Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition is an RTS, Historical, Strategy, Classic, Resource Management, Action, Tactical, Single-player and Multiplayer video game offered by Forgotten Empires for multiple platforms. It serves as the remaster installment of the Age of Empires II, provides more features than the original one, and includes all the expansions and characters from the previous release.
The game offers almost four new civilizations, such as Bulgarians, Cumans, Tatars, Lithuanians, and a new single-player campaign called The Last Kings. The player needs to take the role of an army general of the Empire whose main objective is to serve the Empire. The player face lots of enemies and have to defeat them on the battlefield to save the Empire.
The player can give orders to its commanders and also customize the commander’s abilities and skills to make a mighty army. The Multiplayer mode in the game allows many players to battle and earn points altogether. The player can conquer all the empires one after another and take the lead of defeated empires. The map at the bottom right corner of the screen will allow the player to trace his location and the target area.
While exploring the world, the player finds many cash and other collectibles that will help him to lead at the top of the Leader Board during the Multiplayer mode. The player uses multiple weapons and strategies to take on enemies, such as Arrows, Sword, Bombs, etc. The game offers HD Graphics, Several Army Troops, Strategy-based, Multiplayers, Four New Civilizations, A New Campaign, and more.
#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 Tropico 4: Steam Special Edition
Tropico 4: Steam Special Edition is a brilliant New City Building, MMO, Real-Time Strategy and Management video game by Haemimont Games and Feral interactive. Just like the previous games of the series, Tropico 4: Steam Special Edition allows you to be the president of Isla Nublar, choose the best outfit and customize your character, get into the awesome game-play and face some new challenges, govern over your Naysayers and make the decisions that will write the fate of your nation and grow your off-shore bank accounts. As compared to Tropico 3, Tropico 4: Steam Special Edition offers enhanced more political aspects and more powerful nations to negotiate with, a whole new democracy system in which you can elect more new ministers and get your cunning and controversial policies passed to finally implement the changes you want. With all of the political Drama, you will also have to focus on your enemies, cater with the natural disasters, and lure the populace towards yourself by simply engaging into epic developments and enjoy leading a lavish life. With a new feature of social interaction, integration of social portals like Facebook and twitter, amazing missions to complete, countless rewards, great visuals, great storyline and an amazingly engaging game-play, Tropico 4: Steam Special Edition is a marvelous new addition to the Tropico Series.
#3 A Game of Dwarves
A Game of Dwarves is a great RTS Simulation of this specific genre if we compare it with a lot of names out there. The game lets you be the Dwarf Prince and offers wonderful Construction, Management and development elements along with Strategy and tactical aesthetics. A Game of Dwarves allows you to control a whole settlement of dwarfs, build massive structures, develop new technologies, gather and manage resources and keep balance in the consumption of that resources. In the end, you must be able to change a settlement in a fully developed and thriving dwarf civilization. In order to complete the game objectives and reclaiming the land of your ancestors, you must defeat all the dark forces, defend your keeps by using magical skills, weapons, and strategies and finally reclaim what once was yours. With a wonderful story-line, great sandbox style gameplay and brilliant visuals, A Game of Dwarves is one amazing MMO-RTS, Construction, Management and Combat Simulation to enjoy. Do give it a try.
#4 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.
#5 Anno 1404 – Dawn of Discovery
Anno 1404 or also known as Dawn of Discovery is a brilliant video game that blends in City-Building, Real-time Strategy, MMO and Economic elements beautifully. The game features both medieval and renaissance era settings and allows you to build your own settlements, explore islands, construct buildings, get into diplomatic ties with neighboring settlements or wage wars against the enemies in order to conquer their lands or to defend your own. The city building element of the game allows you to build massive structures like monuments, research labs, and other facilities and rule over them, maintain them etc. The economic element allows you to set up trade routes and economically grow your settlement, acquire necessary resources and manage them wisely. Just like other games in the Anno Series, Anno 1404 or Dawn of Discovery offers a similar Sandbox style gameplay, wonderful visual details and other great things to make you love this game. Try it out and it’ll amaze you with all of what it has to offer.
#6 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.
#7 Project Aura
Project Aura is one of the best Simulations that offers MMO-RTS Economic, City Building, and Management elements in order to provide with one of the best experiences ever. Your task in the game is to simply lead a colony of people who recently faced the worst ever climate disaster that left the world in ruins. You must help them getting out of the trauma by simply constructing new cities seas, businesses to thrive and an economy to help them grow by trade. Find ways to live in a hostile environment, use all the resources you can find on the betterment of the remaining populace learn the ways in which you can live longer during even the worst food shortage, build some shadow shelters to support them with hibernation, train your citizens for different tasks, specialize in trade inside the colony, explore the new areas, craft unique items with the help of old ones and enjoy being control of almost everything around you. With a marvelous storyline, addictive gameplay and beautiful 3D visuals, Project Aura is a fun game to play and enjoy.
