>> best RTS games on steam the full ranking
These are the best RTS games on Steam, as voted by our community.
Nobody wrote a review to land on this list. Players duelled RTS games out of their own libraries against each other, and a game's percentage is the share of a typical library it beats — so the top of this ranking is what RTS fans genuinely keep coming back to.
#1
Anno 1800
beats 75%
percentile across every personal ranking, weighed by the crowd behind it
| rk | art | game | score | players | beats |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02 |
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Crusader Kings III | 114 players | beats 74% | |
| 03 |
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Anno 117: Pax Romana | 10 players | beats 77% | |
| 04 |
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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Definitive Edition | 16 players | beats 75% | |
| 05 |
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Total War: WARHAMMER III | 81 players | beats 73% | |
| 06 |
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Anno 2205™ | 10 players | beats 75% | |
| 07 |
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Age of Mythology: Retold | 18 players | beats 72% | |
| 08 |
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Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition | 43 players | beats 71% | |
| 09 |
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Command & Conquer Red Alert™ 2 and Yuri’s Revenge™ | 11 players | beats 73% | |
| 10 |
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Mechabellum | 7 players | beats 75% | |
| 11 |
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Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront | 10 players | beats 73% | |
| 12 |
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Warhammer® 40,000: Dawn of War® - Dark Crusade | 27 players | beats 70% | |
| 13 |
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Rise of Nations: Extended Edition | 23 players | beats 70% | |
| 14 |
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Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure | 16 players | beats 71% | |
| 15 |
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Sea Power : Naval Combat in the Missile Age | 3 players | beats 80% | |
| 16 |
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Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition | 5 players | beats 75% | |
| 17 |
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Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars™ | 14 players | beats 70% | |
| 18 |
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The King is Watching | 23 players | beats 69% | |
| 19 |
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Total War: WARHAMMER II | 60 players | beats 68% | |
| 20 |
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Tempest Rising | 6 players | beats 73% | |
| 21 |
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Creeper World 4 | 4 players | beats 75% | |
| 22 |
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Command & Conquer™ 3: Kane’s Wrath | 11 players | beats 70% | |
| 23 |
|
Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor | 6 players | beats 72% | |
| 24 |
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Total Annihilation | 3 players | beats 76% | |
| 25 |
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SpellForce 3 Soul Harvest | 3 players | beats 75% | |
| 26 |
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Medieval: Total War™ - Collection | 3 players | beats 75% | |
| 27 |
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Ancestors Legacy Free Peasant Edition | 3 players | beats 75% | |
| 28 |
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Command & Conquer™ Remastered Collection | 14 players | beats 67% | |
| 29 |
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Creeper World: Anniversary Edition | 4 players | beats 72% | |
| 30 |
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Galcon 2: Galactic Conquest | 3 players | beats 74% | |
| 31 |
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Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition | 95 players | beats 65% | |
| 32 |
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Impossible Creatures Steam Edition | 3 players | beats 73% | |
| 33 |
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Survivalist: Invisible Strain | 3 players | beats 72% | |
| 34 |
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They Are Billions | 19 players | beats 64% | |
| 35 |
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Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition | 45 players | beats 63% | |
| 36 |
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Total War: ROME REMASTERED | 10 players | beats 64% | |
| 37 |
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Total War: THREE KINGDOMS | 25 players | beats 63% | |
| 38 |
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STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack | 42 players | beats 62% | |
| 39 |
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Tabletop Tavern | 3 players | beats 69% | |
| 40 |
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Overlord™ | 30 players | beats 62% | |
| 41 |
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Carrier Command 2 | 7 players | beats 64% | |
| 42 |
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Infection Free Zone | 16 players | beats 62% | |
| 43 |
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Rusted Warfare - RTS | 10 players | beats 62% | |
| 44 |
