Humankind
Humankind is a Strategy, Historical, and Single-player video game developed by AMPLITUDE Studios. During the gameplay, the player controls a civilization and develops it according to the age with new technologies and abilities.
The game offers ten major civilizations and takes place on a virtual planet. The player can develop a civilization from a million of civilization patterns, build cities, and other general resources, such as hospitals, banks, schools, shopping centers, and much more. Time-by-time, the player will also face enemies, and the player needs to serve the civilization by taking on the role of a warrior.
While playing the game, the player can also gain resources, such as food, gold, scientific technologies, and other goods. The game allows the player to trade amongst the different civilizations to gain revenue. A significant feature of the game is Fame that increases the rank of the player as he gets to advance and discover the latest technologies.
The player can interact with the NPCs within the gameplay. It offers historical events and tactical battles that give the player a deep knowledge of history. The core features of the game are Fame Option, Ten Civilizations, Resources, NPC Communication, Trading, Different Eras, and Strategy-based Gameplay.
#1 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.
#2 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.
#3 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.
#4 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.
#5 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.
#6 Anno Online
Anno Online is a wonderful Free-to-Play Browser-based MMORTS, City Building and Management video game developed by Ubisoft. This wonderful Spin-Off of Anno series lets you be part of the game world as a king and allows you to build massive cities, collect and manage resources, control the economics and be a true ruler over everything. You get the liberty to build your own commercial empires to grow your businesses and develop your settlement, build houses, markets, refineries, train troops and build different production units like factories, workshops etc. and wage wars against your enemies, defend your settlements. Being an MMORTS video game, Anno Online allows you to form up alliances with your friends in game world and fight against your enemies together. You can also trade with other online players. With all the super amazing things, Anno Online provides with best 3D graphics, a well-written modifiable story-line and an open world gaming environment along with a very immersive game-play. Do give it a try.
#7 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.
#8 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.
#9 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.
#10 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.
#11 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.
#12 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.