Knights and Merchants
Knights and Merchants is a Medieval-themed, City-building, Real-time Strategy, Single-player and Multiplayer video game with an emphasis on Resource Management elements developed by Topware Interactive. The game takes place in the era of the Middle-Ages and offers the former Kingdom, divided into several small principalities and earldoms. There are two campaigns available such as The Peasants Rebellion and The Shattered Kingdom, with a collection of twenty-four challenging missions. It has over twenty-five types of buildings, and the game comes with more than dozens of characters. In the start of the game, the player needs to select his playable character, struggle to establish the kingdom, recruit the army and jump into the game to compete against other players while gathering resources from defeated territories. During the battle, the player commands multiple units of the army to eliminate the opposing forces from the ground to win. Knights and Merchants include core features such as Middle Age Simulation, Skirmish Mode, 10 Multiplayer Maps, 25 types of Buildings, Dozens of Characters, and more. Check it out, and have fun.
#1 Age of Empires II: The Conquerors
Age of Empires II: The Conquerors is a Downloadable Content Pack for RTS (Real-time Strategy) video game Age of Empires: The Age of Kings, released in 1999 by Ensemble Studios. It DLC pack serves as the 4th title in the series of Age of Empires and comes with five new civilizations (such as Huns, Koreans, Mayans, Aztecs, and Spanish), four new campaigns, and more. The game introduced different gameplay tweaks and features, including the new modes such as Wonder Race, King of the Hill, and Defend the Wonder. Some maps in the game take place on the real-life locations. At the beginning of the game, the player needs to select his civilization, choose the campaign and dive into the world where he must establish his empire by placing buildings, recruit an army to defend the inhabitants and bases for further progress. The player can manipulate the land to collect resources and use to craft multiple items, equipment, and weapons for the army to take down other territories to conquer the world. Age of Empires II: The Conquerors offers prominent features such as Eleven new Units, New Gameplay Modes, Four Campaigns, Twenty-six Technologies, and more. Check it out, and have fun.
#2 Offworld Trading Company
Offworld Trading Company is another great City-Building, Management, MMO-RTS, Economic and Exploration video game. This wonderful game allows you to leave the Earth out of Curiosity and start exploring planet Mars, build mining facilities on the surface and gather resources as an Offworld Trading Company, process the resources in your other facilities and finally sell them onto Earth and other Planets in the Galaxy. As this game is all about Trading and Economics, Offworld Trading Company allows you to manipulate the market by your varying products, manufacture new technologies with the help of Martian resources, Sell them in the markets, generate revenue and spend it on enhancing your company and resources like machinery, operators, and other necessary things. Offworld Trading Company offers single-player campaign and allows you to be in full control of your actions and receive the possible outcome based on the decisions you make. With a marvelous game setting, Sci-fi aesthetics, great visuals and an immersive game-play, Offworld Trading Company is a fun game to play.
#3 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.
#4 A Game of Dwarves
A Game of Dwarves is a great RTS Simulation of this specific genre if we compare it with a lot of names out there. The game lets you be the Dwarf Prince and offers wonderful Construction, Management and development elements along with Strategy and tactical aesthetics. A Game of Dwarves allows you to control a whole settlement of dwarfs, build massive structures, develop new technologies, gather and manage resources and keep balance in the consumption of that resources. In the end, you must be able to change a settlement in a fully developed and thriving dwarf civilization. In order to complete the game objectives and reclaiming the land of your ancestors, you must defeat all the dark forces, defend your keeps by using magical skills, weapons, and strategies and finally reclaim what once was yours. With a wonderful story-line, great sandbox style gameplay and brilliant visuals, A Game of Dwarves is one amazing MMO-RTS, Construction, Management and Combat Simulation to enjoy. Do give it a try.
#5 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.
#6 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.
#7 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.
#8 Battle World: Kronos
Battle World: kronos is an MMO and Turn-Based Real time Strategy and a war-based video game that lands you into a militaristic setting. The game allows you to engage yourself into campaigns, skirmishes and wars against your enemies from the Yerla Faction. You get to control your own troop units, train them and use the most sophisticated weaponry against your enemies. Battle World: kronos lets you explore the game world, assault your enemies using transporting vehicles, Air Support and via troops, seize their properties and loot their resources etc. You can play the game online with your friends in multiplayer gaming mode and make alliances to defeat your enemy with the greatest force, tactical advantage and might. Battle World: kronos is a great strategy and war based MMO video game to play and enjoy. try it out if you haven’t yet and enjoy the ultimate fun.
