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Dune 2000 I think it was called. Late 90s IIRC.
As a person who played almost every RTS games, I can easily say there are no alternatives for StarCraft. Old Blizzard was number 1.
I don’t think any rts will match the perfection that was SC Broad Wars.
It’s like Counterstrike 1.6. It was perfect and all games expanding off of that is just making me feel nostalgic.
If only the map archives were organized properly. It would be cool of everyone uploaded their SCM and SCX and then dupeguru could run over it all.
You are asking about a game that is widely considered the best in a genre. Everything else will feel different if not inferior.
With that disclaimer out of the way, Battle Aces and Stormgate are worth a look. A new take on the genre and a spiritual successor made by some of the developers that made StarCraft.
I know you requested steam, but beyond all reason is legitimately good and free. Runs on all major OS’s, has a good user base and excellent development.
Beyondallreason.info I think
It’s also good to mention that it’s an open source game and they do indeed plan to release it on Steam later.
Tbf, I didn’t know about the steam release. But yeah it’s also open source.
Wow Thanks! They also have a appimage for my fedora bazzite <3
Wow, how did I not know about this?
So that’s a pretty interesting question, because you’re asking for a modern RTS which doesn’t quite exist. It’s not that the RTS genre died, it’s just kind of evolved into two separate paths based on what people enjoyed from those games.
For those that liked the fast action, APM, control of units, MOBAs have mostly filled that role.
For those that liked planning out and building a huge base, there are a bunch of base/empire building games.
Battle Aces has been pretty fun. It’s in beta now
Made by ec SC2 devs. David Kim etc. Has been widely adopted by the pro SC2 scene
There’s no base building, no build times for units, no build orders essentially. It’s SC2 in essence, but boiled down to the essentials.
Battle Aces has been pretty fun. It’s in beta now
Rimworld plays like a very very very slow rts lol.
Just off the top of my head for pve.
Always like supcom for multi-player problem is it slows down hard mid game.
Generals Shockwave mod is perfect but keeps dropping games.
Deserts of kharak is great but the AI is too easy once you understand the game and it had no mod support.
@VanHalbgott stormgate
Battle Realms
I still enjoy a game of Planetary Annihilation every other time, might not float your boat if you’re looking for a much more classic RTS. But smashing moons to the enemy’s base has never felt so awesome.
As far as RTS in general goes (C&C Generals), I really enjoy Age of Empires IV. There is argueably more diversity as there are more civs (15ish) than there are in Star Craft. And each civ has several viable builds.
Command and Conquer?
