Crush your enemies in these amazing strategy games similar to Starcraft!

Once the most popular thing around, the RTS genre seems to be slowly dying out. To combat this tactical drought, we’ve compiled a list of ten titles for you to enjoy while you wait for Legacy of the Void.

12. Total Annihilation (1997)

Without TA there’d have been no Supreme Commander

Developer: Cavedog Entertainment

Genre: Real-time strategy

The Commander is the heart of your force

Join the forces of either CORE or ARM to decide the fate of humanity. The former wishes to turn us all into thinking machines, while the latter disagrees strongly enough to go to war over it.

Total Annihilation is an RTS that puts you in control of a powerful Commander unit that can build bases by himself, and lets you pick your own way to eliminate the opposition. The Commander is not helpless at all, but is best kept safe because losing him is the same as losing the game.

Although only five years younger than the World Wide Web, this old classic still offers solid and varied gameplay today. Unless you don’t feel like tinkering to make it work on newer machines, there’s no reason not to try this fine little piece of history.