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  1. 0 A.D. icon
     239 likes

    0 A.D. is a free, open-source, cross-platform real-time strategy (RTS) game of ancient warfare. In short, it is a historically-based war/economy game that allows players to relive or rewrite the history of Western civilizations, focusing on the years between 500 B.C. and 500 A.D.

    • RTS Game
    • FreeOpen Source
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    0 A.D. screenshot 1
    Best alternatives are Age of Empires iconAge of Empires43 alternatives
  2. Tiny Glade icon
     9 likes

    Tiny Glade is a relaxing free-form building game. Tap into the joy of making something pretty with no management, no combat, or wrong answers — just kick back, doodle some castles, and turn forgotten meadows into lovable dioramas.

    Tiny Glade screenshot 1
    Best alternatives are SimCity iconSimCityandCities: Skylines iconCities: Skylines36 alternatives
  3. Warcraft III icon
     87 likes

    Set a generation before the events of the original Warcraft began, Warcraft II is a real-time strategy game by Blizzard Entertainment. Cunning, sinister, and seemingly unstoppable, the demonic Burning Legion prepare to launch their long-awaited assault on the mortal world.

    • RTS Game
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Wine
    Warcraft III screenshot 1
    Best alternatives are 0 A.D. icon0 A.D.andStarcraft iconStarcraft45 alternatives
  4. SimCity icon
     52 likes

    SimCity is a series of city-building simulation games, where you are given the task of founding and developing a city, while maintaining the happiness of the citizens and keeping a stable budget.

    SimCity screenshot 1
    Best alternatives are Cities: Skylines iconCities: Skylines35 alternatives
  5. Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.

    Cities: Skylines screenshot 1
    Best alternatives are SimCity iconSimCityandTiny Glade iconTiny Glade29 alternatives
  6. RimWorld icon
     36 likes

    RimWorld follows three survivors from a crashed space liner as they build a colony on a frontier world at the rim of known space. Inspired by the space western vibe of Firefly, the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, and the epic scale of Dune and Warhammer 40,000.

    RimWorld screenshot 1
    Best alternatives are Dwarf Fortress iconDwarf FortressandBanished iconBanished23 alternatives
  7. Dwarf Fortress icon
     83 likes

    Dwarf Fortress is a single-player fantasy simulator. You can control a dwarven outpost or an adventurer in a randomly generated, persistent world. The world is procedurally generated with distinct civilizations spanning centuries of detailed history, multitude of towns, bodies...

    Dwarf Fortress screenshot 1
    Best alternatives are RimWorld iconRimWorldandGnomoria iconGnomoria26 alternatives
  8. Simutrans icon
     28 likes

    Simutrans is an open-source transport simulator. Establish a successful company transporting passengers, mail and goods by land, air and water.

    Simutrans screenshot 1
    Best alternatives are OpenTTD iconOpenTTDandTransport Fever iconTransport Fever21 alternatives
  9. openage icon
     18 likes

    Free (as in freedom) open-source RTS Age of Empires engine. Written from scratch in C++, Python, Cython, Qt/QML, OpenGL/GLSL, Vulkan, ...

    • RTS Game
    • FreeOpen Source
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    openage screenshot 1
    Best alternatives are 0 A.D. icon0 A.D.andAge of Empires iconAge of Empires41 alternatives
  10. Anno icon
     14 likes

    ANNO is a city-building and economic simulation video game series, with real-time strategy elements.

    • RTS Game
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    Anno 2070
    Best alternatives are Empire Earth iconEmpire Earthandopenage iconopenage23 alternatives
  11. Travian icon
     6 likes

    Join the famous expert strategy game with thousands of real players, directly in your browser.

    Travian screenshot 1
    Best alternatives are 0 A.D. icon0 A.D.andAge of Empires iconAge of Empires28 alternatives
  12. Tropico icon
     12 likes

    Tropico is a series of construction and management simulation computer games developed by PopTop Software and published by Gathering of Developers in April 2001. Feral Interactive has developed and published a number of the games.

    • RTS Game
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Wine
    Tropico screenshot 1
    Best alternatives are Age of Empires iconAge of Empiresandopenage iconopenage25 alternatives
  13. Banished icon
     19 likes

    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 only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland.

    Banished screenshot 1
    Best alternatives are RimWorld iconRimWorldandDwarf Fortress iconDwarf Fortress46 alternatives
  14. CaesarIA icon
     18 likes

    CaesarIA is an open source remake of Caesar III game released by Impressions Games in 1998, it aims to expand the possibilities of the classical city-building simulators and to add new features showing the city life. Now the game work with Windows, Linux, Mac, Haiku and Android.

    • RTS Game
    • FreeOpen Source
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Wine
    • Steam
    CaesarIA screenshot 1
    Best alternatives are Age of Empires iconAge of Empires31 alternatives
  15. Tribal Wars is a browser-based game set in the Middle Ages. Every player controls a small village, striving for power and glory.

    Tribal Wars screenshot 1
    Best alternatives are 0 A.D. icon0 A.D.andAge of Empires iconAge of Empires29 alternatives