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Ancestors Legacy | 10 players | beats 62% | |
| 45 |
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The Wandering Village | 21 players | beats 61% | |
| 46 |
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Creeper World 2: Anniversary Edition | 4 players | beats 64% | |
| 47 |
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Element TD 2 - Tower Defense | 4 players | beats 64% | |
| 48 |
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The Riftbreaker | 25 players | beats 60% | |
| 49 |
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EverSiege: Untold Ages | 4 players | beats 64% | |
| 50 |
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Going Medieval | 20 players | beats 59% | |
| 51 |
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Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal | 10 players | beats 60% | |
| 52 |
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SpellForce 2 - Demons of the Past | 3 players | beats 64% | |
| 53 |
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Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess | 4 players | beats 59% | |
| 54 |
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AI War 2 | 4 players | beats 59% | |
| 55 |
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Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts | 8 players | beats 57% | |
| 56 |
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Halo Wars: Definitive Edition | 18 players | beats 56% | |
| 57 |
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GemCraft - Frostborn Wrath | 8 players | beats 56% | |
| 58 |
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Supreme Commander 2 | 11 players | beats 55% | |
| 59 |
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Mindustry | 45 players | beats 55% | |
| 60 |
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Commandos 2: Men of Courage | 12 players | beats 55% | |
| 61 |
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Becastled | 3 players | beats 57% | |
| 62 |
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Dungeons | 6 players | beats 55% | |
| 63 |
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Homeworld Remastered Collection | 25 players | beats 54% | |
| 64 |
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Bad North: Jotunn Edition | 23 players | beats 54% | |
| 65 |
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SpellForce 3 Reforced | 6 players | beats 54% | |
| 66 |
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Total War: WARHAMMER | 49 players | beats 53% | |
| 67 |
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Stronghold HD (2012) | 26 players | beats 53% | |
| 68 |
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Bee Island | 3 players | beats 54% | |
| 69 |
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Hearts of Iron IV | 158 players | beats 53% | |
| 70 |
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Shadow Tactics: Aiko's Choice | 9 players | beats 53% | |
| 71 |
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Rome: Total War™ - Collection | 20 players | beats 52% | |
| 72 |
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R.U.S.E.™ | 6 players | beats 53% | |
| 73 |
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Outworld Station | 4 players | beats 53% | |
| 74 |
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Age of Empires II (Retired) | 97 players | beats 52% | |
| 75 |
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Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition | 45 players | beats 52% | |
| 76 |
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Northgard: Definitive Edition | 58 players | beats 52% | |
| 77 |
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Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance | 12 players | beats 52% | |
| 78 |
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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II: Retribution | 28 players | beats 52% | |
| 79 |
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NEBULOUS: Fleet Command | 5 players | beats 53% | |
| 80 |
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Battle Realms: Zen Edition | 3 players | beats 53% | |
| 81 |
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Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition | 39 players | beats 52% | |
| 82 |
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Warhammer® 40,000: Dawn of War® - Soulstorm | 35 players | beats 52% | |
| 83 |
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A Total War Saga: TROY | 6 players | beats 52% | |
| 84 |
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Desynced | 6 players | beats 52% | |
| 85 |
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Anno 2070™ | 15 players | beats 52% | |
| 86 |
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Zero-K | 3 players | beats 52% | |
| 87 |
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Company of Heroes 3 | 10 players | beats 52% | |
| 88 |
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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Anniversary Edition (Classic) | 51 players | beats 51% | |
| 89 |
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Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun | 60 players | beats 51% | |
| 90 |
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From Glory To Goo | 3 players | beats 52% | |
| 91 |
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Total War: ATTILA | 26 players | beats 51% | |
| 92 |
