Age of Mythology
Age of Mythology is a Myth-based MMO-RTS video game by Ensemble Studios. The game is basically a Spin-off from the Age of Empires Series and is based on Greek, Egyptian and Norse mythologies. With an Age of Empires inspired game-play and mechanics, Age of Mythology features Admiral Arkantos from Atlantean Origins who is destined to explore the game world divided into 3 most significant cultures and hunt down Cyclops, a companion of Poseidon, and an enemy of Atlantis. Age of Mythology offers a typical gameplay to a lot of other MMORTS games and because of that it allows you to defeat a number of enemy units, build structures, towns, farms etc., train villagers into fully skilled fighters or soldiers, wage epic wars against the neighboring and distant Civilizations, Rival Towns etc. Your main task in the game is to always keep on advancing your tribes and to achieve that goal you’ll have to start from Archaic Age then eventually upgrades to Classic Age, Heroic Age and finally reach to the Mythic Age. Each and every upgrades to any age unlocks more unique Units, Technologies etc. and allows you to be in a more advanced time than the previous. Age of Mythology offers four types of main resources such as Food, Gold, Favor that you can use to train your troop units, build structures, research etc. Age of Mythology lacks one main resource Stone and lets you use other things instead of that. Furthermore, Age of Mythology offers brilliant options to build a strong economy, diplomatic relations with friendly nations etc. With a number of units classified into seven main classes such as Infantry, Cavalry, Archery, Naval, Heroes, Myth Units and Siege Weaponry controlled by Human Units, options to build multiple types of buildings such as Economic buildings, Markets, Farms, Military buildings, Research Facilities, Defensive Structures such as Towers and weapon Mounts etc, Age of Mythology offers a brilliantly engaging and quite addictive gameplay to enjoy.
#1 Age of Empires
Age of Empires is a marvelous MMO-RTS video game developed by Ensemble Studios and distributed by Microsoft studios back in 1997. The Original game came with 7 sequels and 3 spin-offs. From its first release till date, the game titles are all historical real time strategies and the game-play offers single and multiplayer player gaming modes along with a number of fantastic Campaigns, missions and stuff. Age of Empires is set in a historical eras like Stone Age, The Rise of Roman Empire, Europe and Asia in Middle Ages, Spanish Conquest of Mexico, Asian Dynasties, Rise of Asia etc. The latest inclusion to this amazing real time strategy game series is “Age of Empires Online” which is the 7th sequel to the game. This sequel of the game also revolves around historical events. Age of Empires ruled the world and sold almost 20 Million copies and handed back a really sizable profit to Ensemble Studios. The game allows you to control the whole Empires, train massive armies, build your defenses, wage epic wars against your enemies and defeat them to prove your supremacy. With a very thrill filled game-play that offers a number of amazing campaigns, beautifully created 3D visuals and loads of fantatsic things to discover, Age of Empires in one of the best MMO-RTS games and typically a trend setter for this specific genre.
#2 The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth 2
Set in the universe of LOTR, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth II is a great MMORTS video game available to play on PC and Xbox gaming platforms. First off for a better gaming experience, the game lets you decide about on which side you want to be. You can either be a companion of the Evil or you can patch up with Good. The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth II quite resembles to the RTS games in the LOTR series and provides with a similar game-play. You will have to build your base by building different structures such as defense, barracks, refineries, farms, etc. and gather up the resources. The game allows you to choose any one from the six given factions to enjoy the game-play in different variations. You can also select skills for combat from the five given categories and you can also call the LOTR heroes to assist you in the battles. The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth II is a great MMORTS video game and it provides with a similar game-play and other characteristics to its predecessors. Do try it out and enjoy the ultimate Action and RTS fun.
#3 Banished
Banished is a fantastic MMO-RTS and City Building video game that takes you to a medieval era setting. The game allows you to explore the huge game world, collect resources, create balance in your resource consumption and thrive in a great environment. Banished is basically a story of a group of outcasts who after being banished came to this settlement, now they are in need of your superior skills and abilities to get settle and thrive as a prosperous nation. You can start with the limited resources you have and level up to maximum resources, build residential buildings, create farms, markets and other businesses, start new economic relations with neighboring settlements etc. because of a medieval era setting, you’ll have wood and stones as your main resources and you’ll also have to continuously produce them by cutting the forests and blowing up the mountains etc. With a great theme, cool visuals and an addictive game-play, Banished is a great game to play and enjoy.
#4 Rise of Nations
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to manage a whole kingdom, a city or a territory and wage wars against the enemies to either conquer them or to loot their resources, survive and flourish an amazing and prosperous civilization? Well if you want to experience an amazing King or a General like feeling, Rise of the Nations is the game built just for you. Rise of Nations is a Single and multiplayer MMO-RTS Video game that provides with a great blend of fantasy elements. The game allows you to be part of a hugely mapped and beautifully created game world, Construct Buildings (Barracks, Forts, Defense, Markets etc.), Make Allies, Wage Wars against your enemies, Gather up Resources etc. The game also lets you accommodate more than eighteen different races, train more troops from eight unique classes and use best strategies against your enemies. Rise of Nations basically focuses on the balance between Economy, Offense and Defense and encourages you to fully strategize your every move in the game. Rise of nations offers a marvelously engaging and quite immersive game-play, a number of fantastic Single and Multiplayer Campaigns, great visual details and loads of brilliant things to discover. Do try it out if you haven’t yet and enjoy the ultimate fun.