#9 Act of War: Direct Action
Act of War: Direct Action is a Real-Time Strategy and a War based MMO video game by Eugene Systems. The game provides with a lot of challenging skirmishes, campaigns, an engaging gameplay and core mechanics that greatly resemble Europa Universalis IV. You can take part in a lot of tactically advanced game missions and fight off your enemies by using heavy artillery, fighter jets, snipers, and a lot of other types of weapons. As the game is a war based strategy, it allows you to engage into battles and combats with your enemies and complete the missions with a very little damage to yourself. Your tasks would be to infiltrate enemy territories, rescue Hostages, eliminate Terrorists, and medically aid the Wounded Soldiers etc. Act of War: Direct Action provides with a 14 mission gameplay, super realistic graphics, RPG and shooting elements, single and multiplayer gaming mode options etc. With all the drama and war based environment plus the brilliant militaristic approach, Act of War: Direct Action is one of the best games of this specific genre. Do try it out and enjoy entertaining yourself for hours.
#10 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.
#11 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.
#12 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.
#13 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.
#14 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.
#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 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.
#19 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.
#20 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.
#21 Warcraft
Warcraft or also known as Warcraft: Orcs & Humans is the Very first video game of the series. Released back in 1994, Warcraft was a Record Sale hit video game that won three awards and was nominated for three more. With a massive response from around the world markets, Warcraft became the number one hit of the time and was a great competitor to Westwood Studio’s Command and Conquer video game series. Being a top trending RTS (Real Time Strategy) video game, the game lets the player take control of a character from any of the classes (Humans and Orcs) and engage in an epic single-player campaign to complete a number of different missions. Each and every mission of the game offers different objectives such as building towns, resource collection, and raising and training massive armies, etc. The Multiplayer Campaign of the game allows the players to complete only one primary objective of destroying enemy bases and defeat their forces (Humans, Orcs or Monsters based on the character class choices at the start of the game). The combat in the game is mainly Melee and Ranged type that requires troops having the abilities. With a truly remarkable narrative, Medieval and Fantasy-based game setting, addictive gameplay, loads of fantastic game modes, beautiful visuals and loads of other great things, Warcraft (Warcraft: Orcs & Humans) is one amazing RTS game to play and enjoy.
#22 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.
#23 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.
#24 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.
#25 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.
#26 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.
#27 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.
#28 Panzer General II
Panzer General II is a Strategy, Turn-based, Tactics, Single and Multiplayer Simulation developed by Strategic Simulation, Inc. It is the sixth entry in the marvelous series of General. The game is set in WWII (World War II) environment and focuses on the event of the Spanish Civil War. It consists of different scenarios each with a specific battle. The game offers massive maps and lets you assume the role of the soldier and jump into battle, target enemies, crush them and captures hexes by exploring units. Achieve your objectives by defeating enemies, and completing the tasks. There are different landscapes that you must explore such as Mountains, City, Forests, and more. It has different units with various properties such as Tank, Infantry, Anti-Tank, Air Defense, Bomber and more. Panzer General II offers core features such as Exciting Environment, Different Tasks to Complete, Challenging Missions, NPCs, Weapons, and more. With enhanced mechanics, gameplay, visuals and story, Panzer General II is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.
#29 Praetorians
Praetorians is an Action, Real-time Strategy, Single and Multiplayer video game created by Pyro Studios and published by Eidos Interactive. The game is set in historical Rome Empire and allows you get into the game world by selecting your side. Create your troops and equip them with traditional weapons and dive into battle, fight against thousands of other troops and defend your Empire. Defeat enemies and loot their resources. It has two different modes such as the Campaign and the Skirmish. The game campaign mode has four different levels in which you can take part as Julius Caesar and your main task is to lead your force against different hostile tribes and Egyptian. Explore the map, complete quests and earn rewards to unlock other content. There are twenty missions in Campaign mode divided into four section and each section is started by a short film. Expand your Empire by building and upgrading your units to progress in the game. With exciting features, different modes, stunning visuals, and brilliant mechanics, Praetorians is the best game to play and enjoy.
#30 Pharaoh
Pharaoh is a Strategy, Tactics, Isometric, City-building and Single-player Simulation developed by Impressions Games and published by Sierra Entertainment. The game mainly focuses on building ancient times, construction and management elements and lets you take on the role of the ruler. It takes place in Ancient Egypt, and your main goal is to build a city, pyramids, gather resources, and take care of your people. It has two different modes such as Free build and Campaign. You must focus on building the cities, settlements, tombs, and grand cities. Grow crops, hunt foods, and feed your people. Create troops to defend your city from rival gangs, and evils. Complete challenging quests and unlock new contents. Control everything in your city and expand it further and further. The game includes new elements such as Goals, Water, Health, Hunting, Farming, Infrastructure, Religion and more. Pharaoh offers core features such as Military, different and Ancient Landscapes, challenging Tasks, different Resources, Build and Lead your City, different Accessories and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.
#31 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.
#32 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.
