Stronghold Kingdoms: Castle Sim
Stronghold Kingdoms: Castle Sim is a Strategy and Single-player video game developed by Firefly Studios for Android and iOS. It takes place in the beautiful land where the player takes on the role of the Lord who needs to start building his empire from an isometric viewpoint, create an army, and then prepare himself to partake in epic fights to take down enemies. In the game, the objective of the player is to expand to ancient the land and create the castle to defend it. While playing the game, he needs to farm peacefully and then engage himself in political mind games, seek vengeance on evil enemies and must lead his faction to glory across the medieval-themed land. During the game, the player must build an online stronghold and defend it with castle defenses. Stronghold Kingdoms: Castle Sim includes key features such as Research New Technologies, Command your Faction, RTS Gameplay, and more. With touch controls, superb mechanics, and brilliant graphics, Stronghold Kingdoms: Castle Sim is an excellent game to play.
#1 Stronghold Crusader 2
Stronghold Crusader 2 is an immersive Real-time Strategy, and Historical-themed video game developed and published by Firefly Studios. The game has both Single-player and Multiplayer modes, and it serves as the sequel to Stronghold: Crusader, released in 2002. It takes place in the 3D environment and lets the player assumes the role of the leader who is responsible for the protection of his kingdom and its inhabitants. The primary objective of the player in the start to establish a Kingdom by placing various buildings, gather resources, craft items and create an army to defend your empire. He can expand his kingdom by conquering the land from the weakest enemy in the beginning and can battle against giant enemies as the player gather enough resources and military power. In Multiplayer mode, two players can take command of a single castle and can share units and resources while battling against enemies. Stronghold Crusader 2 includes prominent features such as Build Castle, 8-player Multiplayer, Battle AI Lords, Skirmish Mode, and more. Try it out.
#2 Tribal Wars
Tribal Wars or shortly named as TW is a free to play, Browser-based online and MMORTS video game. The game takes you to the era of Middle Ages and allows you to control a small village, gradually grow it with the help of resources and fight wars with neighboring and distant villages, loot their resources, destroy their buildings and return to your settlements victoriously. The resources gathered from the villages invaded can be spent on erecting different buildings like houses, workshops, production units etc. Tribal Wars allows you to train your own troops and gather up a massive army of highly trained men, form alliances with your online friends and be an example for your common enemies. Tribal Wars is a massive strategy game, so it has its own economic system. You can trade with other online players and earn gold or resources in profit and use that profit to develop your settlement. Tribal Wars is one of the most popular and played MMORTS video game that offers brilliant visuals, immersive game-play and loads of amazing stuff to discover.
#3 Travian
Travian is one of the best ever Free-to-Play Browser-based MMO-RTS games ever created. This game offers a very similar experience to Tribal Wars and takes you to the wonderful setting of ancient Rome where your task is to be a skilled leader of a small village rich in almost all kinds of resources. Your task is simply to choose between three equally powerful tribes and start building from scratch. Build houses for your citizens, raise armies, build your defenses in order to defend your settlement and to wage wars against the enemies in order to capture their lands and to expand your own settlement. Resource collection, research and introducing new technologies is the fun part of the game that allows you to show off your supremacy over your enemies and your friends as well. Building markets, starting trade, building strategic and diplomatic relations with other nations, engaging in epic combats with enemies to conquer their lands is what makes this game more addictive. Travian offers great visuals details, a brilliantly immersive game-play and a lot of other cool things to enjoy. Do try it out, its fun playing.
#4 Game of War
Game of War is a fantastic Free-to-Play MMO-RTS video game by Machine Zone that offers wonderful Strategy, City Building and Management elements embedded well into the core game-play. The mechanics and game-play of Game of War is greatly inspired by the big names like Warcraft and Age of Empires Series. This cool game is all about waging epic wars against the enemies, building structures, raising huge armies, advancements in research and development etc. and it offers an amazingly immersive game-play. The MMO feature of the game allows you to forge mega alliances with your online friends, build diplomatic relations, help in trade, conquer enemies and their lands and eventually become the one most powerful and valiant King of the massive empire. Researching and building new technologies, advancements in troop mobilization and state of the art military equipment makes the game even more addictive and engaging. With a huge amount of DLC and regular upgrades, Game of War is one amazing game to play. Game of War: Fire age is the most popular sequel to the game, do try that out too.
