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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 2026-07-24. Rankings update as data changes.

indielist tracks 28 real time tactics indie games on Steam, holding 151,963 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 30,746 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 · 30,746 reviews · 96% positive · 2016
  2. Turmoil · 16,052 reviews · 93% positive · 2016
  3. 911 Operator · 14,387 reviews · 89% positive · 2017
  4. Door Kickers 2: Task Force North · 12,135 reviews · 96% positive · 2025
  5. Planetary Annihilation: TITANS · 11,348 reviews · 84% positive · 2015
  6. Ultimate General: Civil War · 8,264 reviews · 89% positive · 2017
  7. Partisans 1941 · 7,487 reviews · 82% positive · 2020
  8. Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts · 6,606 reviews · 61% positive · 2023
  9. Sea Power : Naval Combat in the Missile Age · 6,131 reviews · 91% positive · 2024
  10. Warpips · 4,289 reviews · 87% positive · 2022
  11. Shadow Tactics: Aiko's Choice · 3,942 reviews · 93% positive · 2021
  12. Cepheus Protocol · 3,683 reviews · 76% positive · 2020
  13. At Dead Of Night · 3,513 reviews · 94% positive · 2020
  14. Element TD 2 - Tower Defense · 3,220 reviews · 90% positive · 2021
  15. Crying Suns · 3,139 reviews · 86% positive · 2019
  16. Dummynation · 3,045 reviews · 88% positive · 2022
  17. Drop Duchy · 2,905 reviews · 89% positive · 2025
  18. Regiments · 2,789 reviews · 88% positive · 2022
  19. Tower of Time · 2,291 reviews · 83% positive · 2018
  20. Children of the Sun · 1,969 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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