Anno 2070
Anno 2070 is a Real Time Strategy, Economic Simulation, City Building and Construction video game developed by Related Designs and Ubisoft Blue Byte. The game is set in the year 2070 where the global warming has melted a huge ice cap and because of the rising sea level, a number of ancient cities have vanished from the face of the earth. The remaining parts of the land are scattered in the form of small islands. It is now your responsibility to explore and rebuild the islands from scratch. You must create groups of people with specific skills and assign them different tasks to design and rebuild the lost cities using advanced technology and tactics. Anno 2070 allows you to rebuild and re-settle people in the cities and govern over the most flourished and prosperous economies ever. Anno 2070 is a great game to play and enjoy, if you want to experience true building and construction gaming with a touch of RTS, you must play this game.
#1 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.
#2 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.
#3 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.
#4 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.
#5 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.
#6 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.
#7 The Settlers Online: Castle Empire
The Settlers Online: Castle Empire is a Free-to-Play Browser-based RTS and MMO video game. This online game resembles and it inherits the style and lots of details from the Age of Empires series and offers a similar gaming experience to Tribal Wars. When we talk about the gaming quality and compare it to other online strategy games, The Settlers Online: Castle Empire is a really best Browser-based Real-Time Strategy and MMO video game to play. Game-play, graphics and user interface all is inspired by Age of Empires Series games and as compared to a lot of other online games, it’s the best. In The Settlers Online: Castle Empire, player can build cities, gather resources, unlock new buildings, mines and soldiers etc. A really great feature of this game is the online community of players all around the world. Players can communicate, make alliances and attack the enemies from different directions to conquer their lands. A must play game, environmentally and graphically similar to a number of MMORTS games but with quite a different feeling and story-line plus the immersive game-play. You’ll surely enjoy it. As it is a browser based Massively Multimedia Online Strategy game, it can only be played in browser on a PC. Do try it out.
#8 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.
#9 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.
#10 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.
#11 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.
#12 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.
#13 Dungeon Keeper
Dungeon Keeper Is a Real-Time Strategy, Single and Multiplayer Dungeon Crawling, Building and management video game by Bullfrog Productions. The game allows the players to build and manage a number of dungeons, protect them against the hordes of enemies, who intent to steal your treasures. In order to cater with the enemies and monsters, Dungeon Keeper allows you to use a number of magical spells, skills and abilities “Slap” the objects to interact with them etc. Dungeon Keeper offers 20 regions on game map to explore and destroy by the use of weapons provided in the game. The single player mode of the game allows you to enjoy the epic and long campaign modes, crawl through a number of different Dungeons and environments, encounter a number of different types of enemies, bosses and defeat them to earn skill points and unlock the upgrades and stuff. The MMO feature of Dungeon Keeper enables you to interact with other online players and enjoy the game even more. With an isometric and First-person perspective, Zoom in and zoom out options, unique abilities, grid-based game map, beautiful visuals and an immersive game-play, Dungeon Keeper is a fantastic MMO-RTS, building and management video game to play and enjoy.
#14 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.
#15 CivCity: Rome
CivCity: Rome, is an Open Ended RTS, City-Building and Management video game developed by FireFly Studios and Firaxis Games. Almost all of the core game elements of CivCity: Rome are much alike the ones in Caesar and Civilization series. Your task in the game is to fit yourself up in the character of a Mayor and design, build and manage various cities of the Roman Empire. You must build the key and the most prominent buildings first and place them strategically on their spots. CivCity: Rome allows you to build the cities into different neighborhoods and once a neighborhood of the city is completed the next part gets unlocked and gets ready to be built. You must also focus on leveling up by progressing on your ranks because a higher rank allows you to have more facilities and rapid building construction. The game consists of different campaigns and lets you play a campaign and unlock the next by completing the construction of a city. The unique MMO feature allows you to enjoy the game with your friends and other online players. Combats and Defense is one of the crucial elements of the game, so you must also focus on developing your defenses, waging wars against the enemies and defeat them in order to capture their lands, resources and epic loots. With a brilliant narrative, fantastic visuals and sounds and a very engaging game-play, CivCity: Rome is a fun MMO Strategy and Building video game.
