Best Rated RTS Games Free

The best rated RTS games on Steam that are free to play. Scores are weighted by review volume, so small-sample flukes stay off the list.

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Our score adjusts Steam's raw rating for sample size. The fewer reviews a game has, the more its score gets pulled toward the site-wide average, so a tiny game can't fluke its way to #1.
  1. 1Crusader Kings II89.91%
  2. 2Minion Masters88.86%
  3. 3War Selection85.20%
  4. 4Zombie Defense85.16%
  5. 5Rise of Legions84.95%
  6. 6AirMech Strike84.75%
  7. 7Galcon 2: Galactic Conquest84.65%
  8. 8Prime World: Defenders 284.27%
  9. 9Age of Conquest IV84.12%
  10. 10Touhou Big Big Battle83.90%
  11. 11Gods and Idols83.66%
  12. 12Mitos.is: The Game83.00%
  13. 13War Planet Online: Global Conquest82.78%
  14. 14Art of War: Red Tides82.76%
  15. 15Strife82.46%
  16. 16Hades' Star82.27%
  17. 17Builders of Egypt: Prologue81.69%
  18. 18Supremacy 1914: World War 181.42%
  19. 19CONFLICT OF NATIONS: WORLD WAR 381.37%
  20. 20March of Empires81.21%
  21. 21Blood of Steel80.97%
  22. 22Dota 280.52%
  23. 23Game of Thrones Winter is Coming80.12%
  24. 24Call of War: World War 279.53%
  25. 25Lords Mobile78.47%
  26. 26Stronghold Kingdoms74.43%
  27. 27Stormgate66.62%