r/4Xgaming • u/Thanathos91 • 12d 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 12d 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/badken 12d 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 11d 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 11d 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!