#33 Age of Empires II
Age of Empires II is an Action, Real-time Strategy, 2D, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by Ensemble Studios. The game takes place in the medieval-themed world and includes different factions to play. It is the second entry in the series of Age of Empires and revolves around gathering resources, fighting and base-building. Select your faction and dive into the game world where you have to create your Kingdom, build your base, recruit army, and defend your castle. Conquer another faction by defeating and loot their resources to expand your kingdom. Explore the environment, discover new technologies, and upgrade your units, weapons and buildings. There are a set of quests that you must complete and take part in battle to show off your army strength. Dominate the world, interact with other players, and create a guild to become powerful. Maintain your resources and survive as long as possible. With exciting features, superb mechanics, and addictive gameplay, Age of Empires II is the best game to play and enjoy.
#34 Caesar III
Caesar III is a City-building, and Single-player video game created by Impression Games and published by Sierra Entertainment. It is the third entry in the series of Caesar game and allows the player take on the role of the Roman governor. The ultimate task of the player is to build a massive Roman city, in which he has to make the city safe, gather resources to expand his city, craft weapons, and grow crops to fed his people and keep them happy for further progress. The player has to deals with disasters, foes, and angry gods. The player can explore the game world from isometric views, and there are a set of levels that the player has to complete at any cost. To level-up, the player must fulfill the requirements of each level and expand his village by defeating another castle using his military. It combines the compound of city-building, crafting, resource management, and strategy. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.
#35 Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic
Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic is a Turn-based Strategy, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by Triumph Studios and published by Gathering of Developers. The game takes place in the fantasy-themed world, and it is the third entry in the series of Age of Wonders. It offers the world contains three different levels such as the Shadow world, the Underground and the Surface. Simultaneous is the major mode in the game, which allows the players to move their units at the same time during their turn. It has different modes such as Overworld mode, Traditional Turn-based mode, and Simultaneous mode. It combines the elements of Empire Building, Tactical Combat, and Role-playing. There are different character classes, and the player can select one of them to start his game. Lead your allies throughout a variety of levels and compete against Ai characters other players to victory. The otherworldly Syrons, the sinister Shadow Demons and the steppe roaming Nomads are three new races features in the game. With enhanced mechanics, detailed gameplay, superb visuals, and attractive soundtrack, Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic is the best game to play and enjoy.
#36 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.
#37 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.
#38 Warcraft: Orcs and Humans
Warcraft: Orcs and Humans is a Single-player and Multiplayer video game with Real-time Strategy elements developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment. There are two different factions available, and the player can select one of them such as the invading Orcs and the Human. It takes place in the fictional medieval environment, and the primary objective of the player is to uses the different building to establish his Kingdom, recruit and train his army and harvest resources. In Single-player mode, the player needs to complete a series of missions by crushing enemies. The game rewards the player with points that he can use to unlock further units, resources, and modes. The player starts with empty land, and he must place units strategically, fend off enemies by destroying his structure, crush them, loot their resources and claim their land to expand his empire further and further. In some scenarios, the player needs to fight against monsters, but sometimes, the player can use these monsters as his army after defeating. Warcraft: Orcs and Humans is the best and award-winning Real-time Strategy.
#39 Disciples II: Dark Prophecy
Disciples II: Dark Prophecy is a Fantasy-based, Turn-based Strategy, Single-player and Multiplayer video game developed and published by Strategy First for Microsoft Windows. The game acts as the sequel to Disciples: Sacred Lands, released in 1999 and it becomes more successful than its predecessor. It takes place in the fantasy kingdom known as Nevendaar. The plot of the game focuses on four races in the areas of constant war. There are four factions such as the Human Empire, the Demonic, the Dwarven Mountain Clans, and the Legions of the Damned. The game involves three elements such as building, gathering resources, and army recruiting. In the game, the player must establish his land, command his troops and battle against enemies in the turn-based system while scoring the points to become the master. The game becomes desperate to play, as the player proceeds through the story. With addictive gameplay, brilliant graphics, and superb mechanics, Disciples II: Dark Prophecy is the beautiful game to play.
#40 Age of Empires 3
Age of Empires 3 is a Real-time Strategy, Single and Multiplayer video game created by Ensemble Studios. The game includes eight different civilizations such as Spanish, Ottoman, Dutch, British, Portuguese, and more. Each civilization has its unique advantages and weaknesses. It combines the elements of building, resource management and combat. The main task is to create your Empire using different buildings and gather resources to survive. Recruit military and arm them with weapons and protect your Empire. In the game, you’ll face different challenges such as population, war, diplomacy, and more. Expand your Empire by conquering other Empires and upgrade your units, buildings. Military and weapons using experience points. It has a set of objectives and the game rewards you with points as you fulfill requirements of each level. Unlock other civilizations by progressing through the game. With detailed environment, immersive gameplay, superb mechanics and brilliant controls, Age of Empires 3 is the best game to play and enjoy.
