Hi, my name is ColdBeer and let’s start with
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AD
This is a free open source cross-platform strategy game.
Works on 0.
AD began a long long time ago - in 2001.
It started as a mod for Age of Empires 2 and later evolved to a stand alone game.
So, this is, as we always say in Lithuania - “tas pats bybis tik kitoj rankoj”, meaning
the same ding dong just on the other hand.
The same Age of Empires, but different.
But same.
As you can see from the footage, the biggest difference from the original Age of Empires
is the proportions of buildings – they are real size compared to your units.
Some players hate this setting, saying that it is impossible to command your army with
great precision when the fight happens behind those buildings.
We in Lithuania have another nice saying for this occasion as well: “Blogam šokėjui
ir kiaušai trukdo”.
Meaning that the bad dancer is bothered even by its own testicles.
So don’t be that dancer, or player in this instance.
Anyway, the game is free, you have nothing to lose except your time.
And if you have a lower end PC, don’t worry, the requirements of the game are really low.
Ancestors Legacy
This is a real-time strategy game influenced by historical events of the Middle Ages.
Ancestors Legacy combines resource management and base building with large-scale, squad-based
battles across vast battlefields.
It is all rendered in great detail with Unreal Engine 4.
Here you will experience medieval bloodshed and can enjoy a cinematic action camera that
puts you right in the middle of the battle.
People on Steam are saying that Ancestors Legacy is easy to learn and it's like chess.
It involves a lot of strategy, so the more you play the better you become.
Basically here a lot of options to crush the enemy lie in the plain sight, but only the
master strategist can see them all.
So the more you play - the easier the game will seem.
Or not.
You know, we all have our limits and sometimes our limit is below the requirements of a victory.
Becastled
When I played the game I was really impressed by the graphics, mechanics and the lightness
of gameplay in general.
And I do not mean the storage space it takes, which is also ridiculous for a modern game
- 1 Gigabyte of free cosmos and that’s it.
I literally didn't expect it to be so tiny.
That’s what she said.
Yeah, this is a game that doesn’t contain any additional stuff that distracts you from
the gameplay itself.
Many developers forget the main thing of gaming - keep it simple, keep it fun.
And this is a simple, nice and fun title.
Rise of Nations
Here you can choose from 18 different civilizations and guide them through 8 different stages
of world's history.
People in the Steam comments are saying that this is a masterpiece, best game ever, greatest
RTS in the world, blah blah and so on.
But all of those people are about 40 years old and they have nostalgia, because they
played the original release some 20 years ago.
Well, I’m among those people, so my opinion is biased as well.
Although back then I hated that automatic spawning of workers who automatically looked
for a task to perform.
I think this is a terrible idea, because it is neglecting the micro management part of
the game.
What's next?
Maybe warriors can spawn too and buildings can be built by themselves.
Why do you even need a player when you can just sit and watch the game playing itself,
right?
It’s almost the same if you watch some guy eating your own potato salad instead of eating
it yourself.
Anyway, Rise of Nations is a great title, I do recommend it without a doubt.
Because I’m old.
8-Bit Hordes
Basically this is a Warcraft 3 if it would be made using the Minecraft Engine.
Here you will find 2 factions - The Dark Orcs and their Undead friends versus those annoying
Humans, Dwarves, Elves and all that puny stuff in general.
You will collect resources, build up and defend your base, amass your army of evil or, you
know, pathetic good and ultimately crush your opponents!
Game offers 24 offline campaign missions, 12 co-op missions to play with your mother
in-law and 10 multiplayer maps that support up to 8 trolls online.
Literally and figuratively.
AI is present as well - it has multiple difficulty options, also it can play in a team with you
or destroy you.
Game is easy to understand and is really user friendly.
If you like RTS games, there is no doubt that you may like this one as well.
War Selection
This is a real-time alternative history strategy with base building, resource extraction and
warfare.
Here you will battle for supremacy against dozens of opponents on a ginormous procedurally
generated map.
Even 15 versus 15 skirmishes are available, but sadly the game doesn’t have such a big
community to actually make it work.
So forget all that epicness right away, just like you forgot your dream of becoming an
outstanding penis doctor a long time ago.
Here every player starts in the Stone Age and then goes through 7 historical eras by
the process you are very familiar with from the Age of Empires.
When I say familiar I mean a rip-off, but nobody cares about that including me.
My whole youth I was buying Abidas and Abibas sneakers from my local market and they were
protecting my feet just fine.
Game has very positive reviews on Steam, but I have also found a lot of unhappy comments
about the toxic community.
Games that are free to play and free stuff always attracts a lot of kids who can only
feel manly enough if they say something mean to you,
but we all know that is because they have very small pp and not even an outstanding
penis doctor could help them.
Against The Storm
This is a roguelite city builder set in a gloomy fantasy world.
Artistically this is one of the coolest RTS city-builder games I have seen lately... except
one thing.
Here it never stops raining.
And I hate rain.
In my country Lithuania, rain is always cold, even in the summer and in any other season
it feels like an ice needles piercing my puny body straight to the bone.
Also I wear glasses, so it’s a thing that’s really hard to love.
Anyway, here you are a pioneer sent into the wilds to establish and manage new settlements
inhabited by smart beavers, lizards, and humans.
Your goal is to survive long enough and gather the valuable resources necessary to rebuild
and upgrade your city.
It’s the only safe haven against the Blightstorm — a vile cycle of destruction ravaging everything
in its path.
Age of Mythology Extended Edition
Game takes place in the lost land of Atlantis and focuses on famous Nordic, Egyptian and
Greek legends.
Age of Mythology Extended Edition comes along with the expansion and the additional Golden
Gift campaign and that is nice.
