Rise of Nations: Extended Edition
Rise of Nations: Extended Edition is a Strategy, Real-time Strategy, Historical War-based and Base-building video game created by SkyBox Labs and published by Microsoft Studios. The game includes over eighteen civilizations and lets you select one of them to start your game. Your primary job is to create your buildings, base and build an army to defend them. Lead your army throughout the game and compete against AI-controlled army or another players and defeat them to loot their resources. Navigate the world to gather resources, build and repair old buildings and dominate the playfield to become the master. Over hundred units are available in the game ranging from an Ancient age Hoplite to the age of Stealth Bomber. Score the highest points and gain enough experience to unlock further content for progress. Build your Kingdom and lead your army of sea, land and air to conquer the bases of enemies. Rise of Nations: Extended Edition offers enhanced mechanics, impressive gameplay with isometric view, and attractive sounds, Rise of Nations: Extended Edition is the best game to play and enjoy.
#1 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.
#2 Rise Of Nations: Gold Edition
The Rise of Nation game series includes some really great games like Rise of Nation: Thrones and Patriots and Rise of Nations: Gold Edition. This epic real time strategy game is developed by Big Huge Games. This game is based on the historical events of time and travels back to almost 6000 years of ancients. Main features include heavy Warfare, city building, governance, troops, battles, thrones, trade and merchandise etc. This super amazing RTS game never lets you feel like you are wasting your time while playing this game. Graphics and game-play are quite like Age of Empires. Storyline and user interface are a bit different. Rise of Nations expansion pack offers new nations, campaigns for single players, more troop units and some really great new wonders and government types to choose. This amazingly wondrous and engaging game can be played only on PC.
#3 0 A.D.
0 A.D. developed and published by Wildfire Games is an Action, Real-time Strategy, Single and Multiplayer Cross Platform and Open Source video game. The game takes place in historical years between 500 B.C and 1B.C. in first part while taking place in 1 A.D to 500 A.D in the second part. It combines the elements of RTS and Economics Simulation and revolves around building a base, discover new technologies, combat and recruit an army. There are twelve different territories are available to play and each with its unique set of objectives, environment, and features. Select your civilization and dive into the game world where you have to create your unique Empire, build a base and recruit an army to defend your base. Equip your army with modern weapons and fight against other players or NPCs to loot their resources and expand your empire. As you advanced, the game becomes more challenging. In Single-player mode, your opponent is controlled by the computer while in multiplayer, you have to fight against real player like you. With superb mechanics, addictive gameplay, and wonderful visuals, 0 A.D. is the best game to play and enjoy.
#4 Wasteland 2
Wasteland 2 is Tactical Action, RPG and Post-Apocalyptic video game set in an alternate history. Wasteland 2 is the first ever Sequel to the 1988’s popular Wasteland video game and it offers more enhanced game mechanics, graphics and core gameplay etc. The game is based on a Nuclear War that started when a cluster of Meteors hit various Nuclear sites. A huge Nuclear war started out that almost totally devastated the world. The day when all this happened, some of the U.S. Army Engineers were working in a desolate Desert deep into the Southwestern region, minutes after the Cataclysmic event they went into hiding in the prison they were setting up for the Death Row prisoners. The Soldiers sought shelter in the prison and when the time was right, they got back up to the surface and started searching for the Survivors, who ever was found, teamed up with them and all of the survivors formed the Desert Rangers, years after the Nuclear Holocaust. Wasteland 2 starts off 15 years after the events of Wasteland and connects the story to its predecessor in a way that it literally feels like the same. Wasteland 2 is a kind of strategic game that allows you to play as anyone of the available characters, Control a total number of seven characters (Three main and 4 NPCs), Explore the game world, face some of the worst ever mutants and nightmarish creatures, fight them off with all the available weapons such as guns, melee weapons and stuff, earn experience points, develop new skills, get health updates, and complete a number of quests, etc. With all the amazingly bashing Combats, hardcore Action and Thrill, Wasteland 2 offers a fantastic Story-driven gameplay, unique characters and fabulous visuals to enjoy. If you haven’t yet played this game, try it out and enjoy all the Post-Apocalyptic fun.
#5 Total War: Attila
Total War: Attila is a Turn-Based Strategy and Real-Time MMO and Strategy video game developed by The Creative Assembly. The game is set in 395 A.D. when the Late Antiquity was transitioning into early Dark Ages. Total War: Attila allows you to be the leader of the Huns in an era of Famines, Diseases, War and Apocalyptic Turmoil. In the times of chaos, when everybody is trying to fill up their pockets with whatever fits their palm, Total War: Attila lets you have the support of a mighty army of Million horsemen and conquer the City of Rome. The game allows you to show your might by going to war against all the Oppressing Powers, Crushing their rebellions and proving yourself as the most Barbarian and fearsome king who knows how to rule. With one of the best Legendary Start Positions, Overhauled Game Mechanics, Incredible Details of the Game World, Outstanding Graphics and Visual Effects, lot of amazing Objectives and Multiple Game Endings based on the actions of the Player Total War: Attila is one of the best Strategy and Real time Tactics video game to play and enjoy.
