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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 2026-09-07. Rankings update as data changes.

indielist tracks 28 real time tactics indie games on Steam, holding 218,162 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 Eternal Return with 69,673 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Eternal Return · 69,673 reviews · 77% positive · 2023
  2. Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun · 30,824 reviews · 96% positive · 2016
  3. 911 Operator · 14,417 reviews · 89% positive · 2017
  4. Turmoil · 13,131 reviews · 93% positive · 2016
  5. Door Kickers 2: Task Force North · 12,296 reviews · 96% positive · 2025
  6. Planetary Annihilation: TITANS · 11,395 reviews · 84% positive · 2015
  7. Ultimate General: Civil War · 8,318 reviews · 89% positive · 2017
  8. Partisans 1941 · 7,519 reviews · 82% positive · 2020
  9. Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts · 6,650 reviews · 61% positive · 2023
  10. Sea Power : Naval Combat in the Missile Age · 6,131 reviews · 91% positive · 2024
  11. Warpips · 4,328 reviews · 87% positive · 2022
  12. Shadow Tactics: Aiko's Choice · 3,958 reviews · 93% positive · 2021
  13. At Dead Of Night · 3,281 reviews · 94% positive · 2020
  14. Crying Suns · 3,147 reviews · 86% positive · 2019
  15. Dummynation · 3,113 reviews · 88% positive · 2022
  16. Cepheus Protocol · 2,977 reviews · 75% positive · 2020
  17. Drop Duchy · 2,956 reviews · 89% positive · 2025
  18. Element TD 2 - Tower Defense · 2,875 reviews · 90% positive · 2021
  19. Regiments · 2,817 reviews · 88% positive · 2022
  20. Tower of Time · 2,320 reviews · 82% positive · 2018

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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