Get ready for an epic year in strategy gaming with our ranked list of the most anticipated releases coming in 2026.

Starcraft 2 offers insane depth but has a great campaign welcoming new players to the RTS genre. Age of Empires 2 remains popular for its mechanical depth while being beginner-friendly. Plants vs.

The very first game that helped to establish the RTS genre is War of Nerves! on the Magnavox Odyssey 2. The game is far less complex than those it would inspire, and features capture-the-flag-style ...

Joshua Speer is a Staff Writer at DualShockers who has been covering games professionally since 2013, with a focus on indie games, retro games, platformers, deckbuilders, roguelikes, and Nintendo ...

The strategy genre has grown from a niche into something more. With a wide variety of subgenres, there are multiple options for players, and they return to these titles year after year. Deep mechanics ...

Andrew McLarney is a Writer at DualShockers and GameRant who has been covering games professionally since 2022. A UK-based science-fiction and adventure-horror writer, he covers news, guides, lists, ...

With news that we're getting both Total War: Warhammer 40k and Total War: Medieval 3, it's been a good time to cast my mind back to some of the best Warhammer games, and indeed the best RTS games, of ...

Taylor Rioux is a writer and critic based in Minnesota. He has been writing professionally about games since 2024, after starting the website JetsonPlaysGames, which covers both video games and ...

If you’ve had dreams of being an army strategist and commander, then you’ll find the real-time strategy genre perfectly homey ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from StratDots RTS StratDots is a fun strategy game about expanding your control and outsmarting opponents on a map of your ...