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Summoners War | 11 players | beats 51% | |
| 93 |
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Total War: PHARAOH | 7 players | beats 51% | |
| 94 |
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STAR WARS™ Galactic Battlegrounds Saga | 10 players | beats 51% | |
| 95 |
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Victoria II | 30 players | beats 51% | |
| 96 |
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Steel Division: Normandy 44 | 4 players | beats 51% | |
| 97 |
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Broken Arrow | 3 players | beats 51% | |
| 98 |
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Company of Heroes | 55 players | beats 50% | |
| 99 |
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Strife® | 14 players | beats 51% | |
| 100 |
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Gladiator Guild Manager | 11 players | beats 51% | |
| 101 |
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Warhammer® 40,000: Dawn of War® II Chaos Rising | 18 players | beats 50% | |
| 102 |
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Iron Harvest | 17 players | beats 50% | |
| 103 |
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Nordhold | 6 players | beats 50% | |
| 104 |
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Aliens: Dark Descent | 18 players | beats 50% | |
| 105 |
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Command & Conquer™ Tiberian Sun™ and Firestorm™ | 6 players | beats 50% | |
| 106 |
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Command & Conquer™ Generals | 8 players | beats 50% | |
| 107 |
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Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak | 11 players | beats 50% | |
| 108 |
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Sudden Strike 4 | 5 players | beats 50% | |
| 109 |
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Warstone TD | 5 players | beats 50% | |
| 110 |
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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Anniversary Edition (Classic) | 44 players | beats 50% | |
| 111 |
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Kingdoms and Castles | 40 players | beats 50% | |
| 112 |
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Age of Empires® III (2007) | 37 players | beats 50% | |
| 113 |
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Warhammer® 40,000: Dawn of War® – Winter Assault | 22 players | beats 50% | |
| 114 |
|
Call to Arms | 13 players | beats 50% | |
| 115 |
|
Warpips | 9 players | beats 50% | |
| 116 |
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Farthest Frontier | 9 players | beats 50% | |
| 117 |
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Circle Empires | 9 players | beats 50% | |
| 118 |
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Stronghold: Definitive Edition | 8 players | beats 50% | |
| 119 |
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Pioneers of Pagonia | 5 players | beats 50% | |
| 120 |
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Worbital | 3 players | beats 50% | |
| 121 |
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A Total War Saga: THRONES OF BRITANNIA | 8 players | beats 50% | |
| 122 |
|
Breach & Clear: Deadline Rebirth (2016) | 3 players | beats 50% | |
| 123 |
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Command & Conquer Red Alert™, Counterstrike™ and The Aftermath™ | 7 players | beats 50% | |
| 124 |
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Command & Conquer™ Generals Zero Hour | 7 players | beats 50% | |
| 125 |
|
Lazy Galaxy | 3 players | beats 50% | |
| 126 |
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Command & Conquer™ Red Alert™ 3 | 19 players | beats 50% | |
| 127 |
|
Total War: SHOGUN 2 | 106 players | beats 50% | |
| 128 |
|
Dune: Spice Wars | 13 players | beats 50% | |
| 129 |
|
8-Bit Armies | 3 players | beats 50% | |
| 130 |
|
Last Train Home | 5 players | beats 50% | |
| 131 |
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Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition | 46 players | beats 50% | |
| 132 |
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Brutal Legend | 89 players | beats 50% | |
| 133 |
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Tropico 5 | 23 players | beats 50% | |
| 134 |
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Defense Grid: The Awakening | 13 players | beats 50% | |
| 135 |
|
War, the Game | 3 players | beats 49% | |
| 136 |
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Age of Mythology: Extended Edition | 38 players | beats 49% | |
| 137 |
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Stronghold Crusader HD (2012) | 46 players | beats 49% | |
| 138 |
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Evil Genius 2: World Domination | 17 players | beats 49% | |
| 139 |
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Startopia | 4 players | beats 49% | |
| 140 |
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Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive | 6 players | beats 48% | |
| 141 |
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Grey Goo | 10 players | beats 48% | |
| 142 |
|
Company of Heroes 2 | 152 players | beats 48% | |
| 143 |
|
Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty | 3 players | beats 47% | |
| 144 |
|
Evil Genius | 10 players | beats 47% | |
| 145 |
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Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 | 10 players | beats 47% | |
| 146 |
