Any decent RTS games?

Devst8nDscoDave · 9 Apr 2018 at 16:20

What about going old skool? Earth 2150 was mindblowing in it's day.

bakes0310 · 9 Apr 2018 at 16:42

Total war series is my favourite. Try Shogun 2 total war as a starting point. It's the most noob friendly and still looks great and is up there as my personal favourite.

Latest is warhammer total war which is great fun too.

Nikumba · 10 Apr 2018 at 10:23

I have just been replaying through Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak which I am finding pretty good

Kimbie

Samueltastic · 10 Apr 2018 at 11:30

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Nikumba said:
I have just been replaying through Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak which I am finding pretty good

Kimbie

It's on my wishlist too. Loved the Homeworld series but have so many unplaced games will have to wait for another Steam sale.

Devst8nDscoDave · 11 Apr 2018 at 15:14

Try Evil Genius. Great little game.
It's more like dungeon keeper than an RTS.

AHarvey · 12 Apr 2018 at 14:22

mrbazmondo said:
I bought grey goo on steam but haven't played it yet.

Honestly, it starts off ok but it ends far too quickly. Nowhere near enough gameplay for me in single player.

mrbazmondo · 12 Apr 2018 at 16:05

If you're feeling retro you could try Dune2000

Slam · 12 Apr 2018 at 22:44

Brass Tactics on the Oculus Rift, design team included the lead designer of Age of Empires II.

C64 · 13 Apr 2018 at 19:07

Company of heroes 1 is solid still has a decent playerbase

Nikumba · 18 Apr 2018 at 11:35

Samueltastic said:
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It's on my wishlist too. Loved the Homeworld series but have so many unplaced games will have to wait for another Steam sale.

Just a heads up Humble have Homeworld: Kharak on 66% off sale atm

Kimbie

Samueltastic · 19 Apr 2018 at 13:33

Nikumba said:
Just a heads up Humble have Homeworld: Kharak on 66% off sale atm

Kimbie

Thanks ill take a look

Cromulent · 23 Apr 2018 at 21:20

Supreme Commander is still the best RTS out there. Don't get the 2nd one though, that one sucks.

linktoinsanity · 24 Apr 2018 at 12:38

Cromulent said:
Supreme Commander is still the best RTS out there. Don't get the 2nd one though, that one sucks.

Correction: Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance with the Sorian AI mod is one of the best out there at the moment.

Supreme Commander 2 is a good game in it's own right (and has a much better AI setup, being able to tweak difficulty with sliders, rather than Easy or Hard which SC has by default), and is a good introduction game to Supcom, however if you want scope and bigger battles, yes SC:FA is the better game.

iakhtar · 24 Apr 2018 at 20:45

Forged Alliance was amazing, real shame the series didn't continue.

imginy · 24 Apr 2018 at 22:07

I read that command conquer might be coming back.

Double07 · 9 Apr 2019 at 03:27

Cromulent said:
Supreme Commander is still the best RTS out there. Don't get the 2nd one though, that one sucks.

SC2 would like a word.

LostCorpse · 9 Apr 2019 at 17:36

Zero-K on steam and free! i've been playing a lot of this recently and been enjoying it although it can be infuriating (put it own to my lack of skillz) has good introduction to units and can co-op on campaign.

Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal - there is a new one (creep world 4) in the works with 3d terrain !!

Total Annihilation - classic my 1st RTS didnt come accors CNC untill much later.

Command and Concore red alert 2 : yuris revenge

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - its ok, think it would work well with co-op campaign

Planetary Annihilation - interesting with 3d planets and space

metal fatigue - another classic with some interesting mexhanics

Supreme command Forge Alliance

Supreme command 2 - good in its own right, smaller games faster battles. storys not half bad either

Homeworld / Homeworld 2 / Homeworld Cataclysm also

A.I. war

Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion

Subzero85 · 9 Apr 2019 at 20:45

sudden strike 4 might be worth a try, ww2 setting, but it still might be a bit expensive on steam

NathanL · 9 Apr 2019 at 23:14

No one seems to have mentioned Heart of Iron 4 yet.
Steep learning curve but a fantastic WWII-based RTS with some great dlc.

Often goes on sale on steam

Edit: having thought about it. Does HoI count as an RTS?

C64 · 10 Apr 2019 at 19:25

company of heroes 1 is still king