Games Like Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War (Series) Similar RTS Games like Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War (Series)

Games similar to Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War include Age of Empires. It's paid, but Warzone 2100 and OpenRA are free. Other options are Warcraft III, StarCraft, Command & Conquer and Beyond All Reason. You're spoiled for choice with RTS Games like Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War: we list more than 25 alternatives for Windows, Linux, Mac, iPad and Android.

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • Wine
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  4. OpenRA icon
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    OpenRA 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.

    26 OpenRA alternatives

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    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • .NET Framework
    • Mono
    • Snapcraft
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  5. StarCraft icon
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    Command the exiled Terrans, the relentless Zerg, and the abiding Protoss, in the world's most longstanding RTS. (Released in 1998.).

    32 StarCraft alternatives

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    • Freemium
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    • Mac
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    • Battle.net
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  6. 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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    • Windows
    • Steam
    • EA App
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    • Android Tablet
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  7. 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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    • Windows
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  8. CaesarIA icon
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    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.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Wine
    • Steam
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  9. Anno icon
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    ANNO is a city-building and economic simulation video game series, with real-time strategy elements.

    23 Anno alternatives

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    • Android Tablet
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  10. 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

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
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  11. Caesar icon
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    As a provincial governor charged with spreading the glory of Rome your mission is clear – build cities, foster trade and industry, make money. How you accomplish this is up to you. Gain wealth and power, make a career out of pleasing the emperor, battle barbarians and repel...

    30 Caesar alternatives

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    • Windows
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