Top 10 Real Time Strategy Games

in gaming •  8 years ago  (edited)


One of  my favorite gaming genres is RTS. Action in real time where you need to be quick with your thinking. Players that can do more APM (actions per minute) are clearly the best in this type of games. Great example is very popular Esport Starcraft 2 in South Korea where olympic stadiums can be filled with fans wanting to see the action live. Some of this games are in my previous lists, but they must be included again cause they are simply the best. Also I'm considering to expand this lists to top 20. 



1. Starcraft 

When Starcraft came out it was so new and strange with three completely different races. Those 3 races played so differently that you had a feeling that you are playing completely different game. Protoss, Terran and Zerg with different tactics could create hours, days, months of fun strategy gaming. Startraft 2 expanded the universe and concluded the story, but the original will always be the best. 


2. Dawn of War

This RTS game introduced me to crazy and lore rich Warhammer 40k universe. Imagine fantasy races in far future, Orks with space ships and guns, Elves with anti gravity tanks but with same speed and grace as the elf race, in this universe they are called Eldar. Brutal universe where there  is only war. Ultimate Apocalypse mode expanded this game so much and is still greatly played today.


3. Warcraft 3

Another RTS from Blizzard, that company did make the best games back then. Warcraft 3 introduced a hero gameplay with your standard rts format, you could level those heroes by killing creeps on the map and finding items. That lead to deeper strategy and tactic maneuvers with 4 different races each having 4 heroes. Game i used to play competitevely and even participated in some tournaments. 


4. Total Annihilation: Kindoms

One of the first RTS's where I've spend many many hours in. It is a spiritual successor of original Total Annihilation which i also loved, this one was more fantasy orientated and that made it more fun for me at the time. Four races, fun maps, fun combat and that was it. 


5. Age of Mythology

Age of empire with Egyptian, Norse and Greek gods. You could summon any mythological beast from those mythos and some of the heroes who could do more dmg to the beasts. Nice change of paste from classic civilizations of Age of Empires.


6. Red alert 2

If i had to name one Command & Conquer game that i found to be the best that one would be Red alert 2, there are literally 20 C&C games with expansions and i liked them all. But this lists are tough, I have to chose only one. C&C games had real acted sequences that made them different from the competition. Remember Yuri and Kane? One day i will probably write a history of Command & Conquer. So many great games i that franchise.


7. Star Trek: Armada

Real time strategy game in Star Trek universe, this one was surprisingly fun. You could pick between Federation, Romulan, Borg and Klingons fighting for dominance. 


8. Homeworld

This game was spectacular, first ever full 3d space real time strategy game. You could choose from few class ships and doing rock paper scissors tactical combat. Great space graphics and those engine lights made this game great. Relic Entertainment started with their RTS journey with this game, later they made Company of Heroes and Dawn of War games.


9. Dune 2000

One of the C&C games look a like. So it was essentially a clone from those games, but clone in one of the most interesting universes of Dune. Great worms could come up from sands and eat your harvesters. Harkonen, Atreides and Ordos battle for supremacy. Fun fun game.


10. Supreme Commander

This one had the largest scale of battles ever. You could zoom out entire battlefield and give your units orders from outer space. From small vehicles to huge robots 20 times larger. This game screamed of perfection. Any fan of real time strategies enjoyed this game. 


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Love seeing gaming content here. Thanks for the top 10 list.

It is my pleasure. Love gaming and love writing about it.

Dude how could you forget the Total War games! Rome 1 was dope A.F

I like fantasy games more so had i played the Total War: Warhammer that one would probably made it on the list. But one must acknowledge Total War series, mos def. So many games, such a small list.

Age of Empires III was my all time favorite RTS. It kind of sucked when played alone, but online, it was so rich with possibilities and strategies.

Starcraft is my favourite :)

Starcraft FTW!

Starcraft forever!
Today I am fond of watching beautiful games, like this


more than play.

Nice list. There's a wee typo in heading #7, by the way.

Ok, i also noticed one more. Tnx by the way.

Starcraft game of all time!

Some classics there. I haven't played them all, but Star Craft, Home World and Total Annihilation I am familiar with.

I would include so many more like Company of Heroes, Age of Empires, Rise of Legends, Stronghold, Anno games.. And who knows how many more that i can't remember.

Age of Empires was a favourite for a while. C&C also. I haven't kept up with them now for some time.

The same.
I have played only Starcraft, Dune and Red Alert and absolutely don't play modern games.
C&C, Warcraft 2, Dune 2...

But where is the Age of Empires?

I was thinking should i include Age of Empires or Age of Mythology, don't get me wrong, i love AoE games but AoM made it in the end. Those god powers made the game more fun.

thnks introduced me to some new games im gonna try out. I love the old school games, still play red alert 2 often and age of empires. lol

I was for years, until a few month a go, hooked on Eve online. I finally broke that addiction and need a filler. haha

good post 100%vote

That is the game i must try. It's been on the list for a very long time. Soon TM.

Good list starcraft rocked, sure dune was made by westwood before C&C and no band of heros =0. anyways upvoted and followed

Tnx bro.

For Aiur!

En taro Adun.

I think SC2 wrapped it up nicely still, but WC3 RoC & FT were executed so well and think they were more important especially w/ being able to spawn games like Dota

Nice list. I, personally, would place the original Total Annihilation(+ expansion and unit packs) over TA:Kingdoms :) Also, on gog.com you can vote for games getting a release there. I've voted for multiple games and 2 of them were Star Trek: Armada (1 and 2) and Dune 2000. I also liked Emperor: Battle for Dune.

Yeah there are many games on the list that had some predecessor or successor. Even though i played both and love both games i had to pick one i played more. I actually played Kingdoms with really bad computer back then with 4 fps and loved it.
Battle for Dune was also great.