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Door Kickers | 25 players | beats 47% | |
| 147 |
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Boid | 5 players | beats 45% | |
| 148 |
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Riichi City - Japanese Mahjong | 9 players | beats 45% | |
| 149 |
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Age of Empires: Definitive Edition | 18 players | beats 45% | |
| 150 |
|
WARNO | 6 players | beats 44% | |
| 151 |
|
Dummynation | 4 players | beats 43% | |
| 152 |
|
Cossacks 3 | 4 players | beats 43% | |
| 153 |
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Diplomacy is Not an Option | 22 players | beats 45% | |
| 154 |
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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III | 16 players | beats 44% | |
| 155 |
|
Cartel Tycoon | 8 players | beats 43% | |
| 156 |
|
Airline Manager | 4 players | beats 41% | |
| 157 |
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Folk Tale | 3 players | beats 36% | |
| 158 |
|
Commandos 3: Destination Berlin | 6 players | beats 39% | |
| 159 |
|
Starship Troopers: Terran Command | 4 players | beats 37% | |
| 160 |
|
Wargame: European Escalation | 4 players | beats 37% | |
| 161 |
|
Majesty 2 Collection | 6 players | beats 38% | |
| 162 |
|
Cultures - Northland | 5 players | beats 37% | |
| 163 |
|
EMERGENCY | 7 players | beats 38% | |
| 164 |
|
War of Dots | 28 players | beats 40% | |
| 165 |
|
SpellForce - Platinum Edition | 4 players | beats 35% | |
| 166 |
|
Zombie Defense | 4 players | beats 35% | |
| 167 |
|
We Are The Dwarves | 11 players | beats 38% | |
| 168 |
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Tooth and Tail | 19 players | beats 39% | |
| 169 |
|
Darwinia | 13 players | beats 38% | |
| 170 |
|
Savage Resurrection | 4 players | beats 34% | |
| 171 |
|
Radio Commander: Vietnam '64 | 11 players | beats 37% | |
| 172 |
|
Sins of a Solar Empire II | 3 players | beats 32% | |
| 173 |
|
Age of Darkness: Final Stand | 6 players | beats 35% | |
| 174 |
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Tower Dominion | 4 players | beats 33% | |
| 175 |
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Wargame: Red Dragon | 10 players | beats 36% | |
| 176 |
|
Age of History 3 | 11 players | beats 36% | |
| 177 |
|
Command & Conquer™ and The Covert Operations™ | 4 players | beats 33% | |
| 178 |
|
Ultimate General: Gettysburg | 4 players | beats 32% | |
| 179 |
|
Oil Rush | 3 players | beats 28% | |
| 180 |
|
Men of War: Assault Squad | 7 players | beats 33% | |
| 181 |
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Stronghold Crusader 2 | 25 players | beats 35% | |
| 182 |
|
Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition | 38 players | beats 36% | |
| 183 |
|
Tower Factory | 3 players | beats 27% | |
| 184 |
|
Defend Your Life: TD | 8 players | beats 33% | |
| 185 |
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Stronghold 3 Gold | 4 players | beats 28% | |
| 186 |
|
The Mims Beginning | 3 players | beats 25% | |
| 187 |
|
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation | 19 players | beats 34% | |
| 188 |
|
Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game | 3 players | beats 25% | |
| 189 |
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SpellForce 2 - Anniversary Edition | 3 players | beats 25% | |
| 190 |
|
Reprisal Universe | 3 players | beats 25% | |
| 191 |
|
EMERGENCY 20 | 3 players | beats 25% | |
| 192 |
|
Mushroom Wars | 3 players | beats 25% | |
| 193 |
|
Screeps: World | 4 players | beats 27% | |
| 194 |
|
Cepheus Protocol | 3 players | beats 25% | |
| 195 |
|
My Lands: Black Gem Hunting | 3 players | beats 25% | |
| 196 |
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Blitzkrieg Anthology | 3 players | beats 25% | |
| 197 |
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SpellForce 3 Versus Edition | 3 players | beats 25% | |
| 198 |
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Battlefleet Gothic: Armada (Classic) | 9 players | beats 31% | |
| 199 |
|
Istrolid | 12 players | beats 32% | |
| 200 |
|
Company of Heroes - Legacy Edition | 12 players | beats 32% | |
| 201 |
|
Steel Division 2 | 6 players | beats 29% | |
| 202 |
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Haegemonia: Legions of Iron | 3 players | beats 24% | |
| 203 |
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Supremacy: Call of War 1942 | 15 players | beats 32% | |
| 204 |
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Border Pioneer | 3 players | beats 24% | |
| 205 |
|
Revenge of the Titans | 14 players | beats 32% | |
| 206 |
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Empires Apart | 7 players | beats 29% | |
| 207 |
|
There Came an Echo | 4 players | beats 26% | |
| 208 |
|
Minecraft Legends | 3 players | beats 23% | |
| 209 |
|
Battle Nations | 3 players | beats 23% | |
| 210 |
|
Kingdom Wars | 4 players | beats 25% | |
| 211 |
|
SPACECOM | 8 players | beats 29% | |
| 212 |
|
Swords and Soldiers HD | 13 players | beats 31% | |
| 213 |
|
SHOGUN: Total War™ - Collection | 4 players | beats 25% | |
| 214 |
|
Imagine Earth | 3 players | beats 22% | |
| 215 |
|
AirMech | 32 players | beats 32% | |
| 216 |
|
Europa Universalis III Complete | 11 players | beats 30% | |
| 217 |
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Infested Planet | 11 players | beats 30% | |
| 218 |
|
Eufloria HD | 4 players | beats 25% | |
| 219 |
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Men of War: Assault Squad 2 | 21 players | beats 31% | |
| 220 |
|
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising | 15 players | beats 30% | |
| 221 |
|
