Age of Empires II (2013)
Age of Empires II (2013) is an Action, Strategy, RTS, Tactical, Co-op, Historical, Base Building, and Single-player video game developed by Ensemble Studios. During the gameplay, the player needs to collect resources for buildings domains, creating armies, and take charge against enemies to conquer the world. While inspecting the world, the player views the environment from an isometric angle.
The game offers thirteen different civilizations and takes the player to the Middle Ages. The four ages in the game include the Dark Ages, the Feudal Age, the Castle Age, and the Imperial Age, where the player can unlock all these ages by getting to advance through the gameplay. The villagers often called Civilian Units and may include male, female, and children can gather resources for the troops, such as food, water, gold, etc. The collected funds may help the player to construct buildings, pursue technologies, and train the units.
The game allows the player to trade woods, stones, and goods for the sake of virtual currency. The player can play in five different campaigns, such as Genghis Khan’s, Barbarossa’s Crusade, Saladin’s Defense of the Holy Land, Joan of Arc, and William Wallace’s campaign where each campaign contains different history. At the start, the player begins its journey with three villagers, a scout unit, and a town center. The player can conquer the domains by using military conquest control all the relics, make stable kingdoms that can remain for a long time.
The game also introduces five military types, such as infantry, naval, archers, cavalry, and siege weapons that have different defensive abilities and combat powers. Each civilization possesses various weaknesses and strengths, depending on the economy, technology, and battle skills. The player can improve the capabilities of civilization by getting advance and conquering more kingdoms.
#1 Offworld Trading Company
Offworld Trading Company is another great City-Building, Management, MMO-RTS, Economic and Exploration video game. This wonderful game allows you to leave the Earth out of Curiosity and start exploring planet Mars, build mining facilities on the surface and gather resources as an Offworld Trading Company, process the resources in your other facilities and finally sell them onto Earth and other Planets in the Galaxy. As this game is all about Trading and Economics, Offworld Trading Company allows you to manipulate the market by your varying products, manufacture new technologies with the help of Martian resources, Sell them in the markets, generate revenue and spend it on enhancing your company and resources like machinery, operators, and other necessary things. Offworld Trading Company offers single-player campaign and allows you to be in full control of your actions and receive the possible outcome based on the decisions you make. With a marvelous game setting, Sci-fi aesthetics, great visuals and an immersive game-play, Offworld Trading Company is a fun game to play.
#2 Towns
Towns is a great Isometric City-Building and Management MMO-RTS simulation that offers a beautiful sandbox style theme. The game leaves you in a partially build piece of land and allows you to manipulate the land as you like it, explore, gather up resources and build structures you want. At the beginning, Towns allows you to choose biomes (Grass, Desert, Snow or Land) process your selected biomes with their own qualities, grow crops or clean the land and wildlife, build homes, farms and other structures by using the resources and eventually build a whole new civilization and help your people thrive in a very friendly environment. With the help of 11 villagers, you must perform the necessary tasks, settle them up in homes and grow the population, befriend neighboring settlements and grow economically, start trade and grow your nation and enjoy playing this marvelous game. Towns as compared to a lot of other titles of the similar nature, is one of the best simulation to enjoy. Try it out and you’ll love it for sure.
#3 StarTopia
StarTopia is another great Building and Management and RTS Simulation that allows you to control a space station, one among the critically damaged but habitable space stations after the war of the universe. Your task is to take control of the space station, renovate it by simply managing the resources and constructing the necessary buildings, convert the whole space station into kind of a hotel, manage the rooms for the visitors, earn money and then spend it on the spaceport.
You’ll also have to control the employees, assign them duties according to their alien species and ultimately enjoy being in power. After you have enough skills, you can go start building up other space stations and repeat the whole procedure in order to be the most prominent figure in the universe. StarTopia offers wonderful Sci-Fi visuals, amazing characters, and an addictive game-play. Do try it out, it’ll amaze you with all the wonderful stuff it has to offer.
#4 Tropico 5
Tropico 5 is a marvelous new MMO-RTS, City-Building, Management Simulation that offers gameplay a lot similar to its predecessors and Anno series games. With a unique Co-op Multiplayer (4-Player) feature, Tropico 5 lets you build whole cities on different islands and allows you to work with or against each other. The main task in the game is to manage your cities and take your settlement to the Colonial Era, witness World Wars, Cold War and finally reach to the modern era, embrace technological advancements and thrive in an advanced society. You can also be one of the super powers of the time by simply working hard, write the constitution and decide the independence of your cities or countries and by waging wars against your enemies and defeating them. With all the wonderful building and management options, great visuals, and an addictive game-play, Tropico 5 is a brilliant Simulation to spend your precious time on. Do try it out for a beautiful MMO, RTS, management and City-building experience.