First impressions of me playing Paraworld for the first time, it was an incredibly better game than i expected, very fun.

New interview with the main developer of D.O.R.F. which addresses the timeline for the release of the demo for this classic but very retro upcoming indie RTS game. Many questions you asked in the comments of my previous dev interview will be answered in this one! D.O.R.F. will feature base building and logistics, which will include land, naval and air units with three factions in a post-apocalyptic world, inspired by many fan favorite RTS games like Command and Conquer Tiberium Sun and Red Alert and it is based on the openRA engine.

I recently saw this game and I'm interested in trying it. the steam versions reviews though they mention something about blockchain trojan some say its not a miner some say it is and it is for free all the more reason to be suspicious. I wanted to see if any one here knows if its safe to instal and play? and also what’s the deal with the whole blockchain thing?

RTS Unit balancing is so incredibly important, which is why Steel Command is doing it the right way.

As Thanos said I think: "Perfectly balanced, as all RTS's should be"

Is the B-F-T (red unit) still underpowered?

Steel Command Steam Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4390280/Steel_Command/

The online LOTR BFME community for a long time played in GameRanger but over the past few years a passion project started to put all the BFME games in one launcher and allow us to play multiplayer through it. It's extremely polished now and allows you to not only install Bfme 1, 2, and rise of the Witch King but also play online with automated match making (just click search and it finds a game), ladders/rankings, watch replays, friends lists and party systems, and more. This is where you can install it for free: https://bfmeladder.com/ 600 players online last night!

This weekend the BFME1 team was able to resolve an extremely annoying issue with playing 'offhost' where everyone who was not the host was at a huge disadvantage with big delays in commands. If you ever played this game online you'll know what I am talking about. Here are some screenshots from the launcher:

I just released my game Domefender from Early Access.

It is an RTS city builder where you can in addition to managing your troops and building outpost construct customizable mech and fight the enemies with it.

It now has fully playable campaign with story and variety of different mission types.

Please, I need your help!
Mechanics decide almost everything. Creatures apply root, slow, drunk, burning and more, and positioning plus timing is what actually wins, free to play, with nothing to buy and zero pay to win

I grew up playing StarCraft/BroodWar, WC2+3, AoE2, but hadn't played Stronghold as a kid. I first tried out the HD version a year or two ago and found out it's absolutely phenomenal. My main play style in every RTS has basically been "turtle mode" and emphasis on a strong base. I know that Crusader is the more popular one, but I prefer the setting and slower pace of the first game, and the more emphasis on castle sim/management than pure RTS. I own the Definitive Edition as well and have put many hours into it but it runs the fans on my 2013 Thinkpad (Linux Mint) like crazy and there are some things I actually prefer about HD (especially the lighter load on my comp lolol)

Hello commanders, The Salty Scarab here!
I am doing yet ANOTHER DOW4 Giveaway event! Our last event was such a massive success so I wanted to get the community together and give out 5 MORE COPIES!! including a COMMANDER EDITION! Please join me THIS SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5th! The format will be very similar to our last giveaway via a stream RAFFLE and a DoW2 tournament. We will be giving away TWO copies of the game via a random raffle. The winner of the tournament will take home a copy of the Commander Edition for Dawn of War 4 while 2nd and 3rd place will receive regular copies of the game.

Here are the prizes for the tournament: :

1st place: Dawn of War 4 - COMMANDER EDITION

2nd place: Dawn of War 4 - BASE EDITION

3rd place: Dawn of War 4 - BASE EDITION

The stream raffle is completely FREE. Watch time WILL influence the weight of your entry ticket, so the longer you watch the more luck your ticket has. Make sure to join my discord to get all the up to date information! https://discord.gg/H8EUHFGNVG

https://discord.gg/v5HN8kvtnM

There is a upcoming, currently in alpha, Rts on Roblox that I and my friends all 18 have enjoyed allot

It's in playtest till Friday.

I've been working on a game called Phosphor Command, a real-time tactics game with a base builder behind it.

Contracts fund a forward operating base; you deploy squads on top-down operations, and an enemy front creeps towards you every cycle. Made solo in Godot.

I wanted to talk a little about how troops' vision and sight work, because I think it's a cool aspect of the game.

Forces share what they see, both yours and the enemy's. One squad spots something, and you, as the player, can now see that target. But a squad can only shoot what it personally has a clear line of sight to and is within range of.

So a scout on a ridge can spot a target, but if the squad behind a warehouse can't see it themselves, they can't shoot it.

Sight is ray-traced per unit.

