Games Like OpenRA Similar RTS Games like OpenRA

Games similar to OpenRA include Age of Empires. It's paid, but Warzone 2100 and Dune Legacy are free. Other options are Warcraft III, Command & Conquer, openage and Widelands. There's no shortage of RTS Games like OpenRA, with more than 25 alternatives for Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and iPhone.

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  1. Age of Empires icon
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    Real-time strategy series where players guide civilizations from small tribes to empires across millennia, managing resources, researching technologies, building military strength, exploring, and choosing strategic paths to victory in campaigns and multiplayer modes.

    51 Age of Empires alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Steam
    • Xbox
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  2. Warzone 2100 icon
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    Join "The Project" to restore humanity's synaptic-link technology after nuclear war has devastated Earth, rendering it a Warzone 2100.

    28 Warzone 2100 alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
    • Steam
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  3. Warcraft III icon
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    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.

    45 Warcraft III alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Wine
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  4. Command & 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.

    28 Command & Conquer alternatives

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    • Paid
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    • Windows
    • Steam
    • EA App
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Xbox
    • Playstation
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  5. Dune Legacy icon
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    Dune Legacy is an effort by a handful of developers to revitalize the first-ever real-time strategy game. Based from Dune II

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
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  6. openage icon
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    Free (as in freedom) open-source RTS Age of Empires engine. Written from scratch in C++, Python, Cython, Qt/QML, OpenGL/GLSL, Vulkan, ...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  7. Widelands icon
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    Widelands 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.

    26 Widelands alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  8. OpenHV icon
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    An Open Source Pixelart Science-Fiction Real-Time Strategy game with multiplayer, AI bots as well as an integrated map editor.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • .NET Framework
    • Mono
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  9. Age of Mythology is based on building towns, gathering resources, creating armies, and ultimately destroying enemy units and buildings. In this way, players are able to defeat and conquer rival towns and civilizations.

    52 Age of Mythology alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Steam
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  10. Mental Omega icon
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    Mental Omega is a free unofficial expansion pack for Command & Conquer Red Alert 2 Yuri's Revenge. It started off as a balance modification. After a few years, it had grown into an unofficial sequel.

    7 Mental Omega alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  11. Empire Earth icon
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    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.

    42 Empire Earth alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
    • Java Mobile
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  12. Spring 1944 icon
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    Spring:1944 is a WWII themed game based on the open source Spring Engine. Our goal is to create four fully functional sides (US, Germany, USSR, Britain) with period-accurate units and strengths. Realism is a primary design goal, second only to creating a game that is fun and...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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