Hi, my name is ColdBeer and this time for Steam Winter Sale video I have picked 5 real
time strategy games that are somewhat similar to Age of Empires, but I also tried to avoid
old classic games like Age of Mythology or Rise of Nations, because everyone knows those,
so I hand picked something a bit more modern.
Let’s start with
Northgard
This is an RTS game based on Norse mythology in which you play as a clan of Vikings trying
to control the mysterious newfound continent.
Game has a decent campaign with a pretty good story.
Sadly Northgard’s AI is cheating, like your wife, with infinite resources and manpower,
meaning that developers couldn't create really good Intelligence that could win against humans
on it's own.
I know that many strategy games do not have strong AI's, but they at least try.
And I’m not even talking about Elite AI in Starcraft 2 - it will shred you to pieces
without any cheating if you’re not at least a gold league player or something.
By the way Starcraft 2 is free, just play it if you never did.
It’s the best.
But nevertheless, Northgard is a good RTS game at least for a few days.
Or maybe more, maybe you’ll fall in love with it like tapeworm falls in love with your
guts...
Oh yeah, I’m not the most romantic man, I know that.
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 historical
buildings.
Sadly the game itself really lacks historic truth.
For example, there was no Turkey in the time period of the game, what existed was Ottoman
Empire, also Poland at the time was Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, England wasn’t just England
and so on.
Besides the battles ashore, you can build an armada 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.
Be sure you have that NASA supercomputer for that, because otherwise your machine will
crash more often than Boeing 737 Max.
What, too soon?
Kingdoms and Castles
That is no doubt one of the most original names you can think of when creating a medieval
strategy game.
Here your kingdom must survive a living and dangerous world.
Will the viking raiders will do some raping and pillaging with 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?
The success of your kingdom depends solely on your skill as a city and castle planner.
Make sure your peasants are fed in the winter and healed of plagues.
Build churches to keep them from despair 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 will efficiently pee on it.
Spellforce 3
It is a gorgeous game, the graphic details are stunning, definitely one of the best looking
strategy games there is.
OK, Spellforce 3 might not be an entirely strategy game, because it has a lot of RPG
elements in it, but the RTS part of the game is great and I dare to say, it’s very classic
- you build your town, gather resources and train warriors.
Also the game is hard: while playing I had to reload a few times, but that is OK, because
a lot of strategy games nowadays are dumbed down to attract a bigger player base.
Of dumber players obviously.
And if you are watching this video, you are obviously a very smart and beautiful person.
So no dumbness here in Spellforce 3.
It is a great title with a nice story and gameplay.
So, what are the flaws?
Game has several annoying bugs, like dialogs not starting, mission triggers not working,
multiplayer lagging and so on, but nothing really game breaking.
If you decide to try the game I also recommend trying Fallen God stand alone expansion.
You will miss nothing, stories are not related and you will not need the main game to play
Fallen God, which has a better review score on Steam than the base game.
You can also find a review of it in my channel.
Total War: Three Kingdoms
This is the first Total War game to recreate epic conflict across ancient China and it
is made very well.
For a totally new gamers, it can be a bit challenging, because the learning curve is
really steep.
Otherwise it’s a great game with epic campaigns and battles.
Environments are also really cool: lush subtropics, arid deserts and snow-capped mountains avait
you here.
For me, an European man, living in Northern Eastern Europe it's the same exotic as in
example Tolkien’s Middle-earth.
Totally fictional lands.
Except that those lands after all those wars evolved enough to make a half of all the electronics
I use at home.
Every single one of them are probably spying on me as well and are sending my naked pictures
to some high ranked Chinese officer who will then silently envy the size of my balls.
Anyway, the game has very positive reviews on Steam, but it’s not the only high thing
this game has.
Another thing is the high price and this sale is probably the only way to buy it cheaper,
but I wouldn’t dare to say that this is cheap in general.
That’s it, this is the end of this video where you subscribe to my awesome channel
or at least press like on this video.
And I also want to recommend this guy.
Low Budget Gaming has plenty of useful videos about Winter sale and he just gave me an unexpected
shoutout, so I will not be in debt and return the favor.
Check his channel, maybe you’ll find something useful.
And It looks that you will, he has plenty of great videos.
And now have a nice day and I’ll see you next time.
Bye.