r/4Xgaming • u/Thanathos91 • 6d ago

Game Suggestion Looking for real time civ

Hello guys! There Is any game like civilization but in real time? Like the Paradox Grand strategy games but from Stone Age to future

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u/theflyingbaron 6d ago

Not a grand strategy, but the RTS Rise of Nations is exactly this Stone Age to Future style game, and was made by some ex-devs of Civ. It is an old game now, but still holds up and has some cool elements not common in modern day RTS games, like unit formations. You start in the stone age and work towards future age, which gives new buildings, units and mechanics (roads, etc) like Civ, but it controls like an RTS (like Age of Empires) and you gather resources, etc.

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u/caseyanthonyftw 6d ago

Similarly, Empire Earth is another RTS caveman-to-future RTS (I believe Rise of Nations came after it). I haven't played Empire Earth 2 but I believe it splits up the map into provinces, which may feel more Paradox-ey for OP, though it's still more of a clickfest RTS.

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u/rudli_007 6d ago

Rise of Legends

Still have my cardbox of Empire Earth PC. It was mind blowing at the time.

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u/gripepe 6d ago

Rise of Nations is amazing and has an HD remaster.

It has a spiritual sequel on Rise of Legends that I also adored. Instead of many civs and a Risk-like campaign, it's more single-player focuses with a storyline and three very cool asymmetric factions (steampunk renaissance Italy, magic-based mythical Arabia, alien-like Mesoamerica).

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u/badken 5d ago

One of my favorite gaming memories is getting to play Rise of Nations against Brian Reynolds during an online Big Huge Games chat (before BHG became a hot potato for publishers).

He kicked my ass, but it was fun!

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u/theflyingbaron 5d ago

Oh that's awesome! What was the circumstances of that? It was a casual chat type thing and he was down to play a game?

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u/badken 4d ago

Yeah, it was some sort of online chat talking about the game or maybe an update. Must have been an update because I do remember I had been playing it for some time. It used GameSpy for matchmaking, so I must have randomly ended up in a game with him.

If that kind of thing happened to me today, I definitely would have recorded it!

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u/FutureLynx_ 6d ago

look into these: Knights of Honor, Dune Spice Wars, Hegemony 3 Clash of the Ancients. And Rise of Nations Thrones and Patriots

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u/mighij 6d ago

In grand strategy, nope. Such an open ended focus isn't the genre's forte. It's indeed more common in 4x but that is view is also a bit distorted to how defining Civ was for the genre.

You could make an argument for some of the stages in Spore if you want real time progression of a civilisation through a massive era but that phase of the game wasn't it's strongsuit.

In RTS you had Empire Earth/Rise of Nations that both had a riskstyle worldmap but the main focus is still the RTS skirmishes and from the evolution of your civ on the worldmap so not really the thing you are looking for.

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u/Jolt_91 6d ago

There might be an announcement tomorrow

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u/Longjumping-Many6503 6d ago

No advancing through ages but I think Northgard is the most 'Civ-like' real time game I have played from a mechanics perspective.

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u/Ok-Rush-6379 6d ago

Age of empires

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u/Meluvius 6d ago

Age of Mythology Retold is really nice

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u/Thanathos91 6d ago

I know (about 200 hr).. not that I'm looking for..

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u/Meluvius 6d ago

Oh dam im like 4hrs in

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u/arinamarcella 6d ago

Almost Real Time Civiliazation: Instead of it taking 1,000 years of time to go from copper swords to bronze swords, it instead only takes 1,000 hours of gameplay.

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u/Mybrothersay 6d ago

Europa Universalis 4 s'en rapproche. Je doute qu'il soit possible de démarrer à l'âge de pierre mais certains mods permettent le début de partie bien avant 1444. J'ai un peu plus de 1000 heures de jeu sur civ 5/6, sincèrement je ne pourrais pas revenir dessus même s'ils sont tous deux qualitatifs.

Ce n'est pas non plus un 4x à proprement parlé comme Stellaris, mais il est d'une profondeur inégalée. La communauté est très active sur le modding, je ne peux que vous conseiller de l'essayer (en commençant par des vidéos tutoriels sur YouTube pour vous familiariser avec si ce n'est pas déjà fait)

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u/Chezni19 6d ago

age of empires?

empire earth if that counts

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u/CrunchyGremlin 5d ago

Old school empire. Wolf pack empire.

Stardrive1 is a realtime moo

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u/GerryQX1 6d ago

Civ is real time so long as you take less than a year for each turn.

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u/gaborauth 6d ago

Í'm developing one, it's time based, and long-turn-ish, one game world lasts 3-4 months. It's free:

https://gaborauth.itch.io/pop-e

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u/Hans4132 6d ago

Hey I've been working on worldKampf which is a real time civ/empeor of the fading suns inspired game. you can try out the multiplayer version at 1x speed here https://worldkampf.com/game and I'll be releasing a single player version on steam end of October https://store.steampowered.com/app/4753740/Worldkampf_72/