#5 Rise Of Nations: Gold Edition
The Rise of Nation game series includes some really great games like Rise of Nation: Thrones and Patriots and Rise of Nations: Gold Edition. This epic real time strategy game is developed by Big Huge Games. This game is based on the historical events of time and travels back to almost 6000 years of ancients. Main features include heavy Warfare, city building, governance, troops, battles, thrones, trade and merchandise etc. This super amazing RTS game never lets you feel like you are wasting your time while playing this game. Graphics and game-play are quite like Age of Empires. Storyline and user interface are a bit different. Rise of Nations expansion pack offers new nations, campaigns for single players, more troop units and some really great new wonders and government types to choose. This amazingly wondrous and engaging game can be played only on PC.
#6 Imagine Earth
Imagine Earth is a great City Building, Management, MMO and Real-Time Strategy video game that takes you to an amazingly Interactive and Futuristic game world and allows you to be a manager of a Colony, Explore habitable near and distant stars and planets, built settlements on them, start trading and eventually grow to all the surrounding world without destroying your home.
Imagine Earth lets you enjoy playing this brilliant game by simply converting whole planets into your playgrounds, enjoy every bit of your time by simply engaging in fantastic puzzle solving, building, and developing routines. The unique strategic element allows you to use your best skills in building, democracy, trade, and defense and enjoy ruling over a world of possibilities.
With a challenging game-play, threats like meteor impacts, huge wildfires, enemy intrusions and interaction with the alien civilizations, trade with multiple types of individuals, mining and exploration, and a leading spot in technologically enhanced and advanced nations, Imagine Earth is a mix-up of wonderfully engaging and quite immersive aesthetics.
#7 Stronghold HD
Stronghold HD is a marvelous Real-time Strategy, City building and Management video game by FireFly Studios. This piece of art takes you directly to a medieval Setting and allows you to Build, Destroy and Rebuild massive Historical Strongholds/Castles, engage in medieval era wars with equally equipped enemies and enjoy being part of massive single-player campaigns. Your basic task in the game is to fight off massive enemy forces in order to reclaim your lost lands from the enemies and reunite England in order to build a massive Empire. You must also build strongest ever defenses by the use of all the available resources, train massive armies, wage wars against the enemies and capture their strongholds in order to expand your kingdom, loot huge caches of resources etc. You can also make alliances with friendly settlements, build economic and trade relations and routes, craft weapons and other items and finally reunite whole of the England in order to complete the game objectives. With a wonderful game setting, amazing visuals, immersive game-play and all the wonderful things that Stronghold HD has to offer, this game is amazing, do try it out.
#8 Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends
Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends is a truly amazing and quite engaging Fantasy based MMO and Real Time Strategy video game developed by Big Huge Games. The game allows you to play a number of campaigns and missions, conquer your enemies and loot their resources. The main objectives of the game include City building, accommodations of your people and troops, construction of defensive structures etc. You must make best strategies to defeat your enemies and to make your defenses impenetrable. You can accommodate different sets of individuals and for that you’ll need to build different buildings like Military barracks, Markets, Palaces, Maguses (Research labs) and industries etc. Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends lets you be in power and write the fate of all the people living in your settlement. For resources you must wage wars against your enemies and use best of your skills and strategies to conquer them. Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends is a great RTS game to play and enjoy. Do try it out.
#9 Command and Conquer Generals: Zero Hour
Command and Conquer Generals: Zero Hour focuses on Real-time Strategy gameplay and supports both Single and Multiplayer modes created by EA Lost Angeles and published by EA Games. The game includes new units, abilities, and modes of play known as Generals’ Challenge. There are different factions such as USA, China, GLA, etc. and you can select one of them to get access to the game world where you have to lead your army in the fictional world and fight against others to progress. Each faction has its strength and weakness and a set of units and weapons. Build your base, recruit army and equip them with advanced weapons. Defend your base and upgrade your units using your rewards and bonuses. Gather resources, and conquer another base by defeating them. It has different modes such as Reborn, Contra, and Rise of the Reds, Shockwave, Operation Firestorm and more. There are a series of missions with unique gameplay and quests. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.
#10 Empire Earth
Empire Earth by Stainless Steel Studios is a Real-time Strategy (RTS) video game. It’s the first game in the series and allows the players to be part of the world, Collect Resources, Construct buildings, produce and look for the Citizens, raise massive legions of Army and invade enemy civilizations to expand your reign. Empire Earth offers 500,000 years of World History and divides it to fourteen different eras. The game lets the players start from the Prehistoric Age and slowly grow into the most advanced and developed civilizations. With an exciting Expansion pack named as Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest, Empire Earth adds up more new features to the gameplay and allows the players to enjoy it more. Furthermore, Empire Earth offers a fifteenth and new Epoch known as Empire Earth: Space Age that focuses on Advanced Space-based Civilizations and Colonization of the planets in the Empire Earth Universe. Empire Earth offers Epochs of different times and allows the players to enjoy gameplay in various eras such as Prehistoric Age, Stone Age, Copper Age, Bronze Age, Dark Age, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Imperial Age, Industrial Age, the Era of World War 1, World War 2, Modern Atomic Age, Digital Age, and the Nano Age. Space Age is added to the game as an expansion pack that comes separately. With a number of Single-player Campaigns such as Learning Campaign, Greek Campaign, English Campaign, German Campaign, and Russian Campaign, Empire Earth offers Multiplayer Campaigns as well. Empire Earth also provides several Sequels, and a major Expansion pack named as Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest. With a truly remarkable narrative, an impressively involving gameplay, beautifully created visuals and all the building and Construction fun, Empire Earth is a great RTS video game to play and enjoy.
#11 Tropico 3
Tropico 3 combines the elements of Construction and Management, Political, and Economic Simulation. The game supports single-player mode developed by Haemimont Games and published by Kalypso Media. It takes place on the Caribbean Islands of Tropica where the player can rule as EI President. There are a variety of levels consists of different missions and objectives. The main duty of the player is to develop the area where the rules, gather resources and use them to building structures, units, roads and more. It includes seven different factions such as Nationalist, Communist, Militarist, Capitalist, and more. Each with its unique requirements and attributes. The player has to lead the inhabitant of his Island, create shelters, collect rare artifacts, and make a beautiful city. He will face different challenges such as garbage, overpopulation, political issues, and more. He has to builds roads for vehicles, grows crops, and earn money to unlock other features and more. The game will unlock other buildings and units as you progress through it. Tropico 3 offers core features such as Vehicles, Online Scoring, Visits to Islands, Election Speeches, Timeline Editor and more. Try it out.
