Games like Warhammer® 40,000: Dawn of War® - Dark Crusade
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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...
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$39.99Tempest Rising
Apr 24 · Slipgate Ironworks™
Both: RTS · Base Building · Real-Time
Command distinct factions in a desperate struggle for power and resources in Tempest Rising - a classic RTS set on Earth after a nuclear war.
RTSStrategyBase BuildingSingleplayerMultiplayerIsometric3DReal-TimeWarAction👍 9,813
FreeStormgate
Aug 5 · Frost Giant Studios
Both: RTS · Base Building · War
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
$29.99Age of Mythology: Retold
Sep 4 · World's Edge, Forgotten Empires, Tantalus Media, CaptureAge, Virtuos Games
Both: RTS · Base Building
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.
RTSStrategyBase Building3DMythologyStory RichLore-RichResource ManagementSingleplayerFantasy👍 20,951
$24.99Executive Assault 2
Oct 18 · Hesketh Studios Ltd
Both: RTS · Base Building · Real-Time
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
$14.99Battle Realms: Zen Edition
Jan 27 · Ed Del Castillo
Both: RTS · Classic · Base Building
Return of the Classic, now remastered! Battle Realms is a fantasy RTS inspired by the stories told in martial- arts movies and oriental mythology. Develop your peasants into a highly trained and deadly efficient clan of warriors who are ready to die with your name on their lips.
StrategyActionRTSClassicMultiplayerFantasyEarly AccessFast-PacedSingleplayerBase Building👍 4,198
-25%$22.49Godsworn
Mar 28 · Thunderoak Interactive
Both: RTS · Real-Time · Base Building
Godsworn is a classic RTS with single-player & co-op focus. Experience an epic fantasy retelling of the Baltic Crusades set in a world inspired by pagan mythology. Choose a divine hero, rally worshippers alongside mythical creatures, and smite the unworthy!
Early AccessRTSMythologyCo-opSingleplayerAction RTSStory RichReal-Time3DBase Building👍 807
-40%$10.49Tower Dominion
May 7 · Parallel 45 Games
Both: Base Building · RTS
Build and design the terrain while defending your stronghold against alien invasion in this unique Roguelike tower defense. Choose from 30 heroes, survive enemy waves, and upgrade a variety of destructive towers to hold the line!
Tower DefenseStrategyBase BuildingRoguelikeRTSTacticalRogueliteChoices MatterProcedural GenerationResource Management👍 5,124
-30%$8.39From Glory To Goo
Apr 2 · Stratagem Blue
Both: Base Building · 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
FreeImperius
Jun 13 · Incognito Interactive
Both: RTS · Sci-fi · War
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
$19.999-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far
Aug 26 · Petroglyph
Both: RTS · Base Building
Unleash voxel warfare in 9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far. Lead a modern military, build bases, unlock units, and attack in all-out war. Engage on land, sea and air in over two dozen missions, online skirmishes, or co-op. Easy to learn, a challenge to master.
Action RTSRTSWargameReal Time TacticsSandboxColorfulPvPBase BuildingStrategyTactical👍 945
$4.99Dungeon Keeper™ 2
Mar 7 · Bullfrog Productions
Both: RTS · Classic · Base Building
Bad guys have all the fun. Discover your dark side as you build an evil underground kingdom and defend it against the forces of good.
StrategyGod GameAction RPGSingleplayerReal Time TacticsActionVillain ProtagonistRTSClassicBase Building👍 1,253
$17.99Dying Breed
Oct 7 · Sarnayer
Both: RTS · Base Building · War
Golden-age RTS classic. Fast-paced action & strategic decision-making, battling evil arch-enemies, zombies, and retro-futuristic technologies. All to a '90s electro-metal soundtrack and FMV live-action cut scenes.
Early AccessStrategySingleplayerRTSBase BuildingTacticalActionWarPost-apocalypticSci-fi👍 218
-50%$13.99Age of Darkness: Final Stand
Jan 15 · PlaySide
Both: RTS · Base Building
Age of Darkness: Final Stand is a dark fantasy survival RTS where you must illuminate, build and defend humanity’s last bastion against hordes of Nightmares. Set in the remnants of a kingdom consumed by a deadly fog, you decide. Will you hide in the light? Or take back your world.
