The Real-Time Zone

Games where action continues continuously, demanding live decisions and timing.

Latest Standouts

Recent releases that landed well, newest first, filtered to games with enough reviews to trust the score.

Castle Craft - Will your castle survive the relentless onslaught, or collapse under pressure? Build, manage resources, and outsmart your foes in a world where everything can be destroyed. Use strategy and creativity to turn the chaos into your greatest advantage!
Warhammer: Mark of Chaos - Gold Edition (Classic) - Command the armies of the Empire, the Hordes of Chaos, Orcs & Goblins, and other iconic Warhammer Fantasy factions in massive real-time battles. Warhammer: Mark of Chaos is a classic RTS celebrated for its unprecedented scale and detail for its time.
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Apr 13, 2026
96% 👍
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Outside the Blocks - Unleash your creativity and design your own diorama in Outside the Blocks ‒ a full-featured model builder. Shape the terrain, assemble modular houses, add decorations and put your creation on display!
60 Minutes to Extinction: Escape Room - You have exactly 60 minutes to save humanity from nuclear extinction. There are no second attempts. No manual saves. Explore a collapsing bunker, repair critical systems, and solve puzzles under pressure. Succeed or watch the world end.
Sin and Love - "Sin and Love" is a dark narrative roguelike game with a background set in a fantastical version of the Tang Dynasty. You will play as a princess from the ‘Stone’ Kingdom, who has been poisoned and rises from the ashes.
Final Outpost: Definitive Edition - Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?
Mini Idle Dice Monster - Ever wished for a friend to roll dice with? Meet Fred, the friendly monster who's Hungry to Play Dice with you! Mini Idle Dice Monster is an idle game all about dice rolling. Roll dice, unleash combos, upgrade perks, and spend time with Fred!
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Feb 4, 2025
80% 👍
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Literally Just Pixels On A Screen - Welcome to Literally Just Pixels On A Screen. In this "game" you get to collect pixels. That's it.
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Jan 31, 2025
87% 👍
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On Sale Now

Discounted 25% or more right now, limited to well-reviewed games, steepest cuts first.

Nuclear Dawn - Explore war-torn post-apocalyptic landscapes and take fight against enemies using various weapons in this FPS/RTS hybrid.
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Sep 26, 2011
78% 👍
of 2.5k
S.W.I.N.E. HD Remaster - S.W.I.N.E. HD Remaster is the new edition of the challenging classic strategy game S.W.I.N.E! The filthiest of all wars between the Rabbit and the Pig armies is a sophisticated real-time strategy with completely revised textures, detailed unit models, a 16:9 adapted interface.
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May 23, 2019
91% 👍
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Warhammer® 40,000: Dawn of War® II Chaos Rising - In Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising you will take command of the Blood Ravens and defend the sector against the Chaos Space Marines of the Black Legion. Purge the Chaos filth and hold the chapter together as traitorous forces work from within to try bring down the Blood Ravens.
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Mar 11, 2010
91% 👍
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Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) 40th Anniversary Edition - From gliders and helicopters to wide-body jets, fly highly detailed and accurate aircraft in the Microsoft Flight Simulator 40th Anniversary Edition. The world is at your fingertips.

Hidden Gems

Well-liked but under-played: strong scores, small review counts.