#12 Age of Mythology: The Titans
Age of Mythology: The Titans serve as the expansion pack for Age of Mythology video game developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft Game Studios. The game revolves around Real-time Strategy and supports both Single-player and Multiplayer modes. The expansion pack offers four new cultures in in the game, including new units, three major kinds, and the Atlanteans. It comes with new features such as training of units, auto-queuing, a gargantuan, and the ability to summon the titan. In the game, the player needs to select his playable character, place his units, recruit army and command his force in battlefield against enemies and rival players. During the gameplay, the player has to gather resources, build shelters, create his base and expand his empire further. In the game, each faction has its unique strength and abilities that the player uses to smash enemies. The game offers six types of maps and seven new artificial intelligence personalities. Age of Mythology: The Titans includes prominent features such as improved Gameplay, New Units, New Map Types, compelling Story, and more.
#13 Command and Conquer
Command and Conquer is the very first game in the series and a Real-Time Strategy, War based MMO video game developed by Westwood Studios. The game is set in an alternate reality that focuses on modern day events. As the story describes, the game is basically about a world war between two massive and global factions Global Defense Initiative and a Militant Cult known as Brotherhood of Nod. The war is over the possession of a rare and mysterious element known as Tiberium which is slowly spreading across the world and is a great source of power. Command and Conquer became a hit after very short time of its release back in 1995 and on a huge demand from players around the world, Westwood Studios decided to develop more games as Command and Conquer sequels and that chain is still growing on.Command and Conquer is the predecessor to a number of brilliant games in the series such as Command & Conquer: Red Alert, Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun, Command & Conquer: Renegade, Command & Conquer: Tiberian Twilight etc. Command and Conquer offers single and multiplayer game modes with campaigns, skirmishes and AIs. it allows you to buildings, power houses and transport, train troops, battle with enemies and govern over the cities in order to prove your might and enjoy the game. The game offers a quite futuristic environment and story-line and offers a really different and quite immersive experience of MMO-RTS elements.
#14 Company of Heroes
Company of Heroes is a 2006’s hit Real-Time Strategy and MMO video game by Relic Entertainment. The game is set in World War 2 Era and allows you to be part of any of the two Factions. Tasks are to simply capture certain areas on game map, build new bases, produce and train new units and defeat enemies in hardcore Action-packed battles. With brilliant visuals, amazingly addictive game-play and a super cool story-line, Company of Heroes is a cool addition to the RTS genre. With all the brilliant Single and Multiplayer Campaigns, Missions etc. Company of heroes offers a great MMO-RTS experience for all those who love playing games of this specific genre. Company of heroes offers Unique Combat mechanics and offers enhancements into the typical game-play type, takes it to a whole new level by enabling the players to build massive economies, strategic and diplomatic relations, mega alliances and take part into epic wars fought for the domination, resources and pride. With all the amazing things combined, Company of heroes offers a militaristic touch to the Core game-play and allows you to enjoy the game even more. if you are a true fan of MMO-RTS genre you must have played this game earlier, but if not, you should definitely try it out and enjoy all the ultimate fun and entertainment.
#15 Galactic Civilizations
Galactic Civilizations combines the elements of Turn-based, Strategy, and 4X game. It is the first entry in the series of Galactic Civilizations and takes place in the future. It offers exciting story, in which the human makes an unbelievable discovery called hyperdrive. It allows the humans to travel fast between two stars. They share their discovery with other five major races of aliens. Now the aliens star war against humans. Select your race and get into the game world with an ultimate goal to dominate the galaxy. You can get success in your task through diplomacy, war, and culture domination. Research new technologies, create an economy, recruit forces, keep a balance between diplomatic, political and trade skills, and control the humanity destiny. Fend off alien races to attack Planet Earth, and defeat those using weapons and strategies. Galactic Civilizations offers prominent features such as Multiple Path to Victory, Campaign Editor, different Scenarios, Replayability, and more. With the best mechanics, addictive gameplay, and superb visuals, Galactic Civilizations is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.
#16 Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3
Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 is an extremely wonderful RTS video game like Supreme Commander. The game is one of the most popular and well-liked addition to the Command and Conquer series and offers a similar game-play and mechanics to its predecessors. Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 takes you to World War 2 era and allows you to part of the massive conflict between the Soviet Union, Empire of the Rising Sun and their Allies, choose one of the powerful sides and begin making strategies that will eventually write the fate of world. Dominate and seize the power by simply building your own bases, collecting resources and by conquering the enemy installations. The unique RTS element of the game lets you gather up enough resources, build your defenses and make strategies, raise immensely powerful armies to defeat your enemies, attack on your enemies from ground, air and sea and dominate where ever you go. Amazingly addictive and long campaigns, combats, beautiful visuals and an immersive game-play are the key parts of this wonderful game. For a great Supreme Commander like experience, you should totally try this one out.
#17 Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2
Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2 developed by Westwood Pacific and published by Electronic Arts is a Real-time Strategy and Single-player video game. The game revolves around two different factions fighting against each other such as the Allies and the Soviets. The player must choose his factions and select his character from playable classes to get into the world. There are a variety of levels, and the game is about base-building, train and lead an army and conquer the land. The main objective is to build the base, create an army and equip them with weapons and start a battle against another faction to loot their resources and conquer their land. Navigate the environment and collect resources to enhance the power of his base and earn lots of money to unlock or purchase an upgrade. The Single-player campaign three different modes such as boot camp, Soviet and allied. The player can select one of them to battle against others or can compete in Skirmish mode where he can customize the setting and rules the battle. With superb mechanics, addictive gameplay, and wonderful visuals Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2 is the best game to play and enjoy.
