APOX
APOX is a Strategy, Simulation, Adventure, Single-player, and Multiplayer video game developed by Blue Giant Interactive. Throughout the game, the player plays like the shooter who can prone, crouch, make use of active weapons, throw grenades, and loot corpses in the playfield. While controlling the soldier, the player views the environment from a first-person angle.
The game has limited ammo, but the companions can share ammo seamlessly. The player can use vehicles and create unit designs. Like other RTS games, APOX allows the player to make bases, controlling strategic sites, and manage all the vital resources. The game has eight missions where the player has to show combat skills and make progress.
The game has offered 100 maps, and in solo mode, the player battles against AI-controlled bots. The multilayer mode allows the player to play with friends in the co-op scenario or against other players in versus mode. The game has a map editor where the player can design the map accordingly. The core features are Map Editor, Co-op Mode, 8 Training Missions, and 100 Maps.
#1 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.
#2 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.
#3 Stronghold Kingdoms
Stronghold Kingdoms is one of the best MMO and RTS video games that offers unique Castle building elements as well. This game is set in a medieval era in ancient Europe and focuses on the wars between the most brutal and humongous medieval powers of the time. The game lets you master your skills of military, economy and politics via engaging yourself in the massive world of MMORTS gaming system. Just like other MMORTS games, you can build your own city, starting from scratch and paying attention to the smallest details to overcome any problems. You can always make alliances with your neighboring kingdoms and fight against your enemies together. You can also fight against your enemies in PvP battles to rank yourself up a bit by collecting the experience points. You can use the experience points to buy upgrades and more units of purchasable goods. Stronghold Kingdoms is one of the best MMORTS video games available to play online.
#4 Rise of Nations
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to manage a whole kingdom, a city or a territory and wage wars against the enemies to either conquer them or to loot their resources, survive and flourish an amazing and prosperous civilization? Well if you want to experience an amazing King or a General like feeling, Rise of the Nations is the game built just for you. Rise of Nations is a Single and multiplayer MMO-RTS Video game that provides with a great blend of fantasy elements. The game allows you to be part of a hugely mapped and beautifully created game world, Construct Buildings (Barracks, Forts, Defense, Markets etc.), Make Allies, Wage Wars against your enemies, Gather up Resources etc. The game also lets you accommodate more than eighteen different races, train more troops from eight unique classes and use best strategies against your enemies. Rise of Nations basically focuses on the balance between Economy, Offense and Defense and encourages you to fully strategize your every move in the game. Rise of nations offers a marvelously engaging and quite immersive game-play, a number of fantastic Single and Multiplayer Campaigns, great visual details and loads of brilliant things to discover. Do try it out if you haven’t yet and enjoy the ultimate fun.
#5 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.
#6 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.
#7 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.
#8 Joint Task Force
Joint Task Force is a Strategy, Tactical, Single-player, and Multiplayer video game developed by Most Wanted Entertainment for Windows. Throughout the game, the player plays like a commander who has to lead the military forces in particular combats. The gameplay is a bit different where a player has not to collect the resources; instead, he has to get money to spend on a mission or objective.
The game assigns the troopers and equipment at the beginning of each mission, and the player can purchase more by making progress. The game has armored vehicles such as the M1A2 Abrams tank and the M2A3 IFV. Troopers gain experience after every battle and can improve their rank status.
Similarly, all the available officers have a skill tree where they give the player many advantages on the battlefield. In the single-player campaign, the player can play cooperatively with another player to complete the missions. The game has a skirmish mode where the player can play with one of the three available factions, such as JTF, Terrorists, or Dictators.
#9 Conflict Zone
Conflict Zone is an Adventure, Strategy, Single-player, and Multiplayer video game developed by Ubisoft. Throughout the game, the player plays as an unnamed character who has to battle for peace. The game has offered two playable campaigns, such as the Ghost campaign and the International Corps for Peace campaign.
All the missions take place in multiple locations where, once, fictional wars have occurred, like the civil war in Ukraine, conflicts between Indonesia and Malaysia, Nigeria and Niger, etc. Almost every mission requires the player to build a base and complete objectives for completion of the task. Conflict Zone uses a unique system where the player has to come with entirely different strategies for a unique challenge towards the opponents.
The players have to gain popularity points and unlock advanced units and buildings for making the base more strengthen. In some cases, the player has to employ AI commanders to perform extraordinary duties. Each commander has a specific strategy for attacking, defending, etc. By allocating resources, the player can perform various operations for victories.
#10 Reconquest
Reconquest is an Adventure, Simulation, Strategy, and Single-player video game developed by StormCube Games for Windows. Throughout the game, the player has to reconquer the Earth after World War III as humanity is standing on the edge of chaos. The player has to deploy better strategic decisions than the opponents to beat them in battles.
While controlling the soldiers, the player views the environment from an isometric angle. The most valuable resource is radioactive shale gas, and the player must possess it in large quantities to alter the outcomes of battles. With the efficiency of this vital resource, the player can turn the tables, but its deficiency lets the opponents take the fight in their favour.
The game has three playable modes, such as campaign, skirmish, and trapped mode. In campaign mode, the player has to choose aside from the two available ones as the urban forces and the outlaw clan. Both sides contain ten story missions. Skirmish mode allows the player to compete with three AIs on eight different maps.