The best real time tactics indie games, ranked by reviews

Data report Assembled from live indielist data on 2026-06-06. Rankings update as data changes.

indielist tracks 16 real time tactics indie games on Steam, holding 129,581 reviews at an average of 88% positive. This list ranks them by Steam review count, the most reliable public sales proxy, with a white-box sales estimate behind every title. The most reviewed is 911 Operator with 19,543 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are modeled estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

1. 911 Operator · 19,543 reviews · 89% positive · 2017
2. Desperados III · 16,370 reviews · 97% positive · 2020
3. Turmoil · 15,909 reviews · 93% positive · 2016
4. Planetary Annihilation: TITANS · 14,528 reviews · 84% positive · 2015
5. Dune: Spice Wars · 13,374 reviews · 79% positive · 2023
6. Door Kickers 2: Task Force North · 13,127 reviews · 96% positive · 2025
7. Ultimate General: Civil War · 8,475 reviews · 89% positive · 2017
8. Sea Power : Naval Combat in the Missile Age · 5,789 reviews · 90% positive · 2024
9. Crying Suns · 4,497 reviews · 86% positive · 2019
10. Cepheus Protocol · 3,599 reviews · 76% positive · 2020
11. At Dead Of Night · 3,443 reviews · 94% positive · 2020
12. Element TD 2 - Tower Defense · 3,202 reviews · 90% positive · 2021
13. Dummynation · 3,080 reviews · 88% positive · 2022
14. Drop Duchy · 2,932 reviews · 90% positive · 2025
15. Badlands Crew - Drive, Command, Conquer · 1,193 reviews · 79% positive · 2025
16. Infinite Tournament Paintball · 520 reviews · 86% positive · 2020

How this list is built

Games are ranked by Steam review count, the most reliable public proxy for sales when actual figures are private. Each title links to its indielist page, where the white-box sales estimate expands into the full Boxleiter formula, so you can audit the number rather than trust a black box. Review counts come from Steam; sales figures are modeled estimates, not official sales data.

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