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.
#1 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.
#2 Company of Heroes 2
Company of Heroes 2 is a popular RTS game that offers an amazingly addictive and quite immersive game-play similar to the popular Supreme Commander video game. This sequel to the original Company of Heroes lacks the allies feature and instead it takes you to the eastern frontiers in order to battle against the enemies and experience an extremely action-packed game-play ever. As usual the game sets you up into the character of a commander/lieutenant and allows you to focus on building your own base, gather up resources, and build immense man power by building and training troop units, and finally embarking on amazing journeys that will eventually lead you to huge battles against the enemies. Your task is to simply conquer the enemy bases, outposts etc. in order to eliminate the threat and to expand your reign. Every outpost and base capture awards you with points that you can use to buy more upgrades and stuff. Building, defending and occupying enemy territories are the main parts of the core game-play, so the more you are tactically strong, the more chances of success you get. The unique combat system allows you to use your amazing militaristic approach to cater with the armies, use heavy machinery, artillery, military grade vehicles and stuff to defeat your enemies and enjoy an amazing gaming experience.
#3 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.
#4 Sid Meier’s Civilization V
Sid Meier’s Civilization V or shortly named as Civilization V is a wonderful 4X Turn-based MMO-RTS video game by Firaxis Games. The game is based on the player who leads a civilization from Primordial times to the future on a methodologically created map. The game lets you use your skills and experiences for the Research, Exploration, Diplomacy, Expansion of the lands, Economic and technological development, Governmental and Military Conquests etc. Civilization V inherits a lot of characteristics and mechanics from Civilization IV but a slight change is the absence of a lot of expansion packs. Unlike the previous versions of the game, Battle and combat characteristics are quite changed, Cities can now defend themselves by devastating the enemies situated nearby, and a lot of military restrictions are gone. Sid Meier’s Civilization V resembles Age of Mythologies a lot, story-line and game-play is quite overhauled and the game provides with Single and Multiplayer Campaigns so you can enjoy it more. Graphics are greatly enhanced as compared to the older versions of the game. With 2 expansion packs Civilization V: Gods and Kings and Civilization V: Brave New World, this game offers wonderful visuals, a brilliant game-play etc.
#5 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.
#6 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.
#7 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.
#8 Civilization VI
Civilization VI combines the elements of Turn-based Strategy, Historical, Single and Multiplayer 4X video game created by Firaxis Games and published by 2K Games. It is the sixth marvelous entry in the series of Civilization and offers enhanced gameplay, mechanics, and features. The game takes place in the historical-themed world and allows the player to lead his civilization from an early settlements and become a super power using one of different condition such as technology superiority, military power, and diplomacy leadership. In the beginning, you can start from a small tribe and your task is to explore the world, find new cities, build shelters, buildings, recruit your army, research new technologies, gather resources and train your force to defend your empire. Control the entire planet by defeat other players or AI-controlled Characters across different periods of development. Gather resources to survive longer, and conquer the land of other players to loot their resources. Civilization VI includes core features such as Expansive Empires, Active Research, Dynamic Diplomacy, Combined Arms, Enhance Multiplayer, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#9 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.
#10 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.
#11 Total War: Shogun 2: Fall of the Samurai
Total War: Shogun 2: Fall of the Samurai is a Real-time Tactics, Turn-based Strategy, Single-player and Multiplayer video game created by The Creativity Assemble and published by Sega. The game acts as the Downloadable Content Pack for the strategy video game Total War: Shogun 2, released in 2012. It takes place in the mid-19th century, revolving around Bakumatsu era. The Expansion pack focuses on the battles between the Shogunists and the Imperialists in the years of Tokugawa Shogunate, which is set three-hundred years after the event of the previous title. It combines the power of modern weaponry and the traditional Samurai culture. The ultimate task of the player is to control ancient Japan into the modern age, as the arrival of Britain, America and France will begin the horrific war, which will demolish the future of the nation. At the starting of the game, the player has to select his playable faction and participate in the battlefield to show off his strategic abilities while conquering the land to restore the peace. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.
#12 Civilization VI: Rise and Fall
Civilization VI: Rise and Fall is a first Downloadable Content Pack for the 4X and Turn-based Strategy game Civilization VI, developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K Games. The DLC pack comes with new features such as Leaders and Civilizations. The concentrate of the game is to include mechanics that emulate the potential for the rise of civilization and then collapse due to several factors. In the game, the player can be modified in how he deals with these turns in his civilization. The DLC pack introduces global areas, triggered when the competing civilizations reach to the required target. The game is about creating an empire to stand the test of time, and the DLC brings new strategies, choices, and challenges for the player as he leads a civilization through the ages. During the game, the player can establish a golden age for his civilization to become the best leader for all ages. Civilization VI – Rise and Fall includes prominent features such as the Great Ages, New Leaders and Civilizations, Governors, Enhanced Alliances, New Global Content, and more. Try it out, and you’ll like it.