#16 Travian
Travian is one of the best ever Free-to-Play Browser-based MMO-RTS games ever created. This game offers a very similar experience to Tribal Wars and takes you to the wonderful setting of ancient Rome where your task is to be a skilled leader of a small village rich in almost all kinds of resources. Your task is simply to choose between three equally powerful tribes and start building from scratch. Build houses for your citizens, raise armies, build your defenses in order to defend your settlement and to wage wars against the enemies in order to capture their lands and to expand your own settlement. Resource collection, research and introducing new technologies is the fun part of the game that allows you to show off your supremacy over your enemies and your friends as well. Building markets, starting trade, building strategic and diplomatic relations with other nations, engaging in epic combats with enemies to conquer their lands is what makes this game more addictive. Travian offers great visuals details, a brilliantly immersive game-play and a lot of other cool things to enjoy. Do try it out, its fun playing.
#17 Tycoon City: New York
Tycoon City: New York is a marvelous creation of Deep Red Games. The game is an Open Ended, MMO-Strategy and City-Building SImulation that allows you to build the city of New York and the Island of Manhattan. Your game objective is to build cities most prominent buildings and structures first and then the urban areas and everything else. The most prominent and recognizable landmarks of the city include Chrysler Building, Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty, Rockefeller Center and United nations Headquarters. You as the mayor of the city must build all the buildings carefully and perfectly map them on the terrain. Tycoon City: New York allows you to build the whole city of New York district by district and lets you complete all the tasks perfectly on time to compete your business rivals and unlock more districts to build. Tycoon City: New York is a great city building game that keeps you sitting in front of your monitor for a good amount of time. For a great City Building and simulation experience, you must play this superb game. You’ll definitely like it.
#18 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.
#19 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.
#20 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.
#21 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.
#22 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.
#23 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.
#24 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.
#25 Supreme Ruler: Cold War
Supreme Ruler: Cold War is an amazing Real Time Strategy video game by BattleGoat Studios. The game takes you to the Cold War Era and allows you to head USA or USSR, Engage yourself into the most epic Campaigns ever, Control the whole nations, Use your best skills like Diplomacy, Trade, Espionage, Influence the policies of other nations, Research and develop new technologies to have an edge over your rivals, Grow economies by the use of intellect and your best strategic approach, Train massive armies, develop military tech, etc. Alongside all the above mentioned responsibilities, you must ensure that your country gets through all difficulties, easily and safely. With superb visuals, a great addictive game-play and epic quests, Supreme Ruler: Cold War is one marvelous game to play and enjoy.
#26 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.
#27 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.
#28 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.
#29 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.
#30 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.
#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 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.
#33 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.
#34 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.
#35 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.
#36 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.
#37 Civilization VI
Civilization VI combines the elements of Turn-based Strategy, Historical, Single and Multiplayer 4X video game created by Firaxis Games and published by 2K Games. It is the sixth marvelous entry in the series of Civilization and offers enhanced gameplay, mechanics, and features. The game takes place in the historical-themed world and allows the player to lead his civilization from an early settlements and become a super power using one of different condition such as technology superiority, military power, and diplomacy leadership. In the beginning, you can start from a small tribe and your task is to explore the world, find new cities, build shelters, buildings, recruit your army, research new technologies, gather resources and train your force to defend your empire. Control the entire planet by defeat other players or AI-controlled Characters across different periods of development. Gather resources to survive longer, and conquer the land of other players to loot their resources. Civilization VI includes core features such as Expansive Empires, Active Research, Dynamic Diplomacy, Combined Arms, Enhance Multiplayer, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#38 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.
#39 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.
#40 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.