In the game you will train and use mythological creatures like Minotaurs, Cyclops and other
well known monsters invented thousands of years ago.
Yeah, back in the days it was really easy to impress.
If you put a cow's head on a man's body, everyone was like “oh wow so inventive, are you a
genius?” or if you drew a man with one eye instead of two - that was the pinnacle of
the creation back then.
And now we look at all these bosses in the Elden Ring and we are like “eh, that’s
fine I guess”.
Anyway, in Age of Mythology you can call upon the gods for assistance in flattening enemy
towns with meteors, punish your puny enemies with lightning storms or drown them in the
ocean of their own tears.
Armies of Exigo
Game looks and plays just like if Age of Empires and Warcraft had a baby.
And this crossbreed is not an ugly one,
like for example when you crossbreed single malt whiskey with coca cola or potato salad
with pineapple.
Blasphemy, blasphemy!
No, it feels right, looks really beautiful and is fun to play.
Here you can control up to 200 units at the same time, so it is absolutely ok if you lose
one or two of them.
Game also has nice differences from Blizzard games:
Most of the maps have a subterranean level that gives a 3D feeling to the game.
Also you can use automatic unit formations, where, for example, archers walk behind melee
units and don't die instantly because you were eating your daily dose of fermented cucumbers
and had no spare hands to save them at the time.
Cossacks 3
This is a remake of the classic game that originally launched in 2000.
Here you will find 20 nations, 120 different unit types, and over 220 different buildings.
That sounds like an overkill, and believe me - it is.
But it is also really fun to play.
This game is like Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator before it was cool.
Also besides the battles on land, you can build an armada of battleships and attack
your enemies at sea.
Game offers five single player-campaigns.
Cool feature is that the game lets you fight massive battles with up to 32,000 soldiers
simultaneously on one battlefield.
Be sure you have that NASA supercomputer for that.
Frozenheim
This is a Norse city builder game with nice management mechanics and multiple progression
trees where you maintain and expand your settlement.
As you launch exploration parties on foot and by boats you will not only discover resources
you can exploit but also draw the attention of the enemies who seek to destroy you.
This is a really bloody RTS game where you have a chance to chop your enemies like butter
or hide like a coward behind huge wooden walls and towers filled with archers so you could
fill attacking enemies with your stingy arrows.
Or if you lack arrows you can safely swear at them and call the attackers and their mamas
fat.
To prove yourself an Earl worthy of songs and sagas, you will build and expand a Viking
village from nothing to a rich, unconquerable settlement.
Or very conquerable and puny and you will have to load the game and play again but this
time without stupid decisions.
Here you can forage, hunt, fish, grow your food, and keep your clan safe as the seasons
pass.
Also seek the blessings of ancient shrines and build temples to win the favor of Asgard
and all the Ass... gardians.
Kingdoms and Castles
That is no doubt one of the most original names you can think of when creating a medieval
strategy game about kingdoms and castles.
Oh wait, no it’s not.
So here your kingdom must survive a living and dangerous world.
Will the viking raiders do some pillaging to your villagers?
Or are they stopped, full of arrows, at the castle gates?
Does a dragon torch your granary and your people will die of starvation in the winter,
or will you be able to fill it with arrows as well?
Not the granary, the dragon.
The success of your kingdom depends solely on your skill as a city and castle planner.
So, as always, your villagers are doomed.
Anyway, make sure your peasants are fed in the winter and healed of plagues.
Build churches to keep their minds washed and taverns to keep them happy.
Send out wood cutters to collect wood, set up stone quarries to build your castles, and
farm the land efficiently so your town can grow and thrive.
Also, in case of fire, your townsfolk can efficiently pee on it.
Northgard
This is an RTS game based on Norse mythology in which you play as a clan of Vikings vying
for the control of a mysterious newfound continent.
In this simple strategy game you will find lots of victory conditions, atmospheric music,
changing seasons and, as you can see, pretty nice art design.
Also the game has a decent campaign with a pretty good story.
Sadly, as I’ve mentioned many times before, Northgard’s AI is cheating with infinite
resources and manpower, meaning that developers couldn't create really good Intelligence that
could win against humans on its own.
I know that many strategy games do not have strong AI's, but they at least try.
But you never know, maybe developers were AI geniuses but were afraid of accidentally
making Skynet.
You know, being accused of making a bad AI is one thing, but being responsible for a
robot uprising that destroyed human civilization - yeah, you know, better safe than sorry.
Nevertheless, Northgard is a good RTS game for a few days.
Or maybe more, maybe you’ll fall in love with it.
You know, like a tapeworm falls in love with your guts...
SpellForce 3 Reforced
This is a fun mix of RPG and RTS, meaning that most of the time you will control heroes
that can gain experience, new skills and all that - really similar to Warcraft’s additional
huge maps where you control Rexxar.
And the other half of the game is traditional base building, unit training and upgrading
so you could swarm the enemy with your eternal wrath.
Campaigns are really well written so reading and listening for conversations will be the
thing you’ll do a lot.
And I mean it, about a third of the game consists of dialogues.
So if you just want quick matches where you can show your insane APM of 20 - it’s not
the case, but if you want a story-rich RTS RPG game, this is definitely for you.
Total War Three Kingdoms
This game recreates epic conflict across ancient China and it is made very well.
Here you will battle across lush subtropics, arid deserts and snow-capped mountains.
You will encounter the Great Wall of China, Yangtze River and many other historic and
nature-made monuments you have no idea ever existed.
Three Kingdoms is a great game and in some aspects it overshadows even the Warhammer
trilogy.
For totally new players, it can also be challenging, because the learning curve is really steep.
Otherwise it's fun with epic campaigns and battles.
Thank you for watching, have a nice day and I’ll see you next time, bye!