Anno 2055
Anno 2055 takes you to an amazing journey of Space Exploration, Building, and MMO and RTS Approach in order to save the future of Humankind. After conquering the Earth, building massive prosperous and well-established cities, you must now travel to space in order to scavenge for new technologies, lifestyles and riches that will eventually help develop more secure, well defended and technically rich settlements on Earth. After the advancements in Fusion Energy and new ways in which you can revolutionize the Society, space travel is necessary. The required element of Helium-3 is not present on Earth and to harvest more of that, you’ll have to travel to Moon, so dust off your ships and ready your mavericks, start off your journey, build new settlements on the Moon and bring back Helium-3 in order to make your future more bright and unbeatable. With amazing City Building, exploration, new technologies, encounters with the hostiles and a great rulership, Anno 2055 offers amazing Real-time Strategic, Building and Management aesthetics only to entertain you well, so as an alternative to Anno 2070, you must play this game and enjoy a visually similar yet different gaming experience. This Marvel is available to a purchase on Steam.
#1 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.
#2 Cities: Skylines
Cities: Skylines is a wonderful City Building, Management and massively Multiplayer online Real-Time Strategy Simulation packed with new and improved gameplay mechanics and elements and it tends to entertain you with all the provided thrill and hardships of creating and managing a whole city. The game basically assesses your abilities of being a good Manager, Builder, Crafter, etc. all at once and throws various hardcore challenges at yourself to improve your abilities and ultimately be a great Building and Management Mogul, rule the businesses and, build and create new technologies and take it to a whole new level of entertainment. With awesome visual details, great game-play options, addictive nature, a lot to build and manage and Strategically grow your Economics, Relations and defenses, Cities: Skyline is a great City-building, Management, MMO, RTS simulation to enjoy. Try it out if you really want to enjoy an amazing experience of all the beautiful combination of various elements, you’ll love it for sure.
#3 Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile
Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile is an Open Ended MMO, RTS City Building, Construction and Management Simulation set in Ancient Egypt. The game allows you to be a ruler over the distances that Egypt covers and build cities by selecting different construction sites for various groups of people who are further parted into two more groups, Private Workers, and Government Workers. You must select the workers from both groups and assign them their tasks to build different buildings and structures. When a city is completed you can move to the next one to build it and you can move all the workers with you too. The game provides with only bread as to use it to bargain or trade or use it as the currency. Just like all other games of this genre, Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile lets you complete a task of building a city and then moves you towards the next. Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile features good 3D graphics, engaging game objectives and a lot more to explore and enjoy. Do try it out for a great City-Building and RTS experience.
#4 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.
#5 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.
#6 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.
#7 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.
#8 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.
#9 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.
#10 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.
#11 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.
#12 Supreme Commander 2
Supreme Commander 2 is a wonderful RTS (Real time Strategy) and tactical War-Based MMO video game developed by Gas Powered Games. Supreme Commander 2 focuses on the character of Dominic Maddox who works for the UEF (United Earth Federation). The federation grows conflicts with the illuminate and declares them a threat and orders Maddox to eliminate every operative of the illuminate. Maddox refuses to accept the order because of his relations with an Illuminate and goes rogue against the UEF. Supreme Commander 2 consists of three mission campaigns and allows you to take part in the campaigns by completing one and unlocking the next. You as Maddox must act according to the storyline and instead of going to the mission assigned by UEF, you must go on your own Mission Campaign to kill your own former commanding officer and his forces. After the first campaign finishes the next campaign gets unlocked and you can act as the story of the game suggests. Supreme Commander 2 lets you strategize your moves by giving you the tactical advantage over your enemies. The game allows you to select a location on the game map and be a commander, build different structures Factories, Power Houses, Research Facilities, train Land, Air and Sea troops and build facilities according to their requirements, gather up resources and wage massive wars against your enemies to defeat them and conquer their settlements. The destruction of enemy research facilities and experimental units provides you with better tactical advantages so make them your primary targets. Supreme Commander 2 is an amazingly addictive and quite engaging video game that offers beautifully created visuals, a great story and an immersive game-play to enjoy. Do try it out for a great Strategy and Tactical gaming experience.
