Games Like OpenRA Similar RTS Games like OpenRA
OpenRA is described as 'Open-source reimplementation of Westwood’s Command and Conquer Red Alert game engine, updated to use the hardware acceleration of modern video cards using OpenGL' and is a RTS game in the games category. There are more than 25 games similar to OpenRA for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Steam and Wine apps. The best OpenRA alternative is Age of Empires. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Warzone 2100 or Widelands. Other OpenRA like games are Warcraft III, openage, Age of Mythology and Dune Legacy.
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138 likes54 Age of Empires alternativesHistorical, real-time strategy game series where you build a civilization over ages spanning the stone age to the iron age.
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Age of Empires VS OpenRA
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65 likes28 Warzone 2100 alternativesJoin "The Project" to restore humanity's synaptic-link technology after nuclear war has devastated Earth, rendering it a Warzone 2100.
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- Free • Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
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- BSD
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- Flathub
- Snapcraft
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Warzone 2100 VS OpenRA
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86 likes47 Warcraft III alternativesSet 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.
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Warcraft III VS OpenRA
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36 likes27 Widelands alternativesWidelands 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.
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- Free • Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
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Widelands VS OpenRA
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18 likes40 openage alternativesFree (as in freedom) open-source RTS Age of Empires engine. Written from scratch in C++, Python, Cython, Qt/QML, OpenGL/GLSL, Vulkan, ...
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- Free • Open Source
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- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
openage Features
openage VS OpenRA
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23 likes54 Age of Mythology alternativesAge 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.
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- Paid • Proprietary
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- Windows
- Steam
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Age of Mythology VS OpenRA
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11 likes39 Dune Legacy alternativesDune Legacy is an effort by a handful of developers to revitalize the first-ever real-time strategy game. Based from Dune II
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- Free • Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
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- Flathub
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Dune Legacy VS OpenRA
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26 likes25 Command and Conquer alternativesCommand & 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.
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- Paid • Proprietary
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- Windows
- Steam
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Aleksandr DikovBecause it's parental game series.
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17 likes41 Empire Earth alternativesEmpire 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.
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- Windows
- Java Mobile
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DiscontinuedThe game was released in 2001, but you can still buy this game on GOG.com
Empire Earth VS OpenRA
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3 likes6 OpenHV alternativesAn Open Source Pixelart Science-Fiction Real-Time Strategy game with multiplayer, AI bots as well as an integrated map editor.
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- Free • Open Source
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- Flathub
- .NET Framework
- Mono
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9 likes14 Supreme Commander alternativesThis is a real-time RTS, on steroids.
All the normal limiting factors on RTS games, like un-replenishable resources, unit limits, size and range limits have all been stripped away, leaving only a gigantic, huge war game, whose scale is limited only by your imagination.
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24 likes36 Stronghold alternativesStronghold Crusader is a RTS game from the series from Stronghold.
In Stronghold Crusader the player can play as either the legendary Richard the Lionheart or the formidable Saladin. A mix of real-time strategy and city-building games, the game's desert setting requires str.
Stronghold VS OpenRA
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Comments about Warcraft III as an Alternative to OpenRA
Because of it's different gameplay. More similar is Warcraft 1 and 2.