RTS

One of the first RTS games, and the benchmark for all future titles. First in the series.

Groundbreaking RTS from Ensemble Studios. Set over thousands of years, from the dawn of human civilization to the height of the Roman Empire, you guide a stone age tribe from a hunter-gatherer culture to a mighty empire.

Evil Genius is a tongue-in-cheek take on the 60's spy thriller genre offering the player the chance to play the villain himself and control a secret island fortress complete with powerful henchmen, loyal minions and a wide range of hilarious gizmos, gadgets and traps.

This is a strategy game that takes place in the fictional Paradise City. Players can use a traditional top-down perspective or use a behind-the-character third-person view. As players conquer regions of the city they gain additional skills and abilities. Players must protect their territory while making strategic decisions about where to expand next. No, I am not going to use any song lyrics here.

Sins of a Solar Empire is a science fiction real-time strategy computer game developed by Ironclad Games and published by Stardock Entertainment for Microsoft Windows operating systems. Sins is a real-time strategy (RTS) game that incorporates some elements from 4X strategy games; promotional materials describe it as "RT4X." The game was released on February 4, 2008, its first content expansion titled Entrenchment was released as a download on February 25, 2009, and its second content expansion titled Diplomacy was released as a download on February 9, 2010.

This game is an RPG for experienced gamers. Players control an individual who awakens in a strange land. As the main character progresses through the primitive islands in the game they will encounter more advanced cultures and technology. This opens up new weapons and abilities for the character to learn and use. Players can customize how their character develops and specializes. Damn these stone tools.

The events in these games take some of the lesser-detailed events in the J. R. R. Tolkien Lord of the Rings universe and turns them into RTS campaigns. Gameplay is the same as the first game with some tweaks and improvements. The Battle for Middle-earth II allows you to complete two campaings for good and evil with the Witch-King expansion adding another evil campaign. I will take the Ring.

This game is a standalone expansion for the Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War RTS series. Players can control one of seven different factions as they seek to destroy each other on the planet Kronus. The expansion adds two new factions to the series with the Tau Empire and the Necrons. It's an RTS, what more can I say?

Age of Mythology is an RTS set within the major historical mythologies - Greek, Roman, Egyptian. It is in the same play style as Age of Empires II, and with good reason. AOM is from the same developer, and same "series" as AOE2.
From Ensemble Studios, the creators of Age of Empires and Age of Kings, comes Age of Mythology, a game that transports players to a time when heroes did battle with monsters of legend and the gods intervened in the affairs of mortal men.

Players can skirmish against the AI or fellow players using the starships of different factions. These factions include the Federation, the Klingons, the Romulans, and the Borg. Players can also play through a singleplayer campaign. This campaign has the player controlling the Federation through various Star Trek eras from Star Trek: Enterprise to a post Star Trek Nemesis/Star Trek: Voyager time period. The starship Enterprise captain's voices are provided by the television series characters of Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula), James T.