#41 Elemental: War of Magic
Elemental: War of Magic is a Turn-based Strategy, Single and Multiplayer video game with 4X elements published and developed by Stardock for Windows. The game centers on City-Building, Resource Management, Exploration, Conquest and more. It takes place in the world once full of magic, which comes to the core civilization of human. At the beginning of the game, the player needs to select his campaign, create his Kingdom, places units and start fighting against enemies using his army equipped with weapons. He can explore the environment to find resources and can collect them to raise his skills and powers. There are different factions available, and each offers different statistics and abilities. The game features a series of levels, and each level needs a completion of individual objectives to progress through the match. The player has to lead his army on the battle field, command them to attack enemy’s bases and conquer them to loot their resources and claim their land to become the master. Elemental: War of Magic offers exciting features such as different Factions, Gather Resources, Build a Kingdom, Dominate the Battlefield and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#42 Thea: The Awakening
Thea: The Awakening offers the Turn-based Strategy, Role-playing, Fantasy-based, Crating and 4X gameplay produced and published by Muha Games. It offers an exciting gameplay that the player has never experienced before. It takes place in the in the Slavic myth threatened by monsters and enemies. You are the last hope of the world, and your task is to manipulate the world to uncover the secrets behind the events and struggle to stay alive. The game enables you to explore the environment of Thea the way you wish. During the gameplay, you can make strong decision, stay in villages and build up defenses to fend of monsters, or you can leave your town to manipulate the dangerous outside world. The battle can be solved through stealth, assassination, hunting, diplomacy, and other ways depending on the skills. During the gameplay, you can select your play style to rescue the people from the darkness. Up to 4400 items are available to collect and use. Thea: The Awakening offers core features such as 200 Story Events, different Characters, Village Management, Fantasy Setting, Turn-based Strategic Gameplay, more than 100 types Deadly Creatures, Day/Night Cycles, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#43 Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: Colonization
Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: Colonization mixes the Real-time Strategy, and Turn-based elements developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K Games. It is the remake of the turn-based strategy game Sid Meier’s Civilization: Colonization released in 1994 and lets the player control shelters from one of four nations such as Netherlands, England, France and Spain. It takes place in the fictional land in the period from 1492 to 1792. The primary objective of the player is to build up his colony, create an army and train it to defend his territory from enemy’s attack. The player must lead his army in battle against enemies and take down them, claim their land and loot their resources to expand the empire while scoring the points to unlock additional content to become the master with modern features. There are a variety of levels, and each level is more difficult compared to previous one. With core features, superb mechanics, and addictive graphics, Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: Colonization is the best game to play and enjoy.
#44 Civilization III: Conquests
Civilization III: Conquests is the 2nd Downloadable Content Pack for the fabulous game Civilization III and introduces eight civilizations developed by BreakAway Games and published by Atari. The game has both Single-player and Multiplayer modes and focuses on Turn-based Strategy gameplay with Role-playing elements. The Hittites, the Byzantines, the Incans, the Sumerians, etc. are prominent civilizations in the game from which the player has to select his one of them to start the game. The game takes place in the stunning world and lets the player establish his empire, recruit an army, and gather resources to expand his empire. The player can control his people to develop the city, place buildings, and use defenses to fend off enemies by getting into his city. As the player proceeds, the game unlocks additional content to use. The player can battle enemies in turn-based combat and use his strategy in his turn to eliminate the foe. There are different levels, and each level offers unique scenario, challenges and more. With core features, and addictive gameplay, Civilization III: Conquests is the best game to play.
#45 Sid Meier’s Civilization III
Sid Meier’s Civilization III serves as a 3rd entry in the series of Sid Meier’s Civilization created by Firaxis Games and published by Infogrames. The game mixes the Resources Management, 4X, Turn-based Strategy and Business Simulation elements played from an isometric perspective. In the game, there are fifteen different civilizations available including Russians, Egyptians, Aztecs, and more. The player needs to select one of fifteen factions to get into the world where he assumes the role of the ruler with an objective to make strong his military and cultural attributes. Each civilization has its unique weaknesses and strengths. The player must lead his army to participate in combat and struggle to conquer the weakest territory to loot the resources and claim the land. There are multiple ways to win the battle such as Military, Cultural and Diplomatic. The player has to collect resources to build new cities, grow foods to feed his labor and citizens and earn money to discover new technologies and craft weaponry to equip his troops to defend his empire. With prominent features, immersive gameplay, and smooth controls, Sid Meier’s Civilization III is the best game to play and enjoy.
