Games like Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak
by Blackbird Interactive
A ground-based RTS prequel to the classic Homeworld games. Assemble your fleet and lead them to victory on the shifting sands of Kharak in this compelling strategy game for PC from Blackbird Interactive.
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$59.99Homeworld 3
May 13 · Blackbird Interactive
Both: Space · RTS · Sci-fi
Tactical, beautiful, and wholly unique, the GOTY-winning sci-fi RTS returns with Homeworld 3. Assume control and battle through fleet combat in dazzling, fully 3D space while the award-winning story unfolds on a galactic scale.
SpaceRTSStrategySci-fiStory RichSingleplayerMultiplayerTacticalCo-opRoguelike👍 5,438
$34.99Homeworld Remastered Collection
Feb 25 · Gearbox Software, Aspyr (Mac)
Both: Space · RTS · Sci-fi
Experience the epic space strategy games that redefined the RTS genre. Control your fleet and build an armada across more than 30 single-player missions. Choose unit types, fleet formations and flight tactics for each strategic situation.
SpaceStrategyRTSSci-fiClassicGreat SoundtrackStory RichMultiplayerAtmosphericRemake👍 11,978
$29.99Grey Goo
Jan 23 · Petroglyph, Six Foot
Both: RTS · Sci-fi
Fight for control of a frontier world. Gather resources, build your base, and command your forces in battle. Survive long enough to unleash your ultimate weapon - THE EPIC.
StrategyRTSSci-fiMultiplayerAliensBase BuildingGreat SoundtrackSingleplayerMechsRobots👍 2,602
$9.99Earth 2150 Trilogy
Nov 1 · Reality Pump Studios
Both: RTS · Sci-fi · Space
Your heroes and your armies will need strong leadership to take them on a spellbinding odyssey that has everything a gamer’s heart could wish for breathtaking worlds in space, battles against cunning enemies and even downright treason from your own government faction - are you up to it?
StrategyRTSSci-fiClassicSpaceBase BuildingMultiplayerSingleplayer👍 452
Warhammer® 40,000: Dawn of War® - Soulstorm
Mar 5 · Relic Entertainment
Both: RTS · Sci-fi
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.
StrategyRTSBase BuildingSci-fiMultiplayerReal-TimeSingleplayerFuturisticClassicAction👍 13,641
$29.99Starship Troopers: Terran Command
Jun 16 · The Artistocrats
Both: RTS · Sci-fi
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!
StrategyRTSSingleplayerMilitaryTacticalWarSci-fiResource ManagementReal-TimeWargame👍 9,216
-80%$7.99Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III
Apr 27 · Relic Entertainment, Feral Interactive (Mac), Feral Interactive (Linux)
Both: RTS · Sci-fi
Step into a brutal battle between three warring factions In Dawn of War III you will have no choice but to face your foes when a catastrophic weapon is found on the mysterious world of Acheron.
StrategyRTSSci-fiMultiplayerActionMOBABase BuildingSingleplayerGoreWar👍 14,439
$9.99Etherium
Mar 25 · Tindalos Interactive
Both: Sci-fi · RTS · Space
Etherium is a real-time strategy game set in a science-fiction universe, where three factions battle it out for a mysterious and rare resource known as ‘Etherium’.
Sci-fiStrategyRTSMultiplayerSpace4XSingleplayerActionBase Building👍 466
$19.99Ancient Space
Sep 23 · CreativeForge Games
Both: Space · RTS · Sci-fi
Ancient Space is a story driven single player real time strategy game where you take command of a fleet embarking on a scientific mission to chart undiscovered reaches of space called ‘The Black Zone’. Overcome overwhelming odds and fight for your life and the survival of your ship and its crew.
StrategySpaceRTSSci-fiSingleplayerAtmosphericRealisticExplorationAdventureIndie👍 270
-60%$13.99Dune: Spice Wars
Sep 14 · Shiro Games
Both: Sci-fi · RTS
A 4X real-time strategy game from the developers of the critically acclaimed Northgard. Set in Frank Herbert’s groundbreaking Dune universe, you must lead your faction and battle for control and dominance over the harsh desert planet of Arrakis.
