Hidden Gem RTS Games Free

Highly rated RTS games on Steam that are free to play, capped at 25,000 reviews. The cap filters out everything you've already heard of.

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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. 1War Selection85.20%
  2. 2Zombie Defense85.16%
  3. 3Rise of Legions84.95%
  4. 4AirMech Strike84.75%
  5. 5Galcon 2: Galactic Conquest84.65%
  6. 6Prime World: Defenders 284.27%
  7. 7Age of Conquest IV84.12%
  8. 8Touhou Big Big Battle83.90%
  9. 9Gods and Idols83.66%
  10. 10Mitos.is: The Game83.00%
  11. 11War Planet Online: Global Conquest82.78%
  12. 12Art of War: Red Tides82.76%
  13. 13Strife82.46%
  14. 14Hades' Star82.27%
  15. 15Builders of Egypt: Prologue81.69%
  16. 16Supremacy 1914: World War 181.42%
  17. 17CONFLICT OF NATIONS: WORLD WAR 381.37%
  18. 18March of Empires81.21%
  19. 19Blood of Steel80.97%
  20. 20Game of Thrones Winter is Coming80.12%
  21. 21Call of War: World War 279.53%
  22. 22Lords Mobile78.47%
  23. 23Stronghold Kingdoms74.43%
  24. 24Stormgate66.62%