Muzman on 9/2/2014 at 06:57
There's been a couple of these games come out recently so I thought I'd do a bit of a round up thread, just in case others like them too.
I don't really like proper RTS games very much. Too propellorheaded for me. I like the more casual ones though. In a way I think they're harder to get right than the majors. The balance of having just enough stuff to do, AI that's simple but not too dumb, competitive but not too punishing, keep the micromanaging to just the right level so you don't get that feeling of "I could beat it if I clicked like those Starcraft pros" etc etc.
Then again few of them are perfect and I usually like them for additional reasons like the style.
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http://www.eufloria-game.com/) Eufloria is a good summation. You play in an IDM/ambient album cover world, growing seedlings that fight over and colonise asteroids before the opponent does. Different asteroids grow different seedling etc.
That's the ballpark sort of game.
I just got done with this one called (
http://www.iubes.com/) iubes, (which I pronounce " Eewwbs") which is pretty cool. Grow and manage autonomous cubes and their towns on randomly generated maps that are ...inside a cylinder, then send them to kill!
Fun, if not particularly complicated. Also free.
There was one that came out the other day called Rymdkapsel or something that looked interesting too.
I'm forgetting some older ones that I'll have to recall.
Anybody else know any?
henke on 9/2/2014 at 09:32
Downloading iubes, looks like fun. :)
I did enjoy Anomaly: Warzone Earth (I do have the sequels as well though I've barely touched them). It's a reverse-tower defence game, where you pick your units, map out your course of attack, and then support your units with upgrades and re-inforcements along the way.
Haven't played rymdkapsel yet. I've heard it's good, but only a couple hours long, and once you beat it there's not much incentive for replay. I might pick it up in a sale at some point.
Zerker on 9/2/2014 at 11:51
Honestly, I'd actually call Dawn of War 2's singleplayer campaign "RTS-Lite", though it's still significantly more traditional than the examples above. You have to focus on only four squads, so it becomes much more accessible and engaging than the average RTS. I actually played through all three campaigns in co-op, so I was really only controlling two squads with my buddy controlling the other two. It was a blast.
I believe Rymdkapsel (the Android version) was in a Humble (Mobile?) bundle lately.
Most of the Bullfrog strategy games (Dungeon Keeper, Populous), and potentially some of the Settlers games could probably fall into a similar category.
icemann on 9/2/2014 at 13:23
I would nearly call Dawn of War 2 more of an RPG than RTS. Though it does fall somewhere down the middle compared to the 1st game.
henke on 9/2/2014 at 14:02
Ok, iubes was cool. Reminded me a bit of Settlers and Darwinia. And the menu-music is awesome. :D
Despite all that, it didn't grab me. The gameplay doesn't really do anything for me.
PigLick on 10/2/2014 at 00:40
Yeh it does look cool, but lacked something, charm perhaps?