ManagementSingleplayerSci-fiRTSStrategy4XGrand StrategySimulationReal Time TacticsBuilding👍 11,562
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II: Retribution
· Relic Entertainment, Feral Interactive (Mac/Linux)
Both: RTS · Sci-fi
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.
RTSStrategyTacticalMultiplayerSci-fiOnline Co-OpCo-opSingleplayerReal-TimeFuturistic👍 7,920
Warhammer® 40,000: Dawn of War® - Dark Crusade
Aug 7 · Relic Entertainment
Both: RTS · Sci-fi
Deep under the central desert of Kronus, a vast honeycomb of skull-lined tunnels and funeral chambers house the awakening Necron menace. Eons ago, these were the boulevards and squares of a great necropolis built to house the bones of the races who had fallen to the Necrons, and ultimately were where the Necrons themselves retire to...
StrategyRTSBase BuildingSci-fiMultiplayerSingleplayerReal-TimeClassicWarGore👍 7,646
$9.99AI War: Fleet Command
Oct 21 · Arcen Games
Both: RTS · Space · Sci-fi
"You are outgunned. You are massively outnumbered. You must win." These are your orders. Humanity has already fought its war against the machines -- and lost. AI death squads stand watch over every planet and every wormhole, the few remaining human settlements are held captive in orbiting bubbles, and the AIs have turned their...
StrategyRTSSpaceIndieSci-fiCo-op4XGrand StrategyDifficultTactical👍 993
$19.99Battlezone: Combat Commander
Mar 1 · Big Boat Interactive
Both: RTS · Space
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.
StrategyActionRTSFPSFirst-PersonViolentShooterMultiplayerReal-TimeSpace👍 851
$14.99Iron Marines
May 15 · Ironhide Game Studio
Both: RTS · Sci-fi
Real-time strategy battles in amazing sci-fi worlds! Command brave soldiers, mighty mechas and powerful aliens to face the greatest challenges in hostile alien worlds. The galaxy needs you!
RTSStrategySci-fiSingleplayerAction2DAdventureAliensIndieCartoony👍 1,741
Maelstrom: The Battle for Earth Begins
Feb 13 · KDV Games
Both: RTS · Sci-fi
In the space of fifty years, Earth changed from a planet on cusp of a challenging future to a world a breath away from lifelessness and plunged into an apocalyptic time of ecological disaster, global warfare and the meltdown of human civilization. This is the time of the Maelstrom.
StrategyRTSSci-fiSingleplayer👍 135
$19.99Silica
May 3 · Martin 'Dram' Melichárek
Both: RTS · Sci-fi
Silica blends FPS and RTS in epic, photorealistic battles. Choose to fight on the ground or command from above as humans or aliens. Dive into thrilling multiplayer combat or master strategic command. Are you ready to survive and conquer?
RTSFPSMultiplayerStrategyShooterPvPVehicular CombatSci-fi3DAction👍 4,473
$29.99Planetary Annihilation: TITANS
Aug 18 · Planetary Annihilation Inc
Both: RTS · Sci-fi
Wage war across entire solar systems with massive armies at your command. Annihilate enemy forces with world-shattering TITAN-class units, and demolish planets with massive super weapons!
RTSStrategyReal Time TacticsBase BuildingMultiplayerSingleplayerSci-fiWarBuildingOnline Co-Op👍 11,401
$6.99Meridian: New World
Sep 26 · Elder Games
Both: RTS · Sci-fi
Slip into the role of Daniel Hanson, commander of the first mission to a remote planet called Meridian. Assured of the fact that the planet is uninhabited, the unexpected reception of a distress call from the surface could mean many things, none of which you are prepared for.
