Real-Time with Pause

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Tower of Time - A new kind of RPG awaits you. A story-rich dungeon crawler with innovative real-time combat that lets you pause or slow time. Tactical thinking is essential to succeed. Now with RPGlite and Permadeath for fast-paced game.
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Apr 12, 2018
83% 👍
of 1.6k
Real Time Tactics · Real-Time · Turn-Based · Party-Based RPG · Strategy · Real-Time with Pause · RPG · Isometric · Lore-Rich · Story Rich · Fantasy · Atmospheric · Adventure · Singleplayer · Indie
Deadly Days - Deadly Days is a unique strategic rogue-lite in the zombie apocalypse. Manage and protect a group of survivors and help them to stop the catastrophe. Discover and use a large number of wild and crazy objects, even wilder and crazier survivors, special abilities, and deadly weapons.
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Sep 19, 2019
86% 👍
of 1.9k
Indie · Action · Roguelite · Casual · Action Roguelike · Zombies · Strategy · Pixel Graphics · Survival · Post-apocalyptic · Difficult · Singleplayer · Procedural Generation · Addictive · Retro
Bounty Train - Explore the dangerous life, the accurate historic events and contemporary inventions of the North American/US 19th century. Acquire one of the most legendary steam machines and transform it into a fortress on rails.
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May 16, 2017
70% 👍
of 1.7k
Simulation · Strategy · Trains · Management · Building · Economy · Indie · Western · Historical · Singleplayer · Trading · Action · Real-Time with Pause · Early Access
Train Valley - Build railways, manage traffic and stay accident-free. Play in Europe, America, Japan and USSR in 1830-2020. Complete the story mode from the Gold Rush of 1849 to the first manned spaceflight, and then explore the random mode. Management. Construction. Trains. Welcome to Train Valley!
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Sep 16, 2015
90% 👍
of 3.4k
Replay Value · Resource Management · Indie · 3D · Trains · Casual · Puzzle · Strategy · Simulation · Relaxing · Transportation · Singleplayer · Management · Family Friendly · Building
Frostpunk - Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
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Apr 24, 2018
93% 👍
of 135k
City Builder · Survival · Resource Management · Strategy · Post-apocalyptic · Steampunk · Colony Sim · Building · Base Building · Singleplayer · Management · Simulation · Choices Matter · Atmospheric · Economy
The Red Solstice - 2280 A.D. The last few survivors of a ruined Earth seek a new home: Mars, a planet whose inhabitants didn't take too kindly to outsiders. The Red Solstice is a tense, tactical, squad-based action game. Fight to survive with up to 8 players in co-op, or lead your own squad in single-player mode.
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Jul 9, 2015
71% 👍
of 2.6k
Strategy · Tactical · RTS · Sci-fi · Co-op · Aliens · Singleplayer · Real Time Tactics · Multiplayer · Top-Down · Real-Time · Real-Time with Pause · Online Co-Op · Atmospheric · Difficult
Distant Worlds: Universe - Distant Worlds is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game. Experience the full depth and detail of turn-based strategy, but with the simplicity and ease of real-time, and on the scale of a massively-multiplayer online game.  
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May 23, 2014
75% 👍
of 1.9k
Strategy · 4X · Space · Sci-fi · Simulation · Grand Strategy · Singleplayer · Real-Time · RTS · Real-Time with Pause · Moddable · Sandbox · 2D · Indie · Replay Value
Divinity: Dragon Commander - You are the Dragon Commander. Your mission it is to reunite a broken empire and become the new emperor. Success depends entirely on your ability to efficiently rule your empire, build invincible armies and lead them to victory.
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Aug 6, 2013
74% 👍
of 2.5k
Strategy · RPG · Dragons · Fantasy · Political · RTS · Action · Steampunk · Singleplayer · Turn-Based · Choices Matter · Real-Time with Pause · Story Rich · Multiplayer · Comedy
Europa Universalis IV - Rule your land and dominate the world with unparalleled freedom, depth and historical accuracy. Write a new history of the world and build an empire for the ages.
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Aug 13, 2013
88% 👍
of 136k
Grand Strategy · Strategy · Historical · Simulation · 4X · Alternate History · Wargame · Military · Diplomacy · Economy · Replay Value · Sandbox · Political · Real-Time with Pause · Moddable
Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition - Explore a stunning world, make complex moral choices, and engage in bone-crushing combat against massive and terrifying creatures. The Ultimate Edition includes Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening and all nine content packs.
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Oct 26, 2010
86% 👍
of 30k
RPG · Fantasy · Story Rich · Choices Matter · Singleplayer · Party-Based RPG · Real-Time with Pause · Character Customization · Adventure · Dark Fantasy · Multiple Endings · Strategy · Dragons · Female Protagonist · Classic
Nexus - The Jupiter Incident - Ambitious megacorporations monopolize the conquest of space and the colonization of the solar system. At the very edge of the solar system, the companies make a discovery that will shift the technological advantage and upset the balance. And so a new conflict is born: "The Jupiter Incident."
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Jul 3, 2007
86% 👍
of 1.1k
Strategy · Space · Sci-fi · Simulation · RTS · Singleplayer · Tactical · Indie · Atmospheric · Real Time Tactics · Classic · Multiplayer · Spaceships · Moddable · Real-Time with Pause
Infested Planet - Command a team of 5 elite soldiers against an alien horde of 100,000. Surrounded on all sides, you must outmaneuver and outsmart the enemy.
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Mar 6, 2014
94% 👍
of 3.0k
Strategy · Tower Defense · Action · RTS · Indie · Singleplayer · Top-Down · Sci-fi · Aliens · Tactical · 2D · Real-Time with Pause · Gore