#46 Civilization II
Civilization II is a Single-player and Multiplayer Turn-based Strategy video game developed and published by MicroProse for Microsoft Windows. The game serves as the part of the Civilization series and offers the similar gameplay like its previous. It brings new units, world wonders, civilizations, and advanced technologies. The game changes the graphics from a top-down perspective to an isometric view. During the gameplay, you have to build an empire, recruit armies, and command your soldiers in the battlefield to fight against greatest leaders. Take the strong political decision, update your army, make your strategy and fulfill the requirements of each level to become the master. The game rewards you with XP points which can be used to unlock further content like units, defenses, troops and more. Civilization II includes prominent features such as Command your Armies, Negotiate with Rivals, Construct beautiful World, Map Editor and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#47 Tooth and Tail
Tooth and Tail is a RTS (Real-time Strategy), Single-player and Multiplayer video game created and published by Pocketwatch Games. The game offers an environment, in which the animals face the shortage of food. In the beginning, the player needs to select his side, build his base, create his army and participate in the brutal battle for meat to survive. It has pixel graphics, and the game lets the player explore the environment from an isometric perspective. During the event, the player can navigate the environment, command his army and eat as many animals as possible to score the points. It has randomly generated maps and offers customizable factions. There are a series of levels, and each level has a set of objectives that the player has to accomplish to move to the next stage where he faces challenging tasks. In Single-player campaign, the player has to explore the land, eat enemies and collect meat for his empire. Tooth and Tail include prominent features such as Take Part in War for Meat, Endless Replayability, Split-screen Couch Play, Customization, and more. With addictive gameplay, excellent mechanics, and smooth controls, Tooth and Tail is the best game to play and enjoy.
#48 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.
#49 Civilization 4: Colonization
Civilization 4: Colonization is a remake of the Turn-based Strategy video game Colonization developed in 1994. The game introduces four playable European Nations such as Netherlands, France, England, and Spain and it enables the player to select his favourite one and jump into the battle where the player must effort to dominate the new world in the period 1492-1792. The ultimate task of the player is to create his colony and recruit an army, then announce independence from his mother country and battle against military forces that the mighty king sends to take down the rebellion. To establish and expand the city, the player must balance negotiations with multiple groups such as colonist from the home country, natives of the Americas, other Colonist from across the land. During the plot, the player can assemble his army and command on the battlefield to take down enemies to score the points, loot resources and claim their lands to expand his colony or city. The game introduces the trade and economic system when the player makes finished sells and goods in Europe. Civilization 4 Colonization Improved Diplomacy, Conquer Homeland and Establish a New Nation, Endless Replay, and more. Try it out, and you’ll like it.
#50 Sid Meier’s Civilization IV
Sid Meier’s Civilization IV (also known as Civilization IV) is a mix of 4X, Turn-based Strategy, Historical, and Tactical War elements, developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K Games. The game has both Single-player and Multiplayer modes and it is the 4th entry in the series of Civilization. It uses the 4X empire-building element for Turn-based Strategy gameplay, in which the main objective of the player is to build a civilization from limited resources. There are five objectives available that the player must complete to finish the game such as conquer all civilization, control the majority of the land and population of the world, construct and send the ship to the star system, increase the rating, and more. It brings an immersive gameplay, in which the player controls an empire and expand, exploit, expand and exterminate by leading the massive group of people and more. The game rewards the player with points which he can use to unlock further units, empires, resources, and more. With detailed environment, five challenging objectives, and smooth controls, Sid Meier’s Civilization IV is the best game to enjoy.