#5 Tribal Wars 2
Tribal Wars 2 is one of the longest running and exciting MMORTS video game that offers a truly remarkable experience for both new and old players. This 2nd addition to the series adds up more spice to the gameplay as it features enhanced game mechanics, offers plenty of room for customization and Strategic choices. Just like its predecessor, Tribal Wars 2 takes place in a Middle Ages Era, and it follows the same typical formula as lots of other RTS games do. The game lets you start from a very little settlement and tasks you to grow it slowly and steadily and eventually turn it into an empire. The main focus is on creating alliances, invading the enemies, resource collection and building structures such as Headquarters, Barracks, resource generation buildings, research labs and markets etc. As the Title suggests, Tribal Wars 2 is strictly about Tribes, that you can be part of by making alliances and to achieve the goals of Coordination, Protection, and heavy attacks on the enemies. These tribes can communicate in-game via the Private Message Board system and stay in touch during the times. The combat system in the game is very typical and follows the footsteps of its predecessor and it allows you to train the troops, send them to rival villages to eliminate the enemies and to loot resources as well as capturing the lands. Tribal Wars 2 with all of its unique and compelling features is one of the best MMORTS video game to play and enjoy.
#6 Goodgame Empire
Goodgame Empire is a wonderful Online Browser-based RTS and MMO video games. This cool game is all about epic encounters with enemies, building gigantic and powerful Fortresses, Training massive Armies and building a thriving Economy and a prosperous settlement. Goodgame Empire lets you enjoy most of the features you are already familiar with regarding the MMORTS genre and immerse yourself into enhanced and well embedded game-play. Building your own fortress, reaching out to other settlements for either diplomatic relations or to fight them off and capturing their lands, making grand alliances or to simply trade resources to grow your settlements, Empire lets you experience almost everything that you want to be part of an Online Strategy video game. Building better and impenetrable fortress and all the building inside that fortress is the main task, so you should focus on upgrading your fortress along with expanding to the never before conquered lands. The most important feature of the game is the Unique management system that lets you to manage your resources and distribute them properly throughout your settlement. You must take good care of the citizens, build homes, businesses for them and let them live in peace and prosperity, Assign them tasks such as Mining, resource collection, building construction etc. With all the great things combined, Goodgame Empire is one of the best Browser-based Real-Time Strategy and MMO to play and enjoy.
#7 Total War
Total War is a fantastic series of Action and Strategy video games. Created and published by The Creative Assembly, the game offers a brilliant combination of Turn-based mechanics and Real-time Tactics as well to engage the players deeply into the most addictive gameplay ever. Total War offers ten main games and sequels along with four Spin-offs and allows the players to enjoy the most amazing Tactical Strategy games. Throughout the series, Total War offers the games with historical events and allows the players to be some of the most powerful and influential figures, govern over the masses and be part of the huge wars against the most significant powers of the times. Total War series includes some of the most popular and critically acclaimed video games in the series such as Total War: Shogun (First game of the series), Total War: Rome, Total War: Empire and Total War: Attila, etc. With all the amazing Single and Multiplayer campaigns throughout the series, Total War allows the players to witness some of the most epic battles of the times such as in the eras of Mongol Invasion, Viking Invasion, Roman Republic (Barbarian Invasion), American and European Conquests, French Revolutionary Wars (Napoleonic Wars), 16th Century Medieval Japan and loads more. With a very addictive nature, beautifully portrayed timelines, fantastic characters, and their roles, variety of different timelines and Specific Events, plenty of room for the gameplay throughout the series, Total War is one great collection of games for all the hardcore Action, Strategy and Real-time Tactics fans. Do play the games in the series and enjoy the ultimate never ending fun.
#8 Kingdoms of Camelot
Kingdoms of Camelot is an MMORTS (Massively Multiplayer Online – Real-time Strategy) video game by the top notch developer and publisher Kabam. Released back in 2009, Kingdoms of Camelot allows the players to enjoy Building and Warfare elements all together. The game tasks the players to Collect various types of resources and build a number of different structures, both defensive and offensive, bases, research facilities, etc. and enjoy a beautifully engaging gameplay. All the actions that the players perform in the game are time based. For example if a player build a structure, it can complete the construction in either seconds or in days, based on the type and rarity of the resources. Kingdoms of Camelot also lets the players build alliances with friendly settlements and take on the enemies as a combined force to damage them more. It offers an online Chat feature for both worldwide players interaction and for the alliance-based conversations. Kingdoms of Camelot lets the players get into epic Tournaments and various other types of competitions and enjoy a truly remarkable gameplay. With very addictive gameplay, beautifully created visuals and all the blasting action, Kingdoms of Camelot is a brilliant MMORTS video game to play.