Top Rated

From Glory To Goo - 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.
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Apr 2, 2024
97% 👍
of 1.7k
Base Building · Tower Defense · RTS · Real-Time with Pause · Action RTS · Resource Management · Colony Sim · City Builder · Strategy · Sandbox · Zombies · War · Survival · Post-apocalyptic · Procedural Generation
Door Kickers 2: Task Force North - 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".
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Feb 10, 2025
96% 👍
of 13k
Tactical · Top-Down · Real Time Tactics · Military · Real-Time with Pause · Action · Moddable · Strategy · Co-op · Indie · Level Editor · War · Action RTS · Top-Down Shooter · Multiplayer
Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal - Creeper World 3 is what happens when cellular automata takes over a strategy simulation. Instead of discrete units that attack your base, a fluid-like substance spreads over the terraformable terrain. Your base, your weapons, your strategy... you must adapt them all.
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Mar 27, 2014
96% 👍
of 4.8k
Tower Defense · Strategy · Indie · RTS · Singleplayer · Sci-fi · Real-Time with Pause · Simulation · Base Building · Level Editor · Top-Down · Addictive · Resource Management · 2D · Survival
FTL: Faster Than Light - This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
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Sep 14, 2012
95% 👍
of 78k
Roguelike · Space · Strategy · Sci-fi · Indie · Singleplayer · Perma Death · Difficult · Replay Value · Real-Time with Pause · Procedural Generation · Tactical · Top-Down · Space Sim · Roguelite
Heat Signature - Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.
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Sep 21, 2017
95% 👍
of 7.4k
Space · Stealth · Indie · Top-Down · Roguelike · Action · Strategy · Sci-fi · Procedural Generation · Real-Time with Pause · Roguelite · Singleplayer · Adventure · 2D · Tactical
Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition - Uncover secrets of past lives in this story-rich, tactical roleplaying game set in Sigil, a dark fantasy city at the heart of the Dungeons & Dragons multiverse. Explore the planes, survive combat alongside a party of bizarre companions, and solve puzzles unlike any ever seen in the genre.
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Apr 11, 2017
95% 👍
of 5.5k
RPG · Story Rich · CRPG · Choices Matter · Isometric · Dark Fantasy · Philosophical · Fantasy · Atmospheric · Adventure · Singleplayer · Real-Time with Pause · Retro · Tactical RPG · Dungeon Crawler
STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™ II - The Sith Lords™ - 5 years after the events of the award winning original, the Sith are on the verge of crushing the Old Republic. As a lone Jedi, will you follow the light side or succumb to the dark?
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Aug 23, 2012
94% 👍
of 25k
RPG · Story Rich · Sci-fi · Singleplayer · Classic · Choices Matter · Real-Time with Pause · Adventure · Party-Based RPG · Character Customization · Moddable · Third Person · Multiple Endings · Space · Atmospheric
Door Kickers - Door Kickers is an innovative realtime strategy game that puts you in charge of a SWAT team and lets you command them during a tactical intervention.
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Oct 20, 2014
94% 👍
of 10k
Tactical · Strategy · Top-Down · Simulation · Action · Indie · Singleplayer · Real-Time with Pause · 2D · Replay Value · Co-op · Real Time Tactics · RTS · Shooter · Top-Down Shooter
Victoria II - Carefully guide your nation from the era of absolute monarchies in the early 19th century, through expansion and colonization, to finally become a truly great power by the dawn of the 20th century. Victoria II is a grand strategy game played during the colonial era of the 19th century, where the player takes control of a country, guiding...
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Aug 30, 2010
92% 👍
of 19k
Grand Strategy · Strategy · Historical · Political Sim · Politics · Economy · Simulation · Real-Time with Pause · Military · World War I · War · Sandbox · Singleplayer · RTS · Management

