Games like Cascading Failure

Hooked on the tense and competitive side of Cascading Failure? You will find a few strong contenders among these games.

Executive Assault
An RTS where you can also be the robot. Build a base, raise an army of tanks and walkers, then jump into any unit and fight from the ground, even inside your own buildings. Win by storming the enemy HQ and taking out their CEO before they take out yours.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Competitive, Replayable
84% of 1,267 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Forged Battalion
Customize your unique faction in a new take on real-time strategy as you fight in a variety of skirmish, solo, and multiplayer battles. You are not only a commander, but also an engineer – so you have ultimate control over your faction’s units, factories, superweapons and economy.
Also in Co-op · Competitive, Replayable
62% of 786 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Nuclear Dawn
A team shooter where one player runs the war from above. Fight on foot as one of four classes while your commander builds bases, researches tech and calls the strikes, in post-apocalyptic city maps built for 32-player warfare.
Tense, Competitive, Replayable
78% of 1,624 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Artificial Extinction 2
A Tower Defense hybrid where survival depends on strategy and firepower. Build turrets, mine resources, and hold the line against relentless AI swarms. Switch instantly between commanding the battlefield in RTS view or fighting on the ground in FPS combat.
Tense, Replayable, Fast-paced
77% of 121 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Eximius: Seize the Frontline
A shooter and a strategy game in the same match. Eximius puts five players against five in a ruined city: four officers fight on the ground in first person while a commander builds the base, trains armies and calls down artillery. Capture points, tech up, suit up, and win with brains as much as firepower.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Competitive, Replayable
74% of 512 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Colony Siege
Colony Siege combines the best of RTS and tower defense, including base building, mazing, and unit physics. Defend Earth's remaining colonies using an arsenal of deadly weapons to torch, slice, throw, and impale swarms of alien invaders.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Replayable, Fast-paced
91% of 199 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance
A real-time tactics game in the Terminator: Dark Fate universe. You command the last organized remnants of the US military against Legion's machines, keeping the same soldiers, tanks and supplies alive from mission to mission. Every loss is permanent, every building can come down, and the story carries you through a grim, cinematic war.
Tense, Replayable
82% of 3,503 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 199$39.99
Rogue Command
A single-player RTS with roguelite build crafting. Command units, call down bases and raise armies, then draft new tools after every battle. Slow time to 10% when it gets hairy, weave builds that bend the rules, and push through escalating Ascensions. Weave a build that breaks the game, or the game breaks you.
Tense, Replayable, Fast-paced
89% of 1,059 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 35$19.99
WARSHIFT 2
WARSHIFT 2 blends RTS, Action, and RPG progression. Build bases and command troops, mechs, battleships, and aircraft carriers. Then take direct control of your hero and fight alongside your army. Customize your heroes with weapons and upgrades.
Tense, Competitive, Replayable
70% of 56 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Tempest Rising
A classic base-building RTS set on a nuclear-scarred Earth, where two armies fight over the mysterious Tempest vines. Build bases, harvest resources and command huge armies in two full campaigns, or take your skills into ranked 1v1 and 2v2 matches. Fast, hard-hitting and made for anyone who misses the great strategy games of the 2000s.
Tense, Competitive, Replayable
86% of 10,171 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 144$39.99
Silica
Silica is an FPS and RTS in one battlefield. Fight on foot or in vehicles on the dunes of Baltarus, or step back and command whole armies of humans or aliens from above. Switch between the two mid-battle, team up with friends or face them, and watch photorealistic combined-arms warfare unfold at a scale few games attempt.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Competitive, Replayable
76% of 4,651 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 171$24.99
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation
Command thousands of units across entire worlds in a large-scale RTS about economy, territory and timing. Play the campaigns of the Post-Human Coalition and the Substrate, or take friends into ranked and unranked multiplayer. The fleets largely manage themselves, so the real battle is in where you build, what you research and when you strike.
Also in Co-op · Competitive, Replayable
76% of 2,715 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 288$5.99

Cheaper than Cascading Failure

Executive Assault

Build a corporate war machine in real time, then take direct control of any unit on the battlefield.

$12.99

Forged Battalion

Customize your unique faction in a new take on real-time strategy as you fight in a variety of skirmish, solo, and multiplayer battles.

$9.99

Nuclear Dawn

Fight the war on foot as a soldier, or run it from above as the commander, in a team-based FPS and RTS in one match.

$9.99

WARSHIFT 2

WARSHIFT 2 blends RTS, Action, and RPG progression. Build bases and command troops, mechs, battleships, and aircraft carriers.

$14.99

Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation

Build economies, claim territory and time your strikes across whole worlds, alone or with friends.

$5.99

WARSHIFT

Unique mix of Action, RTS and RPG gameplay elements that forms an innovative game genre.

$4.99

Metal Fatigue

Metal Fatigue is a real-time strategy game taking the genre to new heights - literally.

$5.99

Frontline Crisis

Defend humanity's last hope, pilot a powerful mech, in Frontlines Crisis!

$5.99

Machinefall

Machinefall is a post-apocalyptic real time strategy game set on a fully playable global map.

$14.99

Bot Wars

Bot Wars is an action RTS about managing a squad of kill-bots and their bases as you work to take over all the capture points across the map.

$14.99

From Glory To Goo

Grow a settlement on a hostile world, wall it in, and answer the Goo with orbital fire before they reach your gates.

$7.79

Space Tales

Space Tales is a sci-fi RTS where you build fortified bases, manage resources, and command retro-futuristic armies.

$5.99

Hidden gems like Cascading Failure

Rogue Command

Command units, call down bases and draft a fresh build after every battle in a fast sci-fi RTS where each run plays out differently.

$19.99

Calyx

Build a fortified base on a hostile planet and fight back a spreading alien plant with tanks, flamethrowers and an orbital laser.

$24.99

From Glory To Goo

Grow a settlement on a hostile world, wall it in, and answer the Goo with orbital fire before they reach your gates.

$7.79

Machinefall

Machinefall is a post-apocalyptic real time strategy game set on a fully playable global map.

$14.99

ZeroSpace

Lead huge armies and orbital strikes in a fast sci-fi war, or join a friend in a co-op campaign that changes every season.

$39.99

Drop Command

Run a sandbox campaign, drop into any battle, and pilot a mech, tank, VTOL or power-armoured soldier through fully destructible battlefields.

$22.99

Frontline Crisis

Defend humanity's last hope, pilot a powerful mech, in Frontlines Crisis!

$5.99

Cataclismo

Build fortresses brick by brick, then hold them against the Horrors of the Mist.

$29.99

Artificial Extinction 2

A Tower Defense hybrid where survival depends on strategy and firepower.

$19.99

Executive Assault 2

Run a space empire from the strategy map, then take direct control of a ship, robot or turret to fight the battle yourself.

$24.99

Tempest Rising

Build bases, command huge armies and outplay rivals in ranked matches on a nuclear-scarred Earth.

$39.99

Silica

Battle across the dunes of Baltarus as a soldier, then take command of the whole war from above, alone or with friends.

$24.99

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