real-time strategy

[ ree-uhl-tahym strat-i-jee, reel ]

noun

, Digital Technology.

1. a genre of video games in which a player battles enemies, faces environmental challenges, or achieves a goal while other player characters and nonplayer characters are playing simultaneously, without sequenced turns or rounds of play (often used attributively). : RTS

Word History and Origins

Origin of real-time strategy¹

First recorded in 1980–85

Example Sentences

Hassabis says a similar pattern had occurred with previous DeepMind projects, including its work on Go and the complex, real-time strategy video game Starcraft 2.

From Fortune