Best Action RTS Games on Steam
Strategy games that mix real-time command with direct action or unit control.
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1Thronefall
- Players say: Build a kingdom by day, then command troops and fight as its king to survive increasingly dangerous night raids. Players like: Engaging Defense Loop · Build and Perk Variety · Direct King Combat
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A minimalist game about building and defending your little kingdom.
Oct 11, 2024
In this game, you can…
- turn windmills into booby traps so when enemies smash them, they detonate and blow up the crowd around your walls
- plan your town in daylight with no timer, then defend it through night waves until sunrise locks in a checkpoint
- pick a weapon that auto-triggers near enemies, then fire its separate active ability on a recharge when the night gets ugly
- sprint your king around the battlefield, cutting down enemies yourself while your towers and troops keep fighting
- grab squads mid-fight and reposition them on the fly—push guards into the thickest wave, pull archers off useless targets
- choose perks that deliberately crank up difficulty for better scores, then decide whether to chase extra income or fortify before the next night
- build for totally different win styles in the same run—tower-heavy defense, a commanded army, or a king who does most of the killing
2Door Kickers 2: Task Force North
- Players say: Lead special-operations squads through top-down raids, plotting room-by-room tactics you can adjust as real-time firefights unfold. Players like: Tactical Planning · Mission Replayability · Workshop Content
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Command military Special Ops Teams in gripping tactical combat against a Middle East-based terrorist network. Sequel to RockPaperShotgun's "Best Tactics Game of 2014".
Feb 10, 2025
In this game, you can…
- blow your own entrances by punching new paths through walls and fences with breaching charges, turning the route through the map into something you invent.
- use a rocket launcher as a breaching tool to open up buildings instead of using doors.
- draw up a full mission plan, hit play, and watch the whole raid unfold in one clean run, then replay it like a complete after-action movie.
- snipe a whole room through a window with a grenade launcher, or stop an executioner before they can kill a hostage.
- switch between quiet night raids with night vision and suppressed weapons, or loud assaults with LMGs and grenade launchers that rip open a building front.
- call in different units with different doctrines, so the same mission plays totally differently depending on who you deploy.
- lock down sightlines with suppressive fire from support gunners while the rest of the squad maneuvers and clears rooms.
- fight through slums packed with civilians where one careless explosive can fail the mission.
3Age of Mythology: Retold
- Players say: Build a civilization, gather resources, and command human and mythic armies with divine powers in a real-time strategy game. Players like: Updated Visuals · Campaign Adventures · Gods and Myth Units
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Play as mythological Gods and smite your enemies in this award-winning, mythological Real-Time Strategy classic given new life. Wage war across timeless campaigns, fierce skirmishes, and god-powered multiplayer modes.
Sep 4, 2024
In this game, you can…
- reuse god powers by spending Favor, so you can keep dropping lightning, quakes, meteors, tornadoes, teleports, and mass resurrections.
- summon the trees themselves and watch a forest get up and fight.
- march a Titan into the ocean and have it swim to the next shore.
- fight land, sea, and air battles at the same time in one match.
- field much larger armies now, turning late-game fights into massive clashes.
- play a 50-mission myth campaign that jumps from the Trojan War to the underworld, then races to stop a god's resurrection.
- run a 35-skirmish gauntlet as a legendary hero, taking on divine challenges with escalating difficulty.
- use an editor tool that can transform units into other units, letting you script custom myth battles without rebuilding everything from scratch.
4Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars™
- Players say: Lead GDI, Nod, or the Scrin in a 2047 RTS of Tiberium harvesting, base construction, and faction-driven campaigns. Players like: Campaign Story · Live-Action Scenes · Faction Variety
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The year is 2047. A massive nuclear fireball explodes high in the night sky, marking the dramatic beginning of the Third Tiberium War and the long-awaited return of the most groundbreaking Real-Time Strategy franchise of all time
Nov 13, 2009
In this game, you can…
- drop fully built buildings instantly from a mobile construction yard.