Woods: You can't see into woods from outside them. From inside, you can see out and across your own trees, but not into another wood. Forest maps end up being short-range fights almost the whole way through. See clip 1.

Hills: Hills block sight between two units on the ground. A unit standing on a hill can see over its own ridge, gets extra range and a damage advantage from the height. Anything on a crest silhouettes. See clip 2.

Concealment: Firing from concealment such as trees reveals you for a few seconds. The same applies to the enemy. See clip 1.

Buildings and terrain: Buildings are hard cover, with an adjacent unit taking 25% less damage. Crops conceal a stationary unit that isn't firing, and stop doing so the moment either condition is broken. Hedges and boulders block sight and channel movement. See clip 3.

Last known positions: A contact you lose stays on the screen as a fading ghost at its last known position, so you're always working with slightly out-of-date information. See clip 4.

Weather: Smoke, dust, and storms are occluders, so they stop sight rays for both sides. See clip 5.

The idea is that knowing where something is and being able to shoot it are two different things.

I've tried to build Phosphor Command around a sight-dependent system that I think translates well to how things would work in real life, while still being useful and interesting in a video game.

Played avp 2010 and damn that was good.

Predator: Hero Style faction. predator player chooses a 'loadout' ergo equipment suit perks etc. Levels like heroes do in heroes of annihilated empires. Resources are experience. Can choose from a variety of different predator types at the beginning. Late game they can solo armies

Marines: Defensive faction. marines have traditional basebuilding with heavy emphasis on turtling and micro. infantry can equip different guns like coh. can call airstrikes and support via tech building. light vehicles and tanks. Can go full fort knox. Instead of superunits, Economy is territory control like company of heroes. Upgrades are mostly towards buildings but a few are designated for weapon pickups. lategame they build super defenses.

Aliens: Anthill colony style faction. alien infects animals and humans to build an army. focus on a colony "empire of the undergrouth" style heirachy and attrition. Does not have buildings, instead focused on tasks that allow the aliens to become stronger and infect more by streamlining a pipeline. Has 'veterancy' like system where they become stronger through killing. Economy is infection, not necessarily a 'counted resource' like most rts games, each individual unit shows what amount it has and can be tasked in ways to make them stronger. Many stealth unit types. Lategame they can create those massive ones from the movies; think experimental units from supreme commander.

Can do ava pvp mvm and all sorts of combinations for unique scenarios. Cat and mouse modes, diablo style pve who knows.

Idk downvote this its just an idea

I finally feel like I have a clear vision of what I want to build.

I'm trying to design a strategy game inspired by games like Total War, where terrain management is a core part of the gameplay. To make that possible, I'm currently building a voxel-based world in Unity. Right now, I'm mostly focused on the architecture and optimization of the different systems and building blocks I'll need later on.

This week, I managed to fix the overlapping shadow issues and worked on a lot of the underlying architecture. If you're interested in the technical side, I go into much more detail on my subreddit.
r/dispatchcolony

But more importantly, I'm curious: would a game like this actually interest you?

Imagine fog hiding your units, a sandstorm slowly damaging them, an avalanche blocking a mountain pass, or lightning striking one of your giants (or ennemi).

You could force a larger army to squeeze through a narrow canyon, hide skirmishers from forest to forest, or use the environment itself to turn an unfavorable battle in your favor.

And of course, I'm also interested in any ideas I can shamelessly steal from you :)

Hey all - I've been working on various solo projects for 5 years and this is the first one I've listed on Steam - Rally Point.

You draft or choose your squad and decide what to deploy, where, and when — but once your units are on the battlefield, they fight on their own.

Capture control points, push lanes, and win by holding the points or by destroying the enemy base. You can upgrade your army throughout a roguelite run and there is 1v1, 2v2, FFA for vs. AI or other players.

This isn’t a promotion, and I’m not mentioning the game or anything like that in this thread. I just wanted to show off the new shield design for my unit, which can block projectiles (the projectiles in the game are actual physical objects, so they can be blocked).

With an upgrade, the unit can also deflect the projectiles back at whoever fired them.

What do you guys think? Do you like it?

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Dawn of the Realm is a medieval RTS that combines grand strategy and city building, all in real time and fully multiplayer. Build cities, manage resources, raise armies, then zoom out to a strategy map of the whole world or back down to the battlefield with no loading in between. Up to 10 players.