#6 Empire: Total War
Empire: Total War is a Turn Based Strategy, Real Time Tactics and MMO video game created by The Creative Assembly and Feral Interactive. The game is set in the Early Modern Period of 18th Century and allows you to choose a faction for yourself and dominate over the known world by the use of massive armies, diplomacy and economics. The turn based element of the game allows you to engage yourself in wars against the enemies in real-time. You can select any campaign and wage wars against your enemies through land and sea and use differently trained troop units. Empire: Total War lets you see and take part in some of the biggest wars of the history like American War of Independence, Battle of Fontenoy, Battle of Rossbach, Battle of Brandywine etc. Every campaign of the game allows you to build and manage your own settlement in which you can erect different structures, gather resources and train your troops etc. Multiplayer mode of the game allows you to make alliances with other online players and fight with your enemies with doubled strength and resources, defeat them and conquer their territories. Empire: Total War is a great Tactical MMO-RTS game to play and enjoy.
#7 Total War: Shogun 2
Total War: Shogun 2 is a Real-Time Strategy and Tactical War-based MMO Video game by popular The Creative Assembly. The game is set in the 16th century in Japan and focuses on its Feudal system that came into existence after the Onin War during the era of Ashikaga Shogunate. The whole country got divided into various clans such as Chosokabe, Date, Hojo, Mori, Oda, Shimazu, Takeda, Tokugawa, Uesugi, Hattori, Iko-Iko and Otomo etc. led by fierce Warlords. The warlords started wars against each other to took the control into their hands and started governing over several parts of the country. You can select any clan that best suits you and start managing it by dominating over the other clans. To dominate you must start a mission campaign, Produce massive armies such as Ninjas, Geishas etc. grow your Economy by engaging in deep businesses and trade bounds, start researching and building new technologies in order to advance through the game. You must also strengthen up your economic and political sides too by the use of special agents. You can dominate over your enemies with the help of Turn by Turn game-play and better strategies. On the capture of any Kyoto or territory you must also dominate over your enemies by fighting against them in Realm Divide mode. You must eliminate head of clan who is fighting against you in Realm Divide to conquer and seize the resources. Every clan defeat in Realm Divide allows you to rule over that clan, their armies, resources and their territory as well and that means more power and fame amongst all other clans. Multiplayer gaming mode lets you make alliances with other online players to fight against any clan, win the battles and divide the resources and territory. Total War: Shogun 2 is a great RTS and tactical War Based MMO Video game to play and enjoy.
#8 Dragon Age
Dragon Age, Fantasy based Role Playing Game (RPG) series, developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts. From its first release back in 2009 to November 2014 the developers released four main games and a number of sequels and spin-offs. The whole game series provides with almost same game-play experience with slightly different but connected storyline for each game. For every game of the series, player gets into the role of a Warrior, Mage or Rogue with connection to Human, Elven or Dwarven backgrounds. As the story of the game suggests, player struggles to unite the races mentioned above and prepares them to fight against a demonic legion who tends to kill everyone and rule the world by force. Released games in the series are well connected because of a continuous story and every next game starts exactly from where the last game concluded. With an Eclipse Engine, Dragon Age is available to play on different gaming platforms as Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Dragon Age video game series is quite fun to play.
#9 Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends
Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends is a truly amazing and quite engaging Fantasy based MMO and Real Time Strategy video game developed by Big Huge Games. The game allows you to play a number of campaigns and missions, conquer your enemies and loot their resources. The main objectives of the game include City building, accommodations of your people and troops, construction of defensive structures etc. You must make best strategies to defeat your enemies and to make your defenses impenetrable. You can accommodate different sets of individuals and for that you’ll need to build different buildings like Military barracks, Markets, Palaces, Maguses (Research labs) and industries etc. Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends lets you be in power and write the fate of all the people living in your settlement. For resources you must wage wars against your enemies and use best of your skills and strategies to conquer them. Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends is a great RTS game to play and enjoy. Do try it out.
#10 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.
#11 Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn
Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn is a Role-playing, Fantasy-based, Exploration, Isometric, Single and Multiplayer video game by BioWare. It is the sequel to Baldur’s Gate and available to play on Windows. The game takes place in the fantasy country named Amm on the Faerun’s subcontinental. It puts the player into the role the protagonist named Gorion’s Ward and revolves around the encounters with Irenicus. To get into the game world, the player must select his character where he has to lead a team over six characters. The game focuses on character-creation system and lets the player select his appearance, class, abilities, and alignment. He can play the game from an isometric perspective. It has a variety of challenging quests and side-quests that the player must complete at any cost to earn experience points. He can play solo in Single-player campaign or play with over six friends in multiplayer mode. Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn offers enhanced mechanics, brilliant gameplay, superb visuals, and exciting story. Try it out.
