Let’s start with
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 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 uhappy comments
about the toxic community.
Game is 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.
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 in example when you crossbreed vodka 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 one 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 subterranean
level that gives more 3D feeling to the game, also you can use automatic unit formations,
where, in example, archers walk behind melee units and doesn’t die instantly because
you were eating your daily dose of marinated herring and had no spare hands to save them
at the time.
Empire Earth 2
You may ask, why I put Empire Earth 2 here instead of that third part with amazing graphics.
You know, that’s because you do not want to play the game which has a Metacritic user
score of 3 -yes, out of 10.
I never heard of anything so low.
Even your sister can score better.
So, I'm recommending you to try Empire Earth 2 Gold edition, which also includes expansion
The Art of Supremacy.
Here you will take part in the greatest battles in the history of mankind.
Civil War, World War and war between Epic Games and Apple App Store.
Ah, the latter might not be in game, but there you will feel no lack of wars, I promise you
that.
Age of Mythology: Extended Edition
Ensemble Studios, who created Age of Empires, made a spin-off series based on mythological
beliefs.
Game takes place in the lost land of Atlantis and focuses on famous Nordic, Egyptian and
Greek legends.
Although when speaking about Atlantis I wish they had race of these implemented in the
game:
“I believe it is customary among the race of your people to shake hands.”
[laughs] “Just little Wraith humor.”
Nah, sadly no handy life sucking vampires here.
That also includes your mother in law.
Age of Mythology Extended Edition comes along with the expansion and the additional Golden
Gift campaign and that is nice.
In game you will train and use mythological creatures like Minotaurs, Cyclops and other
well known monsters created 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 draw a man with one eye instead of two - that was the pinnacle of
the creation back then.
And now we look at lady Dimitrescu’s final form 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.
Also some new version of the game may be in the works even now.
Developer of the title said that he is thinking about the game all the time.
Well, most men think about boobs all the time, but hey who am I to judge.
Anyway, it may be a Definitive edition or even Age of Mythology 2.
I guess we will see that in the next few years.
Rise of Nations: Extended Edition
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 game 18 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 we 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 potato salad instead of eating
it yourself.
And yeah, I know, at first I wrote a joke that involved a bunch of ladyboys and various
activities between you and them, but then I realized that I will be demonetized and
will have to eat buckwheat for the whole month again, so please construct the joke yourself.
It’s like a puzzle, I gave you pieces, you do the rest.
Also press like on this video now, show the algorithm that you care.
Anyway, Rise of Nations is a great title, I do recommend it without a doubt.
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 space that’s all it takes to squeeze Becastled to your harddrive.
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.
Nowadays you often install the game and there is a ton of stuff thrown to your face at once
and you have to play an hour long tutorial to understand at least something.
But not in Becastled.
This is a simple, nice and beautiful title.
Cossacks 3
This is a remake of the classic game that originally launched in a year of 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.
Leaning on the history of the 17th and 18th century, the game lets you fight massive battles
with up to 32,000 soldiers simultaneously on the battlefield.
Big Number!
Yeah!
Be sure you have that NASA supercomputer for that.
0.
AD
This is a free open source cross-platform strategy game.
Works on 0.
AD began in 2001 as a mod for Age of Empires 2 and later evolved to stand alone game.
So, this is, as we always say in Lithuania - “tas pats bybis tik kitoj rankoj”, meaning
the same dick just in on the other hand.
The same Age of Empires, but different.
Bus 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.
If you follow my channel, you probably know that we in Lithuania have another nice proverb
for this occasion as well: “Blogam šokėjui ir kiaušai trukdo”.
Meaning that the bad dancer is bothered even by its own testicles.
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.
Actually they were low even 10 years ago.
Look at that.
Look at those requirements.
What do we call computers like that?
How do we name them, my precious?
Po-ta-toes.
Yes, that is correct!
Empires Apart
After a few hours of playtime, I am quite impressed with this free to play RTS.
Well, to be fair, it’s not entirely free: you can play as Byzantines, but if you want
to play with other nations, you have to buy them for 5 dollars each.
But hey, it costs zero to try it in almost full glory and nobody is forcing your hand
to buy anything you don’t want.
Well, of course, not everything that is free is good for you.
Like you know if a drug dealer offers you for free a sandwich with pineapple, just go
and find yourself another dealer, geez.
But Empires Apart in fact feels like a sequel Age of Empires 2 never had.
Though I was never a fan of graphics like that, but here I can’t say a bad word about
the looks of this game.
It definitely looks better than I do, so who am I to judge?
This is a classic game with all the benefits of our modern gaming culture.
In example here you will find a ladder system similar to the one we saw in Blizzard games.
Frozenheim
Last, but let’s hope not the least.
I think I can bravely say that Frozenheim has amazing graphics and I was expecting something
like this from Age of Empires 4 instead of the Disney princess cartoon makeup style.
This is how a new game must look like.
And it is being made by a small indie studio instead of a gianormous corporation.
So yeah, Frozenheim is not released yet when I’m making this video, it will be in a week
and a half from now, so you may probably already know that this game is amazing or a total
failure.
It depends when you watch this video.
I decided to speak about it when I saw the gameplay - they have almost 7 minutes of video
released, you are seeing parts of it now and it looks really cool, nobody can deny that.
Except, I guess, deniers of the 7 minute Frozenheim gameplay video.
Those guys are ruthless.
Frozenheim is a really bloody Norse city building RTS game where you have a chance to chop your
enemies like butter or hide like a coward behind huge wooden walls and be as puny as
possible.
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 Ass...
gard.
Mister Asbjørn, I hope you will like this game.
And for the end I have a few honorable mentions that could easily replace any of the games
in this list.
So, keep your eyes on Stronghold HD, Stronghold Crusader HD, Stronghold 2 and Stronghold Legends.
There are more Stronghold games released, but some of them are not as good as the others.
Also I must mention Northgard, Foundation and Dawn of Man
Great strategy games, although a bit more different than Age of Empires, but if you
like fantasy or medieval RTS, check them out!
Thank you for watching, have a nice day and I’ll see you next time with more epic videos
like that.