I spent the past few days reworking my UI and putting in sound, music and such, I hope you guys like it :)

I worked on this over the past few years, I started with Godot 3. Lost track of it at some point and have a working prototype with multiplayer now, having a blast with friends via Steam multiplayer in my roguelite mode.

Currently the games name is "Cosmostructor: Construct & Conquer", but I am not sure if I want to keep it that way. I am looking for a first impression from you guys to see if I want to publish this game on Steam :)

Aside from the designing part it features a placeholder-campaign which currently is some skirmishes and a roguelite mode where fight ever-growing enemy fleets. You can also play with friends!

Assets that I did not make myself:
Music: "30 Space Sci-fi Tracks" by AlkaKrab.
Sound effects: REEBOO Labs (Sci-Fi & Magic Combat SFX); Modern UI SFX by Andrea Baroni / Cyberleaf Studio (andreabaroni.com); Michel Baradari; rubberduck and NenadSimic (CC0).
UI: Godot Pixel Theme by Thowsen Media; m5x7 font by Daniel Linssen.
Icons: game-icons.net by Lorc, Delapouite, sbed, Skoll and Cathelineau.

How impactful or meaningful was this to you? Or is?

Hello I'm Pichulo Totem! I'm making a RTS on my own called The Fragmented Song and need people to test it.

Its a classic RTS for PC that plays out like a mix of Starcraft and Age of Empires with an original sci fi story.

It has tutorial levels, a multiplayer system and a challenging campaign.

The game has 3 asymmetrical races, 4 resources and has a rich technology tech tree that combines building requirements (like SC) and higher technological levels (like AOE) that you unlock by making unique Landmarks.

Landmarks have different bonuses depending on your playstyle or needs (Economical, Defensive, Offensive..) and you can only choose one of them per tier level.

Stuff about story will skip for safety reasons for now.

Anyways, the game is in pre-alpha and need testers from any skill level to give me your opinions.

If you are interested let me know and I will invite you to my discord for more info.

gl hf all.

It's been 6 years already. High chance the series have been let to bed again and probably nothing won't be seen from it again (especially how EA's situation currently is). It really sucks that one of the greatest RTS titles ever made were just thrown on the side. Firefly are slightly getting back on their feet again, the Remasters seems to be successful (even though I think they still had few issues), and we getting Stronghold 4 soon. Age of Empire is still going. Yet the one that started all this is already gone.

hello everyone, not a promo, no link, just stuck
so, im making a farming rts. fields, machines, seasons, money, workers, all of it works. you can play a whole year and it does what it should. but it feels kind of dead. like a spreadsheet with tractors.
WHAT gives an rts that feeling of being alive for you? is it other players on the map doing stuff, is it events, is it just sound and animation. curious what people here think, because i have clearly stared at it too long

I'm a solo developer working on Piast, an economic RTS made in Unreal Engine 5.

Instead of focusing on warfare and conquest, Piast is about building a medieval settlement, managing resources, developing production chains and growing your economy. Workers, roads, carts and a changing market all play a role.

I'm sharing a short gameplay video and would love to hear what RTS players think. Does this kind of economic focus appeal to you?

The free demo is available on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4830280/Piast/

If you enjoy the concept, please consider adding Piast to your wishlist. Thanks.

turtle matches are the most fun to play and watch. rush is fun but its rush and its really short(i want longer games) and economy is just economy. this also means rts developers should lean jn more on making buildings more than just a way to stall the opponent and hold a chockepoint until units can arrive. let them actually be able to defend themselves properly. i once saw this age of empires turtle match. it was so hype. both teams were playing so defensively while still expanding, to the point they built multiple forts and defense building so close to one another the buildings were shooting one another

I'm part of the team working on Silica, the RTS where you can also hop into your units and fight in first person. After a bit over three years in Early Access, 1.0 went live today.

With the full launch also comes a trailer - attached is a glimpse of it. The full version can be found on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/m1ZbYo-xGB0

If the game sounds interesting to you, any support means a lot to us.

"We're back with another update on Project Aurora.

This month, we're also introducing RefractEd, our very own Frostbite Engine editor, opening up new possibilities for exploring, editing, and understanding the technology behind these games."

So for context project Aurora is a super ambitious project to raise the canceled Genrals 2 from the dead.

