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.
#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 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.
#4 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.
#5 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.
#6 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.
#7 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.
#8 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.
#9 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.
#10 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.
#11 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.
#12 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.
#13 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.
#14 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.
#15 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.
#16 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.
#17 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.
#18 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.
#19 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.