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The Age of Empires remasters were a great sucess, with AoE4 on the way.
CoH and CoH2 have both been extremely successful and SEGA is potentially looking towards CoH3.
Wargame: Red Dragon is very popular and successful. Steel Division 1 and 2 are high quality games that underperformed but are still quality games.
Total War has hit a gold mine with the fantasy titles and the introduction of hero units, magic and large units which gave depth to the gameplay and has revived the series.
Hearts of Iron IV and EU4 are grand strategy titles but in essence are cousins of the RTS genre and have been quite successful despite Paradox’s incompetence.
Halo Wars 2 was a very good RTS which got robbed of popularity by Microsoft’s stupid DLC policy. Maybe now on xbox game pass it’ll see more life, especially with the huge hit that is the Master Chief Collection. If M$ are smart they’ll bundle them, HW2 ultimate and MCC for like 40 $.
Starcraft 2 is still a giant of the RTS genre.
Overall things aren’t so bad. I think the main issue for the RTS market has been DoW3’s failure due to Lelic. Had that been a moderate success people would be feeling a lot different.