Historical real-time strategy where players guide civilizations from the Stone Age to Iron Age, manage resources, battle rivals, and explore major eras.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
- Steam
- Xbox
United States


+6
Freeciv is an open-source, turn-based strategy game based on Civilization II. Inspired by the history of human civilization, the game commences in prehistory and your mission is to lead your tribe from the stone age to the space age...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- BSD
- Flathub
- PortableApps.com


Join "The Project" to restore humanity's synaptic-link technology after nuclear war has devastated Earth, rendering it a Warzone 2100.
- Global


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.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Wine
United States



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.
- Global


+2
A game famous for geting you hooked from the start. You build and optimize a factory and well, its addictive.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Steam
Czechia
EU


+1
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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Global

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.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Steam
- EA App
- Android
- Android Tablet
- iPhone
- iPad
- Xbox
- Playstation
United States


+8
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.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Steam
United States


+7
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux


+3
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.
Platforms
- Windows
- Java Mobile
United States

Clash Royale is a real-time multiplayer game starring the Royales, your favorite Clash of Clans characters and much, much more.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
Finland
EU



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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- Wine
- Steam
- Global


+1
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...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- Global


+7
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
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Flathub


+2
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
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
Mexico


In the game, the player assumes the role of an allied officer, who has been entrusted to command a group of commandos on each of the game's twenty missions that they undertake. A briefing given before a mission begins is divided into two parts - the first, focuses on the...
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Steam
- GOG.com
- Playstation
- Xbox
United States


+8
MegaGlest is an open source 3D-real-time strategy game, where you control the armies of one of seven different factions: Tech, Magic, Egyptians, Indians, Norsemen Persian or Romans. The game is setup in one of 14 naturally looking settings, which -like the unit models- are...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux



Do you want epic battles?
Do you want breathtakingly gigantic scenes of glorious destruction and heart-pounding action?
The graphics on this game are amazing, especially given the infinite scalability.
Giant battles? Why, Yes! Why fight a war with subtlety when you can send.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
Australia



Unlike other Paradox titles (such as the first two Europa Universalis series), Crusader Kings is a dynasty simulator with similarities to role-playing video games in that it focuses on a trait-based individual whose primary goal is the growth...
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Steam
- GOG.com
- Xbox
- Playstation
Sweden
EU


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