StrategyRTSIndieSci-fiSingleplayerEarly AccessMultiplayer👍 325
$24.99Executive Assault 2
Oct 18 · Hesketh Studios Ltd
Both: RTS · Space
The RTS/FPS phenomenon has moved into space! Build your base on an asteroid, command fleets of starships for epic battles, pilot fighters, mine and trade resources, assemble robots to defend or assault other stations. Take sole command or share the glory as you fight for control of the quadrant.
RTSBuildingSpace SimStrategyBase BuildingSpaceReal-TimeFPSActionSingleplayer👍 1,604
$12.99Supreme Commander
Sep 28 · Gas Powered Games
Both: RTS · Sci-fi
For a thousand years, three opposing forces have waged war for what they believe is true. There can be no room for compromise: their way is the only way. Dubbed The Infinite War, this devastating conflict has taken its toll on a once-peaceful galaxy and has only served to deepen the hatred between the factions.
StrategyRTSSci-fiMultiplayerBase BuildingReal-TimeCo-opReal-Time with PauseSingleplayerRobots👍 2,325
Outscape
Oct 22 · IDA Games
Both: Sci-fi · RTS · Space
Outscape is everything you love about traditional strategy games, but places your empire within a vast online galaxy alongside other real players. Outscape rewards skillful long-term strategic gameplay with a brilliantly refreshing new take on the 4X genre.
StrategySci-fiOnline Co-OpRTSPvPSpaceExploration4XManagementEconomy👍 394
$7.99Star Ruler
Sep 20 · Blind Mind Studios
Both: Space · RTS · Sci-fi
Take command of a vast interstellar empire and safeguard your species from total extinction in a procedurally generated 3D galaxy (with the option to flatten it) from 1 System to 10,000+! Prove your species' ingenuity through a deep and intricate combat system where anything (from individual components on ships to the stars themselves)...
StrategyIndieSpace4XRTSSci-fiGrand StrategyGreat SoundtrackSingleplayerMultiplayer👍 261
FreeImperius
Jun 13 · Incognito Interactive
Both: RTS · Space · Sci-fi
Imperius is an easy-to-learn, hard-to-master space RTS. Command devastating ships of the Imperius Navy and prove your loyalty by destroying everything in your path, no matter the cost.
StrategyRTSSpaceSingleplayerSci-fiFuturisticReal Time TacticsWarLore-RichBase Building
$5.99StarFringe: Adversus
Jul 26 · Casualogic, Droid Riot
Both: RTS · Space
This is the story about the beginning of the conquest of outer space by earthlings. It began as a global idea of saving mankind from hunger and lack of resources, and ended as a brutal and merciless war in space far from Earth.
StrategyRTSBase BuildingSpaceIndieAdventureActionExploration4XTop-Down Shooter👍 139
$29.99StarDrive
Apr 26 · Zero Sum Games
Both: Space · Sci-fi · RTS
As a space bear, human or any other race, venture forth into the galaxy, create custom ships, conquer new worlds, build new colonies and defend your very existence against those who would take what is yours.
Strategy4XSpaceIndieSci-fiRTSSingleplayerReal-TimeExploration👍 1,253
$29.99Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation
Nov 10 · Stardock Entertainment, Oxide Games
Both: RTS · Sci-fi
A massive-scale real-time strategy game where you command entire armies on a dynamic battlefield. Conquer multiple worlds across several single-player campaigns; or play with your friends in multiplayer combat.
RTSBase BuildingReal Time TacticsPvPModdableStrategyOnline Co-OpSci-fiTranshumanismMilitary👍 2,705
$14.99Particle Fleet: Emergence
Sep 29 · Knuckle Cracker
Both: Space · RTS · Sci-fi
Build and design your own fleets and stand opposed to the Particulate in this physics/strategy/RTS/fleet hybrid. Build partially destructible and self repairing ships that interact with enemies less controlled by some scripted logic and more driven by a real time massive physics particle simulation.