#18 Sid Meier’s Civilization V
Sid Meier’s Civilization V or shortly named as Civilization V is a wonderful 4X Turn-based MMO-RTS video game by Firaxis Games. The game is based on the player who leads a civilization from Primordial times to the future on a methodologically created map. The game lets you use your skills and experiences for the Research, Exploration, Diplomacy, Expansion of the lands, Economic and technological development, Governmental and Military Conquests etc. Civilization V inherits a lot of characteristics and mechanics from Civilization IV but a slight change is the absence of a lot of expansion packs. Unlike the previous versions of the game, Battle and combat characteristics are quite changed, Cities can now defend themselves by devastating the enemies situated nearby, and a lot of military restrictions are gone. Sid Meier’s Civilization V resembles Age of Mythologies a lot, story-line and game-play is quite overhauled and the game provides with Single and Multiplayer Campaigns so you can enjoy it more. Graphics are greatly enhanced as compared to the older versions of the game. With 2 expansion packs Civilization V: Gods and Kings and Civilization V: Brave New World, this game offers wonderful visuals, a brilliant game-play etc.
#19 Heroes of Might and Magic
Heroes of Might and Magic is a popular Series of Action, RPG, MMO and RTS video games. The whole series allows you to engage yourself into epic Fantasy-themed encounters with the enemies and lets you command over massive armies of Mythical Creatures, Explore a massive game world, collect resources and artifacts and wage wars against the enemies, defeat them in epic conflicts and gain experience points. With a number of characters, brilliant setting, amazingly addictive nature and an immersive game-play, Heroes of Might and Magic is a wonderful game to play. Games like Heroes of Might and Magic are a huge source of pure entertainment for all the hardcore Action, RPG and RTS fans. Heroes of Might and magic offers brilliant games packed up with immersive game-plays, great story-lines, state of the art visual details and loads of amazing stuff to discover. Do try this series out if you really are a fan of MMO, RTS and Fantasy gaming.
#20 Dwarf Fortress
Dwarf Fortress is an Open Ended RTS, Roguelike, Construction, management and City-Building video game. The game is set up in a procedurally generated game world in which you control two different groups of dwarfs. Your objective is to make the two dwarf groups work and build an underground fortress and all the buildings required. The open world is full of continents, oceans, and beastly civilizations and allows you to gather up resources by fighting and defeating your enemies. Text based game interface, Turn-Based Strategy and Roguelike game elements make this game a bit different than others but quite addictive and engaging. Dwarf Fortress features dwarfs with different mood swings and skills, for example, you can make a dwarf craft super beautiful and legendary artifacts or you can just task them to go search for resources etc. Dwarf Fortress features best 3D graphics, a lot of exciting objectives to complete, a huge amount of objects/resources to collect and much more. Do try it out.
#21 Stonehearth
Stonehearth is another wonderful Sandbox style, Construction, Management and MMO-RTS video game that offers an addictive and quite immersive game-play. The game makes you an in charge of a small dwarf settlement and allows you to start up as a camp and with the time, grow up to a whole new civilization, control the Hearthlings, generate and manage resources, build structures like homes, markets, workshops, assign jobs to the hearthlings, grow crops, battle against the enemies and thrive in a developed community. Combats against the enemies are the best part of this brilliant game, it actually allows you to raise mighty armies, build defensive structures like Towers, create catapults, weapons and other necessary items and defend your settlement by making whole new strategies. Other cool features of Stonehearth are brilliant voxel-based visuals, an engaging game-play and the ability to help the community survive in wilderness. Stonehearth is one of the best MMO-RTS, City-Building and Management video games to play and enjoy.
#22 Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos
Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos, developed by Blizzard Entertainment and published as a joint venture by Capcom, Blizzard Entertainment and Sierra Entertainment is a Massively Multiplayer Online Real time Strategy (MMORTS) video game. The game is set on a huge map filled with various types of plains and fields. With a choice of being into the character of Humans or Orcs, player chooses the one side according to his likeness and gets into the game. Player explores the land and settles his civilization on the selected piece of land. Player creates homes, markets, shops, soldier barracks, etc. to establish the standards for living and as the game is war based MMORTS, the player trains the troops, builds barracks for them and creates workshops for weapons etc. to gather a strong army against the enemies. With the help of troops the player repels any attacks from game AI’s or from other players playing online and also attacks nearing cities to conquer and grow his reign. The game also features orcs who mostly guard the resources such as gold, mineral mines, and neutral buildings and always ready to fight against you or any other players online. Orcs in the game are a best source to get some gold or a number of special items. Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos is an amazingly cool war game to play in which your only purpose is to gather an army and wage wars against your enemies to survive and flourish a civilization. Warcraft 3 Reign of Chaos is available to play on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.
#23 Evil Genius
Evil Genius is a brilliant MMO and RTS, City-Building and Management Simulation that literally allows you to rule the world by becoming an evil villain. The game offers unique cartoonish visuals and characters and allows you to build a secret base, complete hardest ever missions, fight off the forces of justice, engage yourself into epic battles, develop weapons and finally rule the world by the use of force. As the basic objective is to rule the world, so you must construct super-weapons, secret bases, and Doomsday Device etc. to show the world your power. The game is set in the 60’s and lets you be a ferocious villain, control whole islands, build secret facilities and strongholds, control the armies of minions, henchmen, and other cartoonish characters and rule the world. Evil Genius offers great visuals, superbly addictive game-play and a lot of other great things. Try it out and you’ll definitely be amazed at the quality of content that Evil Genius offers.
