The notion of “ real-time strategy” appeared in the early 1990s with the release of Dune II and immediately started to attract an increasing number of players.
In this blog post, Cloutboost uncovers the main features of Real-Time Strategy games and puts together a list of the most popular games in the genre. Despite the vast majority of RTS titles rarely hold on to viable communities for a long time, there are several stand-out exceptions, like Civilization 6, XCOM, Total War, Stellaris, Halo Wars, Starcraft, and others.
For many years, Real-Time Strategy games were on the bandwagon.