Games like Nuclear Dawn

If the competitive and replayable rhythm of Nuclear Dawn stuck with you, this helps. Give these games a try when the craving hits. You can bring friends along for most of these.

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.
Competitive, Replayable, Fast-paced
74% of 512 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
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.
Competitive, Replayable, Fast-paced
84% of 1,267 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Retro Commander
Retro Commander is a post-apocalyptic real-time strategy wargame (RTS).
Competitive, Replayable
76% of 378 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5Free
Rusted Warfare - RTS
A retro RTS built for scale: over 50 units, experimental war machines and battles with thousands of sprites running smoothly. Play challenges, skirmish or sandbox, then take it online with up to 10 players. Simple to learn, endlessly moddable, and the kind of game you keep coming back to.
Competitive, Replayable
96% of 6,752 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 124$4.99
Natural Selection 2
Marines against aliens, with a twist: one player on each team commands from above, dropping ammo, sentries and hives while everyone else fights it out on foot, on walls and in the air. A fast, tense team shooter where strategy and reflexes share the job, and a win actually feels earned.
Competitive, Replayable, Fast-paced
85% of 8,652 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 154$4.99
Empires Mod
One player on each team runs the war from above, placing buildings and picking research, while everyone else fights it out on the ground as infantry or in tanks they build themselves.
Competitive, Replayable, Fast-paced
86% of 1,071 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 35Free
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.
Competitive, Replayable, Fast-paced
76% of 4,640 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 352$24.99
Forts
Forts is a physics-based strategy game where you build a fortress in real time, arm it with machine guns, snipers and missiles, and blast your opponent's creation into a smoldering heap. Every wall you add and every shot you take has weight, so a clever design can hold the line or collapse spectacularly. Build, defend, demolish, repeat.
Competitive, Replayable, Fast-paced
92% of 21,387 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 453$8.99
Call to Arms
Call to Arms mixes real-time strategy with first- and third-person action in a modern war setting. Command squads from above, then jump into any soldier, tank or helicopter yourself. Cover is everywhere and almost everything can be destroyed, so every fight leaves a mark on the map.
Competitive, Replayable, Fast-paced
80% of 17,513 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 114
Dark Prospect
Dark Prospect is an asymmetrical FPSvsRTS multiplayer game. FPS players must survive by gathering resources, building defenses and fighting against a player or AI who summons, commands, upgrades monsters and casts spells from an RTS perspective.
Competitive, Replayable, Fast-paced
65% of 84 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
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.
Competitive, Replayable, Tense
86% of 10,167 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 144$39.99
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. Featuring corporate kill bot armies, ranging from a firearms and beverage manufacturer to a lovecraftian burger cult.
Competitive, Fast-paced
85% of 705 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$14.99

Cheaper than Nuclear Dawn

Natural Selection 2

Pick a side, grab a rifle or grow claws, and battle across a sci-fi map where every round plays out differently.

$4.99

Rusted Warfare - RTS

Build bases, command armies of robots and mechs, and battle friends in real time across huge pixel-art warzones.

$4.99

Forts

Stack walls and weapons onto a wobbling physics fortress, then trade fire in fast, chaotic matches where one good shot can bring the whole thing down.

$8.99

Dark Prospect

Dark Prospect is an asymmetrical FPSvsRTS multiplayer game. FPS players must survive by gathering resources, building defenses and fighting against…

$6.99

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

Attack on Toys

Command plastic armies from above, then drop into the battle yourself as the waves close in on your HQ.

$6.99

War Brokers

Fight for your team on foot or behind the controls of tanks and jets, where quick reflexes and smart calls beat anything you could buy.

$4.99

Army Men RTS

Command green armies and build bases across the house, one backyard battle at a time.

$5.99

Metal Fatigue

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

$5.99

OpenFront

Claim land, build an economy and negotiate your way to dominance against real opponents in fast multiplayer rounds.

$6.99

Joint Task Force

Joint Task Force is the real-time strategy (RTS) game where you command the frontline forces in tomorrow's most hazardous conflicts.

$7.99

Hidden gems like Nuclear Dawn

The Scouring

Command an army or fight as one hero, tearing through bases, dungeons and undead nights with friends or rivals.

$24.99

ICBM: Escalation

A grand strategy RTS about the worst day imaginable: you run a faction, race through tech eras, and decide whether conventional armies or a nuclear…

$29.99

Artificial Extinction 2

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

$19.99

Door Kickers 2: Task Force North

Draw up a squad plan, pause the action to adjust it, and watch the breach unfold in real time.

$24.99

9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far

Raise a base, mass tanks, ships and planes, and push across land, sea and air in fast, friendly-looking battles that stay easy to start and tricky…

$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

Attack on Toys

Command plastic armies from above, then drop into the battle yourself as the waves close in on your HQ.

$6.99

Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance

A real-time tactics game in the Terminator: Dark Fate universe.

$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

Retro Commander

Retro Commander is a post-apocalyptic real-time strategy wargame (RTS).

Free

Dying Breed

Golden-age RTS classic. Fast-paced action & strategic decision-making, battling evil arch-enemies, zombies, and retro-futuristic technologies.

$17.99

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