#24 Tropico 4
Tropico 4, developed by Haemimont Games and Feral Interactive is an Open Ended City-Building, management and MMO-RTS Simulation video game. The game allows you design, build and manage the Cities as the President of Tropical Islands (Banana Republic). You must govern over Banana Republic and build buildings and structures on any island by choosing one from the map or you can just randomly select an island and start building. The game lets you be part of the game world by selecting and customizing an online avatar for yourself and after you have completed the initial steps you can start working on your cities. Tropico 4 allow you to play game in Campaign and provides with 20 levels of addictive and engaging game-play in which you get a chance to attack your enemies and conquer their lands and loot their resources. You must use best Turn Based Strategies to eliminate your enemies and any threat that diverts your attention from building your cities. Tropico 4 is an amazingly cool MMO-RTS, City Building and Management video game to play and enjoy. Do try it out.
#25 SimCity
SimCity is Construction, Management, Open World City-Building and an MMO-RTS video game developed by Maxis. The game uses a GlassBox Engine and provides with more enhanced graphics, updated content and a lot of other exciting things. Some of the new features of the game include finite resources and multiplayer gaming mode that allow a huge number of players from around the world to get in touch and enjoy the game. Sim City 2013 connects a massive number of cities via predefined regional maps, uses Roads, Railways and Water Ways for the connection. You can play the game and build whole cities, trade goods and resources, provide your services etc. in the game. The game has a unique simulated economy that allows you to keep track of your earnings, spending and profits and helps you make better economic strategies for the benefits of the people living in the city. Sim City is a great video game to play and enjoy because of its addictive and engaging nature. SimCity offers a number of popular games, spin-offs and sequels in the series. All the related info can be found on the official site.
#26 Grand Ages: Medieval
Grand Ages: Medieval offers a beautiful combination of MMO-RTS, City-building and Management elements and lets you enjoy a totally immersive game-play experience. The game allows you to be a Mayor of a small town, grow your settlement and eventually rule over all of the Europe. Grand Ages: Medieval takes you to the Middle Ages and allows you to witness the progress and development of Europe in the very start of its evolution. Govern over a small town and grow slowly into an empire that is fully developed, control the rapidly growing population, build structures to accommodate people and to start new businesses, explore new worlds, find new settlements and start trading with them, grow your level of expertise slowly and become a finance tycoon in order to flourish, to develop and to live in peace. You must also build your defenses, raise huge armies, train troops and defend your settlement along with your trade routes and enjoy being a ruler who is responsible for the wonderful Europe as we see it today. Grand Ages: Medieval offers unique story-line, visuals and a fantastic game-play that will definitely leave you spellbound for quite some time.
#27 Supreme Commander
Supreme Commander or popularly known as SupCom is a wonderful Real-Time Strategy and MMO video game by Gas Powered Games. The game allows you to Pilot giant Mechs named as Armored Command Units (ACUs) and lets you build your own Base, build more Mech units like the one you are piloting, use sophisticated technologies to upgrade your mech units, wage wars against the enemies and conquer their outposts. You can select anyone of the three main factions, go hunting on the enemies and eventually expand your mechanical reign. With a number of fantastic Single and Multiplayer Campaign, missions and side missions for you to engage yourself in and enjoy a brilliant experience. Supreme Commander is the predecessor to 1997’s “Total Annihilation” if you consider it to and it offers almost similar game-play and mechanics and allows yo to have a totally unique MMO-RTS experience. With a futuristic game setting, beautifuly created 3D visuals and all the thrilling Campaigns in the game, Supreme Commander is one of the best games of this specific genre.
#28 Black and White
Black and White is a wonderful City Building and a Community-based virtual simulation that allows you to build, cities, accommodate people, craft buildings such as homes, markets, workshops, castles etc. and govern over everything from a top down perspective. Initially the game lets you take control over an Island, home to a number of different tribes. your task is to control the tribes, feed them, build houses and markets for them, assign them various tasks and Expand your land. As you control the whole villages, it is your duty to take care of your people, provide them with good nutrition and help them solve problems, make them breed and increase their population in order to have more and more people living in your villages. With all the fun and epic gameplay, Black and White offers a fantastic environment, beautifully created game visuals and loads of exciting things to discover.
#29 Warcraft
Warcraft or also known as Warcraft: Orcs & Humans is the Very first video game of the series. Released back in 1994, Warcraft was a Record Sale hit video game that won three awards and was nominated for three more. With a massive response from around the world markets, Warcraft became the number one hit of the time and was a great competitor to Westwood Studio’s Command and Conquer video game series. Being a top trending RTS (Real Time Strategy) video game, the game lets the player take control of a character from any of the classes (Humans and Orcs) and engage in an epic single-player campaign to complete a number of different missions. Each and every mission of the game offers different objectives such as building towns, resource collection, and raising and training massive armies, etc. The Multiplayer Campaign of the game allows the players to complete only one primary objective of destroying enemy bases and defeat their forces (Humans, Orcs or Monsters based on the character class choices at the start of the game). The combat in the game is mainly Melee and Ranged type that requires troops having the abilities. With a truly remarkable narrative, Medieval and Fantasy-based game setting, addictive gameplay, loads of fantastic game modes, beautiful visuals and loads of other great things, Warcraft (Warcraft: Orcs & Humans) is one amazing RTS game to play and enjoy.