StrategyIndieSimulationSpaceRTSReal-Time with PauseSci-fi2DSingleplayerPixel Graphics👍 1,198
-90%$0.99The Red Solstice
Jul 9 · Ironward
Both: RTS · Sci-fi
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.
StrategyTacticalRTSSci-fiCo-opAliensSingleplayerReal Time TacticsMultiplayerTop-Down👍 883
FreeStormgate
Aug 5 · Frost Giant Studios
Both: RTS
Stormgate is a free-to-play real-time strategy game with a full single-player campaign, 3-player co-op, and PvP versus modes on over 60 maps. Our Editor is also freely available for you to craft just about any custom game mode you can imagine. Join our development journey today!
RTSBase BuildingStrategyMultiplayerWareSportsFree to PlayFuturisticTop-DownBuilding👍 2,104
$5.99Frontline Crisis
Aug 14 · BCQT
Both: RTS · Space
Defend humanity's last hope, pilot a powerful mech, in Frontlines Crisis! A battlefield swarming with insects makes strategic and combat decisions crucial. Each decision will determine your fate. Defend humanity's last sanctuary, fight fiercely, and uphold human honor with wits and courage!
Tower DefenseTop-Down ShooterRTSStrategyPixel GraphicsSpaceMechsLocal Co-OpAction RTS1980s👍 348
$29.99Dungeons 3
Oct 13 · Realmforge Studios
Both: RTS · Female Protagonist
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!
StrategyVillain ProtagonistBase BuildingSimulationRTSGod GameManagementFemale ProtagonistComedyMultiplayer👍 12,648
$9.99Home Wars
Jun 13 · Insane Dreamers
Both: RTS
Do you hate bugs and arachnids? Seeing them creeps you out? Would you like them to disappear off the face of the Earth? GOOD! This is the right game for you! In HW you’ll play as a General of a toy soldiers army, with the sole purpose of saving the owner’s house from the invasion of those damn Bugs.
RTSFPSWargameStrategySandboxMilitaryShooterWarGrand StrategyAction RTS👍 1,141
$9.99Battlevoid: Sector Siege
Oct 25 · Bugbyte Ltd.
Both: Space · RTS · Sci-fi
Battlevoid: Sector Siege is an epic straight into action real-time space strategy game, in which the world has been built to deliver a lively battle field; and the action is never more than just seconds away at the start of every game.
StrategyIndieActionSimulationSpaceRTSExploration2DSci-fiTactical👍 195
$9.99Forged Battalion
Aug 14 · Petroglyph
Both: RTS
Customize your unique faction in a new take on real-time strategy as you fight in a variety of skirmish, solo, and multiplayer battles. You are not only a commander, but also an engineer – so you have ultimate control over your faction’s units, factories, superweapons and economy.
StrategyRTSSimulationIndieMultiplayerSingleplayerBase Building👍 785
$9.99Imperium Galactica II
Jan 19 · Digital Reality, Gyroscope Games
Both: Space · RTS
Reintroducing a classic from the golden era of gaming, the original empire building space RTS, Imperium Galactica 2 is back and looking better than ever with new high-res textures and vivid colors.
StrategySpaceRTS4XClassicSingleplayer👍 591
$19.99Battlezone 98 Redux
Apr 18 · Big Boat Interactive
Both: Sci-fi · RTS
One of the greatest sci-fi strategy games of all time returns with remastered visuals, online multiplayer and near unlimited mod content from Steam Workshop. Experience thrilling first person action and acclaimed RTS in this explosive alternate vision of the 1960s space race.
StrategyActionFirst-PersonSci-fiRTS1990'sClassicTanksRetroMultiplayer👍 1,043
$9.99WARSHIFT
Oct 12 · Cyril Megem
Both: RTS · Sci-fi
Unique mix of Action, RTS and RPG gameplay elements that forms an innovative game genre. You can build base, manage troops, and then come down to keep your enemy at gunpoint in the dynamic battle and customize your main characters.
