Top 5 C++ real-time-strategy Projects

Spring RTS game engine

44 3,457 4.6 C++

A powerful free cross-platform RTS game engine. - Report issues at https://springrts.com/mantis/ (by spring)

Project mention: Zero-k: A libre sci-fi RTS game, with an economy based on metal and energy | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-19

Seems the support would be a realistic feature, though, because it's based on https://springrts.com/ that does support MacOS X.

warzone2100

122 3,035 9.9 C++

Command the forces of The Project in a battle to rebuild the world after mankind has been nearly destroyed by nuclear missiles. A 100% free and open source real-time strategy game for Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD+

Project mention: Is there any game where you can design your own weapons/vehicles? | /r/computerwargames | 2023-12-10

It is more an RTS than a 'classical' wargame, but you could do it in Warzone 2100. It is old for now (but it was very fun in 2000s). It could be fun for you today. There is a free and open source version : https://wz2100.net/ .

InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
Unvanquished

12 943 9.5 C++

An FPS/RTS hybrid game powered by the Daemon engine (a combination of ioq3 and XreaL)

Project mention: Lessons from Open-Source Game Projects | dev.to | 2024-04-10

Unvanquished - FPS arena game with some RTS elements. C++, libRocket

Thyme

11 546 8.6 C++

An open source re-implementation of Generals : Zero Hour written in C++.
Vanilla-Conquer

28 319 6.1 C++

Vanilla Conquer provides clean, cross-platform builds of the C&C Remastered Collection and the standalone legacy games.

Project mention: AI hit one of my obelisks while the deploy animation was going. Sent me ~1,000,00 power into the red. Deploying a GDI barracks fixed it later. Has anyone else seen this before? | /r/commandandconquer | 2023-12-09

WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).