Wand Wars - Ride brooms, cast spells and transform your enemies into chickens in this intense magical sport
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Apr 13, 2016
97% 👍
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Tower of Mask - Tower of Mask is a thrilling survival horror in the spirit of the 80's dungeon crawlers. The most claustrophobic dungeon in modern times is yours to venture through alone. Hero, face the ancient tower where eerie masked humans prowl.
qop 2 - qop 2 is a minimalistic puzzle which goal is to get the cube to finish using 4 directions in space.
Giants: Citizen Kabuto - Before man climbed down from the trees to shop in megastores and drink cappuccino, before the Earth wadded itself into a ball, there was the Island. A fragment from a long-lost planet. Upon the surface of this paradise wandered Kabuto the giant. Little does he know, it was home to others before him.
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Dec 2, 2016
95% 👍
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Colony Siege - Colony Siege combines the best of RTS and tower defense, including base building, mazing, and unit physics. Defend Earth's remaining colonies using an arsenal of deadly weapons to torch, slice, throw, and impale swarms of alien invaders.
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Sep 7, 2020
93% 👍
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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% 👍
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Sacrifice - Sacrifice is the acclaimed real-time strategy game that focuses on combat instead of resource gathering. The only two resources you'll need to worry about are mana and souls. Need more units? Capture the souls of your enemy. Cast spells of awesome power.
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Aug 19, 2009
92% 👍
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Sector Six - Sector Six is a side-scrolling, sci-fi shooter with a silhouette aesthetic, procedural loot, extensive customization, and story missions.
Cosmodread - Cosmodread is a VR survival horror roguelike about escaping a dying spaceship filled with nightmares. Stranded in a hostile universe, you must explore, survive, and find your way back to the safety of Earth.
Battlezone: Combat Commander - Battlezone: Combat Commander remasters FPS-RTS classic Battlezone II with slick new visuals, brand new achievements, Steam Workshop support and much more! The solar system is at war. Take command.
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Mar 1, 2018
90% 👍
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Top Rated

Defining examples of the genre, all rated 85%+ across 1,000+ reviews.

Stronghold Crusader HD (2012) - The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader HD throws you into historic battles and castle sieges from the Crusades with fiendish AI opponents, new units, 4 historical campaigns and over 100 unique skirmish missions.
Age of Empires II (Retired) - Age of Empires II has been re-imagined in high definition. With the release of Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, this product will not be updated further.
Rusted Warfare - RTS - {{An RTS inspired by the classics of the past!}} Making up for it's subpar retro graphics with fun gameplay and modern multi-threaded tech enabling huge battles to run smooth... Featuring singleplayer challenges, skirmish, sandbox, 10-player multiplayer & workshop modding.
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Jul 14, 2017
96% 👍
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Airships: Conquer the Skies - Construct mighty steampunk airships and fly them into battle, waging war and conquering the skies!
Impossible Creatures Steam Edition - Impossible Creatures is a 3D RTS game that pits the player against an evil villain. Using Earth’s most formidable animals as building blocks, the player must create an army of genetically-altered mutant monsters in a titanic struggle to protect an unsuspecting world.
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Nov 11, 2015
96% 👍
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Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition - 42 Civilizations, 229 Campaign Missions, Singleplayer, Co-Op, Multiplayer, In-Game Editor, Mods, Cross-play...It is good to be the king.
Warhammer® 40,000: Dawn of War® - Soulstorm - The third and final expansion to the genre-defining and critically-acclaimed RTS, Dawn of War. In Soulstorm, two new armies are introduced – Sisters of Battle and Dark Eldar - raising the total number of playable armies to nine.
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Anniversary Edition (Classic) - All of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War in one glorious package. Play the genre-defining classic real time strategy game in all its blood-soaked glory, including four complete campaigns and nine full-fledged factions.
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Aug 7, 2007
95% 👍
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Zero-K - With 100+ truly unique units, Zero-K is an RTS of freedom and creativity, tempered by a decade of refinement. Sculpt land into a castle and throw invaders off it with a Jugglenaut. Explore a massive campaign, solo or co-op. Hop online for epic 32 player battles or fast paced 1v1, on 100s of maps.
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Apr 27, 2018
94% 👍
of 4.4k
Legend of Grimrock - Use the Dungeon Editor to build entirely new adventures and challenges for other players to solve.
EMERGENCY 4 Deluxe - Coordinate firefighters, police, medical personnel and specialists in the classic EMERGENCY 4 Deluxe! Now with the previously untranslated bonus missions in English.
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Apr 24, 2018
93% 👍
of 2.1k