RTS Games
Real-time strategy video games are among the most active thinking-intensive genres you can find in the whole medium. Constant planning and adjustment is required for success, and the dynamics binding you to your current strategy may completely change with little to no warning. This genre has cultivated a devout following that is willing to lose itself in its intricacies and machinations.
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
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Snapcraft
- Flathub
+5Plants vs. Zombies is a tower defense video game by PopCap. A mob of fun-loving zombies is about to invade your home, and your only defense is an arsenal of zombie-zapping plants. Use peashooters, wall-nuts, cherry bombs and more to mulchify zombies before they reach your front...
- Tower Defense Game
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Kindle Fire
- Steam
- Playstation
- Nintendo Switch
- Xbox
+1Historical real-time strategy where players guide civilizations from the Stone Age to Iron Age, manage resources, battle rivals, and explore major eras.
- RTS Game
- Paid • Proprietary
- Windows
- Steam
- Xbox
+6Join "The Project" to restore humanity's synaptic-link technology after nuclear war has devastated Earth, rendering it a Warzone 2100.
- RTS Game
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Snapcraft
- Flathub
- PortableApps.com
- Steam
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
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Wine
Dive into fast-paced MOBA action with real-time strategy in matches featuring over 100 champions, chasing victory by destroying the enemy's Nexus.
- MOBA Game
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Android
- iPhone
+8OpenRA is an open-source reimplementation of Westwood’s Command & Conquer Red Alert game engine, updated to use the hardware acceleration of modern video cards using OpenGL.
- RTS Game
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Flathub
- .NET Framework
- Mono
+2Command & Conquer (C&C) is a real-time strategy (RTS) video game franchise, first developed by Westwood Studios. The first game was one of the earliest of the RTS genre.
- RTS Game
- Paid • Proprietary
- Windows
- Steam
- EA App
- Android
- Android Tablet
- iPhone
- iPad
- Xbox
- Playstation
+8Widelands is a free, open source real-time strategy game with singleplayer campaigns and a multiplayer mode. The game was inspired by Settlers II™ (© Bluebyte) but has significantly more variety and depth to it. Still, it is easy to get started through playable tutorials.
- RTS Game
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Clash Royale is a real-time multiplayer game starring the Royales, your favorite Clash of Clans characters and much, much more.
- Tower Defense Game
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
Empire Earth, also known as EE, is a real-time strategy video game developed by Stainless Steel Studios and released on November 23, 2001. It is the first game in the Empire Earth series: Empire Earth, Empire Earth II, Empire Earth III.
Discontinued- RTS Game
- Paid • Proprietary
- Windows
- Java Mobile
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
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
OpenDungeons is an open source, real time strategy game sharing game elements with the Dungeon Keeper series and Evil Genius. Players build an underground dungeon which is inhabited by creatures. Players fight each other for control of the underground by indirectly commanding...
- RTS Game
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux
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