Real-Time
Description
Real-time refers to gameplay that happens without waiting for player input, i.e. in "real time". Action games are real-time by default and therefore do not require this tag.
Real-time tag is used for RTS (real-time strategy) games, many managerial simulations which are not turn-based (e.g.
Transport Tycoon), as well as puzzle games that require quick thinking, such as
Tetris variants.
The tag is also used to describe combat in certain role-playing games (the ATB system of many
Final Fantasy games or the Infinity Engine combat in
Baldur's Gate and some other Western RPGs). This type of combat requires the player to manage the activities of the combatants in real time, and should not be confused with that of
Action RPGs, where combat is action-oriented.
Rare examples of real-time games outside of the aforementioned genres (
The Last Express) also exist.
 Game Title |
Windows (2006) Cossacks II: Battle for Europe is an stand-alone expansion pack for the real time strategy game Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars.... |
Windows (2001) Expanding the world set by Cossacks European: Wars, Cossacks: Art of War contains five new campaigns set in Prussia, Austria,... |
DOS (1997) Counter Action is a real-time strategy released when, due to success of Command & Conquer, many clones started to appear.... |
Windows (2011) and Macintosh (2011) Crasher is a Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) game. Its originality is the use of vehicles which replaces human heroes... |
Windows (2010) Crazy Cows: Attack Of The Horny Big Breasted Mammals is the sequel to Crazy Cows, released in 1998. It is... |
Atari ST (1992) Crazy Cubes is a labyrinth game for high resolution where you have to guide two or more balls to the... |
Windows (1999) Creatures Adventures is a game about caring for and observing members of a fictional race of creatures called norns. The... |
Windows (2000) Crime Cities transports gamers to a futuristic world where law and order has long since been replaced by a wave... |
Windows (2007) Crimsoness is a short visual novel in which you take on the roll of Bakumi Moriyama. When she has three... |
PlayStation (2000) In Crossroad Crisis you have to help a chicken get home to his family. The game is somewhat similar to... |
Windows (2004) and Macintosh (2005) Crusader Kings is a real-time (but pause-able) strategy game based on the Europa Universalis engine that focuses on the feudal... |
Macintosh (2009) and Windows (2008) Crusader Kings Complete is a compilation that contains:Crusader Kings (base game)
Crusader Kings: Deus Vult (expansion pack) |
Windows (2007) and Macintosh (2007) Deus Vult is the expansion pack for Crusader Kings, a strategy game based on the EU engine and set in... |
Windows (2008) This is a special Japan-only release which contains the following games in one package:Crusader Kings: Deus VultEuropa Universalis II |
Macintosh (2012) and Windows (2012) Crusader Kings II is a character-driven real-time grand strategy game where the player can start between 1066 and 1337 and... |
Macintosh (2012) and Windows (2012) Crusader Kings II: Sword of Islam is the first expansion for Crusader Kings II and requires the original game to... |
Windows (2008) In Crusaders: Thy Kingdom Come the player takes control over the crusader army which marches against Jerusalem in the late... |
Atari ST (1991) Crush! is a game where you have to watch out for falling bricks.A crane at the top of the screen... |
Windows (2005) Crystalline Cauldron is a 2-D game of the genre real-time action card game, a project developed by a group of... |
Windows (2005) Ice Crusade is a standalone continuation of the post-nuclear real time strategy Cuban Missile Crisis: The Aftermath from G5 software.... |
Windows (2005) This wargame is set in a hypothetical reality in which the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 was the beginning of... |
Windows (2012), iPad (2012), Macintosh (2012), Android (2012) and Linux (2012) Cubemen is a 3D tower defense game based around units made out of cubes. Each map starts with the player's... |
J2ME (2007) Cubes is a Tetris-like matching game with physics. Falling objects, consisting of little cubes, bounce back once they touch other... |
Atari 8-bit (1990) A compilation featuring two puzzle games following known concepts:Cultivation follows the basic formula of Puzznic. The player has to clear... |
Windows (2000) Cultures is a real-time strategy game with a slight difference: the player does not have to bash all his opponents... |