#13 Machines at War 3
Machines at War 3 by Isotope 244 is a great MMO-RTS and War based video game. The game lets you be a commander, command over a great number of military units, Military grade vehicles (Tanks, Humvees, Cruisers, Planes, choppers etc.) and make best strategies to either defend yourself against the enemies or to attack and conquer them. Machines at War 3 is played from a top down perspective and allows you to focus on every detail from above and manage it well. The game encourages you to attack and destroy most prominent enemy installations to disrupt their transport and operations. You can use heavy artillery, air strikes, battle ships and other available resources to conquer your enemies. The multiplayer gaming mode lets you be allies with your online friends and attack the enemy from multiple directions and with more power and force. Your Strategic, Diplomatic and Friendly relations with other settlements are the key elements in winning or losing the wars and expansion of your own lands, so you better be good at them in order to prove your supremacy and to dominate over the surrounding world. Machines at War 3 offers fantastic visuals, game-play and other characteristics.
#14 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.
#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.
#18 Age of Empires 3: Complete Collection
Age of Empires 3: Complete Collection is an amazingly unforgettable experience of City Building, Management and MMO-RTS elements. With a big name in the respective genre, Age of Empires 3: Complete Collection offers a collection of Microsoft’s Ground breaking masterpieces and combines them into one amazing package. This monumental game-pack allows you to play and enjoy all three Age of Empires games and experience new enhancements, mechanics and game-plays along with beautifully created visuals and all the great stuff you are familiar with. As usual you’ll have to Command over the Mighty European Superpowers in order to explore, build and strategically enhance your democratic and trade relations, and to develop the mighty empires of the time. Great unbeatable defenses, mighty armies, huge battles, conquering the worlds, mining for resources, technological advancements, trade and diplomatic relations, the ability to rule over one of the most epic and massive settlements ever, Age of Empires 3: Complete Collection is a combination of all the great things that you want to see in a game like this. For a more than amazing MMO-RTS experience, do try it out.
#19 Age of Empires Online
Age of Empires Online, is a Massively Multiplayer Online Real Time Strategy (MMORTS) video game developed by Robot Entertainment in collaboration with Gas Powered Games and published by Microsoft Game Studios for PC (Microsoft Windows) only. Being an online and a multiplayer game, “Age of Empires Online” is totally free to play and enjoy. You can play it alone or with your friends online. The game features a similar game-play to its predecessors, the only difference is that it allows the players to play the game online. Player in the game, creates civilizations, gathers resources, Trains army units, and creates buildings like homes for the people, markets, shops etc., goes on different quests and fights with the enemies either to save his land or sometimes to conquer their lands to grow his kingdom. The game provides with a lot of new content that a player can use to craft different things or trade with others etc. Age of Empires Online also features super fine graphics, a great game story and a lot more exciting things to do.
#20 Company of Heroes 2
Company of Heroes 2 is a popular RTS game that offers an amazingly addictive and quite immersive game-play similar to the popular Supreme Commander video game. This sequel to the original Company of Heroes lacks the allies feature and instead it takes you to the eastern frontiers in order to battle against the enemies and experience an extremely action-packed game-play ever. As usual the game sets you up into the character of a commander/lieutenant and allows you to focus on building your own base, gather up resources, and build immense man power by building and training troop units, and finally embarking on amazing journeys that will eventually lead you to huge battles against the enemies. Your task is to simply conquer the enemy bases, outposts etc. in order to eliminate the threat and to expand your reign. Every outpost and base capture awards you with points that you can use to buy more upgrades and stuff. Building, defending and occupying enemy territories are the main parts of the core game-play, so the more you are tactically strong, the more chances of success you get. The unique combat system allows you to use your amazing militaristic approach to cater with the armies, use heavy machinery, artillery, military grade vehicles and stuff to defeat your enemies and enjoy an amazing gaming experience.
#21 Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds
Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds is a brilliant RTS game like Supreme Commander that takes the franchise to the amazing RTS genre and offers a seemingly wonderful gaming experience. The game mechanics and visuals are highly inspired by the mighty Age of Empires and offers a similar game-play. Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds allows you to choose anyone of the available factions (Rebels, Wookies, Gangans, Trade Federation, The Empire and Royal Nabbo etc.), select the relevant campaign and enjoy a marvelous game-play experience. Just like Supreme Commander, Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds lets you focus on building your own base, collect the resources, build many troop units and upgrade them time to time in order to level up, and go hunting your enemies on ground, in air and in sea. Explore different planets, defeat the native forces and conquer them in order to expand your reign. Building part of the game allows you to construct new buildings, make defensive outposts and defend against any enemy incursions. This game is a wonderful combination of Star Wars and Age of Empire aesthetics and because of that it would definitely be a great source of entertainment for all the amazing RTS and Action fans. Do try it out.
