RTS games on Steam: market size, sales and what works

8 games on Steam carry the RTS tag as one of their main tags. The median one has 147,458 reviews and 100% pass 1,000.

Games released per year

  • 1 2016
  • 0 2017
  • 2 2018
  • 2 2019
  • 1 2020
  • 0 2021
  • 1 2022
  • 0 2023
  • 0 2024
  • 0 2025
  • 0 2026

2026 is the year so far.

What games make

PercentileReviewsEstimated owners
Median game147,458about 4.2M
Top 25%229,040about 5.3M
Top 10%1,098,248about 7.8M

100% of games get over 50 reviews and over 70% positive. Owners are modeled from review counts, see how the estimates work.

Pricing

Median paid price $49.99

  • Free 13%
  • Under $5 13%
  • $5 to $15 0%
  • $15 to $30 13%
  • $30 to $60 63%
  • $60 and up 0%

Most reviewed RTS releases of the last 24 months

Upcoming RTS games 0 on Steam

Tags these games also carry

What good store pages do

Medians across the 8 most reviewed RTS games.

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