The most popular real-time tactics games
Real-time tactics games are an hybrid between real-time strategy (RTS) and turn-base tactics. Real-time tactics are played in real-time, like RTSs, but lack the resource management and base and unit building elements. Real-time tactics games focus much more on individual units and tactics on the battlefield. Some of the most popular real-time tactics games are: the Syndicate series, Cannon Fodder.
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Hooligans: Storm Over Europe
Windows XP/98/952002 DarXabre
Army Men
Windows XP/98/951998 The 3DO Company
Army Men lets you live out your childhood fantasy of plastic soldier warfare without the hassle of crawling under the couch. You control Sarge, a green-tinted war machine with a stiff upper lip and an affinity for melting tan enem...
Cossacks: European Wars
Windows XP/98/952000protected GSC Game World
Cossacks: European Wars is a real-time strategy game developed by GSC Game World and released in 2001. The game is set in the 17th and 18th centuries, a period marked by significant military, political, and social changes in ...
Space Hulk
DOS1993 Electronic Arts
Space Hulk is an abandoned real-time tactical strategy game set in the Warhammer 40000 universe, developed and released by Electronic Arts in 1993 for DOS and Amiga systems. In Space Hulk, the player is tasked with wiping ou...
Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines
Windows XP/98/951998protected Pyro Studios
Fields of Glory
DOS1993protected MicroProse Software
Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty
Windows XP/98/951999protected Pyro Studios
BattleTech: The Crescent Hawks' Revenge
DOS1990 Westwood Studios
BattleTech: The Crescent Hawks' Revenge is a turn-based strategy game developed by Westwood Associates and published by Infocom in 1990. It is the sequel to "Crescent Hawk's Inception" and is set in the BattleTech universe, a...
Myth: The Fallen Lords
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1997 Bungie
Dark Reign: The Future of War
Windows XP/98/951997protected Auran Games
Ground Control
Windows XP/98/952000protected Massive Entertainment
Ground Control is a strategy game developed by Massive Entertainment and released by Sierra On-Line in 2000. More precisely Ground Control is a real time tactical game with a sci-fi setting.
Army Men 2
Windows XP/98/951998protected The 3DO Company
Army Men 2 doubles down on everything from the first game - more weapons, more plastic carnage, more trips to “The Real World” where you fight in bathtubs and backyards. It’s like Toy Story if Buzz Lightyear carr...
Syndicate Wars
DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1996protected Bullfrog
Syndicate Wars is the sequel to the much acclaimed Syndicate developed by Bullfrog in its golden years. Like its predecessor, Syndicate Wars is a real-time tactics strategy game set in a cyberpunk dystopian world involving excessi...
Battle Bugs
DOS1994 Epyx
What if ants could use bazookas and beetles had battle plans? Battle Bugs answers this crucial question by turning your screen into a war zone where tiny insects wage strategic warfare over leftovers. The stakes are high and the t...
Unnatural Selection
DOS1993 Maxis
Seal Team
DOS1993 Electronic Arts
War in Middle Earth
DOS1989 Synergistic Software
War in Middle-earth is a real-time strategy game developed by Synergistic Software and published by Melbourne House. It was released in 1988 for various platforms including the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, and Amstrad CPC.The game i...
Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel
Windows XP/98/952001protecteddemo Interplay Productions
Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel is a tactical role-playing game published by Interplay Entertainment in 2001. Unlike its predecessors, which were traditional RPGs with turn-based combat, Fallout Tactics took a different appr...
Ultimate Domain
DOS1994 Microids
Ambush at Sorinor
DOS1993 Mindcraft Software
In Ambush at Sorinor, tactics meet fantasy in a land where ambushing people is apparently the national sport. You’re a mercenary commander picking the right team to win missions and not get horribly skewered. Battles play ou...
Rules of Engagement
DOS1991 Omnitrend Software
Cannon Fodder
DOS1994protected Sensible Software
War never changes—but it does get oddly cute in Cannon Fodder. Guide your tiny commandos through missions filled with explosions, carnage, and dark humor. The game mixes arcade action with light strategy, and the body count ...
Black Moon Chronicles
DOS1999protected Cryo Interactive Entertainment
Based on a French comic series, Black Moon Chronicles (1999) is what you'd get if a fantasy novel and a real-time strategy game had a slightly awkward baby. The art is dark, the tone is darker, and the gameplay is surprisingly com...
Twilight 2000
DOS1991 Paragon Software
Power Dolls
DOS1994 Kogado Software Products
Master of Orion 3
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2003protected Quicksilver Software
Fleet Command
DOS1999protected Sonalysts
Dominus
DOS1994 Viacom New Media
Core War Plus
DOS1984
Syndicate
DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1993protecteddemo Bullfrog
Syndicate is a cyberpunk-themed tactical action game developed by Bullfrog Productions and published by Electronic Arts in 1993. The game is set in a dystopian future where corporations, called syndicates, have replaced government...
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