Tower DefenseAction RTSRTSStrategyBase BuildingPvEDark Fantasy3DFantasyStylized👍 9,487
-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
$14.99IDUN - Frontline Survival
Jan 20 · IDUN Interactive
Both: RTS · Base Building · Sci-fi
A defense RTS where you can move turrets at will. Extract resources, upgrade technology, and defend against enemy swarms in a gripping space campaign. Hold the line, set up your turrets, and brace for screen-filling hordes!
3DBuildingWargameTower DefenseStrategyRTSSurvivalBase BuildingMiningSci-fi👍 685
$59.99Homeworld 3
May 13 · Blackbird Interactive
Both: 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
$29.99Diplomacy is Not an Option
Oct 4 · Door 407
Both: Base Building · RTS
Diplomacy is Not an Option is a strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Build your town and defenses, raise huge armies and fight against massive hordes of enemies. How long can you survive?
Resource ManagementMedievalHistoricalZombiesBase BuildingColony SimRTSDifficultAction RTSSurvival👍 10,910
$14.99Mechabellum
Sep 26 · Game River
Both: RTS
Command massive armies in this epic mech auto-battler. Draft your troops, customize your units, master your formations, and crush enemies in spectacular 3D battles. All strategy, no clickfest. Outsmart opponents in 1v1, 2v2, free-for-all, or Survival Mode.
StrategyAuto BattlerMechsRobotsWargameTacticalPvPMultiplayerRTSTurn-Based Strategy👍 17,866
$14.99Eyes of War
Jan 31 · Good Mood Games
Both: RTS · Base Building
Eyes of War is a real-time strategy game set in the medieval era, offering both single-player and multiplayer experiences where you can control every unit in character mode. Build your castle, lead your army, and dominate the map. Eyes of War invites you to epic battles of the medieval era!
StrategyOnline Co-OpRTSWargameStylizedIsometricProcedural GenerationThird PersonResource ManagementBase Building👍 268
$29.99Total War: PHARAOH
Oct 11 · CREATIVE ASSEMBLY
Both: RTS · War
In Total War: PHARAOH, the newest entry in the award-winning grand strategy series, immerse yourself in ancient Egypt at the zenith of its power and experience the dramatic events that threaten its destruction.
StrategyRTSGrand StrategyTacticalActionWarMultiplayerSingleplayerAtmosphericTurn-Based Strategy👍 3,623
$5.99Frontline Crisis
Aug 14 · BCQT
Both: RTS
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
$19.99Creeper World IXE
Dec 12 · Knuckle Cracker
Both: RTS · War
The unstoppable alien force known as The Creeper has returned, devouring thousands of worlds in its path, and yours is next. Battle against the Creeper fluid in a groundbreaking pixel-level simulation to prove that humanity will rule the galaxy forever!
RTSTower DefenseWargameReal Time TacticsSandboxSpace1980sWarPhysicsStrategy👍 855
$19.99Odd Realm
Aug 16 · Unknown Origin Games Inc
Both: Base Building
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Colony SimBase BuildingSimulationManagementResource ManagementStrategySandboxSurvivalProcedural GenerationBuilding👍 955
$29.99Going Medieval
Mar 17 · Foxy Voxel
Both: Base Building
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
Colony SimBase BuildingStrategyVoxelSurvivalManagementCity BuilderSingleplayerSandboxNature👍 17,036
$39.99Last Train Home
Nov 28 · Ashborne Games
Both: RTS · War
The Great War is over - the fight continues. Command a legion of soldiers, desperately trying to make their way home amidst the chaos of civil war. Lead them through the unforgiving wilderness onboard an armored train. Manage your crew and resources and try to survive.
StrategyRTSReal Time TacticsTrainsHistoricalSingleplayerChoices MatterWar3DWorld War I👍 4,517
$29.99Myth of Empires
Feb 21 · Angela Game
Both: Base Building · War
Myth of Empires is a multiplayer war sandbox game featuring a high degree of freedom and multiple civilizations. Players must survive, craft, create, and lead troops in their quest to conquer PVE or PVP territory and build their own empire. Xizhou Civilization Pack is now officially released!