#9 Game of War: Fire Age
Game of War: Fire Age is a free to play Massively Multiplayer Online and RTS video game developed back in 2013 by Machine Zone. This amazingly engaging game resembles three famous games Shadow Kings, Warcraft and Forge of Empires and that is why you’ll see a a similar game-play and graphics in the game. Because of being a strategy game, Game of War: Fire Age lets you create and develop your own settlement, gather resources, train troops and wage wars and battles against your enemies. As Game of War: Fire Age is an online multiplayer video game, so you can make alliances with your friends or with other online players around the world and fight against your enemies as a great gathering of different cultures and warriors. With uniquely built graphics, a super thrilling game-play and a lot of other great elements, this game is one of the best Browser-based Real-Time Strategy and MMO video game to play and enjoy. You’ll definitely like it.
#10 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.
#11 Grepolis
Grepolis is a Free-to-Play MMO and Strategy video game playable in a browser or on smartphones. With a huge online community and millions of registered players from around the world, Grepolis is one of the most played games of this specific genre. The game follows a fairly very standard recipe and takes you back to the Ancient Greek Era where it tasks you to collect resources, construct buildings, and train a massive army to fight against the online players and NPCs. The main game world is split into a number of Islands and the game allows you to control one of them. If you want to expand your reign, you can make alliances with friends and expand your cities by conquering the others. One other way to expand your cities is to find new cities on the Islands, and join them with yours. That way you can have more resources such as Wood, Silver and Stone, and more lands to explore and discover. Grepolis offers a gameplay not so typical and because of that, it splits the whole control into different but relevant buildings. For example, you can visit any specific building and simply control the actions associated with that building. With an easy gameplay, brilliant mechanics, and cool graphics, Grepolis is one fantastic Strategy-based MMO video game that totally deserves to be at the top.
#12 Ikariam
Ikariam is a Browser-based MMORTS (Massively Multiplayer Online – Real Time Strategy) video game by gameforge. The game takes the players back to the Classical Era of Greece and leaves them in an Archipelago (A group of Islands), lets them be the Rulers of the Islands and tasks them to Expand their reign and lead massive legions of troops into historic battles. Ikariam offers a gameplay similar to the popular Civilization and Trivian series games and the main purpose of the game is to start off with a small settlement and eventually expand it to an Empire while having full control over the resources. Ikariam lets the players play the game by registering online, once registered, the players can have a small town or settlement and they must rule over that town. Imposing taxes on inhabitants helps earn revenue that the players can use to buy resources and build more structures and buy more islands, etc. Players can also train troops and attack neighboring Islands, capture both land and resources and keep on doing the same. Ikariam offers five main types of resources such as wood, wine, marble, Crystal and Sulpher that the playes can produce with the help of Sawmill, Quarry, Crystal Mines, Sulpher pits and Vineyard. Furthermore, Ikariam allows the players to make alliances by making Embassy, work together with the allied nations, protect each other against all the outer threats and keep on growing. Ikariam offers a truly very unique business model that allows the players to purchase upgrades and other advantages by micro-transactions, acquire a sixth and most important resource to speed up the process of building and capturing. With a fantastic narrative, addictive gameplay and minimalist 2D graphics, Ikariam is a fun MMO and Strategy video game to play and enjoy.
#13 Warlock: Master of the Arcanes
Warlock: Master of the Arcanes is a turn based Real-time Strategy and MMO video game developed by 1C: Ino-Co Plus and published by Paradox Interactive. Latest version of the game includes Warlock 2: The Exiled and its expansion pack Warlock 2: Wrath of the Nagas. Like other turn based strategy games, Warlock: Master of the Arcane story is based on typical conquests against the rivals all around the world. Every clan or an empire is fighting to conquer others lands, resources, economics, and all the establishments. In the game, player controls a specific number of troops and fights with enemy for the glorious victory. Player can use different weapons along with magic, spells, and tricks to fight the enemies. Player can build his own settlement and gather resources to use them or to buy upgrades, weapons and lots of other things to survive. Warlock: Master of the Arcanes is the first game in the series of Warlock so it is a bit low on graphics but the storyline is quite good and the whole game resembles Civilization V and almost all of the games in the series of Civilization. This game offers a unique strategy gaming experience with a lot of new features that you may have missed in Civilization game series. Do try this game.
