Fantasy RTS to reccommend?

[MrSoul]

On or off steam, anyone know of any good, new fantasy RTS games?
Used to love playing games like LOTR:BFME, Armies of Exigo, Warcraft 3 etc, but it seems like its a dying genre, figured send a line out incase anyone has noticed any new ones out there on the great wide web. Realistic themed medieval RTs games like Rome 2, or Crusaders I'm honestly sick of, need some orcs and dragons! xD

Old thread, but it keeps being bumped every so often, heres the list so far(as the..."market" for fantasy RTS games has proven to be pretty stagnant over the years, this lists includes older games as well just in case anyone looking hasn't heard of, or tried them yet), hope this helps anyone else trying to scratch that itch:

• Warhammer: Total War Trilogy
  
• Age of Empire Mythology (remastered)
  
• Total War Troy (new update coming up for it, basically going to be Age of Mythology Total War Edition lol)
  
• Warcraft 3 (remastered)
  
• Heroes of Might and Magic series(full turn based)
  
• Legends of Eisenwald (not abadonware, see dev comments below, they finished it)
  
• Spellforce (series)
  
• 8-Bit Hordes
  
• Conan Unconquered
  
• A Year Of Rain (potential abandonware)
  
• Stronghold Legend
  
• Warparty
  
• The hive
  
• Heroes of Annihilated Empires
  
• Loria
  
• Total Annihilation: Kingdoms
  
• Warlords Battlecry (series)
  
• Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic
  
• Majesty
  
• Skylord Reborn (re-release/remake of EA's Battle Forge game)
  
• Anything you can think of? I'll add it, been tossing this list together for almost 7 years now lol

[Vinny Vally]

I know this is basically a dead post, but, I figured I'd mention SpellForce 3 comes out in December (7th I think) just in case others come looking! Looks amazing and I cannot wait :D

Age of Empires Online remains one of my all time favourites! A little less fantasy than I prefer, however the art-style for that game was the best! I actually dislike more realistic games in comparison, but would happilly trade it for more magic. Still, trying to find something to replace AoE: Online in the 3 years it's been very sadly dead and I STILL find myself googling for something every now and then... Hopefully SpellForce 3 will fix that :D

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[secuda]

age of empire mythology.
Heroes of might and magic series (turn based though).
Warhammer: Total war.
top of my head.

[MrSoul]

makes me so happy to see this bumped every so often, @Vinny Vally, yeah!!!! so excited for that to come out soon, real love/hate relationship with that franchise, but it tries and I appreciate it haha. Also yeah, that exact random googling was reason why made this thread in first place, just hoping on hope I somehow missed something xD

[FloobLord]

Definitely not a new game, and not quite an RTS, but Majesty is a great old fantasy game.

[[The] Force]

It hurts to see how long this drought has existed, if I knew how to code (I tried to learn, 2 years in college I guess I just don't have the logic for it) or was at all art capable, again years I've been sketching my thoughts and they're all still terrible. I have some awesome idea's I just need to find a way to pitch them or people to help me make them.

[Obdilord]

another great fantasy RTS is Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic. it has a TON of factions for you to play as.

humans, orcs, goblins, undead, archons, tigrans, nomads, elves, dwarves, draconians, dark elves, halflings, frostlings, syrons, and shadow demons. while also having various other creatures as summons.

[InsertCoin]

A bit late on the reply, but I strongly recomend Skylords Reborn. Game is not on Steam but its Free. Remake of EA's Battle Forge

[Electric Cupcake]

Nope. Nothing "new." Everything new is junk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOemQuy2JUc

[沙鷹戰神]

This is quite late for a reply, but whatever, I see it and it is not locked yet, I will try to answer it

1.8-Bit Hordes
2.Conan Unconquered
3.A Year Of Rain (Kind of an abandonware)
4.Stronghold Legend
5.Warparty
6.The hive
7.Heroes of Annihilated Empires
8.Loria
9.Total Annihilation: Kingdoms
10.Warlords Battlecry

All of the are fantasy RTS if I'm not getting wrong, you can take a look to see if they reach your requirement

[MrSoul]

İlk olarak 沙鷹戰神 tarafından gönderildi:

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Hey, always makes me happy to see someone kick this thread in the butt and bring it back for a bit. Thank you for the list, I'll add it above.

[Azure Fang]

Nobody seems to want to mention the Spellforce series. I have yet to play Spellforce 3, but Spellforce 1 and 2 were the first "hero RTS" style fantasy RTSs that I actually enjoyed.

[MrSoul]

İlk olarak Azure Fang tarafından gönderildi:

Nobody seems to want to mention the Spellforce series. I have yet to play Spellforce 3, but Spellforce 1 and 2 were the first "hero RTS" style fantasy RTSs that I actually enjoyed.

Some one did...years ago :D(check Vinny's comment at the top), and I've added the series to the list.

IMHO, 1 and 2 are great.

Haven't tried 3 again but I actually refunded it at launch :( was in a very rough state from what I remember.

[Fejszék]

Please update the list, some good fantasy rts games came out since the last comment.

1.- Age of Darkness: Final Stand
The game has a similar building system to age of empires. The mechanics are centered around periodical undead / monster invasions. Has good camping and story, music, voice acting, graphics. Note that, in my oppinion in gameplay videos the game do not look like that good, while playing the game is quite astonishing, don't let this misslead you.

2.- Dungeons 4
A worthy sequel to Dungeons 3. In this game you are playing with the bad guys, building an underground evil base, and attacking the realms of the heroes. Has unique mechanics, and an extremely good (evil) and humorous story. A con of the game is that it is tied to the camping, skirmish offers limited enjoyment, but the camping is luckily long.

3.- Anbennar
This is not a standalone game, but a mod to Europa Universalis 4. This is currently the closest option to a real time fantasy grand strategy. Big and detailed. Most of its drawbacks are tied to the parent game : micromanagement heavy, performance issues even in early mid game and onwards even with better computers (,,Paradox" games have heavy memory leaks and can only utilise one processor (no multicore support)).

4.- Songs of Silence
In the time of my comment this game is not out yet, but an early demo is availeable for free (until it is taken down). Very strange and hibrid mechanics. The campaign map looks like a ,,civilization" game, but works as a ,,total war" or ,,heroes of might and magic" game (until this point is turn based). The real time part comes when the the battles are initiated. Interestingly you can't give direct orders to your units, they fight automatically on their own, but you can guide them with some abilites (all chavarly units charge to specified location, summon fireball, etc.). Has extremely unconventional and good artwork, game mechanics fell refined (for me at least), low on micromanagement. Plus it is a grand startegy that is not tied to hexagon like territories (rare breed).

Some games that are not out yet but seems interesting:
5.- Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles (made only by one person, coming in march)
6.- Crown of Greed (The developers said that you will be unable to give direct orders to your subjects and units, can only guide them in indirect ways, so it will likely have interesting mechanics.)

There are still some fantasy rts i not mentioned, but most of them are clones of older games clones (and clones and clones...).

[Electric Cupcake]

Ignoring the necro, the Dune games basically invented the RTS genre.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_B4WPnf-AY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXcyppwxj9A

And yes, Dune is more fantasy than Sci-Fi. You could replace the factions with wizards and elves and have the exact same story.

But I digress, the books do delve into sciences like feudal sociology and ecology. Not the hardest of sciences, but still legitimate.
https://xkcd.com/435/

And no, I haven't seen the new movies.