New & Notable

Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes - In Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes, take command of a fleet escaping the annihilation of the Twelve Colonies. Manage crises on board as you prepare for the next encounter with the Cylon Fleet. Times are dire, and hard choices must be made. Your only hope: rejoin the Battlestar Galactica.
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May 11, 2026
77% 👍
of 937
Strategy · RTS · Roguelite · Replay Value · Story Rich · Tactical · Difficult · Resource Management · Exploration · Real-Time with Pause · Roguelike · Space · Space Sim · Sci-fi · Real Time Tactics
Extinction Day - End humanity using disasters, plagues, and war. Spread chaos worldwide, combine catastrophic events, and stop them before they escape to the Ark.
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Apr 10, 2026
79% 👍
of 194
Outbreak Sim · Real-Time with Pause · Simulation · God Game · Resource Management · Sandbox · Political Sim · Management · Dystopian · Destruction · Grand Strategy · Dark · Post-apocalyptic · Atmospheric · Singleplayer
Here Comes The Swarm - Here Comes the Swarm is a survival RTS with a pause button! Create your strategy, build, manage, and defend your settlements at your own pace. Take the fight to the hive mind and lead expeditions to deliver a deadly blow and eradicate your foes. Will you reclaim Ulora from the relentless Swarm?
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Mar 5, 2026
86% 👍
of 300
Early Access · Strategy · Survival · Base Building · Colony Sim · RTS · Resource Management · Action RTS · Real-Time with Pause · Simulation · Tower Defense · Economy · Management · City Builder · Top-Down
House of Legacy - Step into the shoes of a fallen clan leader, starting with nothing but a crumbling estate and a handful of hopes, rising through careful planning, trade, and diplomacy to become one of the most powerful families in the land. Now it’s time to forge a legendary dynasty that leaves its mark on history.
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May 14, 2025
83% 👍
of 3.8k
Early Access · Diplomacy · Management · Sandbox · Political · City Builder · Open World · RPG · Economy · Simulation · Strategy · Base Building · Resource Management · Historical · Exploration

