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Which real-time strategy games actually get played?

97 real-time strategy games owned in at least 30 of the libraries read here, ranked by how many owners got past Steam’s two-hour refund window. Across all of them it’s 36%.

S7 games
  1. #1Age of Empires II (2013)82% of 102
  2. #2Plague Inc: Evolved67% of 164
  3. #3Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition72% of 82
  4. #4Age of Mythology: Extended Edition78% of 46
  5. #5Control Craft 288% of 32
  6. #6Rise of Nations: Extended Edition79% of 42
  7. #7Planetary Annihilation69% of 70
A20 games
  1. #8Age of Empires® III (2007)68% of 63
  2. #9Earth 216079% of 34
  3. #10Northgard: Definitive Edition60% of 100
  4. #11Brütal Legend55% of 144
  5. #12Company of Heroes 55% of 119
  6. #13Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition68% of 34
  7. #14Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Anniversary Edition57% of 76
  8. #15Planets Under Attack60% of 50
  9. #16Offworld Trading Company58% of 52
  10. #17Homeworld Remastered Collection56% of 59
  11. #18Earth 2150 Trilogy59% of 44
  12. #19Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion50% of 107
  13. #20AI War: Fleet Command59% of 39
  14. #21KnightShift54% of 59
  15. #22Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation52% of 79
  16. #23World War III: Black Gold58% of 38
  17. #24Age of Empires: Definitive Edition56% of 36
  18. #25Dungeons 351% of 59
  19. #26Dungeons 249% of 76
  20. #27Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition51% of 49
B29 games
  1. #28CastleStorm55% of 31
  2. #29Grey Goo49% of 53
  3. #30Stronghold HD50% of 46
  4. #31Natural Selection 247% of 72
  5. #32Stronghold Crusader HD48% of 58
  6. #33Earth 2140 HD51% of 35
  7. #34Forts47% of 58
  8. #35War for the Overworld48% of 44
  9. #36Ancestors Legacy46% of 50
  10. #37Company of Heroes 242% of 250
  11. #38Mindustry45% of 44
  12. #39Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Anniversary Edition 42% of 93
  13. #40Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III43% of 46
  14. #41Nuclear Dawn44% of 41
  15. #42Stronghold Crusader 242% of 57
  16. #43Knights and Merchants41% of 75
  17. #44Tooth and Tail41% of 61
  18. #45Stronghold Legends42% of 33
  19. #46Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak41% of 32
  20. #47Autonauts vs Piratebots37% of 35
  21. #48Command & Conquer™ Remastered Collection36% of 42
  22. #49Rebel Inc: Escalation33% of 45
  23. #50Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin32% of 37
  24. #51Diplomacy is Not an Option33% of 40

And 5 more: STAR WARS™ Empire at War: Gold Pack, Starship Troopers: Terran Command, Planetary Annihilation: TITANS, AI War 2, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Retribution.

C24 games
  1. #57Cepheus Protocol23% of 30
  2. #58Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance27% of 62
  3. #59Supreme Commander 227% of 56
  4. #60Knights of Honor II: Sovereign24% of 34
  5. #61Tempest Rising24% of 34
  6. #62Command & Conquer™ Red Alert™ 325% of 52
  7. #63Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars™22% of 49
  8. #64Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Soulstorm26% of 93
  9. #65Driftland: The Magic Revival24% of 72
  10. #66Iron Harvest21% of 62
  11. #67Command & Conquer: Red Alert™ 2 and Yuri’s Revenge™15% of 40
  12. #68Command & Conquer™: Generals13% of 39

And 12 more: DEFCON, Company of Heroes - Legacy Edition, STAR WARS™ Galactic Battlegrounds Saga, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising, Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath™, SpellForce 2 - Anniversary Edition, Command & Conquer™ Generals Zero Hour, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Dark Crusade, Supreme Commander, Darwinia, Command & Conquer™ Tiberian Sun™ and Firestorm™, Swords and Soldiers 2 Shawarmageddon.

D17 games
  1. #81Multiwinia5% of 40
  2. #82Warpips3% of 37
  3. #83Command & Conquer™ 4 Tiberian Twilight5% of 42
  4. #84Forged Battalion3% of 38
  5. #85Swords and Soldiers HD8% of 51
  6. #86Command & Conquer™ and The Covert Operations™3% of 39
  7. #87Command & Conquer: Red Alert™, Counterstrike™ and The Aftermath™3% of 39
  8. #88Fluffy Horde0% of 40
  9. #89Commander: Conquest of the Americas Gold5% of 55
  10. #90Command & Conquer™ Red Alert™ 3 - Uprising10% of 81
  11. #91Battle Simulator: Counter Stickman4% of 53
  12. #92Earth 2150: Lost Souls2% of 52

And 5 more: Earth 2150: The Moon Project, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Winter Assault, Stronghold Crusader Extreme HD, Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor, Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts.

Counted from the Steam libraries read here, by the hours Steam has on each game; free games are left out, since Steam lists one as owned only once it has been played. A game owned in only a few libraries is pulled toward the kind’s 36% as if 60 more owners had played it like the typical one, so a lucky handful can’t top the list. S is the top 8%, A the next 20%, B the next 30%, C the next 25%, D the rest.