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 (2001) Age of Sail II is the sequel to Age of Sail. As its predecessor the game is set between 1775... |
Windows (2001) Age of Sail II: Privateer's Bounty is the second game to bear the name Age of Sail II. What started... |
Windows (2008) Aggression: Reign over Europe uses an unusual scenario for strategy games: it covers both World Wars and is set between... |
Windows (1999) Aha! is a puzzle game in which you get a playing field filled with different-shaped pieces. If two or more... |
Windows (2004) You must explore a medieval fantasy world with the intent to stop a dark prophecy. To win the game, you... |
Windows (2009) Aion is a massive multiplayer online role-playing game which takes place in the world of Atreia, a land divided by... |
Windows (2006) Air Assault Task Force is a wargame that focuses on battles in which helicopters played a prominent role. The game... |
Windows (2002) Airborne Assault: Red Devils Over Arnhem is a strategy game in which the player recreates Operation Market Garden. The main... |
DOS (1992) and Amiga (1992) In Air Force Commander the player takes command of a Middle Eastern country's air force to gain air superiority over... |
Windows 3.x (1994) Essentially an airport traffic control tower simulator. Your mission here is to manage the aircrafts in Phoenix Sky Harbor International... |
Windows (2002) Airline Tycoon Revolution is the second upgraded re-release of Airline Tycoon. The player is the manager of an airline and... |
Android (2012), iPad (2012) and iPhone (2012) Air Patriots is similar to a tower defense game, but instead of towers the player here has direct access over... |
Windows (2010) Airport Control Simulator tasks the player with guiding airplanes safely to the landing zones at different airports around the world.... |
Macintosh (2008), Windows (2008), iPhone (2009), Wii (2010), Android (2010) and iPad (2010) Airport Mania: First Flight is a time management game where players get the chance to become an air traffic controller... |
Atari ST (1993) and Amiga (1992) Strategy based war game set in the future "where wars are fought in virtual reality". What this means is that... |
Atari ST (1989) Air Traffic Controller is a one player game written in ST-Pascal for high resolution where you take on the role... |
Browser (2004) and DOS (1985) In this simulation the player takes on the role of an air traffic controller and safely guides the airplanes to... |
Apple II (1980) This simulation puts you in the role of an air traffic controller in charge of an 15x25 mile airspace (with... |
Windows (2009) AI War: Fleet Command takes place after an eight hundred year long human civil war. The humans now have been... |
MSX (1988) Akanbe Dragon can be seen as a forerunner to the company's long-running Super Robot Taisen franchise. On a one-screen playfield,... |
Xbox 360 (2008) and Windows (2010) A Kingdom for Keflings allows you to take control of a settlement of Keflings and turn it into a fully... |
Windows (1998) The story takes place in a time when demons are terrorizing the world. Three warriors come together and form a... |
Xbox 360 (2010) Alawishus Pixel is a retro-style puzzle platform game. A nameless young man in a hoodie has wandered into a cave,... |
Windows (1999) Alchemist is a real-time strategy game in which you take control over one of five different races and lead your... |
DOS (1997) Since the beginning your parents knew you were somehow different from the others. You have the spark of Elemental Powers... |
