What is the name of these types of games?

The games where you place turrents or whatever on the ground, and then people/things come out and try to get to a certain destination point. The turrents are there to stop them. And when you kill them you get money, which you can buy for other types of turrents or whatever. What is the name of this type of game?What is the name of these types of games?
Games like that are called RTS (Real Time Strategy) because they take place in real-time. While you are building things and collecting resources, your opponents are doing the same. If you didn't do anything for a few minutes, your opponents would still be growing their forces, unless you paused the game.



Games like Command and Conquer, Warcraft 2, Starcraft etc.



If the game doesn't run in real-time (you get to take as long as you want to issue commands and move units) then it would be turn-based strategy game.
The type of game you're thinking of is RTS. (Real Time Strategy)

Even though not all RTS's have the same gameplay mechanics, most of them usually fall under something like the description you're thinking of.What is the name of these types of games?
What you're describing sounds like and RTS to me, as in a Real-Time-Strategy game.What is the name of these types of games?
RPG

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