#22 Anno 1404
Anno 1404 or also known as Anno 1404: Dawn of Discovery is a Massively Multiplayer Online Real Time Strategy video game developed by Related Deigns and published by Ubisoft for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo DS and Wii gaming platforms. Just like its Predecessors, Anno 1404 revolves around different fictitious events and surrounds the medieval era in which The Crusades and Advancement in Gothic Architecture took place. In the game, the player creates his own city or his kingdom, colonizes it, gathers resources, builds farms, factories, homes for people, trains troops and engages in governmental and economic relationships with other players online or with advanced game AI’s, battles to save his kingdom or sometimes fights to acquire a piece of land to grow his lands etc. As the trading is a vital aspect for any settlement to grow or progress, the player in game gives it special attention and provides with the ways and strategies in which his kingdom gets into trade with other players online or With game AI’s to buy or sell different in game items. The trade incentive is then spent on the people and for the betterment of kingdom. Anno 1404 is a super engaging and a great game to play and enjoy. You should give it a try.
#23 Tropico
Tropico is a City Building, Construction, and Management Simulation by Pop Top Software and Feral Interactive. The game allows the players to get into the role of “El Presidente.”, Rule over the Island in the Carribean Sea in the Era of Cold War. As the primary goal of the game is to stay always in Power, the players are required to keep the population of the Island Happy. If the Populace is unhappy with the El President’s actions, they may vote somebody else instead of the player. All the non-governmental powers and Factions can unsettle the Rule of El Presidente, so the player must keep all of these factors controlled. If there are Powers that get unhappy with El President’s rule, they will form an alliance and challenge the players so the players will need to keep them happy as well. As this game is all about Democracy and Foreign relations, diplomacy and Trade, the players must be good at every said aspect or else he/she can lose the title. Customizing the Island’s Map, political and economic relations, enemy intrusions and other governmental affairs are the most critical and challenging tasks to perform. With all the addictive gameplay, constructions, management and socio-economic elements, Tropico offers various game modes such as Scenario, Custome Game, Random Map and Campaign. Furthermore, Tropico offers brilliant character customization options for the character of El Presidente and allows the players to select any of the real life figures such as Che Guevara, Augusto Pinochet, Fidel Castro, Hernando Blanco, Lou Baga and Sancho Baraega, etc. Tropico is an amazingly addictive and quite surprisingly informative simulation to enjoy. Do give it a try for an excellent City Building, Construction, and Management experience.
#24 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.
#25 Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth
Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth by Firaxis Games is another cool video that offers a gameplay slightly similar to the popular StartCraft series games. The game provides with an amazing Turn-based Strategy and 4X game-play in which you with all the human populace are destined to travel through space and find a suitable new habitat. The event of The Great Mistake left no choice but to leave Earth and that resulted in a years long exploration, wars between countless alien races and a lot of amazing stuff. Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth lets you experience and amazing Strategy and combat filled game-play with a unique and wonderfully written story, great visuals and lots and lots of other cool things.
#26 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.
#27 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.
#28 Empire Earth 2
Empire Earth 2 is one of the best RTS games like Supreme Commander and offers an amazingly original and quite addictive experience ever. The game offers you three main campaigns with the focus on France, Korea and Germany and allows you to be part of the huge skirmishes against your enemies (Other Players and AIs). Your tasks are to simply select any campaign, advance through more than 15 ages, unravel new and futuristic technologies, start from scratch and build whole new bases, produce resources like Iron, food, gold and stone etc. make new strategies and take down the enemy bases, outposts and strongholds in order to conquer them and to seize control and power, build diplomatic relations and alliances with neighboring settlements and double up your power against the equally equipped and technically advanced enemies and rule the world. With multiple game-play and mechanics enhancements, new strategies to make, new weapons and tactics to use, lot of new enemies and allies, amazing new visuals and an immersive game-play, Empire Earth 2 is one of the best titles to play and enjoy as an alternative to Supreme Commander.
#29 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.
#30 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.
#31 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.
#32 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.
