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Statuses
Best Games in the In real time genre for PC
Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric, Post-apocalyptic, Medieval era, City Building, Survival
Early Access: PC → 1 June 2021; Game released: PC → 17 March 2026
Players:
8.5/10
Steam:
88/100
Metacritic:
76/100
A simulator of building and managing a medieval settlement, unfolding after a devastating plague that left only a small part of the population alive. A small group...
Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Adventure, Horror, In real time, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Indie
Game released: PC → 18 August 2006
Players:
9.9/10
Mor. Utopia is a role-playing action game with a first-person view. The game offers a choice of three protagonists: the Bachelor, the Haruspex, and the Impostor...
Action, Adventure, Horror, In real time, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Detective, Walking Simulator, Exploration
Game released: PC → 25 September 2014
Players:
6.8/10
Steam:
86/100
Metacritic:
80/100
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is an atmospheric adventure with a first-person view and horror elements. You take control of a detective searching for a missing boy...
Action, Shooter, Adventure, Horror, In real time, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Survival, Open world, Role-playing game, Detective
Game released: PC → 28 May 2019
Players:
8.8/10
Steam:
92/100
Metacritic:
70/100
A remake of a thriller set in an open world, released in 2005. Three very different doctors try to save an unusual steppe town from an epidemic of a deadly disease...
Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric, Post-apocalyptic, Tactics, Steampunk, Zombies, Survival
Game released: PC → 18 June 2019
Players:
8.7/10
Steam:
80/100
Metacritic:
74/100
They Are Billions is a hardcore real-time tactical strategy game in steampunk style. The game takes place in a harsh post-apocalyptic world, where an infection has...
Strategy, Grand strategy, Construction, In real time, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Fantasy, Simulation, City Building
Early Access: PC → 22 July 2024; Game released: PC → 20 March 2025
Players:
8/10
Steam:
89/100
Metacritic:
82/100
A base-building strategy game in which the player constructs fortresses to face countless waves of enemies. The game has several modes such as a story campaign...
Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Construction
Game released: PC → 26 September 2019
Players:
9.4/10
Steam:
94/100
Mindustry is a fun real-time strategy game with elements of the tower defense genre and a top-down view. In the game, you have to create complex conveyor chains to...
Business / Management, Strategy, God Simulator, Third-person view, In real time, Casual game, Simulation
Game released: PC → 8 September 2020
Steam:
48/100
Metacritic:
70/100
The Sims 4: Star Wars — Journey to Batuu is an add-on to the real-time management simulation game The Sims 4, in which you can create your own story in the...
Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Tactics, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Casual game
Game released: PC → 18 October 2018
Players:
7.7/10
Steam:
94/100
Kingdom Rush Origins is a great continuation of the tower defense game with beautiful hand-drawn graphics, which tells the story of the war of one kingdom with...
Role-playing game, Action, In real time, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, The Lord of the Rings, Cooperative (co-op)
Game released: PC → 1 November 2011
Players:
8.5/10
Steam:
83/100
Metacritic:
63/100
The Lord of the Rings: War in the North is an exciting action role-playing game with a third-person view in the fantasy universe of The Lord of the Rings. The game...
Strategy, Warships / Submarines, In real time, Third-person view, Historical, Turn-based, Grand strategy
Game released: PC → 25 February 2010
Players:
8.3/10
Steam:
91/100
A continuation of the Total War series of global historical strategies, it transports you to the most turbulent era in Europe, when one man changed the course of...
Action, Strategy, Fighting, Warships / Submarines, In real time, Third-person view, Isometric, Sports game, Open world, Role-playing game, Adventure
Game released: PC → 10 October 2008
Players:
9.4/10
Steam:
94/100
An adventurous pirate game that combines elements of strategy, role-playing, and sea travel simulation. In the age of great discoveries, the player becomes the...
Isometric, Strategy, Construction, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), In real time, Indie, City Building
Early Access: PC → 2 August 2023; Game released: PC → 11 October 2024
Players:
7.6/10
Steam:
95/100
A game with minimalistic graphics, in which the gamer builds the defense of a settlement during the day and defends against enemy attacks at night. It is important...
Online, Strategy, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Free game, Top-down view, Tactics, In real time, Indie
Game released: PC → 30 November 2021
Steam:
83/100
Bloons TD Battles 2 is a continuation of the shareware arcade puzzle game with strategy elements in the tower defense genre. In the game, you will engage in a...
Strategy, Isometric, In real time, Simulation, City Building, Sandbox, Historical, Fantasy, Construction
Early Access: PC → 1 November 2022; Game released: PC → 8 December 2023
Players:
8/10
Steam:
95/100
Metacritic:
91/100
A city-planning simulator in a dark fantasy world in which you need to restore civilization and save it from deadly rains. Players take on the role of the Scorched...
Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Survival, Roguelike
Game released: PC → 16 November 2018
Players:
8.7/10
Steam:
94/100
Metacritic:
73/100
Bad North is a minimalist real-time strategy game with tower defense elements and an isometric camera view. You have to defend your island against the impending...