Games like Tempest Rising

Remember how competitive and replayable Tempest Rising felt at its best? Browse these games for your next favorite.

Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars™
The year is 2047 and Tiberium covers most of Earth. Kane is back, the Third Tiberium War begins with a nuclear fireball, and only you can stop him. A classic RTS with 35+ missions, three playable factions, live-action cutscenes and a Hollywood cast. Welcome back, Commander.
Competitive
89% of 8,867 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 458$0
Supreme Commander
Three factions have fought the Infinite War for a thousand years, and now you command one of them. Supreme Commander is real-time strategy on a planetary scale: thousands of tanks, ships, jets and building-sized war machines, a flowing economy to balance, and battles that span entire maps. If you want an RTS that thinks big, this is the one.
Competitive, Replayable
88% of 2,342 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 76$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.
Competitive, Replayable
62% of 786 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
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.
Competitive, Replayable
76% of 2,715 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 51$5.99
Retro Commander
Retro Commander is a post-apocalyptic real-time strategy wargame (RTS).
Competitive, Replayable
77% of 379 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5Free
Battlefall: State of Conflict
Command one of three unique factions in a post-apocalyptic old-school RTS. Now featuring Patch 0.4.0 -- new mini-campaign and gamemodes."
Competitive, Replayable, Tense
63% of 52 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
WAR PARTY
War Party is a strategy game where you enter a prehistoric world of Dinosaurs, Cavemen and Magic! Build up your chosen faction, gather resources, explore the land and command them against enemy tribes and wildlife! Will your story be about Life, Death or Balance? Can you survive?
Competitive, Replayable
66% of 378 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Grey Goo
An old-school real-time strategy on a frontier world, where three very different factions fight over the same pools of resource. Build a base, grow an army, and if you survive long enough, walk a game-ending Epic unit onto the field. Easy to pick up, hard to master.
Competitive, Replayable
69% of 2,605 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3
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
Act of Aggression - Reboot Edition
A techno-thriller RTS in the classic mould: build bases, harvest oil and cash, and roll out tanks, helicopters and prototype hardware across three factions. The Reboot Edition streamlines the economy and combat for faster battles, in skirmish, campaign and online PvP.
Competitive, Replayable, Tense
65% of 2,482 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 33$29.99
Command & Conquer™ 3: Kane’s Wrath
Build bases, command new armies and Epic-units, and fight the Third Tiberium War your way in the global conquest mode.
Competitive
93% of 5,582 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 573$0
SunAge: Battle for Elysium
A return to the roots of real-time strategy, providing beautiful 2D visuals combined with all the features that we came to expect from old school classics. This remastered version is a culmination of all the improvements and new features based upon suggestions from the community.
Competitive, Replayable
71% of 172 Steam reviews are positive$14.99

Cheaper than Tempest Rising

Supreme Commander

Three factions have fought the Infinite War for a thousand years, and now you command one of them.

$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

Supreme Commander 2

Command sprawling bases and armies across three sci-fi campaigns, then take the fight to real opponents online.

$12.99

Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance

Grow one Commander into a war machine of hundreds of units, from naval fleets to towering experimentals, across maps that reward thinking several…

$12.99

Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation

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

$5.99

Battlefall: State of Conflict

Command one of three unique factions in a post-apocalyptic old-school RTS. Now featuring Patch 0.4.0 -- new mini-campaign and gamemodes."

$19.99

WAR PARTY

War Party is a strategy game where you enter a prehistoric world of Dinosaurs, Cavemen and Magic!

$9.99

Rusted Warfare - RTS

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

$4.99

Act of Aggression - Reboot Edition

Build up a base, keep the oil flowing and push tanks, helicopters and prototypes across the map in tense real-time battles.

$29.99

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

SunAge: Battle for Elysium

A return to the roots of real-time strategy, providing beautiful 2D visuals combined with all the features that we came to expect from old school…

$14.99

reconquest

Reconquest is a real-time strategy base building game. After World War III, mankind got close to extinction.

$11.99

Hidden gems like Tempest Rising

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

Liquidation RTS

Enter the war-torn world of Veá, where sci-fi and fantasy collide in Liquidation, an immersive RTS.

$21.99

The Scouring

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

$17.49

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

Battle Realms: Zen Edition

A fantasy RTS where peasants become samurai, bandits or cannoneers depending on where you send them to train.

$14.99

Command & Conquer™ Generals

Pick a faction, build your base fast and outfight the other side in quick, aggressive real-time battles.

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

Command & Conquer™ Generals Zero Hour

Command American, Chinese, or GLA forces in big RTS battles, building bases and armies against rival commanders or other players.

Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance

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

$39.99

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

Line War

Draw fronts and attack routes across the map, then watch your tanks carry out the plan against up to seven other players.

$24.99

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