#30 American Conquest
American Conquest is another brilliant Title in the line of RTS genre that takes you to the history and leaves you in the middle of 15th and 18th centuries where you‘ll have to fight for the Colonization. With a similar game-play and mechanics to Cossacks: European Wars, American Conquest allows you to build your own armies, bases and develop technologies to defeat your enemies and to conquer their settlements. To achieve the goals, you’ll have to produce, collect and manage your resources, build massive alliances, diplomatic and trade relations to the friendly nations and double up your power against the enemies. Building up whole new units of troops, defensive structures, weapons and means of transport are the most fun part of the game. American Conquest offers a number of campaigns all divided upon their conditions, storylines and environments. You can either be a Spanish, American or native conquistador and engage yourself in an amazingly addictive and one of its kind game-plays ever. The inclusion of Multiplayer mode, amazing skirmishes, battles with other online players and AIs are the key features of this game. Try it on and enjoy a marvelous combination of great game-play, state of the art visuals and an amazing story-line.
#31 Galactic Civilizations 3
Galactic Civilizations 3 is another great Strategy and Turn-based video game. The game offers wonderful Sandbox aesthetics and allows you to engage yourself into an amazing game-play spread across the galaxy. Your task is to conquer the world by Diplomacy, trade, Cultural values, and by the might of your massive military. With both Single and Multiplayer modes, Galactic Civilizations 3 lets you enjoy 4X Strategy, amazing new story-based campaigns, brilliantly engaging turn-based combats with enemies and all the great stuff. The Sandbox feature of the game allows you to enjoy amazing new maps, unique game worlds and a lot of new challenges and experience a totally different side of Strategy gaming. Galactic Civilizations 3 is one of the best games to play and enjoy.
#32 Stronghold
Stronghold is a Real-time Strategy video game with Single and Multiplayer modes. Firefly Studios develop the game and published by Take 2 Interactive. Stronghold focuses on expansion and conquest through military units and offers a space for economic development and strategy. The game takes place in Medieval Britain and set in the historical time 1066 AD. In the game, you can assume the role of the Lord and your main aim is to create a strong Empire, recruit armies to defend it and expand your Empire. Gather resources, conquer other castles, make them the slaves, loot their resources, and complete the objectives. The game comprises different modes with economic and combat missions. The primary mode is Military Campaign, focuses on a massive map of England. Stronghold includes core features such as Famous Historical Castles, Dive into Battle, Detailed Environment, Entire Map on Single Screen, and more. Stronghold is the best RTS game to play and enjoy.
#33 Panzer General II
Panzer General II is a Strategy, Turn-based, Tactics, Single and Multiplayer Simulation developed by Strategic Simulation, Inc. It is the sixth entry in the marvelous series of General. The game is set in WWII (World War II) environment and focuses on the event of the Spanish Civil War. It consists of different scenarios each with a specific battle. The game offers massive maps and lets you assume the role of the soldier and jump into battle, target enemies, crush them and captures hexes by exploring units. Achieve your objectives by defeating enemies, and completing the tasks. There are different landscapes that you must explore such as Mountains, City, Forests, and more. It has different units with various properties such as Tank, Infantry, Anti-Tank, Air Defense, Bomber and more. Panzer General II offers core features such as Exciting Environment, Different Tasks to Complete, Challenging Missions, NPCs, Weapons, and more. With enhanced mechanics, gameplay, visuals and story, Panzer General II is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.
#34 Praetorians
Praetorians is an Action, Real-time Strategy, Single and Multiplayer video game created by Pyro Studios and published by Eidos Interactive. The game is set in historical Rome Empire and allows you get into the game world by selecting your side. Create your troops and equip them with traditional weapons and dive into battle, fight against thousands of other troops and defend your Empire. Defeat enemies and loot their resources. It has two different modes such as the Campaign and the Skirmish. The game campaign mode has four different levels in which you can take part as Julius Caesar and your main task is to lead your force against different hostile tribes and Egyptian. Explore the map, complete quests and earn rewards to unlock other content. There are twenty missions in Campaign mode divided into four section and each section is started by a short film. Expand your Empire by building and upgrading your units to progress in the game. With exciting features, different modes, stunning visuals, and brilliant mechanics, Praetorians is the best game to play and enjoy.
#35 Pharaoh
Pharaoh is a Strategy, Tactics, Isometric, City-building and Single-player Simulation developed by Impressions Games and published by Sierra Entertainment. The game mainly focuses on building ancient times, construction and management elements and lets you take on the role of the ruler. It takes place in Ancient Egypt, and your main goal is to build a city, pyramids, gather resources, and take care of your people. It has two different modes such as Free build and Campaign. You must focus on building the cities, settlements, tombs, and grand cities. Grow crops, hunt foods, and feed your people. Create troops to defend your city from rival gangs, and evils. Complete challenging quests and unlock new contents. Control everything in your city and expand it further and further. The game includes new elements such as Goals, Water, Health, Hunting, Farming, Infrastructure, Religion and more. Pharaoh offers core features such as Military, different and Ancient Landscapes, challenging Tasks, different Resources, Build and Lead your City, different Accessories and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.
#36 BattleForge
BattleForge is an Action, Real-time Strategy, and Massively Multiplayer Online Video game developed by EA Phenomic and published by Electronic Arts. The game based on Card and RTS elements and allows you take on the role of the protagonist and dive into the game world. Interact with other players, make your own guild and complete a series of quests. Explore the environment, fight against monsters, and slay them using the sword and other weapons. The game is played from an isometric view. Create your own empire, gather resources, and recruit army to defend it. There are different cards and each card offers its unique abilities and powers. Get experience points by completing missions and use your points to upgrade your card and enhance character abilities. It has both PvP and PvE modes and lets you play against other players and show your power. With the best mechanics, addictive gameplay, brilliant visuals, and superb sounds, BattleForge is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.
