Rise of nations,Sudden strike series.
also i recommend Battle Realms it is on gog,you can not buy it on steam.
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Maybe you'd like Natural Selection 2's Commander / RTS mode? (You can also play that game in FPS mode if you're one of the soldiers, instead of one of the (two) commanders.)
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Dune II... Ancestor of the first Command & Conquer, both made by Westwood Studios. Dune II is nice, but the first Command & Conquer games are very similar and probably better... even if the universe of Dune is more exotic & appealing.
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Damn i remember dune 2000. I think it is now abandonware right?
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If you enjoyed Dune 2000, you will probably enjoy Emperor: Battle for Dune, which is abandonware.
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Abandonware still does not mean it's legal to download it. It basically means that the software is no longer sold or supported, but it's still owned by someone
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Just as an aside, for a lot of old games, it's also not clear who owns the rights. There's a great article on the quagmire of rights for No One Lives Forever that's a great primer for someone who wants to learn how messy it can get.
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Yeah, I know :( Sometimes games that looks lost do come back, like System Shock 1 & 2, but I would really not hold my breath for NOLF. And that's a darn shame, as NOLF 1 & 2 are some of the best FPSs of the early 00's
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NOLF isn't even that bad - everyone knows which parties are involved (it's stuck between Activision, Warner Brothers, and 20th Century Fox) note: who knows what just happened with Fox's acquisition by Disney
There are games, particularly from the '80s, where no one knows who owns the rights - oral contracts between creators, lost contracts, companies closed or were shut down without adequate recording of where the rights went, companies were acquired without including IP, or without adequate paperwork.
At the time, generally, older games weren't considered to have any real value, so these things weren't tracked or recorded properly.
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Total War series and the classic Warhammer (Shadow of the Horned Rat & Dark Omen) games.
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Company of heros and Dawn of war comes to mind. Less base bulding and more micro managing units
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StarCraft 2 base game (base campaign excluding DLCs and some multiplayer heroes) is free to play on Battle.net
On Steam
Grey Goo : Actually quite fun, the goo faction is a very unique experience to play as
Impossible Creatures : Old game, but still very fun, what makes it unique is the fact that you splice creatures together and choose what parts from creatures they will have, this determines their stats, abilities, cost and pop usage.
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Impossible Creatures i actually remember saw it few times. I think i may try it sometime.
Played Grey Goo, need try again.
As for SC2. Played lot of time, but not anymore.
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Ì suggest Total Annihilation. Old game (1997 or so) but highly moddable. Ballistics in this game are awesome:
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Loved that game - I remember being so happy I had 64 MB RAM to build & play on the largest maps. Those were the glory days of RTS.
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my fav rts ever <3 idk how that company went bankrupt they made such amazing RTS games
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Age of Mythology
Star Wars:Galactic Battlegrounds (also known as "Age of Star Wars" for...obvious reasons)
Star Wars:Empire at War
Rise of Nations:Rise of Legends
W40k:Dawn of War I-II
Ancestors Legacy
World in Conflict
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0 A.D. 0 A.D
Rise of Nations
Northgard
Frostpunk
Men of War
Planetary Annihilation
Into the breach
Battlefleet gothic: armada 2
War Selection
Dwarfheim
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Well, I would not say that into the breach is an RTS game, it's clearly turn based, a very cool turn based game indeed.
I would add Tooth and Tail to the list and maybe They are Billions despite it's more like a real time tower defense.
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Some titles that weren't mentioned yet:
Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2
They Are Billions
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Cossacks: Back to War
(Cant recommend Cossacks 2 and 3 - since i never played them)
But the first one ist just epic. Like Age of Empires on a bigger scale.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4850/Cossacks_Back_to_War/
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Actually got Cossacks, need buy only DLC for third game. Cossacks 2 idk for me lost charm of first game.
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Praetorians (download the mod for highter resolutions and more factions, 100% safe and not bannable etc....)
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Rise of nations, Company of heroes are best of the best.
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Homeworld. Bold, italic, underlined, exclamation mark, font size 200, neon background, large arrows pointing to it. It was the game where Relic showed theyx can make a damn good RTS before they turned into The Copy&Paste RTS Company, WarHammer Edition©.
I similarly discourage playing Company of Heroes and getting the two games they blatantly stole from instead: the early Commandos games (CoH is 60%-ish a Commandos 2 and 3 clone) and Ground Control 2 + World in Conflict (they stole the UI, game mechanics, and unit spawn mechanics from them, plus a bunch of level ideas).
Meridian: New World needs more people buying it.
Total Annihilation is the precursor of the Supreme Commander games, but it has great mods. I suggest playing it, then the Escalation mod.
Ground Control is something I cannot praise enough. The sequel was not as good. World in Conflict was its spiritual successor, but it has some controlling quirks and the campaign can suffer from infinite unitspamitis.
The Cossacks series is surprisingly good.
There are dozens of others from the 2001-2006 era, but these are which generally stood the time (beyond a good number of other titles mentioned already here).
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I have two questions:
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Is Homeworld Remastered Collection a good replacement for the original?
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How is CoH is a Commandos clone? Only similarities I can remember are that both of them have same world setting same color palette and that both use isometric camera.
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- Yes.
- They also use a similar combat and individual soldier control system, especially when you factor in the invasion missions from Comm2-3.
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I don't think it was mentioned before: Warzone 2100
Warzone 2100 was originally developed as a commercial game by Pumpkin Studios and published in 1999, and was released as open source by them in 2004, for the community to continue working on it.
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BAM blood and magic
i have yet to find a game just like it, wish sombody would remake it
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Yep i've heard about S.W.I.N.E HD remaster, going to get it.
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Dawn of War 1 and 2 are fun if little bit different.
just ignore last DoW1 Expansion
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Yep i look now for some decent RTS games, allthough i won sometime ago Ashes Of Singularity, i didin't got time yet to play it. Got any recomendations? Most i've played.
Age Of Empires.
C&C.
Warcraft.
Starcraft.
If possible, on steam but GoG is also an thing.
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