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The best real time tactics indie games, ranked by reviews

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Data report Built from live indielist data on 2026-10-23. Rankings update as data changes.

indielist tracks 28 real time tactics indie games on Steam, holding 149,423 reviews at an average of 86% 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 Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun with 30,895 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun · 30,895 reviews · 96% positive · 2016
  2. 911 Operator · 14,418 reviews · 88% positive · 2017
  3. Turmoil · 13,192 reviews · 93% positive · 2016
  4. Door Kickers 2: Task Force North · 12,451 reviews · 96% positive · 2025
  5. Planetary Annihilation: TITANS · 11,426 reviews · 84% positive · 2015
  6. Ultimate General: Civil War · 8,347 reviews · 89% positive · 2017
  7. Partisans 1941 · 7,547 reviews · 82% positive · 2020
  8. Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts · 6,695 reviews · 61% positive · 2023
  9. Sea Power : Naval Combat in the Missile Age · 6,131 reviews · 91% positive · 2024
  10. Warpips · 4,353 reviews · 87% positive · 2022
  11. Shadow Tactics: Aiko's Choice · 3,987 reviews · 93% positive · 2021
  12. At Dead Of Night · 3,327 reviews · 94% positive · 2020
  13. Dummynation · 3,179 reviews · 88% positive · 2022
  14. Crying Suns · 3,163 reviews · 86% positive · 2019
  15. Drop Duchy · 3,005 reviews · 89% positive · 2025
  16. Cepheus Protocol · 3,005 reviews · 75% positive · 2020
  17. Element TD 2 - Tower Defense · 2,881 reviews · 90% positive · 2021
  18. Regiments · 2,832 reviews · 88% positive · 2022
  19. Tower of Time · 2,332 reviews · 82% positive · 2018
  20. Children of the Sun · 2,043 reviews · 93% positive · 2024

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 estimates, not official sales data.

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