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Games like Command & Conquer: Red Alert

1996USK 16PC, PlayStation, Steam Deck playable80 % positivefree

A landmark real-time strategy game set in an alternate history where Allies and Soviets battle over Europe with tanks, spies and Tesla coils, framed by gloriously campy live-action cutscenes and Frank Klepacke's iconic soundtrack.

  • Strong soundtrack
  • Building and crafting
  • Economy and management
  • Competing against other players

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In short: Games like Command & Conquer: Red Alert

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Command & Conquer: Red Alert special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Total Annihilation

93 %Match

1997USK 12PC96 % positive4.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Command & Conquer: Red Alert: economy and management, building and crafting as well as a strong soundtrack.

A landmark real-time strategy game where the Arm and Core factions clash in massive robot wars. Flowing resource management and true 3D units and terrain set a high bar for the genre.

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StarCraft

Strong soundtrack

The landmark real-time strategy classic with three wildly different yet finely balanced factions and a gripping sci-fi campaign full of betrayal and intrigue. Its multiplayer shaped competitive esports like few games ever have.

Supreme Commander

Economy and management

A colossal real-time strategy game with huge maps, seamless strategic zoom, and hundreds of land, sea and air units, capped by game-changing experimental superweapons. Three warring human factions battle for the galaxy in the Infinite War.

Emperor: Battle for Dune

Building and crafting

A Westwood real-time strategy game set in the Dune universe: you fight for the Imperial throne as one of three houses with subfactions, combining base building, unit command and a campaign across several planets.

Empire Earth

Tactical depth

A real-time strategy game where you guide a civilization through epochs from prehistory to the near future. Each age unlocks new technologies and units, so battles span from spears to nanotech.

Dune 2000

Tactical depth

You command one of three factions from Frank Herbert's Dune universe in this real-time strategy game. It is a modernized remake of the classic Dune 2, offering multiplayer battles for competitive players.

Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings

Building and crafting

The timeless real-time strategy classic: build a medieval civilization, gather resources, advance through the ages and lead armies in historical campaigns or intense multiplayer matches.

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty

Competing against other players

Blizzard's landmark RTS pairs a varied Terran campaign following Jim Raynor, where nearly every mission introduces a fresh twist, with a razor-sharp competitive multiplayer that defined esports for a decade.

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