Hidden Gems

Creeper World: Anniversary Edition - Imagine an enemy that is everywhere and moves like a giant, organic mass across the map. Imagine your base and your people surrounded by a blanket of crushing destruction from all directions. Your only hope, well what hope? Then you take the high ground and pound this enemy into oblivion.
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Nov 16, 2016
97% 👍
of 973
Strategy · Indie · Simulation · Tower Defense · RTS · Singleplayer · Top-Down · Real-Time with Pause
Rift Riff - Jump a rift, fight off monsters, plunder their world. A strategic mix of juicy tower loadouts, varied monster behaviors, and forgiving mechanics.
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May 9, 2025
96% 👍
of 385
Tower Defense · Minimalist · Strategy · Base Building · PvE · RTS · Nonlinear · Action · Controller · Singleplayer · 2D · Colorful · Isometric · Post-apocalyptic · Survival
Hegemony Gold: Wars of Ancient Greece - Conquer the ancient Greek world in Hegemony Gold: Wars of Ancient Greece, an epic strategy wargame that expands and refines the award-winning Hegemony: Philip of Macedon with brand new content and features.
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Mar 30, 2012
95% 👍
of 220
Strategy · Indie · Historical · RTS · Real-Time with Pause · Grand Strategy · Singleplayer · Simulation
BattleGroupVR - BattleGroupVR is a first person real-time space strategy where you lead a fleet of powerful warships into battle from the bridge of your own flagship. Assemble your fleet, upgrade your load-outs, train your captains, engage the enemy and secure the sector. Try not to go down with the ship.
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Jul 31, 2023
92% 👍
of 946
Space Sim · Space · VR · Multiplayer · Co-op · Sci-fi · First-Person · RTS · Strategy · Singleplayer · Simulation · Real Time Tactics · PvP · Tactical · Action
Creeper World 2: Anniversary Edition - Deceptively simple... amazingly deep. Creeper World 2 thrusts you into the 14th millennium fighting and enemy that flows and oozes through the terrain. Employ advanced weapons,gravity manipulating repulsors, wormhole like rifts, and your own wit against this never yielding enemy.
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Nov 16, 2016
90% 👍
of 502
Strategy · Indie · Simulation · Tower Defense · Real-Time with Pause · RTS · 2D
Darklands - Deep in the twilight of the Black Forest, you and your companions crouch before the robber-knight's tower. Hans, the alchemist, places his mysterious potion by the door. Ebhard the friar implores Saint Dunstan to bless your weapons and armor. And you and Gretchen grip naked long swords, praying your plate mail won't squeak.
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Oct 17, 2014
90% 👍
of 241
RPG · Adventure · Medieval · Classic · Open World · Historical · Retro · Singleplayer · Sandbox · Old School · Pixel Graphics · 1990's · Real-Time with Pause · CRPG
Masquerada: Songs and Shadows - Masquerada is a single-player tactical RPG set in a Renaissance-inspired city of magic, where real-time combat can be paused to set up elemental combos powered by Venetian-styled masks. Come for gorgeous hand-drawn art; stay for the rich lore & a thoughtful, fully-voiced tale of intrigue & tragedy.
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Sep 30, 2016
89% 👍
of 546
Real-Time with Pause · Dark Fantasy · RPG · Party-Based RPG · Isometric · Magic · Linear · Lore-Rich · Story Rich · 2.5D · Hand-drawn · Strategy RPG · Tactical RPG · LGBTQ · Colorful
Dredgers - Based on traditional rogue-likes, Dredgers is a real-time dungeon crawler where you can play as 30 different races, each having their own stats and skills. With the unique class system you can mix and match classes as you desire, anything from an Archer-Knight to a Berserker-Summoner-Priest is possible!
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Oct 23, 2019
89% 👍
of 503
Action Roguelike · Hack and Slash · Class-Based · Dungeon Crawler · Magic · Action RPG · Roguelike · RPG · 2D · Top-Down · Swordplay · Singleplayer · Bullet Time · Pixel Graphics · Real-Time with Pause
Escape The Mad Empire - Escape the Mad Empire is a party-based, rogue-like dungeon crawler with intense and deeply tactical combat. Overcome the challenges as a band of heroes, and preserve their lives and sanity by managing resources and growing your base. Can you Escape the Mad Empire?
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Apr 22, 2025
89% 👍
of 418
Early Access · Party-Based RPG · CRPG · Tactical RPG · Strategy RPG · RPG · Dungeon Crawler · Roguelike · Survival · Strategy · Isometric · Pixel Graphics · Perma Death · Real-Time with Pause · Roguelite
Solar Nations 2 - In this Grand Strategy game, you take control of the Solar System's Great Powers in 2092 and weather the storm of change as you navigate the uncertain waters of the future. Control the greatest military forces in the world and wage wars on an epic scale: outer space is yours to conquer!
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Jan 31, 2025
88% 👍
of 471
Early Access · Grand Strategy · Strategy · Space · Sci-fi · Futuristic · 4X · Military · Wargame · Political Sim · War · Alternate History · Management · Real-Time with Pause · Politics