0 A.D.

0 A.D. is a free, open-source, cross-platform real-time strategy (RTS) game of ancient warfare.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

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

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

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

Crown of the Gods

Crown of the Gods™ is a Free-to-Win MMO real time strategy game made by Gaming Addict Studios that is not, and never will be, pay to win.

Free Web

Banished

In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland.

Commercial Windows Steam

Total War

Total war is a turn based/ RTS strategy game, you play in different historical battles. Total War: Attila and Medieval II: Total War is also avariable for Linux.

Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux

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

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

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

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.

Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux

Besiege

Besiege is a physics based building game in which you construct medieval siege engines and lay waste to immense fortresses and peaceful hamlets.

Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux Steam

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

Stonehearth

Stonehearth is a game of exploration and survival in an epic fantasy setting. Build your town, care for your hearthlings, and defend against marauding invaders.

Commercial Windows Linux Steam Amazon