#8 Battle World: Kronos
Battle World: kronos is an MMO and Turn-Based Real time Strategy and a war-based video game that lands you into a militaristic setting. The game allows you to engage yourself into campaigns, skirmishes and wars against your enemies from the Yerla Faction. You get to control your own troop units, train them and use the most sophisticated weaponry against your enemies. Battle World: kronos lets you explore the game world, assault your enemies using transporting vehicles, Air Support and via troops, seize their properties and loot their resources etc. You can play the game online with your friends in multiplayer gaming mode and make alliances to defeat your enemy with the greatest force, tactical advantage and might. Battle World: kronos is a great strategy and war based MMO video game to play and enjoy. try it out if you haven’t yet and enjoy the ultimate fun.
#9 Act of War: Direct Action
Act of War: Direct Action is a Real-Time Strategy and a War based MMO video game by Eugene Systems. The game provides with a lot of challenging skirmishes, campaigns, an engaging gameplay and core mechanics that greatly resemble Europa Universalis IV. You can take part in a lot of tactically advanced game missions and fight off your enemies by using heavy artillery, fighter jets, snipers, and a lot of other types of weapons. As the game is a war based strategy, it allows you to engage into battles and combats with your enemies and complete the missions with a very little damage to yourself. Your tasks would be to infiltrate enemy territories, rescue Hostages, eliminate Terrorists, and medically aid the Wounded Soldiers etc. Act of War: Direct Action provides with a 14 mission gameplay, super realistic graphics, RPG and shooting elements, single and multiplayer gaming mode options etc. With all the drama and war based environment plus the brilliant militaristic approach, Act of War: Direct Action is one of the best games of this specific genre. Do try it out and enjoy entertaining yourself for hours.
#10 Cossacks: European Wars
Cossacks: European Wars, developed by GSC Game World is a Real Time Strategy and Tactical War based MMO video game. The game takes place in 17th and 18th centuries in Europe and provides with an isometric view. Cossacks: European Wars allows you to manage a whole settlement of people, gather massive armies, construct different buildings and gather resources such as Coal, Gold, Stone, Iron, Wood, Food etc. and engage in different missions and campaigns such as Thirty years War, and War of Austrian Succession etc. The game provides with a similar game-play as Europa Universalis series games and allows you to take part in battles against your enemies, conquer their settlements and gather resources for your kingdom. Cossacks: European Wars lets you use the best strategies against your enemies and develop best skills for further campaigns of the game. Cossacks: European Wars features randomly generated maps, 5 Campaigns, 20 European nations to choose between, a huge collection of skills and strategies, super fine graphic details and an addictive game-play to enjoy. Being massively popular and one of the best games of this specific genre, Cossack: European Wars is a brilliant MMO and RTS game to play and enjoy.
#11 Eador: Masters of the Broken World
Eador: Masters of the Broken World is a phenomenal blend of Grand Strategy, RPG (Role Playing Game) and Turn Based MMO elements. This fantasy game is developed and published by Snowbird Game Studios. The game features a world named Eador drifting in the midst of the vast emptiness of nothingness. After the great Cataclysmic event the Eador was created along with countless other worlds like it. In this epic strategy game, the war is over the control of other worlds like Eador. Every world wants to dominate the universe by conquering all the scattered worlds. Storyline of the game describes some fantastical and phenomenal happenings in the continuum to mold the direction of the events and that alone is an amazingly fascinating feature of the game. With the strong urge of taking the control of the universe into his hands, the player builds massive empires and settlements by using all the gathered resources, economical benefits and by winning the wars against the neighboring worlds. Greatly modified and enhanced graphics, open ended gaming environment and super easy controls are some really cool features of the game. The amalgamation of different gaming genres offers an amazing experience. Trying out this game will surely be a wise choice if you like playing games with all the included elements. Eador: Masters of the Broken World is available to play on Microsoft Windows only.
#12 Endless Legend
Endless Legend by Amplitude Studios is a Turn Based 4x Fantasy MMO-RTS video game set in the land of Auriga and allows the players to dominate over the land by Exploration, Technology, Conquest, Wars, Diplomacy and Research. You can select your character from one of the eight main races/factions, multiple skill trees and unique characteristics. Endless Legend tasks you with expanding the kingdom of Auriga by using the above mentioned methods and once an area is seized, you can gather up resources and build new cities. The quests in the game can be unlocked by completing different tasks and every finished quests awards you with Dust, the game currency. Dust can be used to buy more upgrades and stuff that makes the game more interesting. Endless Legend with a wonderful Grid-based mechanics, turn based combats, amazing quests and characters, cool visuals and a brilliant game-play is a marvelous game to play and enjoy.