BuildingOpen World Survival CraftSandboxMMORPGOpen WorldSurvivalBase BuildingMultiplayerWarCharacter Customization👍 15,523
-70%$2.39Necrosmith 2
Mar 27 · Alawar
Both: Real-Time
Like a dead man reanimated by dark sorcery, the necromancer simulator is back! Give the undead the ability to fly over mountains and swim across rivers, explore a fully generated world at night and fend off enemy hordes during the day. Start a new, uhm, life.
Tower DefenseStrategyRogueliteReal-TimeBullet HellManagementSimulationTop-DownActionExploration👍 1,316
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$11.99Survivalist: Invisible Strain
Apr 25 · Bob
Both: RTS · Base Building
It's ten years since the infection started. Long-established settlements are collapsing, one by one, for unknown reasons. Survivors are running to the hills to escape, hoping for safety in remote places. As another refugee, you're here to carve out a new life for yourself - by any means necessary.
Dialogue HeavyOpen World Survival CraftColony SimRPGRTSPost-apocalypticBase BuildingThird PersonActionCharacter Customization👍 4,016
-50%$24.99Dune: Awakening
Jun 10 · Funcom
Both: Base Building
Dune: Awakening is a single- and multiplayer Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story as you rise from survival to greatness on the most legendary planet in the universe. Just remember: the sandworm always comes.
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalMultiplayerOpen WorldBase BuildingRPGAdventurePvPExplorationPvE👍 67,053
$59.99Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
Sep 9 · Saber Interactive
Both: Sci-fi
Embody the superhuman skill and brutality of a Space Marine. Unleash deadly abilities and devastating weaponry to obliterate the relentless Tyranid swarms. Defend the Imperium in spectacular third-person action in solo or multiplayer modes.
Co-opActionMultiplayerThird-Person ShooterPvEAdventureThird PersonAction-AdventureSci-fiSingleplayer👍 168,817
$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
$29.99Cataclismo
Mar 20 · Digital Sun
Both: Base Building
Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.
StrategySimulationCity BuilderBase BuildingGrand StrategyManagementBuildingHistoricalEconomyColony Sim👍 3,897
-60%$15.99ZEPHON
Nov 8 · Proxy Studios
Both: Sci-fi
From the developers of Warhammer 40,000: Gladius, ZEPHON is a post-apocalyptic 4X strategy game built on Proxy’s unique tactical combat system. Guide survivors through a turbulent future, navigating unexpected disasters, eldritch horror and cyberpunk monstrosities. What will you do to survive?
StrategyTurn-Based4XTacticalMultiplayerLovecraftianSandboxCo-opSci-fiProcedural Generation👍 1,841
$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
$29.99Empires of the Undergrowth
Jun 7 · Slug Disco
Both: Base Building
Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.
StrategySimulationBase BuildingCity BuilderManagementGrand StrategyColony SimSandboxBuildingHistorical👍 17,498
$19.99The Front
Oct 30 · Samar Studio
Both: Base Building
The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.
Open World Survival CraftMultiplayerSurvivalCraftingBase BuildingBuildingOpen WorldTower DefenseSandboxShooter👍 9,553
$19.99Core Keeper
Aug 27 · Pugstorm
Both: Base Building
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Open WorldSurvivalExplorationPixel GraphicsMultiplayerSandboxCraftingBuildingCo-opBase Building👍 50,086
$39.99Empire of the Ants
Nov 6 · Tower Five
Both: RTS
Conquer enemy nests and lead your colony through the perils of the forest in this groundbreaking RTS. Empire of the Ants is a photorealistic, third-person real-time strategy game where you command your insect legions in epic battles.
WargameReal Time TacticsSandboxPvEPvPRTSGrand StrategyStrategyThird Person3D👍 931
$9.99Age of History 3
Oct 23 · Łukasz Jakowski
Both: RTS
Grand strategy wargame where the destiny of Civilizations rests in your hands - will they stand united under your leadership or fall divided in conflict? Journey through the entire saga of human civilization, from its earliest days to the futuristic era, crafting your legacy age by age.
WargameStrategyGrand StrategyRTSAlternate HistoryDiplomacyWorld War IEconomyWorld War IIEducation👍 18,110
$29.99Soulmask
Apr 9 · CampFire Studio
Both: Base Building
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
SurvivalBase BuildingOpen WorldCraftingPvEPvPHuntingSandboxAdventureSingleplayer👍 18,451
$14.99Territory: Farming and Warfare
Feb 4 · Wit Studio
Both: Base Building
From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.
