Games Like A Byte War

A Byte War

A Byte War is a real time strategy game where you lead a race of block-based machines against a machine threat from another dimension. Construct buildings from blocks arranged in various patterns and leverage your machines to convert the world around you.

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Starship Troopers: Terran Command

87% 👍 OF 12K
About This Game

Lead the Mobile Infantry in this RTS game set in the Starship Troopers film universe. Balance your army composition with a diverse set of unit types, overcome line-of-sight and line-of-fire challenges through tactical positioning, and use special abilities to smash the Arachnid hordes!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Set Up Firing Lines
  • …Hold Bug Chokepoints
  • …Destroy Arachnid Hives
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Armored Brigade II

90% 👍 OF 250
About This Game

Armored Brigade II revolutionizes real-time tactical warfare in 3D, focusing on the intense combined arms combat of the Cold War era, from 1965 to 1991. Boasting a meticulously researched database and huge real-world terrain maps, this game offers an unparalleled combat simulation experience.

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Empire Earth: Gold Edition

91% 👍 OF 244
About This Game

With dozens of hours of gameplay set across a rich tapestry of time, Empire Earth: Gold Edition offers real-time strategy for the ages. Choose any point in time - from the discovery of fire to the laser battles of the future - and command your civilization with one goal: make Earth your Empire.

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Be Queen Bee

95% 👍 OF 244
About This Game

"Be Queen Bee" is an action-strategy game where you become the Queen Bee and command your swarm with pheromones. Defeat predators, seize flower fields to escape hunger, evolve your swarm with honey, and strategize in real time to secure victory.

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ShellMobile: Titan Rampart

98% 👍 OF 183
About This Game

On the cosmic frontier, humanity has fought alien species for a century. As traditional defenses fall to new-gen alien mechs, tech giant ShellMobile—human-centered at its core—kindles new hope via breakthroughs in extraterrestrial titanium ore research.

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Tempest Rising

87% 👍 OF 12K
About This Game

Command distinct factions in a desperate struggle for power and resources in Tempest Rising - a classic RTS set on Earth after a nuclear war.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Harvest Tempest Vines
  • …Customize Mission Armies
  • …Field 500-Unit Armies
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Broken Arrow

54% 👍 OF 36K
About This Game

Broken Arrow is a large-scale real-time modern warfare tactics game that combines the complexity of joint-forces wargaming with action-packed real-time tactics gameplay.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build Custom Battlegroups
  • …Customize Military Units
  • …Coordinate Combined Arms
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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II: Retribution

90% 👍 OF 13K
About This Game

Command any of the six unique factions in the next standalone expansion of the critically acclaimed Dawn of War real-time strategy franchise. Choose to build a massive army or lead a small squad of elite heroes into battle and experience a single player campaign customized to your favorite race.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …play the whole campaign as any of six factions, all hunting the same target for totally different reasons.
  • …drop a core campaign hero and replace them with an Honor Guard squad like Terminators instead.
  • …team up with two friends in a survival arena where each of you controls one hero through up to 20 enemy waves.
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Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition

95% 👍 OF 182K
About This Game

42 Civilizations, 229 Campaign Missions, Singleplayer, Co-Op, Multiplayer, In-Game Editor, Mods, Cross-play...It is good to be the king.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …watch a monk convert your knights mid-fight, and they instantly switch sides.
  • …tell AI teammates what units to train, where to build, and what target to attack.
  • …play voice-acted historical campaigns like Saladin or Joan of Arc, and even run some of those missions in co-op.
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Cossacks 3

82% 👍 OF 16K
About This Game

Cossacks 3 is the return of RTS classics. Obtain resources, build cities and research technologies while taking command of great armies, crushing enemies in grand historical warfares on land and sea!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Lead 32,000-Unit Armies
  • …Build Gunpowder-Era Cities
  • …Command Armies At Sea
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Dungeons 3

94% 👍 OF 18K
About This Game

At last, the Dungeon Lord has successfully united the forces of evil and established his dark empire. Time for the next step in his most diabolical quest: expansion!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …run a two-layer war by building an underground dungeon, then sending your army to conquer the surface above it.
  • …throw defeated heroes into a prison or graveyard and convert them into zombies and skeletal archers for your own defenses.
  • …pick up your own units and literally throw them where you need them, while you lock doors, reshape tunnels, and redirect whole armies between maps.
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Total War: SHOGUN 2

92% 👍 OF 66K
About This Game

Total War: SHOGUN 2 is the perfect mix of real-time and turn-based strategy gaming for newcomers and veterans alike.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …import British marines through a single foreign-trade port, buy an ironclad, and mow down elite samurai with Gatling guns and cannons.
  • …grow powerful enough that allies and vassals flip on you, then fight off a coordinated dogpile ordered by the Shogun himself.
  • …recruit a new general from the rank and file when leaderless troops win battles, promoting a regular soldier into command.