Hidden Real-Time with Pause Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated real-time with pause games. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play Real-Time with Pause games on Steam.

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Lords of Magic: Special Edition Urak, once peaceful, is now a land of darkness, chaos and death. The people yearn for a champion to drive away the forces of evil. That champion is you.

Price -81% 0.98€
Rating 8.6
Release 03 Dec 2015
The Fall of the Dungeon Guardians - Enhanced Edition In this tactical combat & dungeon crawler mash-up, explore a massive dungeon, full of danger, mystery and secrets. Fight your way through hordes of enemies and powerful creatures, with your tank, healer & damage dealers party.

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 06 Nov 2015
Hegemony III: Clash of the Ancients Command armies, manage resources, and build an empire in this real-time strategy wargame from Longbow Games. Will Rome fulfil its destiny to rule the ancient world or will history be rewritten to forge a new Etruscan, Gallic, or Greek hegemony!

Price -89% 3.18€
Rating 7.7
Release 25 Aug 2015
Crookz - The Big Heist Crookz - The Big Heist is a tactical strategy game set in the funky 1970’s with a slick and groovy atmosphere. Show off the art of thieving by plotting stylish heists and robberies; utilizing espionage and quick-thinking to avoid detection.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 25 Aug 2015
Supreme Ruler Ultimate Real-Time Strategy/Wargame. From World War II through the Cold War and into the future, re-live or re-imagine the tensions and crises of our recent history! Guide your nation through the era of your choice in Campaigns, Scenarios, and Sandboxes, as you make every effort to become Supreme Ruler!

Price -45% 9.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 17 Oct 2014
7,62 High Calibre 7.62 High Calibre is a tactical action game, sequel to Brigade E5. A professional mercenary is in pursuit of a certain Russian "businessman", who stole a large amount of money from his "colleagues". Now he is hiding in a small country of Latin America to avoid an inevitable punishment.

Price -84% 0.81€
Rating 7.2
Release 30 Apr 2014
The Last Federation From the creators of AI War: Fleet Command comes an all-new grand strategy title with turn-based tactical combat, set in a deep simulation of an entire solar system and its billions of inhabitants. You are the last of a murdered race, determined to unify or destroy the 8 others.

Price -97% 0.72€
Rating 7.1
Release 18 Apr 2014
Marauder Marauder, is a squad based and tactical 3D game with RPG elements. It was released in late 2009, in Russia. You may know these names as the former made Brigade 7,62 and the later also published Pathologic.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.0
Release 04 Apr 2014
Drakensang: The River of Time The prequel to Radon Labs' award-winning RPG, Drakensang: The River of Time introduces a brand new story within the Drakensang universe. The new story brings many innovations and new game elements for experienced as well for first time players, who will jump right into the fascinating medieval fantasy RPG scenario of Drakensang: The...

Price 18.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 16 Feb 2011
Star Wolves Star wolves is a 3D space RPG with deep strategy and tactical elements. The game thrusts players into a world of freelance space hunters in the XXI-XXII century A.D. during a time of political crisis for the all-powerful Empire and the three mega-corporations that control all the known worlds.

Price -82% 0.72€
Rating 7.9
Release 02 Mar 2010
Star Wolves 3: Civil War Large-scale battles have become a vestige of the past, depleting resources of conflicting parties. Settled space, where welfare and order had reigned, has become a cemetery for dead ships which is flooded with pirates and adventurists.

Price -85% 0.79€
Rating 7.6
Release 02 Mar 2010
Drakensang Drakensang is a third-person party-based RPG based on the pen & paper role-play rules of The Dark Eye. Drakensang is the first PC game for over 10 years to be based on Germany's most successful and popular role-play system. Drakensang builds on the pen & paper rules as applied in version 4.0.

Price -29% 7.11€
Rating 7.6
Release 09 Mar 2009
Nexus - The Jupiter Incident Ambitious megacorporations monopolize the conquest of space and the colonization of the solar system. At the very edge of the solar system, the companies make a discovery that will shift the technological advantage and upset the balance. And so a new conflict is born: "The Jupiter Incident."

Price -92% 0.89€
Rating 8.2
Release 03 Jul 2007