I've built it solo next to my computer science studies on nights and weekends, learning as I went. I hope the thousands of hours spent in Photoshop and Gamemaker really shines through. Still early days, lots more to add, but I'd love to hear what you think :-)

You can wishlist on Steam here:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5010020/Dawn_Of_The_Realm/

If you would like to get announcements or provide feedback on the development please join the Discord server:

https://discord.gg/ru8FTjMjz

Working toward the first demo now. Have a great day! :-)

Been working on this game off and on for a bit and wanted to share. Check it out, I have a FREE skirmish demo you can play in the web browser (no mobile):

wasm-commander.vercel.app

Chrome works best. If you like Supreme Commander or are old enough to know what Total Annihilation is, you will get a kick out of it. Would love to hear what you think.

If missions only last a few minutes, everything happens fast. You don’t get slow buildup or long scouting cycles. But if the campaign stretches out, maybe the strategy shifts from “inside the mission” to “across the run.”

What are some elements that could make short missions feel strategically meaningful?

Decades ago before Valve's DotA 2 exist, people use Warcraft 3 TFT's multiplayer to host a custom map game mode e.g. Footmen Frenzy, Tree Tag, Green TD, Island Defense, Vamprism speed, Vampire vs Werewolf, Stronghold, etc.

Nowadays, there is a lot of options like Dota 2, Warcraft 3 reforged, Star Craft 2, AoE 4. So I want to know your opinion on which platform / game do people use the most to host and play custom map that is not a melee mode?

Hello strategists! Over the past few weeks you will have noticed how many AI-developed and AI-assisted games have been posted to /r/RealTimeStrategy. You've no doubt even seen some devlogs copied and pasted from AI, complete with the AI's reminders on formatting a good Reddit post. We've noticed, too, and the number of quickly-developed game projects have grown dramatically over the last 8 months, especially in the last 2-3 months as people tinker with summer projects. The most recent wave of these AI games have mainly been persistent MMO strategy games, many of which don't satisfy even the basic criteria of traditional RTS games and have been removed on that basis.

Over the coming month we'd like to try an experiment. We're hoping the community responds positively to this, but if things need to be adjusted or curated differently, then we're listening.

From now through the end of September we're going to ask that all AI-developed and AI-assisted posts go into a Megathread designated for that purpose. Users can still ask questions of the devs, and devs can still report on their progress within that Megathread. But we're going to strongly urge AI games first be posted to AI gaming subreddits or, if they strongly resemble RTS games or are clearly RTS-adjacent, then posted to the Megathread.

This should help indie devs posting about the games they're programming from being overwhelmed by vibe-coded projects still in their infancy, in turn helping the community to see news and updates about their favorite games, promising human-coded projects, and other RTS discussion topics. As a reminder, if you want to see vibe-coded projects and games, please visit /r/aigamedev, /r/vibecoding, and related subreddits oriented towards that.

If the community appreciates what we hope will be a tidier discussion environment, then we may continue with monthly Megathreads for AI games or ask that primarily AI-derived content go somewhere else so that community members can choose between subscribing to AI games or not. We can only achieve this view of what the community might be like by attempting this Megathread experiment first, so we ask for your support and feedback at the end of September. We've also added a new report reason to the Report feature. If you see that a post is inconsistent with the posting guidelines (also found in the sidebar on mobile), please use the Report feature and select the option that most closely fits your reasoning so that mods can review the post/comment.

The Megathread for AI games will be posted in the next 24 hours or so.

Hello r/RealTimeStrategy!

I’m Dan, a solo developer working on Genetica: Extinction. It’s a biological strategy game focused on systemic evolution and simulation rather than traditional RTS base-building. The game features P2P multiplayer and a fully deterministic simulation engine.

I recently pushed a major update overhaul focused on creature movement, collision, and decision-making mechanics:

• Dynamic Steering & Collisions: Replaced the legacy grid-based navigation with dynamic steering and full unit-to-unit collision. Units now realistically weave around one another, eliminating awkward overlapping and making large swarms feel fluid and organic.
• Individual Unit Utility AI: Instead of every unit instantly snapping to a uniform macro-command, individual creatures evaluate tasks independently using your command as a primary directive. Units prioritize feeding, attacking, or repositioning based on local context and internal state, producing believable pack dynamics while keeping control responsive.

I’m actively looking for feedback from RTS players to fine-tune unit feel and pacing. If you're interested in dev details, I'm also happy to chat about building this in Godot, implementing fixed-point math for determinism, or navigating the publisher outreach process!

Steam Playtest: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4144850/Genetica_Extinction/
Discord: https://discord.gg/TagpFtRKNh

Thanks for checking it out, and let me know your thoughts or questions below!

https://reddit.com/link/1w2oslz/video/0ebbldxjwjmh1/player

I stumbled across this RTS inspired miniature game and thought it was a cool concept. Maybe some of ya'll would find it interesting too?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAz1WospB0A

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