The game is also considered very balanced and rewards skilled players, making it one of the best RTS games out there. This is a hulking franchise that might have shaped RTS games as we know them. Warcraft is Blizzard's Real Time Strategy game that feels very similar to fans of Age of Empires and games alike, but with a twist.
World of Warcraft has always delivered an amazing fantasy story that focused, at least at first, on the conflict between Humans and Orcs. The game grew in popularity and has gained two sequels. Warcraft 3 was known for having a balanced gameplay and hours of a great campaign with many memorable characters. The most famous and popular Real Time Strategy game out there. Considered the National Sport of South Korea, Starcraft delivers what is perhaps the most interesting campaigns and most balanced gameplay in the Real Time Strategy genre.
The three races have been battling since the first Starcraft, and kept doing so in Starcraft 2, which was also a great success and one of Blizzard's greatest games ever. The campaign, the characters, the storytelling, and the online experience are all equally great sides of this amazing title. Vikings seem to always be popular, so it might have been a good idea to make a Real Time Strategy game with this theme.
Northgard is a real time strategy game that, at its core, is very much like Age of Empires. You have your units that must scout to find food, wood, and other resources. The twist here is that players must survive the weather.
So, in order to face the winter, proper structures and enough food must be gathered. It is an interesting take on a familiar gameplay that makes trying this game worth it. This franchise will feel very familiar to Age of Empire fans. However, if you have time to invest and you love strategy, this is the game that you cannot ignore. Starcraft 2 is the second installment in the Starcraft series, a space-focused RTS game developed by Blizzard Entertainment.
The game is set in a 26th-century science fiction universe, where the focus is on a galactic struggle between four different species for total universe domination. The game was split into three parts during development in order to tell a complete story. It offers a non-linear gameplay , where the player chooses to play as one of the three species known as Protoss, Terran, and Zerg. In the game, you assume the total control of your units and are required to come up with the best strategies with the given resources in order to survive this inter-galactic war.
Rise of Nations is developed by Big Huge Games and features 18 civilizations and 8 ages of world history. It is consistently ranked and considered to be one of the best games of all time in the real-time strategy genre.
The aim of the player is to progress and advance to the most modern age in order to gain access to better weaponry and attack their opponents more efficiently, to either conquer them or wipe them off completely.
The most important aspect of this series is its focus on the campaigns of various factions in a single central storyline. The player gets to choose their sector in the world to start in, from there they start to build and grow their military base. The game allows the player to construct buildings, gather resources and engage in battles against enemy camps in order to survive and flourish.
Similar to the Age of Empires series, Empire Age is a history-based real-time strategy game. Spanning over , years of world history, the game begins from a pre-historic era and ends at the nano age.
The game requires players to gather resources to construct buildings, populate their civilizations with citizens, and conquer opposing civilizations. The game also includes an extensive map editor for the players to create their empires in whatever design they wish to. Heroes can be built at the town center or capital. There are two types of heroes, Strategist heroes who heal surrounding units and can demoralize enemy units while Warrior heroes give morale to surrounding units and have a greater attack power.
The game is developed by Blizzard, one of the biggest gaming studios in the world, takes players on a fantasy journey where they can command exquisite creatures the Night Elves, Undead, Orcs, and Humans.
Players go through an epic journey where they can choose any faction and build their base, assemble an army, and recruit powerful heroes to lead the charge. The latest game in the series, Warcraft III — Reforged is available for pre-order right now and will be available to play at the end of the year.
The new game will bring a thorough visual overhaul, a suite of contemporary social and matchmaking features , and more. So you have plenty to play before the new game hits the market. Empire is a free to play, real-time strategy game with great multiplayer online game elements in it. The title developed by Good Game Studios is set in a medieval age, where the players slowly build their empire from ground up and turns it into a juggernaut that enemy players would think twice before attacking.
The aim is to build castles, trade with other players, raise an army and conquer your enemies. Keeping a full control over your units, building a position, coming up with the battle techniques and thinking your strategies for combat, is what Empire sets out to accomplish and succeeds at.
Developed by BlueBite, The Settlers is a free to play browser-based real-time strategy game which has a few in-game purchases. The Settlers Online introduces brand new additions and improvements to the genre. It features a world where players have to collect resources and complete in-game missions to build their own medieval kingdom where they can capture territories and explore.
The game is inspired by the famous Settlers series but the online realm and MMO elements add a whole another layer of depth to the concept. The game offers lots of content to unlock, tons of levels to progress through, various bandit camps to obliterate, and interaction with human players in the world, who we can either befriend or wage a war against.
When I saw the trailer for the Bad North for the first time, I was hyped. At first glance, the games cartoonish graphics and mellow music might fool you , but make no mistake, this is as brutal a game as they come. You own an island and you will have to build your army and upgrade your weapons to defend that island against the horde of Vikings that are going to attack you.
The game is really fun to play. While being quite tricky, the game is not as hard as Age of Empires of Civilization VI which makes this perfect for gamers who want to play a strategy game in short bursts. Even though the game follows the same pattern of gameplay as the first Stronghold game , unlike its predecessor, Stronghold Crusader is set in the Middle East during the Crusades and features new Arabian units. Due to the Middle-East setting, farms can only be built on limited oasis grass, which ushers a rivalry among players who fight for the limited amount of farmland and resources.
Other than farms, there are other resources to gather, like iron ore, quarry, and marshes. These resources are deposited in their reserves and players can either sell or use these resources for a better defense against attacks.
Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak is a prequel to the classic Homeworld games which are known for its real-time strategy gameplay. The new games take you to the deserts of Kharak where you assemble your army and lead them to victory on the shifting sand.
The game takes place long before the original Homeworld games, where you and your civilization is trying to survive in a harsh desert environment while fighting the technologically advanced religious fanatics. Launched in by Shiro Games, Northgard is another Norse city builder, but aesthetically it has more in common with Age of Empires.
The models for your towns, units, and villagers are through a cartoonish art style that brings up some strong AOE nostalgia and its soundtrack is pretty great to boot. More akin to the likes of Rome or Civilisation, Hearthlands tasks players with building their kingdom in a procedurally-generated fantasy world.
Released back in , Hearthlands is a simplified city builder that has a surprising amount of depth once you get into it.
Developed by Rionix, this Warhammer III-inspired RTS city builder may wear that inspiration on its sleeves, but it has used that familiar setting to create its own unique cartoonish fantasy world that you can easily get lost in. As you build up your city and create complex structures to house, feed, and defend its inhabitants the game will also give you quests for extra rewards or progression through the story. Civilization 6 delivers exceptional turn-based strategy gameplay.
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