#13 Anno 1701
Anno 1701 is a brilliant MMO, Real-time Strategy (RTS), City building and Management Simulation by Sunflower Interactive Entertainment Software. The story of the game revolves around 18th century colonization systems in the New World. Basically this super cool game is mainly about the economics of the settlement. If a player is enough skilled at preserving an equally maintained and balanced economy he’ll be more successful in achieving the goals. Divided into 5 social stages (Pioneer, Settler, Citizen, Merchant and Aristocrat), this game provides an amazing set of culturally and economically well-mannered society. The player just have to manage it and if he is able to manage it well, he’ll enjoy the game even more. Typically the game-play is similar to Age of Empires and a lot of other games like that. For example. Players can build their own cities, develop the whole civilizations, send troops to invade neighboring kingdoms to battle and defeat the enemies and to conquer and capture their lands to weave into yours. Some great new features in the game include, trade quests, honored guests from other countries, improvement in tax system and natural disasters are a real treat to the game players. This great storyline game is really a piece of art as compared to a lot of titles of the same genre. You must try it out if you really are into MMO and RTS games.
#14 Age of Empires 2: The Age of Kings
Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings is a great Real Time Strategy and Tactical War based MMO video game. The game is set in the Middle Ages and allows you to choose between thirteen different playable civilizations such as Britons, Byzantines, Celts, Chinese, Goths, Japanese, Franks, Persians, Mongols, Saracens, Teutons, Turks and Vikings. As other RTS games, your basic objectives are to build cities, gather armies and resources, defeat your enemies in massive wars and conquer their territories. Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings consists of five main campaigns, three different single player and multiplayer game modes, clean 3D graphics and strict story based game-play for every campaign. Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings also allows you to go through four Ages Dark Age, Feudal Age, Castle Age and Renaissance during the game-play to experience the medieval era game-play and enjoy the game a bit more. Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings is probably a best game of this specific genre. Try it out and it will definitely provide you with a good amount of entertainment.
#15 Age of Wonders 3
Age of Wonders 3 is an Action, RPG and 4X Tactical Strategy video game by Triumph Studios. The game is set in a fictional Fantasy World where you act as the Leader whose tasks are to explore the world, interact with other players, NPCs and races, build diplomatic and trade relations with other nations, wage epic and mighty wars against the foes and eventually expand your Empire. Age of Wonders 3 offers multiple new character classes and skill trees to choose the best and allows you to forge alliances with friendly nations in order to defeat the forces of Dark Lord Meandor and help out his sister Julia who is taking the damages. With some of the most epic turn-based battles, amazing campaigns, wonderful characters and dramatization of this cool game, Age of Wonders 3 lets you enjoy an amazing and quite unique Strategy, High Fantasy and RPG gaming experience. Try it out if you really want to enjoy something that has the qualities of a brilliant game.
#16 The Settlers
The settlers, developed by Ubisoft Blue Bite and published by Ubisoft back in 1993, is a Real Time Strategy (RTS) video game series. The series comprises of total eight main games in the series including the remakes and the recent game was made available in the markets in late 2012. The whole game series features Real Time Strategy game-play in which the player builds a civilization, gathers resources, unlocks new buildings and wages wars against the enemies. The Settlers offers a unique RTS gaming experience along with a community of players all around the world. Players can communicate, make alliances and attack the enemies from different locations and conquer their lands. With all the fancies provided, The Settlers is available to play on numerous gaming platforms as Amiga, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac OS X, Nintendo DS, iOS and Android.
#17 Age of Empires 2: The Forgotten
Age of Empires 2: The Forgotten is wonderful addiction to the series of Age of Empires. This wonderful MMO-RTS game is basically an expansion pack to the famed Age of Empires 2: The Age of Kings and offers 5 new civilization named as Magyars, Indians, Incas, Slavs and Italians, seven new single and multiplayer campaigns, a lot of new troop units, technologies etc. along with a number of new game-play modes, new maps, enhanced graphics and mechanics and perks. The game once more lets you put on show your best skills and strategic approaches, Diplomacy, trade and policy building abilities and assesses your economy building and ruling methods. The conquests and domination over the lands to expand you kingdom is one of the hardest tasks to complete so you must be prepared well in order to complete the objectives of Age of Empires 2: The Forgotten. With super cool visuals, grid based addictive game-play and all the great things, Empires 2: The Forgotten is a wonderful game like Age of mythology to play and enjoy.