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24 alternatives to Dawn of Steel

Mechanized RTS warfare and a race for dominance!

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Dawn of Steel launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
NeoWars▲58
3D node-based RTS with great tactical gameplay
2016 · its alternatives →
2OR
OpenRA – RTS project that recreates Command and Conquer games▲131
2014 · openra.res0l.net · its alternatives →
3
Nords: Heroes of the North▲75
Arm your Stronghold, and go to war for loot and glory!
2015 · its alternatives →
4IM
I made a browser-based RTS game▲212
I've posted this game here before, hopefully a repost is fine as the game has changed quite a bit (improved AI, improved mapeditor, much quicker gameplay, etc). Game is based on JavaScript/Canvas and WebSockets. On the browser side the map is pre-rendered (as a background image), just the mobile units/buildings and animations are dynamically rendered. The lobby server is made in node.js, but the game server is C++ for performance reasons (mainly the pathfinding). I found the C++ WebSocket libraries out there to be too difficult to use so I made my own based on the rfc. Overall I…
2022 · battle-of-flags.com · its alternatives →
5
Expeditions: Viking▲69
Historical turn-based tactical RPG
2017 · its alternatives →
6
Beat Battle▲75
A new kind of game.
2018 · its alternatives →
7
Pirate Power▲71
Storm and conquer the world!
2016 · its alternatives →
8
Dark Nexus Arena▲60
Warhammer 40k MOBA? Yes please!
2015 · its alternatives →
9
Wings.io▲73
Another fast paced multiplayer game
2016 · its alternatives →
10
Arcane Knight▲83
A mounted combat challenge
2016 · its alternatives →
11
StarCraft HTML5▲126
An HTML5 version of the classic RTS
2015 · its alternatives →
12
Kingdom Rush Origins▲93
A prequel to one of the most addictive tower defense games
2014 · its alternatives →
13
Element▲78
A space RTS for people who don't have time for a normal RTS
2016 · its alternatives →
14CA
Crown – A flexible game engine written from scratch in C++▲193
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
15OS
Open-source Advance Wars-like game▲9
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
16OA
OverThrown – A multiplayer turn based strategy game▲141
2016 · overthrown.io · its alternatives →
17SA
Strife, a 2D game library for Go▲85
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
18
Arms Race - Risk it all!▲86
Risk-like strategy game against real humans
2016 · its alternatives →
19PA
Powderkeg, a realtime, synchronous, multiplayer HTML5 action game▲153
2012 · powderkeg.artillery.com · its alternatives →
20
Tower Knights!▲56
Prepare for an epic battle
2016 · its alternatives →
21
Void of Heroes▲68
Fast paced, multiplayer, shooter. Crush your enemies!
2016 · its alternatives →
22MA
Meatshields – An in-browser turn-based strategy game▲113
A few months ago (82 days to be exact!) I posted a link on HN to my game, Meatshields. A bunch of you commented and played my game and gave me some wonderful feedback. Over the last few months I've been playing with many of you and implementing the best of everybody's suggestions. So, thank you, HN for all your help! I feel this is an extreme overhaul I couldn't have done without your input. Since then, I have: Dramatically improved our hosting platform (So it HOPEFULLY won't go down this time (oops.)), Added two new units, Rebalanced all existing units, Added many more maps, Improved the…
2017 · its alternatives →
23
Blacksmith Lab▲56
AdVenture Capitalist set in medieval times.
2016 · its alternatives →
24
Polygon Longform - Atlas Reactor▲55
How an MMO studio created a great competitive game
2015 · its alternatives →

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