#14 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.
#15 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.
#16 Kingdoms of Camelot: Battle for the North
Kingdoms of Camelot: Battle for the North is a Massively Multiplayer Online Real-time Strategy (MMORTS) video game by Gaea Mobile Ltd. The game tasks the players to build a massive Empire, forge grand alliances and defeat all the enemies of the kingdom, and expand it to the never before seen distances. Kingdoms of Camelot: Battle for the North lets the players be a mighty Ruler, build your own castle and eventually turn it into an impenetrable Fortress. In the guise of King Arthur, it is the responsibility of player to eliminate the unlawful reign of Durst Mac Erp and eliminate all of his hostile forces, defend their throne and be one of the mightiest rulers of the time. Kingdoms of Camelot: Battle for the North lets the players recruit and train a massive army consisting of brave Knights, Heavy Cavalry, Elite troops and fight for glory and to save the world of your forefathers. To make the Strategies that will leave a mark, Kingdoms of Camelot: Battle for the North allows the players to recruit all the legendary Round Table Heroes of the time, Command over the popular Lancelot Sir, Percival, Sir Gawain and all the others, make strategies that will strengthen the Empire and let the enemies know about the might. With a brilliant medieval touch, a chance to live the life of a mighty ruler, the legendary wars and a massive Kingdom, Kingdoms of Camelot: Battle for the North allows the players to enjoy a remarkable experience of MMO and RTS elements.
#17 Clash of Kings
This game is an epic MMO-RTS (Massively Multimedia Online-Real Time Strategy) video game. Clash of Kings was developed and published by Empire Game Studio. Just like Clash of Clans you can build your own empires, gather resources, train your troops, and battle with all your rivals to conquer their lands. Great graphics details and interface plus a great gaming environment provides a gamer with a king like feeling. Beautiful sceneries and a fantasy puts you to a whole new experience of Strategy gaming. Hundreds of thousands of players all around the world give you a chance to make alliances of your choice and you can build massive empires with their help. A great attraction for a player is the Battle for the King’s Throne. This amazingly addicting game is worth playing. Currently this game is only available on Android Platform.
#18 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.
#19 Empire: Total War – Gold Edition
Empire: Total War – Gold Edition is a Turn-based, Tactical, Strategy, War, and Single-player video game developed by Feral Interactive. It serves as a fifth main installment in the Total War series with having similarities with the recent games. Throughout the course, the player has to pick an eighteenth-century civilization and set out to get control over the world through military power, strategy, and financial aspects.
The player tries to get hold of Europe, India, America, and the Caribbean Islands. The game comes up with two unique playable modes that include Real-time Battle and Turn-based Campaign. In the turn-based campaign, the player has to come with different strategies by moving armed forces and naval forces over the globe, trading amongst traders, and dealing with the issues of the country.
Real-time battles allow the player to lead military powers in battle. Different factions will have specific targets for victory, for example, setting up fruitful colonies, exchange items, and controlling determined regions.
#20 Total War: Shogun 2 – Rise of the Samurai
Total War: Shogun 2 – Rise of the Samurai is a Strategy, Management, Historical, and Single-player video game developed by Sega. All through the game, the player has to play the role of a leader who has to command a faction dominantly and strategically to claim victories. The game revolves around the six factions who fight against one another.
In solo mode, the player comes across AI warriors with varied difficulties, and the multiplayer mode offers the player to experience best commanders with realistic strategies from all over the world. Each clan has a unique set of traits, which gives it a distinctive play-style.
The game offers almost four hero units, such as the Tetsubo Warrior Monk Hero, the Naginata Warrior Monk Hero, the Mounted Samurai Hero, and the Onna Bushi Heroine. The game has various unit types such as swordsmen, spearmen, archers, and cavalry with a dynamic set of abilities and skills.