As another commenter pointed out below, the heyday of RTS games seems to have long passed and the studios that honed the genre to perfection are around no more.

As another commenter pointed out below, the heyday of RTS games seems to have long passed and the studios that honed the genre to perfection are around no more. Everyone seems to be focused on making the latest Dota clone, so if you want a proper RTS, you'll have to dig into the past. Games such as Ground Control have a promising concept, but suffer from an extreme lack of polish, which in this case means that you can't save the game during the mission, forcing you to restart and restart and restart over and over and over again until you get bored and uninstall the game. However, I greatly enjoyed playing Myth and Myth II: Soulblighter. They are both pure tactical games from the 90s, meaning that you don't actually build any structures or produce units in them. Instead, you're given a small detachment (sometimes counting only 1-2 heroes) at the start of the mission and expected to plow through a horde of enemies. The AI is superb and will brutally punish your mistakes. In some cases, you'll be given grenadier Dwarves and a huge cache of landmines they can carry and set on the ground, ready to be lit and blow everything nearby to smithereens. [0] [1] The appeal is in the absolute carnage: blood splatters all over the map and the pieces of units fly everywhere, possibly even killing other units in the process. There is an active mod community to this day[2], with unofficial compatibility patches, larger resolution options and UI fixes. I do not recommend Myth multiplayer, since only the most hardcore players are remaining, meaning that you'll fare poorly if you try competing against teams of people that've been playing for 10+ years consistently. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgXRO1HPBAg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgXRO1HPBAg [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP8f4d3midI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP8f4d3midI [2] http://tain.totalcodex.net/mythii http://tain.totalcodex.net/mythii