#37 The Kings’ Crusade
The Kings’ Crusade mixes the elements of Real-time Strategy (RTS) and Role-playing by NeocoreGames. The game has both Single and Multiplayer modes. It takes place in the medieval world and puts the player into the role of the Leader and tasked him to conquer the Middle East and connect it with his Kingdom. The player has to create his armies and equips them with classic weapons and lead his army in battle, take the strategic decision and take down his enemies to win the battle. It has two different modes such as Campaign and Multiplayer. The Campaign mode revolves around business and the multiplayer mode focuses on the battle against other players and NPCs. Before getting into the game world, the player has to select his ally. There are different Crusaders such as France, Papacy, Knight Templar, Holy Roman, and more. Multiplayer mode comprises two different modes such as Domination and Protection and Attack. The game includes four different forces to play and enjoy such as Heavy Infantry, Archers, Cavalry, and Light Infantry. Hundreds of Soldiers, challenging Missions, Command your Force, and more. Try it out.
#38 Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance
Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance combines the elements of Real-time Strategy, Sci-fi, Base-Building, and Action-Adventure. It supports both Single and Multiplayer modes developed by Gas Powered Games and published by THQ. It is the 2nd entry in the franchise of Supreme Commander. It introduces new units, three different factions, and enhanced performance. In the gameplay, the player can control a massive mech known as ACU (Armored Command Unit) and his ultimate task is to recruit armies to destroy his competitors and conquer the battle. The player has to create units, train his army, and gather resources to survive. Command all three armies such as Land, Air, and Sea during battle and fight against opponents defeat them using advanced weapons, loot their resources and upgrade his units. Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance offers core features such as New Playable Factions, Exciting Locations, New Units, Multiplayer Maps, Single-player Campaign, Warfare on Epic Scale, and more. With superb controls, engaging gameplay and brilliant controls, Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance is the best game to play and enjoy.
#39 Caesar III
Caesar III is a City-building, and Single-player video game created by Impression Games and published by Sierra Entertainment. It is the third entry in the series of Caesar game and allows the player take on the role of the Roman governor. The ultimate task of the player is to build a massive Roman city, in which he has to make the city safe, gather resources to expand his city, craft weapons, and grow crops to fed his people and keep them happy for further progress. The player has to deals with disasters, foes, and angry gods. The player can explore the game world from isometric views, and there are a set of levels that the player has to complete at any cost. To level-up, the player must fulfill the requirements of each level and expand his village by defeating another castle using his military. It combines the compound of city-building, crafting, resource management, and strategy. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.
#40 Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars is an Isometric, Real-time Strategy and Single-player video game created by EA Los Angeles and published by Electronic Arts. The game combines the elements of military-based and science-fictional. It takes place seventeen years after the Tiberian Sun: Firestorm’s event and revolves around two different factions such as the Brotherhood of Nod and the Global Defense Initiative, and the game offers third new faction called the Scrin. The Brotherhood of Nod launches a global offensive against the second faction the Global Defense. Select your faction and jump into a war where you’ve to build your unit, Recruit your armies, and fight against other factions. Gather resources and lead your army in the battlefield, an attack against armies to defeat them and loot their resources. Earn points and use them to upgrade your units, weapons, and armies. There are different types of weapons that you can use during the war. It has over thirty-eight missions divided into three campaigns. With brilliant mechanics, addictive gameplay, and superb visuals, Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars is the best game to play and enjoy. Try it out.
#41 Command and Conquer: Red Alert
Command and Conquer: Red Alert is a RTS (Real-time Strategy), Single and Multiplayer video game created by Westwood Studios and published by Virgin Interactive. It is the second entry in the franchise of Command and Conquer and takes place in the historical-themed world where Allied Forces battle against a Soviet Union for take over the entire European mainland. It is set between 1946 and 1953 in a fictional Universe. The player can select his side, create his army, train and equip them with advanced weapons. Build his units and control his army through the game. Battle against another team, destroy their army, loot their resources and conquer the land. As a commander, you must fight for glory, defend your units from enemy and destroy the plans to take over land. The game becomes challenging, as the player advanced. Earn as many points as possible to unlock a further content in the game and collect medals and rewards to climb on ranking system. Command and Conquer: Red Alert offers enhanced mechanics, gameplay and graphics. It is the best game to play and enjoy.
#42 R.U.S.E.
R.U.S.E. is a Single and Multiplayer Real-time Strategy video game released by Eugen Systems and Ubisoft. The game takes place during WWII and centers on the invasion of Nazi Germany in 1944. It includes various historical places and fictional events. The player can assume the role of the protagonist who is a commander and his ultimate task is to command his army during battlefield against another team. The primary objective is to build the units, recruit and control land, sea and air army to take over the opponents and defeat them to progress through the game. The player can use a variety of decoys and ruses to trick his enemies and modify the outcome of the battles. There are different factions available including United Kingdom, Nazi Germany, Soviet Union, Kingdom of Italy, and more. The ruses system is split into three different categories such as Decryption, Radio Silence, and Decoy Offensive. With prominent features, addictive gameplay, superb mechanics and lots of challenging opponents, R.U.S.E. is the best game to play and enjoy.
#43 Stronghold 3 Gold
Stronghold 3 Gold is a Single, and Multiplayer Real-time Strategy video game with Medieval Settings developed and published by FireFly Studios. It is the third entry in the marvelous series of Stronghold video game and takes place ten years after the original game. The story centers on the young boy, as he attempts to take revenge from different the murderer of his beloved father such as Due de Puce, Duc de Truffe, Duc Volpe (the wolf), and more. After the kidnap of the King, the enemies attacked the city, and they pushed the protagonist back to the jungle to survive. In the forest, the protagonist finds small troops still sincere to the King and with the assist of Sir Longarm and Lord Woolsack, the protagonist starts his adventure to take revenge from enemies and rescue his Kingdom and King. Stronghold 3 Gold offers core features such as Build your Castle, Realistic Physics, Defend your Village, Recruit Team and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.