- trigger an alien invasion campaign with flying battleships, ion storms, and combined super-units.
- build an army with no unit cap, including swarms like 100+ infantry flooding a construction yard.
- position tanks to exploit directional armor and survive fights you'd otherwise lose.
- capture key enemy structures mid-mission with engineers to flip the whole objective.
- watch veteran units rank up into aces that regenerate health at max rank.
- survive a mission where attacks hit from all four sides while your base runs on a power shortage.
- use beam cannons to crack hardened defenses instead of just throwing more units at them.
5The Battle of Polytopia
- Players say: Lead a distinct tribe across a square world, exploring, growing cities, researching technologies, and fighting turn by turn. Players like: Easy to Learn · Strategic Depth · Quick Matches
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Welcome to the unique, turn-based strategy game set in the strange, flat world of the Square. Lead one of 16 distinct civilizations to victory by expanding your empire, researching technologies, and ultimately become ruler of the world! Play in single-player or multiplayer mode for up to 16 players.
Aug 4, 2020
In this game, you can…
- watch your opponent take their entire turn in real time in multiplayer.
- rack up 10+ kills with a single knight by chaining attacks across multiple enemies.
- play a multiplayer match that stretches across days or weeks as everyone takes turns async.
- zoom all the way out and see the entire map at once.
- start as different tribes that spawn in their own biomes with a unique tech already researched.
- turn one push into a chain of tech upgrades, farms, city level-ups, and finally spawning a giant.
- set custom wars by changing map size and number of tribes independently.
- get an early power spike from a surprise ruin find that hands you a huge head start.
6From Glory To Goo
- Players say: Build a human colony on a hostile alien planet, expand for resources, and defend against waves of shape-shifting Goo. Players like: Colony Horde Defense · Distinct Faction Playstyles · Replayable Maps and Modes
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From Glory To Goo is a Sci-Fi survival RTS set on an alien world. Serve as humanity's bulwark by establishing a colony and supporting your colonists still in orbit. But beware, for The Goo, a relentless and shape-shifting force approaches from all sides, even above and below.
Apr 2, 2024
In this game, you can…
- press one button to auto-rebuild every destroyed structure at a discount, using a hologram that marks exactly where everything used to be.
- retrofit your colony ship mid-run into cannons, factories, labs, and drop pods that send troops down to the map.
- play a Warlord captain who hijacks the normal faction and brings his own unique roster of units.
- call in an orbital weapons barrage that slams into waves as they approach your colony.
- level up a captain and pick one of three upgrades each time, branching into rifles, flamethrowers, auras, economy boosts, or ship artillery requests.
- survive long waves where your colony can sprawl across most of the map and you're holding key choke points with hundreds of troops.
- lose a single weak point and watch a chain reaction cut power, underfeed turrets, and make reclaimed ground start spawning enemies under your units.
- insert buildings deep in enemy territory, then fight to hold the forward outpost while patrols lock down the area and push your front line outward.
7Tower Factory
- Players say: Build conveyor-fed factories, craft and upgrade defenses, explore shifting maps, and destroy the enemy castle before its waves overwhelm you. Players like: Factory-Defense Blend · Satisfying Logistics · Strategic Challenge
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Tower Factory is a tower defense and automation game with roguelite elements. Optimize resource production using conveyor systems while defending against monster waves. Can you find and destroy the enemy tower before it's too late?
Nov 7, 2024
In this game, you can…
- push back the fog with beacons to uncover hidden crystals you need to trigger the win condition.
- swap production buildings between two recipes to pivot your whole factory without rebuilding it.
- speed-run the map and destroy the enemy tower before you even finish setting up tier 2 supply chains.
- pause the action in Strategic Mode to design your factory, then switch to Endless or harder modes for real-time pressure.
- build a factory from scratch every run with conveyor belts that feed a tower network.
