Next best game to this?

[Teufels Beitrag]

It is chrismas, i have time and i wonder which game has similar mechanics? I really liked They are Billions and put in a lot of time but eventually seen it all and want to move on. Any suggestions?

[Reqhart]

Age of Darkness is decent. Has some issues right now but has potential. I always rotate between TAB and AoD.

I'll add an honest opinion and say TAB is better but with a potential for multiplayer and the more gothic fantasy aesthetic AoD has some pull for me personally. Both are good AoD needs more time for polish so pick it up while on sale. AoD also has a campaign but it is not finished. I'd say the game is about 75% complete and actively still being worked on

Conan Unconquered has multiplayer co-op. Might be the worst of the bunch but if you like Conan and TAB it's worth a shot. I'd watch some videos first to see if you like it. The devs have abandoned this one.

[Teufels Beitrag]

Played both. Age of Darkness is fine but i didn't get into it. I am a huge Conan fan, but that game is really bad. It should have been a mobile game.

[Reqhart]

I agree Conan was brutal, some of my friends liked it.

Sadly this genre is kind of a niche and I have been desperate for something to top TAB.

[Sin460]

Diplomacy is not an option

[hman690]

if you wanted a game like this but multiplayer "tooth and tail" is a good one
it is a few years old and i havent played in a while so i dont know what the community is like anymore but i thought it was a pretty good one. different in a lot of ways but still good.
but if you were looking for more of a direct analog then "diplomacy is not an option" is a good option (though id say not quite as good as they are billions but its still in development so it could clean up well)

[Lywelyn]

age of darkness is closest you'll find

[Cooltar]

The Last Spell is another great horde TD type, but it's turn based rather than real time.

[Catbeard Beardcat]

Alien Marauder. It's literally TAB, but on an alien planet, fighting alien hordes instead of zombies. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1516750/Alien_Marauder/?l=german

[BladeYou]

Riftbreaker is pretty close. Be warned about the performance in the late game though, it can get very sluggish.

[squished]

I've just finished ~120 hours of Against the Storm and it gave me the itch to come back to this game. They have many fundamentally different mechanics, it's more that they are both rich in atmosphere and impart similar immersive feelings of impending doom. Might be interesting.

[intenselygoodtime]

I agree that Against the Storm is excellent (it just "feels right"), but it's nothing like TAB. It's just a city builder with an amazing vibe. If anything, it's the same vibe as The Tribe Must Survive. Both Dark RTS Survival. Both available here or EGS. I recommend both.

Age of Darkness (direct clone that diverged into some Diablo-style heroics) just dropped two MAJOR updates (Dec and Jan). I've been waiting for the right time to get back into it, and this looks like that time. All their EA progress updates are here on Steam, so this is the right store for buying this one.

Alien Marauder is another TAB-clone, but... I don't know. Depends on whether or not you like Sci-Fi themes. Track it on both stores and see who comes in cheapest.

[Crypto Gamer]

Age of darkness just got updated yesterday and perfomance is now better and it finally has formations.

Albeit loading times are very long so best use an SSD.

It is very similiar to TAB but is more micro focused in mediaval dark fantasy.
And map clearing is harder but colony defence is much easier.
Hero system is basically Warcraft 3 minus the items and creeps.

3 different factions which are slightly different each has 2 unique units and 2 different hero types+core units+slightly different bonuses eg.range units deal more damage,faster melee etc.

But vast majority of the economy is almost same as TAB.


Campaign on the other hand is very similiar to Warcraft 3 campaign and is basically a good tutorial into survival mode slowly ramping up difficulty from baby mode RTS tutorial build x.buildings to like "veteran ish survival difficulty near the end.

But likely only around 15 hours long or so.