#44 Stronghold Legends
Stronghold Legends is a marvelous title in the series of Stronghold and Stronghold 2 and offers the mixture of Castle-based and Real-time Strategy gameplay. The game supports both Single and Multiplayer modes and takes place in the beautiful world filled enemies and dangers. It features three different stories that center on three different lords and their conquests. Each story has a campaign and a set of heroes with unique units such as King Arthur, Ice, and Evil. To get into the world, the player needs to select his story, and take on the role of the commander, who must create his Empire, recruit an army and equip them with deadly weapons. There are different levels, and each level offers challenging objectives that the player must complete at any cost. The world explores by isometric perspective, and the player has to earn points to expand his Empire and train his troops. Unlock further features and content in the game using points and become the master. With the superb mechanics and addictive gameplay, Stronghold Legends is the best game to play.
#45 Command and Conquer: Generals
Command and Conquer: Generals is a Military-based, Real-time Strategy, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by EA Pacific and published by EA Games. There are three different faction available such as China, the United States and the Global Liberation Army and the player can select one of them to get into the world. The game takes place near the future, where world is threatened by terrorists. It offers the similar gameplay to Real-time Strategy games, in which the player must build his base, recruit army, equip and train them with weapons and jump into battle to take over the battlefield. There are different defenses available and the player has to use them strategically to fend off enemy attack. As the game proceed, other features, upgrades and level will be unlocked to play and enjoy. The player needs to gain enough experience points to upgrade his units, towers, army, and the character. To defeat the enemy or opposing faction, the player has to destroy their bases tow in the battle. Command and Conquer: Generals offers core features such as a variety of Levels, different Units, three Factions, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.
#46 Empire Earth III
Empire Earth III is a Single and Multiplayer Real-time Strategy video game produced by Mad Doc Software and published by Sierra Entertainment. It is the superb title in the series of Empire Earth and introduces five epochs and takes place in the same time period like previous entries. There are three different factions such as Western, Middle Eastern and Far Eastern and each faction consists of units, buildings, and technologies. The game is about exploring the environment, building an empire, gathering resources, and battling against enemies to conquer their land. You can assume the role of the commander and your primary objective is to build your Empire, create your troops, equip with weapons and train them. Build bases, and place units to progress through the game. The game offers similar gameplay to the Total War video game series. You’ll earn experience points, as the game progresses and can use them to unlock further content in the game. With brilliant mechanics, superb gameplay, and smooth controls, Empire Earth III is the best game to enjoy.
#47 Anno 2070: Deep Ocean
Anno 2070: Deep Ocean is a Downloadable Content Pack of the original game Anno 2070 developed by Blue Sea and published by Ubisoft. The game offers the brilliant gameplay and combines the genres of Real-time Strategy and City-building. It takes place in the depth of the ocean and introduces a deep blue sea environment filled with various creatures. The player needs to create underwater empire using different buildings, and structures and expand it further and further. He can explore the beautiful environment to gather resources and encounters lots of cute sea creatures. The game rewards the player with experience points as it progresses. There are up to thirty buildings presents to use and a variety of vehicles also available in the match to control. The player can use more than eighty brand new items to create his industries, discover valuable resources, and strong his economy. The player can grow geothermal plants, produce energy and more. Anno 2070: Deep Ocean offers core features such as New Vehicles, Thirty Buildings, Manage Island, 150 Quests and more.
#48 Command and Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight
Command and Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight mixes the elements of Real-time Strategy, Co-op, Sci-fi and Exploration developed by EA Los Angeles and published by Electronic Arts. It is the latest title in the marvelous franchise of Command and Conquers and the final chapter in the Tiberium Sega. The game takes place in the futurist year 2062, ten years after the end of Kane’s Wrath. It no longer centers on the resource gathering system and focuses on to capture the nodes surrounding the space, recruit armies and lead them through the battlefield to earn experience points. There are two different factions available such as the Brotherhood of Nod and the Global Defense Initiative. In the beginning, the world is being consumed by the growth of Tiberium. Each faction is divided into three different classes such as Support, Defense and Offense and each has its unique abilities and specialties. There are a series of missions available, and each mission needs a completion of certain objectives. The player can use his points to unlock further content and upgrades. With the best mechanics, addictive gameplay, and exciting story Command and Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight is the best game to play and enjoy.
#49 Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth: Rising Tide
Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth: Rising Tide is a Downloadable Content Pack for the Turn-based Strategy and 4X video game Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth. The expansion pack introduces new features such as water gameplay, revamped diplomacy system, hybrid affinities, and exploration system. It supports both Single and Multiplayer modes developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K Games. The game features several dimensions to aquatic gameplay. Unlike previous titles, aquatic-based cities can be moved. The player can take on the role of the protagonist and the primary task is to create units to defend his empire and make strategies to take down enemies. The player can explore the environment from isometric view and can create his army to face off enemies. In the beginning, the player needs to colonize the ocean by creating floating settlements and harvesting resources. Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth: Rising Tide offers prominent features such as Colonize the Ocean, Dynamic Leader Traits, Four new Factions, New Artifact System and more. Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth: Rising Tide is the brilliant game to play and enjoy.
#50 Command and Conquer (1995)
Command and Conquer (1995) is a Real-time Strategy, Single and Multiplayer video game created by Westwood Studios and published by Virgin Interactive. The game takes place in an alternative history and centers on the story of World War between two superpower factions such as the United Nations and the Global Defense Initiative. Both factions are competing against each other for control of Tiberium, a strange substance that spread around the globe slowly. At the beginning of the game, you must build a base and effort to gather resources to fund the production of technologies, combat units, and buildings. Create your Empire, build units, recruit an army and equip them with weapons to defend your Empire. There are two playable factions, and you can choose one of them to get access to the game world. The primary task of the game is to expand your units across the world by conquering enemies’ bases. Use your points to unlock further content in the game and become the master. Lead your armies through the battlefield and dominate the war. Command and Conquer (1995) is the best game for RTS lovers.