#33 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.
#34 Age of Wonders
Age of Wonders is a Single and Multiplayer Turn-based Strategy video game. The game offers a detailed description of all the mythical Creatures of World of Wonders and allows the players to enjoy Online gameplay on a LAN (local Area Network) and Internet Online. The co-op mode allows the players to be part of teams of up to twelve players and enjoy defending the world. Age of Wonders offers Isometric perspective and a tile-based map based on three layers such as Surface, Caves, and Depths. The players are directed to lead a certain Race including Elves, Humans, Goblins, Dark Elves, Lizardmen, Dwarves, Orcs, Undead, and Halflings, etc. Players can also lead some of the rarest and special races such as Highmen, Azracs, and Frostlings as well as various types of troop units including Dragons, and Giants, etc. Age of Wonders also tasks the players to collect resources such as Gold and Mana and use them to build Troop units, Buildings and to buy more Heroes. The unique skills that the players can use during the combat are based on magical spells. Furthermore, Age of Wonders offers a unique Combat System that allows the players to use their special tactical and strategy skills against the enemies and enjoy reigning hell over. With a very addictive gameplay, beautiful graphics and great mechanics, Age of Wonders is a fun MMORTS video game to play and enjoy.
#35 Caesar IV
Caesar IV is an addictive, City-Building, Ancient Rome, Single and Multiplayer video game created by Tilted Mill Entertainment. The game offers the combination of building, crafting, and historical elements. Caesar IV comprises three different parts such as Empire, Kingdom, and Republic. It allows you select one of them and get into the game world where you must create your empire with hundreds of buildings, create roads, gather resources, and recruit armies to defend your Empire. Sign contract with other nations and earn experience points that can be used to upgrade your buildings and units to improve your empire and strengthen it. The fight against other players, conquer their empire and loot their resources. Make your empire beautiful, build different structures, buildings, shops and more. Offer all facilities to its inhabitants and keep them happy to earn more. Caesar IV includes core features such as Enhanced Mechanics, new Buildings, Upgrades, Stunning Visuals, Classic Environment and more. Caesar IV is the best City-building game to play and enjoy.
#36 World in Conflict
World in Conflict combines the elements of Real-time Tactics, Strategy, and supports both Single and Multiplayer modes. The game doesn’t offer resource management or city building elements. It lets you get into the game world by selecting your character and faction. You must buy your unit and train an army to fend off enemies by destroying units. Earn points by defeating enemies and get upgrades. Strengthen your units and equip your army with powerful weapons. Call of Duty and Medal of Honor inspires the game. The game embarks you on an adventure and set you in the role of Lieutenant Parker who is a soldier of United States. Explore the game world, fight against enemies and defeat them using different weapons, military vehicles and lead a team to accomplish missions and objectives. You can play with over sixteen players in multiplayer mode, and the game includes three different maps to explore such as Domination maps, Assault maps, and war maps. The game has four different roles for you such as Air Support, Infantry, and Armor. World in Conflict includes core features such Roles, Tactical Aid, Unit Deployment, Online Mode, AI (Artificial Intelligence) and more. Try it out.
#37 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.
#38 Age of Wonders II: The Wizard’s Throne
Age of Wonders II: The Wizard’s Throne is an Action, Turn-based Strategy, Role-playing, Single and Multiplayer video game created by Triumph Studios. It is the direct sequel to Age of Wonders game. The game takes place in the fantasy-themed world and lets the player take on the role of the spell casting wizard. He can explore the mysterious world, encounter mythical creatures, recruit the troops and fight for his land. The main objective is to protect the unit from mythical creatures, use different weapons to defeat them and complete each level at any cost. There are twelve different distinct each with different races such as Draconians, Elves, Halflings, Humans, and more. To get into the game world, the player must select his side and start the battle against enemies. The player can use cannons, mammoth riders to conquer his enemies. Age of Wonders II: The Wizard’s Throne offers core features such as 130 Unique Units, 7 Sphere of Magic, 30 Loyal Champion Heroes, Fierce Combat, and more. Try it out and you’ll enjoy it.
