operating systems.
Medieval: Total War
Released: Aug 19, 2002
Critic rating: 90.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Tactical
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Experience the middle Ages in all their blood-soaked magnificence.
Pikmin 4
Released: Jul 21, 2023
Critic rating: 87.5 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Strategy, Adventure
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen
Meet Pikmin, small, plantlike creatures you can grow, pluck, command, and overpower your enemies with!
Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition
Released: May 29, 2020
Critic rating: 91.4 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Role-playing (RPG)
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Discover the origins of Shulk as he and his companions clash against a seemingly-unstoppable mechanical menace.
Dungeon Keeper 2
Released: Jun 25, 1999
Critic rating: 86.3 / 100 • 154 votes
Rating: M
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Role-playing (RPG), Strategy
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Like its predecessor, players take the role of a dungeon keeper, building and defending an underground dungeon from the would-be heroes that invade it, as well as from other keepers.
Europa Universalis IV
Released: Aug 13, 2013
Critic rating: 85.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Simulator, Strategy
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Rule your land and dominate the world with unparalleled freedom, depth and historical accuracy.
Mega Man Battle Network 3 Blue
Released: Dec 6, 2002
Critic rating: 85.0 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Role-playing (RPG), Tactical
Platforms: Game Boy Advance
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Join Mega Mega.EXE, his pal Lan and friends as they keep the net safe from cyber mayhem in the most expansive battle network adventure yet.
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War
Released: Sep 20, 2004
Critic rating: 86.3 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Strategy
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
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.
StarCraft: Remastered
Released: Aug 14, 2017
Critic rating: 85.0 / 100
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Strategy
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
StarCraft: Remastered is a reverently crafted modernization of Blizzard Entertainment’s original sci-fi real-time strategy game.
Space Rangers 2: Dominators
Released: Nov 25, 2004
Critic rating: 82.5 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Arcade
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player
Reboot is an expansion pack for the critically acclaimed Space Rangers 2: Rise of the Dominators.
Total War: Shogun 2
Released: Mar 15, 2011
Critic rating: 88.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Simulator, Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Tactical
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
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 warlord to lead them.
Ground Control
Released: Jun 1, 2000
Critic rating: 90.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Strategy
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Ground Control is set in the 25th century.
Theme Hospital
Released: Feb 4, 1997
Critic rating: 90.0 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Simulator, Strategy
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), DOS
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Theme Hospital is a business simulation game developed by Bullfrog Productions and published by Electronic Arts in 1997, in which the player designs and operates a hospital.
Desperados III
Released: Jun 16, 2020
Critic rating: 85.9 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Simulator, Strategy, Tactical
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One
Game modes: Single player
The Wild West.
Knights and Merchants: The Peasants Rebellion
Released: Nov 26, 2001
Critic rating: 85.2 / 100 • 23 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Simulator, Strategy
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Build a prosperous settlement with a complete economy.
Tooth and Tail
Released: Sep 12, 2017
Critic rating: 82.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Strategy, Indie, Arcade
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen
Lead the revolution with an army of flamethrowing Boars, mustard gas-lobbing Skunks, and paratrooper-puking Owls.
Total War: Warhammer II
Released: Sep 28, 2017
Critic rating: 87.9 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Strategy
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Total War: Warhammer II is a strategy game of titanic proportions.
Command & Conquer: Red Alert
Released: Nov 22, 1996
Critic rating: 85.0 / 100 • 371 votes
Rating: T
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Strategy
Platforms: PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), DOS, PlayStation, PlayStation Portable
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Travel to an alternate universe where dark experiments have permanently altered time.
Total War: Warhammer
Released: May 24, 2016
Critic rating: 85.1 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
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 gameplay.
Hearts of Iron II
Released: Jan 4, 2005
Critic rating: 84.0 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Strategy
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
When Germany is defeated in 1945, the Allies and the new Soviet alliance fight for supremacy.