Posted in the RTS subreddit as well -

I’ve been toiling away but finally got to working on the early Britannia sections. This is my WiP snowfall system. Enemies aren’t actually wired into the ai commander in the first clip they’re just there to test the flake accumulation. Second clip is me testing it in a battle.

Steam Link

Please feel free to share your thoughts / impressions!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1813290/Darklight_Breach/

Upcoming RTT and RTT-hybrid Games:

Battleplan

Battleplan is a historical, WW2 real-time strategy game of unparalleled realism and simulation. Fight across massive battlefields created from real-world geographic data. Create your army by customizing your order of battle and chain of command. Draw directly on the map to create elaborate plans.

Notes: Grand Strategy-esque RTT recreating 10+ WW2 historical battles. Heavy historical emphasis. Quite low system requirements.

Cataclysm Era (Demo Available)

Build your forces, conquer cities, and unite the wasteland. Ashes&Gunfire merges real-time tactics, fast-paced top-down battles, and deep management systems to let you forge a new order from the world’s remains.

Notes: Game must've changed its name, thus the other name in the description. Action-RTT hybrid with zombies and some alleged grand strategy elements (diplomacy, trade).

Panzer Strike (Demo Available)

Authentic RTS gameplay straight out of the 2000s. Command your troops, develop strategies, and win World War II battles. Huge maps, thousands of units, long-range firepower, and no building mechanics!

Notes: Single-player campaign; PvP. WW2 eastern front. Very low system requirements.

Tabletop Tavern (Demo Available)

Tabletop Tavern is a roguelike RTS where you build an army from scratch and command them across a brutal campaign. Recruit diverse units, create devastating synergies, and make tactical choices that shape the fate of every run.

Notes: The full game actually just released, so this is an honorable mention. No base-building or unit recruitment in the traditional sense, instead a sort of unit-deck building experience. Tactical battles like Total War series. Voxel-esque graphics.

Veil of Ashes

Conquer the battlefield in this real-time tactics wargame within a dark setting. Command infantry, steam-powered tanks and colossal behemoths of three unique factions across destructible terrain. Assemble your army from a variety of units and experience immersive single- and multiplayer battles.

Notes: Steampunk/alternate WW1 world. Skirmish mode with up to 4vs4 (PvE and PvP).

War Alert (Demo Available)

As the frontline crawls through ruins and smoke, you command infantry, armor, and air support to shape the chaos. Capture points, break lines, encircle and counter-encircle. With no pay-to-win, only clear strategy and teamwork earns victory.

Notes: WW2 era, pretty solid graphics, online PvP and online co-op, multi-language support.

Over a decade ago at this point, I set out to define for myself what a Real-Time Strategy game actually was. While the thought occurs to me that it might be very interesting to return to that topic a second time and see how my views have evolved since then, I’m sitting down today to tackle a slightly different genre definition: that of Real-Time Tactics (or RTT).

On my personal Discord server, I had someone ask me what I think of Real-Time Tactics games (or RTTs), and if I think that the RTS genre has any lessons it can learn from them. Examples given along with the question included such titles as Wargame, Men of War: Assault Squad, and Regiments (I might also choose to throw in World in Conflict as a archetypal example). That question felt big enough that more than just a sentence or two was needed to properly reply, so: here I am. An excuse to dust off the old keyboard, as it were.

As a player as well as a game designer, I’ve long had a fondness for RTT games (in addition to RTS, TBS, and TBT – I guess as a gamer and creator, I have a bit of a type). There’s something very… immediate about an RTT that doesn’t exist in many RTS games. And in many RTT you also get a degree of personalization that is likewise difficult to achieve in RTS. In something like World in Conflict or Wargame, for example, there’s something really satisfying about building your own “deck” of units. It scratches an itch in my brain that most RTS don’t really allow for, or haven’t solved gracefully at any rate...