#39 Omerta: City of Gangsters
Omerta: City of Gangsters is a Turn-based, Management, Tactical, Strategy, Single and Multiplayer Simulation developed by Haemimont Games. The game takes place in the fictional city called Atlantic City in Atlantic Country where alcohol is ban. The city is threatened by the criminal gangs who makes money off gambling trade. The game lets the player get into the role of the unnamed character with big dreams. The player must explore the game world, start from small jobs, collect criminals and create his gang, earn money from gambling trade and expand his empire. Create the base, fight against other gangs and defeat them to earn reputation points. Use the points to unlock further content. There are fifteen different characters each with unique skills, backgrounds, and personalities. The game includes twenty different maps with various environments to explore. Omerta: City of Gangsters offers core features such as RPG system, Turn-based Combat, Strategic Gameplay, Historical City, Stealth Action, and more. Try it out and you’ll enjoy it.
#40 Roads of Rome: New Generation
Roads of Rome: New Generation is a Real-time Strategy, City-Building, and Single-player video game developed by BigFish. The game takes place in the stunning world and lets you create and lead a Roman Empire. Due to an earthquake, your empire has been destroyed and your main objective is to create new shelters, rescue your people, and restore the life. You must build new roads, gather resources, and unlock further content using your experience points. It has four different modes and forty stunning levels. The game becomes more difficult as you progress in it. It unlocks other levels as you complete quests or complete an objective. Craft different items, build amazing houses, buildings, and structures, and prove yourself as the best King. You can control the Empire’s citizen to create different things. The game combines the elements of crafting, building, and you can play the game from an isometric view. With detailed environment, mouse controls, different modes, stunning visuals, win the love of a beautiful girl, gain respects points, and excellent gameplay, Roads of Rome: New Generation is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.
#41 SimCity 4
SimCity 4 combines the elements of Construction and Management, City-Building, Crafting and Simulation developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts. It is the fourth major entry in the series of SimCity. In the beginning, you have an empty land, and the ultimate task is to create different buildings which grow into a fantastic and beautiful city. There are different types of buildings, materials, and items to use and create. Gather resources and build settlements, commercial buildings, houses, shops, roads, and more. Offers all the facilities to the inhabitants and keep them happy. Compete against rival NPCs and earn experience points and money to unlock further content in the game. In the game, you can assume the role of the Mayor and your goal is to populate all tracts into cities. You’ll face different challenges such as overpopulation, electricity shortage, garbage, water, disposal and other. The game is distributed into three different modes such as MySim, mayor, and god. Establish a city and earn money through different ways. SimCity 4 offers exciting features such as Build an Entire Region, Unleash your Imagination, Upgrades, Competition, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.
#42 Simutrans
Simutrans is a Management, Strategy, Construction, Cross-Platform and Single-player Simulation created by Markus Prostovsek. The game takes place in a massive empty land and lets you create buildings, roads, airports, and harbors using different tools, structure and more. The ultimate task is to convert an empty land into a beautiful city. Earn money by transporting people from one place to another and cargo in different cities. Earn experience points and uses them to unlock further content in the game. It offers the similar gameplay like Transport Tycoon. Provide all facilities to your people, and compete against your rivals. Open Factories and transport manufactured goods between different cities. The main task is to establish a stable transport company and become the business tycoon by defeating your competitors. Simutrans offers core features such as Transport Passengers, Control your Finance, Detailed Graphics, different Vehicles to Unlock, Upgrades and more. Simutrans is the wonderful Simulation to play and enjoy.
#43 A Kingdom for Keflings
A Kingdom for Keflings is a City-Building video game created by NinjaBee and published by Microsoft Studios. It supports both Single and Multiplayer modes and offers an exciting story, in which the Keflings are the small creatures and needs your help in order to build their beautiful Kingdom. The game casts you as the giant and tasked you to start from a small land and turn it into a beautiful kingdom using different items, accessories, buildings, and equipment. It has a variety of levels and each level requires a set of objectives to complete. Unlock blueprints, building and task by progressing through the game and show your creativity. It takes place in the medieval world filled with little cute creatures. There are different locations to explore, challenging quests to solve and a massive variety of content to unlock. The game is played from an isometric view. Explore the game world, assists the Keflings to collect resources (crystals, stone, wood, and wool) and transport them to different places and structures. It offers the similar gameplay like SimCity and Black & White. A Kingdom for Keflings offers enhanced mechanics, visuals, gameplay, and story. Try it out and it’ll entertain you.
