Games Like Empire Earth (Series) Similar RTS Games & Historical Games like Empire Earth (Series)

Empire Earth is described as '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' and is a RTS game in the games category. There are more than 25 games similar to Empire Earth for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Steam and Android apps. The best Empire Earth alternative is 0 A.D., which is both free and Open Source. Other Empire Earth like games are Age of Empires, FreeCiv, Warcraft III and Warzone 2100.

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  1. 0 A.D. icon
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    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.

    44 0 A.D. alternatives

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    • Mac
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    • Snapcraft
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    Empire earth goes from caveman to robots

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    empire earth spans all of history and 0. ad is only ancient

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    • Most users think 0 A.D. is a great Empire Earth alternative.

    • 0 A.D. is Free and Open SourceEmpire Earth is Paid and Proprietary
  2. 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.

    52 Age of Empires alternatives

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    • Paid
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    • Windows
    • Steam
    • Xbox
     
  3. FreeCiv icon
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    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...

    37 FreeCiv alternatives

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    • Online
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    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
     
  4. 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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  5. 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.

    27 Warzone 2100 alternatives

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    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
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  6. 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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    • .NET Framework
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  7. 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.

    26 Command & Conquer alternatives

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    • Windows
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    • EA App
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    • Android Tablet
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  8. 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.

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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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  10. 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.

    31 CaesarIA alternatives

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  11. 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.

    53 Age of Mythology alternatives

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    • Windows
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  12. 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, ...

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    • Free
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