- hold a sell key to clear clutter without accidentally selling your towers.
- watch new enemy types show up the longer a map lasts, escalating waves into weirder threats.
- unlock permanent upgrades and new towers after bosses, so every win changes what the next run can do.
8Attack on Toys
- Players say: Command toy armies from an RTS map, then fight on foot or in vehicles as you build defenses and create custom battles. Players like: Toy Soldier Nostalgia · RTS-Shooter Hybrid · Custom Map Creation
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Relive Your Childhood Toys comes to life! Build your Army Toys, make battle scenario, watch the Toys battling each other, and customize your play with Attack on Toys Toy Box. Command your Army Toys to fight againts another toys strategically and keep them alive during battle!
Sep 24, 2021
In this game, you can…
- spawn hundreds or even thousands of units and let entire armies clash across huge maps.
- stage amphibious invasions and naval battles with carriers, battleships, submarines, and patrol boats.
- set up a custom toy battle scenario, place bases and spawns, then watch the armies actually fight.
- switch from top-down command to running around as a soldier in the same battle.
- build factories and auto-spawn structures that keep pumping out troops while you fight elsewhere.
- directly order units to follow you, attack targets, or hold position mid-fight.
- hook or jetpack onto almost anything, then jump into vehicles or emplacements you find.
- hold an endless HQ defense as enemy waves escalate past the listed limit.
9Rogue Command
- Players say: Command a sci-fi army through shifting RTS battles, harvesting crystals, building bases, and choosing upgrades between fights. Players like: Build Experimentation · RTS Roguelite Blend · Slow-Time Controls
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True RTS gameplay reinforced with roguelite build crafting. Control units with bullet-time precision. Call down bases and raise armies. Drafted from a different arsenal every run. Weave builds that break the game. Or the game breaks you.
May 14, 2026
In this game, you can…
- slow time to issue orders while rockets and lasers keep flying, then snap back to real time without pausing anything.
- turn an army of tanks into a rolling fortress that eats killed enemies to gain health until the enemy waves just feed it.
- raise fallen units into a growing zombie-robot army by turning dropped cores into summons, then permanent soldiers with lifesteal.
- drag the whole battlefield down to 10% speed mid-fight.
- turn one unit into a status-machine where every bullet can stun and burn, then spread fire so whole groups lock up at once.
- convert a tank into a turret that counts as a building, so your army can hunker around it and heal on the front line.
- hold a fortified position and call down global artillery barrages, then teleport units across the map to punish distant bases.
- wipe out an enemy base in the first minute or two to cut down later pressure and make the whole run manageable.
10Touhou Monster TD ~ 幻想乡妖怪塔防
- Players say: Control a Touhou character, deploy and reposition unit-towers, and defend Gensokyo’s paths while investigating an incident. Players like: Move Towers Freely · Distinct Unit Abilities · Tactical Stage Design
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Easy to learn but hard to master, Touhou Monster TD is a unique Tower defense Game. Control your character, level up and unlock tower skills and character talents, use your wisdom to defeat incoming enemies. Travel the Gensokyo, find out why the “Incident” happened this time.
Oct 1, 2021
In this game, you can…
- carry a tower in your arms while it keeps attacking enemies.
- freely duplicate a character and field multiple copies of the same tower if you can afford it.
- push endless mode into absurd buff loops where wave counts can theoretically climb to the 32-bit integer limit.
- pick up your towers, carry them across the map, and drop them somewhere else.
- fight alongside your defenses, collecting drops and dragging towers into place while waves keep coming.
- unlock chests and cages mid-battle with items like keys and bombs for extra rewards.
- use towers that act like Touhou characters with weird kit interactions, like Ran throwing chain lightning while Chen fights as a pet.
- teleport a whole crowd of enemies away with a huge area attack from a tower.
- respec your permanent skill tree whenever you want using stars earned from stages.