#12 Total War: Rome 2
Total War: Rome 2 is an amazing Real-Time Strategy and MMO video game by The Creative Assembly, set in an alternative Historical setting of Rome. The game focuses basically on Real-time Combats, Battles and Faction-based conquering themes. With choices to select your character from a number of races, skill trees and experiences, Total War: Rome 2 allows you to be part of an enormously huge kingdom ranging from Spanish coasts to far-situated kingdoms of the east, get into a specific faction, lead your people, take part in epic wars, and show off your best commercial, statistical, military and democratic strategies and skills. Running whole kingdoms, making rules for the living, building cultures, controlling economies and constructing buildings, businesses etc. are the unique aspects of this wonderful game. Try it out and you’ll definitely feel like being part of the great Roman Empire.
#13 Serpent in the Staglands
Serpent in the Staglands is a great Action Adventure RPG video game by Whalenought Studios. The game is set in an open world to explore and loot different items to use in your quests. You will find different spells, weapons and abilities to make use of them at different stages of the game. You will experience the strategic turn based combat system. You have to make your party by finding your companions fill the slots. Your companions will be the NPCs and they will help you to explore the game world by going through different strategic turn based combats. DLC, patches and updates of the game are totally fee of cost. There is a large quantity of enemies and challenges for you including monsters to deal with. You have unmarked maps of the cities, temples, towers and dungeons to explore them. Serpent in the Staglands is a superb game to play and enjoy.
#14 Total War: Warhammer
Total War: Warhammer combines the elements of Real-time Tactics, Turn-based Strategy, and Fantasy created by Creative Assembly and published by Sega. There are four different races such as the Dwarfs, the Empire, the Greenskins, and the Vampire Counts. It takes place in the fantasy-based world and revolves around empire building, gather resources and battle against other races. Each race has its unique characters, play style, and battle units. Recruit your army and must lead in battlefield to fight as one of the eight lords from the Warhammer fantasy world. You can use a set of weapons, armor, and magic to conquer another faction or dominate the battlefield. As the game progress, it goes tougher and other content in the game will be unlocked. Update your army, and expand your Empire by conquering other empires, and gathering lots of resources. Defend your nation at the end and avoid enemy attack to further progress. Show off your strength and learn new abilities, and tricks to fight against powerful terrains. Unleash the Monsters, Conquer the World, Command Legendary Character, Lead Races, etc. are the prominent features of the game. Try it out.
#15 Shadowrun: Dragonfall
Shadowrun: Dragonfall is a super engaging Action-Adventure, Cyberpunk-RPG and Hack and Slash video game by Harebrained Schemes. This epic game provides with an amazing strategy based game-play that lets you experience a wonderful mix up of all the above mentioned elements. The game is about the return of the dark magic that unleashed powerful mythical creatures and among them was the one mighty Dragon named as Feuerschwinge who emerged from the mountains of Germany and brought heavy destruction and chaos with it. German Forces kept on fighting off the Feuerschwinge and after four months of heavy fights and destruction they finally shot it down and that was called The Dragonfall. Years later in 2054, Germany becomes the hub of tech and the population is now doubled as the Elves and Trolls have joined the populace, giant corporations have corrupted the Govts. and now Germany is in the control of Flux State after the heavy anarchy and chaos. With a lot of new threats and you as a Shadow Runner, the Flux State hires you to go against the re-surfacing Feuerschwinge, eliminate it and restore the order. Would you accept the challenge? Shadowrun: Dragonfall offers brilliant realistic visauls and sounds, a well-written story and an immersive game-play tho enjoy.
#16 Braveland
Braveland is a wonderful Turn-based Strategy video game with amazing Indie aesthetics. This brilliant Old School takes you to an amazing Hexagonal grid-based setting and allows you to Explore, Craft, engage yourself into addictive and quite epic Turn-based Combats and be part of the legions of finest warriors of the time. Complete the ultimate goal of the game, that is to defeat the invading enemies and eventually save your world and people and become a skilled Commander of your army. The game allows you explore a massive game map, travel to any location easily, encounter your enemies randomly, collect a number of rare and quite valuable artifacts, use a number of fantastic combat skills and tricks, use upgrade to enhance your character’s talents and enjoy immersing yourself into an epic gameplay experience ever. With a fantastic game-play, great story and brilliant visuals, Braveland is a fun game to play and enjoy.
#17 Shakes and Fidget
Shakes and Fidget is a Massively Multiple Online Role-playing, Strategy, Adventure-based and F2P video game by Playa Games GmbH. The game allows the player to customize his unique character and get into the massive game world where the goal of the player proves himself a best in the world. The game focuses on Combat element and allows the player to train his troops and get into the battle, defeat all the enemy creatures and expand his castle. The player is also able to play as a team with the other online players. It offers various levels, and each level of the game offers different and challenging gameplay. Shakes and Fidget offers key features such as fast-paced combat, create buildings, Upgrades, replayability gather gold, Chat, and much more. With superb game setting fantastic game mechanics, quite engaging gameplay and beautiful graphics details. Shakes and Fidget is one of the best game for all the ages.