Age of Empires

Age of Empires is an epic real-time strategy game spanning 10,000 years, in which players are the guiding spirit in the evolution of small stone age tribes.

Commercial Windows Mac

Starcraft

Command the exiled Terrans, the relentless Zerg, and the abiding Protoss, in the world's most longstanding RTS. (Released in 1997.).

Commercial Windows Mac

Warcraft III

Set a generation before the events of the original Warcraft began, Warcraft II is a real-time strategy game by Blizzard Entertainment.

Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux

Warzone 2100

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

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

OpenRA

What if Albert Einstein changed history? What if the Andromeda Strain were a miracle mineral? What if whomever controlled the spice controlled the universe?.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux .NET Framework Mono

Widelands

Widelands is a free, open source real-time strategy game with singleplayer campaigns and a multiplayer mode.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

Command and Conquer

Explore the mystery of Tiberium as the GDI or Brotherhood of Nod in the original RTS franchise.

Commercial Windows Linux

Age of Mythology

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.

Commercial Windows Steam

Stronghold

Stronghold 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.

Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux Wine

ANNO

ANNO is a city-building and economic simulation video game series, with real-time strategy elements. The series includes: - (1998) Anno 1602 - Creation of a New World (in the US and Australia released as 1602 A.D.

Commercial Windows Linux Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad Web

Empire Earth

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.

Commercial Windows Java Mobile

Globulation 2

Globulation 2 is an innovative Real-Time Strategy (RTS) game which reduces micro-management by automatically assigning tasks to units. Globulation 2 is Free Software, licensed and distributed under the GNU General Public License.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

Zero-K

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.

Free Open Source Windows Linux

CaesarIA

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.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android Steam

Littlewargame

Littlewargame is a medieval-themed HTML5 Real-Time-Strategy game with multiplayer mode and a map editor. It runs completely in your browser without any download required.

Free Web

openage

free (as in freedom) open-source rts http://alternativein.com/software/age-of-empires-iii/ engine. written from scratch in c++14 and python, using opengl + glsl.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux

Company of Heroes

Company of Heroes is a 2006 real-time strategy video game developed by Relic Entertainment and published by THQ for the Microsoft Windows and OS X operating systems. It was the first title to make use of the Games for Windows label.

Commercial Mac OS X Windows Steam

Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War

The games are set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, a dystopian vision of the future. Humanity has forged a galaxy-spanning empire, The Imperium, with the Immortal Emperor as humanity's leader and a living god.

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Caesar

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.

Commercial Windows

Supreme Commander

This is a real-time RTS, on steroids.

Commercial Mac OS X Windows