#44 Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom
Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom is a City-Building, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by BreakAway Games and published by Sierra Entertainment. It is the last game in the series of Emperor and introduces a multiplayer mode. The game takes place in an ancient time and focuses on the building of a city. The main objective is to create a beautiful city using different buildings, material, and items and expand it further and further. You can assume the role of the King and you have you keep the inhabitant of your Empire well fed, happy, safe and healthy. Explore the game world, gather resources, grow crops, and make different useful products. Create different buildings, farms, and factories and offers the best facilities to your citizen. The game lets you a chance to become a leader and show off your leader abilities in front of your fellows. Score the highest points and challenge your friends to beat it. Recruit troops to defend your city from hazards and fight against other nations to conquer. With addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and brilliant features, Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom is the best game to play and enjoy.
#45 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.
#46 Army Men: RTS
Army Men: RTS is an Action, Real-time Strategy, Single and Multiplayer video game by Pandemic Studios and published by The 3DO Company. It is the best entry in the series of Army Men and focuses on combat element. The game lets you create and lead your best world army in the battle field against a former green commander who now controls the hordes of foes named the Tan Forces. There are several missions, and you have to control your army, tank, and airship to take down your foes. Defend your base to prevent death and further progress through the game to unlock other missions and features. The game is played from an isometric view, and you must collect resources to build structures, soldiers, and vehicle. It offers the similar gameplay like Army Men II. It revolves around three main elements such as Build, Manage, and Battle. Army Men: RTS offers key features such as Special Modes, Multiple Ways to Earn Rewards, Operation, and more. With engaging gameplay, superb mechanics, and brilliant visuals, Army Men: RTS is the best game to play and enjoy.
#47 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.
#48 Cossacks 3
Cossacks 3 combines the elements of Real-time Strategy, Base-Building, and Adventure by GSG Game World. The game has both Single and Multiplayer modes and takes place in the historic-themed world during the 17th and 18th century in Europe. There are over twelve terrains with seventy different types of units and one-hundred forty historical buildings. Each terrain has its unique abilities, set of buildings, and strength. The game lets the player select his terrain, create his base, recruit an army, and train them to defend his base. Gather resources and make his army powerful. Over eight player can compete against each in multiplayer mode. Close quarter battle, ballistics engine, and bonuses offer the player with some opportunities against both AI and Human. The ultimate task is to expand the kingdom further and further, unlock powerful weapons, enhance the ability of the army, and dominate the battlefield. Cossacks 3 offers key features such as Twelve Nations, Hundred Opportunity, and Battle at sea and ashore, Single-player campaign consists of five levels, and more. Try it out, and it’ll entertain the player.
#49 The Promised Land
The Promised Land is a Construction and Management, Adventure, Strategy and Single-player video game created by Alawar Entertainment and published by Buka Entertainment. Become a leader of a small team of settlers and struggle to build your dream colony with tons of items. Your aim is to grow foods to feed your people, provide them shelters to stay, offers jobs to earn money and protect them with robbers, foes and other creatures. Take a start from an empty land and turn it into a massive city. Construct industry to manufacture useful goods, hire staff and sell your product to earn money. Expand your colony and switch your employees to find out the best idea for industry. Discover new technologies, create your farm to grow crops, and progress through each level to rank-up. Keep your people always happy and fed. The game offers a massive world to explore and over fifty characters to controls. Engage yourself in crafting experience and create dozens of weapons for your army to defend your city. With tons of items, exciting features, super cool mechanics, and brilliant gameplay, The Promised Land is the best game to play and enjoy.
#50 Zeus: Master of Olympus
Zeus: Master of Olympus is a City-Building video game created by Impression Games and published by Sierra Entertainment. The game supports Single-player mode and focuses on building element like its previous titles. It takes place in ancient times in Ancient Greece and puts you in the role of the leader, and your task is to develop a city in an ancient time. You can take a start from an empty land and must turn it into a massive city, find resources, manufacture use goods, create buildings, factories, shops, and more. Create your army to defend your city, grow crops to feed your people, and conquer another city to expand your village further. There are different types of resources to gather such as Food resources, Raw materials and more. Craft weapons and upgrades your building, army and resources to enhance your abilities. As the game progress, it becomes more challenging, and you’ll face lots of objectives related to populations, pollution, food shortage, and more. Become a good leader and make your city beautiful. Zeus: Master of Olympus is the best game for those who love playing City-Building Games.