Community promoting and seeking real time with pause games

Pause Tacticality is a community group which purpose is to welcome every player who share an interest for Active Pause.
Its goal is to showcase the number of people who have an interest in this feature, and thus, help to promote its use in games.

On our forum you'll find:
A list of RTS featuring tactical pause
A list of non RTS games featuring tactical pause
But Also:
A list of Upcoming RTwP games
And some other goodies such as a tutorial to enable speedhack on games that don't natively feature tactical pause, and a tutorial for Autohotkey to edit hotkeys on games that do not have that option.

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FREEBIES 2nd VOLLEY

April 10 - Sloul Des Tucs | 0 Comments

LOADING....
BULLET>>>TIME>>>***AACTIVATED*.
BULLET-SPRAY COORRECTLY EVADED. Incoming 'text' *processing*

Hello comrade agent.
Your latest mission was a total success. Actually, you went beyond expectations.
In that regard, we decided to add a little bonus to your paycheck.
No need for a credit card, we will send all data-included in this message.
You're free to destroy the content of this message upon reception.

This selection only involves real-time with pause games.
From now on, our RTS and Non-RTS lists will be updated with these criterias in mind and add a ===>FREE/Abandonware/Open Source when applicable.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1948430/Planet_S/

Builder/Management

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1536610/OpenTTD/
You have to manually enable the pause by going to settings > expert settings > type pause > when paused allowed -> all actions

RTS

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1208830/Oil_Wars/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/338820/Retro_Commander/
Doesn't have a toggle pause binding but pressing (-) set the game to tactical pause and then (=) for normal speed

FREEBIES

March 30 - Sloul Des Tucs | 4 Comments

CODE RED ! CODE RED !
I REPEAT TO ALL PERSONAL, THIS ISN'T AN EXERCICE !
THE BASE IS UNDER ATTACK !
WE ARE UNDER HEAVY FIRE, I REPEAT *bbbrrrrhchhhh*
You can hear the static dissipates slowly. It's true then, the base might look empty, but it's decisively being targeted by something, and you can tell by the noise it's massive...
You better get ready, pack your things, load your guns, and certainly don't forget to grab these sunglasses. They might come in handy...
It's just that...
... It wasn't an attack, it was a massive payload of RTS... but not just any kind RTS...
These ones are FREE ! F-F-S. What in the world? ! Not a single cent required. Entirely FREE !
And there isn't much anything in this world that beat FREE.
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Featuring Tactical Pause

Beyond All Reasons https://www.beyondallreason.info/
Default pause key is pause/break

Emperor: Battle for Dune (Abandonware): multiple websites over the internet provide Abandonwares, try to grab a .iso version to be able to apply the latest patch from 2024
I found this review to be quite good and informative:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlncjbbdRts

Megaglest https://megaglest.org/
Default pause key is P
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQh8BPgfjSQ

OpenRA https://www.openra.net/ 58mb (3 games in one)
Default pause key is space bar
OpenRA - Dune 2000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5lqQ7-BIGE
OpenRA - Red Alert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_enAwaFcKA
OpenRA - Tiberian sun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCjVnkSwsPM

Command & Conquer: Combined Arms https://www.moddb.com/mods/command-conquer-combined-arms
Default pause key is space bar
This one seems to be an absolute banger, it's a mix of factions and units from all previous C&C competing on the same game (5 factions with 4 subfactions each).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1Gmwz3of-c

Medieval Warfare https://www.moddb.com/mods/medieval-warfare
This is an OpenRA mod, this one taking place in a medieval setting.

OpenHV https://openhv.itch.io/openhv
Default pause key is pause/break
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-fHfyLbb0Y

Cameo https://www.moddb.com/mods/cameo
It's an OpenRA mod which mix of all kind of RTS mached into one game Starcraft, Star Wars, C&C, Warcraft...

Seven Kingdoms: Ancient Adversaries https://7kfans.com/

Warzone 2100 Available on Steam store
Pause button: combination of CTRL+- (remapping - to mousewheel makes it easy, as you need few ticks to reach pause).

Zero-K available on Steam store
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrmTvmk3Kio&t=27s
Default pause key is pause/break

No Tactical Pause

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2183600/Kingdom_Under_Fire_A_War_of_Heroes_GOLD_Edition/?l=french
It's free during EA but will become pay to play afterward.
It's an old title but there is a team working on it to make it more efficient on modern systems and adding new features.

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Huitzilopochtli Apr 13 @ 11:28pm

The game "Jagged Alliance: Back in Action" has an excellent pause & plan mechanic with its real time combat. I like how my mercs fire away at the badguys while I pause to use the medic to heal and to throw grenades which are very fun. If you like tac pause, you should play the game for sure - very fun gun fights with intense combat tactics especially in urban combat.

Imnuktam Feb 26, 2024 @ 1:37pm

Just found this group in a thread where people are arguing against active pause being added to AOE 4 for some reason.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1466860/discussions/0/3730701797624173408/?tscn=1708980247

Love this! Joined today as I love issuing commands and building while games are paused and then unpausing and zooming in to watch battles and such. Also have a young daughter who loves rts type games and needs active pause to keep on most of them.

Blows my mind people argue against Tac Pause and that devs dont put it in games. It changes nothing for those that dont want to use it and makes a huge difference to people like me, or older people, or younger kids or people who might have a handicap that makes keeping up in real time difficult or impossible.