Tag Archives: RTS

Sixteen years later, the magic is still there. Vanillaware’s games have remarkable longevity. Now and again, I’ll revisit 2009’s Muramasa: The Demon Blade, soaking up its mixture of ukiyo-e and 70’s anime-influenced visuals as well ...

Elevated by real-time strategy battles where crowds of papercraft-style units fight it out, Adventure Academia: The Fractured Continent is an otherwise ordinary role-playing effort. Some will undoubtedly find enjoyment in that. Gamers are a fickle ...

When revolution arises, Diplomacy Is Not an Option. Fortunately, substantial armies, siege weapons, and murderous meteors are on the table when you’re tasked with safeguarding a sprawling stronghold. Delve into Diplomacy Is Not an Option’s ...

Mushroom Wars 2 offers factions of fractious fungi, vying for domination of each landscape. If you are craving a serving of real-time strategy without the burdens of resource gathering and complex tech-tree, these ‘shrooms make ...

Combining elements from real-time strategy, twin-stick shooters, survival, and tower defense genres, The Riftbreaker is ambitious. Perhaps overly so. But if you’re seeking a game that will keep your brain engrossed as you juggle multiple ...

In need of a humiliation? If so, you might want to make Age of Darkness: Final Stand your next masochistic undertaking. Good luck with constructing a fortification that can withstand onslaughts of 70,000 simultaneous attackers. ...

From CastleStorm, Swords and Soldiers, to Metal Slug Defense, there’s a good chance you’ve played a 2D side-scrolling real-time strategy game. Even if you haven’t, the concept is rather easy to absorb. On each end ...

Gunpowder helps fuel some of Stronghold Warlords shift to East Asia. Command mortars, fire arrows, and cast-iron grenades as you defend and rupture fortifications. Too bad some of the fundamentals feel a bit creaky. Once ...

The grandfather of real-time strategy arrives on Switch with the typical M2 treatment. That means a pixel-perfect recreation of the original or if you wish, a number of indispensable modernizations. Sporadically, games are ahead of ...

Plotlines are often dispensable in real-time strategy and first-person shooter games. Disintegration provides an absorbing motivation for its blend of genres. But the game’s action isn’t as tactical or engaging as it should be. For ...