#41 PowerMonger
PowerMonger is a RTS (Real-time Strategy), Single-player and Two-player video game developed by Bullfrog Productions and published by Electronic Arts. The game is set in the fantasy-based world where the movement of the camera is limited to rotating the map by 90 degree. It introduces the advanced artificial life system, in which each character has its own mind and can use to do job and perform other tasks. In the game, the player can use the tool to encounter the name, gender, vital stats, allegiance, and hometown of the character. The player starts the game with a small number of soldiers and few town. To conquer the map, the player must balance the power, command the army to defeat opposing team, and struggle conquer all of the towns on the map to become the master. The locals can shifted into the army of the player and massive towns, as the player conquers the land. During the gameplay, the player can controls as many captains as armies, with an objective to keep them alive to advance through the game. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#42 Kingdom Wars
Kingdom Wars is a Massively Multiplayer Online Real-time Strategy, and Medieval-themed video game takes place in the 3D environment, developed by Reverie World Studios. The game is set in the persistent world of Mythador, where the player has an opportunity to write his chapter in the brutal history of this land. During the gameplay, the player navigate the richly-detailed huge world from the massive mountains to the forest. The ultimate task of the player is to complete the variety of story-driven quests to service the king, wizards and the fellow adventures. The player can interact with thousands of other players from all over the world through forging alliances, trading, and waging war in both PvE (Player versus Environment) and PvP (Player versus Player). He can build up his beautiful village into towns and convert it into mighty empires. The game introduces three unique races and the player can select one of them to start the game. Kingdom Wars includes core features such as Two Single-player Modes, Stunning Siege Combat, Three Races, 3D Dynamic World Map, and more. Check it out, and have fun.
#43 Age of Empires II HD: Rise of the Rajas
Age of Empires II HD: Rise of the Rajas is a Downloadable Content Pack for Real-time Strategy, Historical, and Strategy video game Age of Empires II HD, developed by SkyBox Labs and published by Microsoft Studios. The title acts as the 3rd Expansion pack and it comes with four additional civilizations, new buildings, and features. Burmese, Khmer, Malay and Vietnamese are four new civilizations in the game from which the player can define his favourite one to get into the world where he will struggle to complete a set of tasks to advance. There are five random maps available to explore, and the game introduces five special maps contain thirteen new terrains. During the game, the player will encounter a Spectator mode as well as new Scenario Editor Objects. In the game, the player attempts to establish his empire by placing buildings, creating unique structures, and crafting resources for the inhabitants of the empire. The game is played from an isometric perspective, and the player completes the tasks for points and money which can be used to unlock further content. Age of Empires II HD: Rise of the Rajas includes prominent features such as Four new Campaigns, New Mode, Four Random and Four Special Maps to Explore, Thirteen new Terrains, and more. Try it out, if you love playing RTS games.
#44 Seven Kingdoms 2: The Fryhtan Wars
Seven Kingdoms 2: The Fryhtan Wars is a Real-time Strategy (RTS), High Fantasy, Single-player and Multiplayer video game created by Enlight and published by Ubisoft for Microsoft Windows. The game is the sequel to Seven Kingdoms video game. It retains the main concepts from its predecessor that distinguished it from other strategy video games. In the game, the player needs to find a strike a balance between the mighty army for taking down Kingdoms and Khwyzans and the economy for sustaining the former condition. There are over 12 human civilizations and seven Fryhtan species available, and the player can select his favourite to partake in the game. The main task is to deals with building and places them in his created kingdom, recruit an army and lead them in battles to victory. There are several levels, and each level comes with a set of objectives that the player has to complete to earn points and move forward in the game to become the master. Seven Kingdoms 2: The Fryhtan Wars includes prominent features such as RTS Gameplay, 12 Civilizations, Expand the Kingdom, and more. Try it out, and have fun.
#45 Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs
Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs is a Single-player and Multiplayer RTS (Real-time Strategy) video game developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft Game Studios. The game acts as the first Downloadable Content Pack for the RTS video game Age of Empires III, and it comes with several modifications, new content, and more. In the game, the player is still expected to collect resources, create troops and send them to conquer opponents like the original game. Instead of introduces new concepts, the game expanded the existing concepts. There are fifteen long missions available, including the Black Family in the historical setting. The game puts the player in the role of the protagonist, the leader whose ultimate task is to establish his kingdom, recruit his troops and struggle to dominate the map to expand his empire. The game features both Single-player and Multiplayer modes, and the player can compete against AI in Single-player mode while going against friends in Multiplayer mode. The game is played from an isometric perspective, and the player uses the point-and-click interface to advance and control the aspects. Further levels will be unlocked as the player proceeds through it and gain points as well as resources to supply the units. With immersive gameplay, superb mechanics, and brilliant graphics, Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs is the best game to play.
#46 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.