StrategyActionRTSIndieRPGSci-fiThird-Person ShooterMechsViolentMultiplayer👍 643
$39.99Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance
Feb 21 · Slitherine Ltd.
Both: RTS
Terminator: Dark Fate – Defiance is not just a game; it's an adrenaline-fueled journey where your strategic prowess decides the fate of mankind against the machines. After the machines took over, the greatest threats may not come from the machines but rather from other human survivors.
StrategyRTSReal Time TacticsWargame3DAtmosphericArtificial IntelligenceAlternate HistoryDarkConspiracy👍 3,398
$3.99Void Destroyer
Jan 20 · Iteration 11
Both: Space · Sci-fi · RTS
Combining the best of space combat and real time strategy. Victory can be tactical, a dogfight or capital ship slugging match - depending on how you decide to achieve it. Space combat on a RTS scale with space sim savagery.
StrategySimulationActionSpaceAdventureIndieSci-fiRTSSpace SimSingleplayer👍 268
$9.99Distant Star: Revenant Fleet
Apr 7 · Blazing Griffin
Both: Space · Sci-fi · RTS
BAFTA award winning fleet-based RTS meets rogue-lite. In Distant Star: Revenant Fleet, build your fleet of up to 5 ships from a choice of 8 classes and traverse a randomly generated galaxy to defeat the Erebus Platform. NOW AVAILABLE ON MAC AND LINUX
IndieStrategyActionSpaceSci-fiProcedural GenerationSingleplayerRoguelikeRTSAtmospheric👍 258
$9.99Earth 2160
Apr 1 · Reality Pump Studios
Both: Space · RTS
After the destruction of the EARTH in 2150, the leaders of the Eurasian Dynasty escaped on board an evacuation fleet. Now they are fighting for the survival of the human species. Their base is one large building comprising of smaller variable parts.
Base BuildingSpaceRTSReal-TimeStrategyAction RPGPost-apocalypticHistoricalActionSimulation👍 755
Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars™
Nov 13 · EA Los Angeles
Both: RTS
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
StrategyLevel EditorFamily FriendlyRTSActionMultiplayerSingleplayerBase BuildingAction RTSCity Builder👍 8,776
$29.99Distant Worlds: Universe
May 23 · Code Force
Both: Space · Sci-fi · RTS
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.
Strategy4XSpaceSci-fiSimulationGrand StrategySingleplayerReal-TimeRTSReal-Time with Pause👍 1,417
-30%$8.39From Glory To Goo
Apr 2 · Stratagem Blue
Both: RTS
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.
Base BuildingRTSTower DefenseReal-Time with PauseAction RTSResource ManagementColony SimCity BuilderStrategySandbox👍 1,796
$19.99Ratten Reich
Jul 15 · METALLADLERSTUDIO
Both: RTS
Ratten Reich is an RTS focusing on realistic combat in a unique, steampunk/dieselpunk world ripped apart by an ongoing war between rats, mice, cockroaches, and lizards.
StrategyRTSWargameReal Time TacticsSpectacle fighter3DTop-DownThird PersonAlternate HistoryAtmospheric👍 616
FreeArt of War: Red Tides
Dec 22 · Game Science
Both: RTS
Art of War: Red Tides is a fair multiplayer strategy game that allows different teams on the same platform (e.g. smartphones, PC, etc.) to battle against each other. You will encounter players around the world!
Free to PlayStrategyMultiplayerRTSEarly AccessWarMOBAActionCo-opIndie👍 706
-80%$11.99Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin
Nov 17 · Frontier Developments
Both: RTS
Wage a campaign of brutal conquest in this realm-shattering real-time strategy game set in the Warhammer Age of Sigmar universe. Become a warlord and lead four unique factions to conquer the wild and savage Realm of Ghur in tense and tactical battles.
StrategyActionRTSAction RTSReal Time TacticsFantasyWargame3DCinematicStylized👍 1,867