Battlestations Pacific | 4 players | beats 24% | |
| 222 |
|
Battlestations: Midway | 4 players | beats 24% | |
| 223 |
|
John Wick Hex | 8 players | beats 27% | |
| 224 |
|
Divinity: Dragon Commander | 13 players | beats 29% | |
| 225 |
|
World War III: Black Gold | 5 players | beats 25% | |
| 226 |
|
Command & Conquer™ 4 Tiberian Twilight | 5 players | beats 25% | |
| 227 |
|
Men of War™ | 6 players | beats 26% | |
| 228 |
|
DEFCON | 26 players | beats 30% | |
| 229 |
|
Dungeons 3 | 24 players | beats 30% | |
| 230 |
|
Dota 2 | 236 players | beats 32% | |
| 231 |
|
Atom Zombie Smasher | 14 players | beats 29% | |
| 232 |
|
Particle Fleet: Emergence | 6 players | beats 25% | |
| 233 |
|
Dungeons 2 | 37 players | beats 30% | |
| 234 |
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KnightShift | 18 players | beats 29% | |
| 235 |
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Knights of Honor II: Sovereign | 6 players | beats 25% | |
| 236 |
|
Jagged Alliance - Back in Action | 6 players | beats 25% | |
| 237 |
|
Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin | 6 players | beats 25% | |
| 238 |
|
Rome: Total War™ - Alexander | 6 players | beats 25% | |
| 239 |
|
Command & Conquer Renegade™ | 6 players | beats 24% | |
| 240 |
|
Dawn of Man | 7 players | beats 25% | |
| 241 |
|
Earth 2150 Trilogy | 7 players | beats 25% | |
| 242 |
|
Tropico 4 | 57 players | beats 30% | |
| 243 |
|
112 Operator | 33 players | beats 29% | |
| 244 |
|
Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines | 7 players | beats 25% | |
| 245 |
|
Lambda Wars | 6 players | beats 24% | |
| 246 |
|
Supreme Commander | 7 players | beats 25% | |
| 247 |
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Earth 2160 | 8 players | beats 25% | |
| 248 |
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Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising | 8 players | beats 25% | |
| 249 |
|
Basement | 10 players | beats 26% | |
| 250 |
|
Survivalist | 8 players | beats 25% | |
| 251 |
|
Battle Simulator: Counter Stickman | 9 players | beats 25% | |
| 252 |
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Castle Story | 12 players | beats 26% | |
| 253 |
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Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator 2 | 9 players | beats 25% | |
| 254 |
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Cultures - 8th Wonder of the World | 5 players | beats 21% | |
| 255 |
|
Planets Under Attack | 11 players | beats 25% | |
| 256 |
|
Nebuchadnezzar | 8 players | beats 24% | |
| 257 |
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Perimeter | 4 players | beats 18% | |
| 258 |
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World War II: Panzer Claws | 9 players | beats 24% | |
| 259 |
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SUPREMACY: WORLD WAR 3 | 12 players | beats 25% | |
| 260 |
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Hearts of Iron III | 11 players | beats 25% | |
| 261 |
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Art of War: Red Tides | 3 players | beats 14% | |
| 262 |
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Knights and Merchants | 17 players | beats 26% | |
| 263 |
|
AI War: Fleet Command | 15 players | beats 25% | |
| 264 |
|
PUBG: BLINDSPOT | 6 players | beats 21% | |
| 265 |
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War for the Overworld | 13 players | beats 25% | |
| 266 |
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Gratuitous Space Battles | 12 players | beats 24% | |
| 267 |
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Stronghold Kingdoms | 13 players | beats 25% | |
| 268 |
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Nuclear Dawn | 13 players | beats 25% | |
| 269 |
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Stronghold 2: Steam Edition | 13 players | beats 25% | |
| 270 |
|
Anomaly Korea | 15 players | beats 25% | |
| 271 |
|
Star Wolves 3: Civil War | 3 players | beats 13% | |
| 272 |
|
Bio Inc. Redemption | 16 players | beats 25% | |
| 273 |
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Driftland: The Magic Revival | 14 players | beats 25% | |
| 274 |
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Distant Worlds 2 | 3 players | beats 13% | |
| 275 |
|
Z | 3 players | beats 13% | |
| 276 |
|
Total War: PHARAOH DYNASTIES | 17 players | beats 25% | |
| 277 |
|
Anomaly 2 | 18 players | beats 25% | |
| 278 |
|
Planetary Annihilation: TITANS | 18 players | beats 25% | |
| 279 |
|
Dwarfs - F2P | 6 players | beats 20% | |
| 280 |
|
Anomaly: Warzone Earth | 36 players | beats 25% | |
| 281 |
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Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion | 57 players | beats 25% | |
| 282 |
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From the Depths | 15 players | beats 23% | |
| 283 |
|
Natural Selection 2 | 39 players | beats 24% | |
| 284 |
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Multiwinia | 12 players | beats 21% | |
| 285 |
|
The Red Solstice | 24 players | beats 23% | |
| 286 |
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War Selection | 20 players | beats 22% | |
| 287 |
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Stronghold Legends: Steam Edition | 7 players | beats 18% | |
| 288 |
|
Stormgate | 12 players | beats 21% | |
| 289 |
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Urban Rivals | 3 players | beats 8% | |
| 290 |
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GUNS UP! | 10 players | beats 17% | |
| 291 |
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Flesh Eaters | 6 players | beats 13% |