SingleplayerSimulationBase BuildingCity BuilderStrategySandboxAutomationPixel GraphicsResource ManagementBuilding👍 738
$24.99Cubic Odyssey
May 14 · Atypical Games
Both: Base Building · Sci-fi
Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!
Open World Survival CraftRPGAction-AdventureBase BuildingCo-opSandboxSci-fiBuildingExplorationFirst-Person👍 2,407
$29.99Starship Troopers: Extermination
Oct 10 · Offworld
Both: Sci-fi
Starship Troopers: Extermination is an up to 16-player co-op FPS that puts you on the far-off frontlines of an all-out battle against the Bugs! Squad up, grab your rifle, and do your part as an elite Deep Space Vanguard Trooper to take back planets from the Arachnid threat!
Online Co-OpActionFPSSci-fiFirst-PersonCo-opMultiplayerCombatAliensPvE👍 29,725
$23.99ShapeHero Factory
Sep 17 · Asobism.Co.,Ltd
Both: Base Building
In ShapeHero Factory, you’re the engineer of an ever-evolving paint-fuelled factory that spits out magical, shape-based warriors. Send them into battle - to death or glory - then build an even better factory on your next run.
AutomationBase BuildingTower DefenseRogueliteResource Management2.5DCuteStrategyBuildingSimulation👍 991
$14.99Dwelvers
Dec 19 · Rasmus Ljunggren
Both: Base Building
Dwelvers is a unique real-time strategy Dungeon Keeper-like with resource management, logistics, battles, magic spells, trading, crimes against humanity, labyrinths, and so much more. Are you able to eradicate the pesky humans once and for all? Of course you are. The Dark Mother wills it.
Base BuildingVillain ProtagonistUndergroundManagementSandboxDarkFantasyMagicTop-DownBuilding👍 237
$17.99Microcivilization
Jan 22 · Ondrej Homola
Both: Base Building
Incremental clicker strategy, where you expand, construct, research, fight, collect heroes and make choices between good and evil. Ascend through difficulty tiers by playing through challenge campaign going back and forth through history. Mammoths included.
IncrementalBase BuildingResource Management4XHistoricalStrategyAutomationInventory ManagementCity BuilderGod Game👍 1,437
$19.99Touch Type Tale - Strategic Typing
Nov 4 · Pumpernickel Studio
Both: Real-Time · Base Building
Touch Type Tale is the strategy game you control by typing! Join a brave new era of strategy — tactical typing. Use a satisfying mesh of mechanics across a range of surprising challenges, with storybook campaigning and online play. You are Paul. (Hi there.) And the keyboard to the kingdom is yours.
Language LearningTypingReal-TimeStrategyMedievalWholesomeRhythmMultiplayerVisual NovelBase Building👍 107
$19.99Primitive Society Simulator
Feb 26 · YSH BigDove
Both: Base Building
A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.
City BuilderColony SimBase BuildingSandboxAgricultureBuildingWargameDiplomacyManagementHistorical👍 647
$19.99RailGods of Hysterra
May 7 · Troglobytes Games
Both: Base Building
Embark on a co-op survival journey for 1-5 players through a post-apocalyptic Lovecraftian world! Command and evolve a living, monstrous train, craft weapons, build a mobile base, gain powers, and face the Great Old Ones. Explore an ever-changing world, hold on to your sanity, and ascend to godhood!
Early AccessSurvivalBase BuildingLovecraftianCraftingMultiplayerExplorationOnline Co-OpPvEBuilding👍 290
-50%$19.99Terra Invicta
Jan 5 · Pavonis Interactive
Both: War
An alien invasion has fractured humanity into seven ideological factions each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen faction to take control of Earth’s nations, expand across the Solar System, and battle enemy fleets in tactical combat.
StrategyGrand StrategySimulation4XEconomyWarHistoricalTurn-Based StrategyTacticalManagement👍 9,064
$29.99Nova Roma
Mar 26 · Lion Shield
Both: Base Building
The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
StrategySimulationCity BuilderBase BuildingGrand StrategyHistoricalManagementBuildingSandboxEconomy👍 2,093


