real-time strategy
Simultaneous tactical gaming
Real-time strategy is a video game genre where players command armies, gather resources, and build bases while action unfolds continuously rather than in turns.
Players must think and react simultaneously: StarCraft is the definitive real-time strategy game.
Often abbreviated RTS.
The genre contrasts with turn-based strategy, where players alternate moves.
- RTSPauseless tactical gaming genre
- micro-managementExcessive control of minutiae
- massively multiplayer online gameNetworked game with vast concurrent playerbase
- resource managementAllocating available means efficiently
- military tacticsMethods of battlefield maneuvering
tactics · StarCraft · Age of Empires · empire building · multiplayer · army units · tactical gameplay · zerg rush · map control · fog of war · mission objectives · expansion packs · combat missions · player versus player · competitive gaming · simulation games · single-player campaign · territorial expansion
- strategy gameschess, checkers, go, Go, StarCraft
- RTS GamesStarCraft, Warcraft, Command and Conquer, Age of Empires, Red Alert
- war gameswargaming, wargame, war games, combat simulations, Age of Empires
real-time strategyturn-based
Players alternate actions
TBS · play-by-mail · grand strategy · idle game · puzzle game
real-time strategyfirst-person shooter
Combat game, protagonist's viewpoint
arcade game · idle game · clicker game · puzzle game · fighting game
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