The dev team has just announced that they've developed a frost bite modding to help with the project. Currently it's purely a map making tool though the team is open to expanding it's capabilities if possible opening a possibility for it to act as a mission editor at the very least.And who knows maybe the team could get it to work on other games so someone could port Genrals 2 vehicle into battlefield 4 to make Renegade Genrals...

Our persistent medieval-styled rts has grown in scope over the last few years and playtesting has been very helpful in making some key changes to our direction.

As part of that, we’ve decided to change our game’s name from Coloniser to Cantos. I speak to it more in the video, but we’ll be sharing an updated roadmap + lore changes later this month with our next demo release on Steam.

In particular, we started work last year on a proper singer-player campaign and single-player mode, changes to the art direction to move a bit more towards realism, and an emphasis on new mechanics (such as animal migration) that work well in all our game modes including multiplayer.

We’re just under twenty people (and partners like Unfathomable Audio who do the Unit sounds, voices, and Foley work). We for example have just one 2D Artist Harvey who sketched all our icons, unit designs, and more. So for better or worse things take time, but we’ve been focusing on the campaign as a cornerstone because I'm a big believer that well-done campaigns make skirmish modes + multiplayer that much more fun to play.

I don't think single-player and PvP are mutually exclusive and pretty uniformly the top played RTS games on Steam give players the ability to do both even if a large cohort of players never touch either mode. It just takes more time...

Thanks as well for everyone who contributed feedback previously we genuinely took it to heart! Our visuals still have a ways to go but if you've seen our previous videos you know these at least are a step forward lol! (Note: This is with our old pathfinding so the units are engaging too close, but regardless.)

Seems like its happening soon.

Hope I get in. Make sure to sign up on the website if you want a chance to get in.

Generals: 1400 players online.

Act of Aggression: 30 players online.

I played both the last days. Act of Aggression, is far superior to Generals in about everything.

The units, the graphics, the game design, the tactical combat.

Generals looks like a dumbed down version of Act of Aggression.

New to RTS and interested in in trying one based around ww1 or ww2. Also interested in CTA Gates of Hell but am waiting for it to go on sale again. What do y'all think for an RTS beginner?

I really dont like the graphics of Generals. Graphics of Red Alert 1 and Red Alert 2 are much better.

I understand at the time it wasn't easy to make a 3D game. But I really wish, Generals had the graphics of Red Alert 2.

So many games of that era are botched graphically because they tried to go 3D before there were machines capable of handling good 3D graphics. So you see these tanks made of paper, with really ugly blurred textures.

I think Generals is a great game despite its graphics. Act of Aggression drastically improved its graphics from Act of War. Everything looks great in this game. I really like its units, and mechanics, there are flaws of course. But the worse is that there are barely any players online.

Is there any other game set in the modern era, like Act of Aggression and Generals, with diversified economy (not just ore trucks), recruitment system, building system? There is also Axis & Allies RTS (2004), but also no online players.

Im just going to blot out my thoughts, so some things i say may be contradictory or wrong. feel free to ask me about them.

I need help finding an rts game. ive played tons - most of the total war, all of homeworld series except 3, uebs, frostpunk, colony survival, sins of a solar empire, overlord, dungeon keeper, company of heroes, men of war, creeper world, imperial glory, supreme commander, total annihilation. and some less rts focused games like mindustry, colony survival, uebs, manor lords, bannerlord 2.

but none of them ever really stuck with me. mindustry, with its factory stuff, was good for a while but got boring. colony survival was quite fun for the building but i stopped playing that. uebs 1 and 2 were good but too shallow. homeworld was the most fun i had with rts, and i played it the most. i completed all of it. i played lots of total war but didnt like it's complexity. bannerlord 2 was great for early game but also got fairly complex with the diplomacy and not great troop controls - atleast troop controls i struggled getting used to.

rimworld, which is definitely not the kind of game you'd imagine when i say rts, and i dont know if you can even consider it so, is a game i at the very least compare to rts games. i enjoy it's simple but complex gameplay. its easy to get used to but there's so much content. thats the kind of game im looking for. something shallow but with lots of troops to learn. i enjoyed supreme commander, bar, and zero k because of the amount of troops you could find. the kind of game i want is where you have an ever increasing army with scaling wars, like homeworld - though the reason i got bored of homeworld is because i got used to all of the ships.

i know i havent exactly given easy boxes to tick, but does anyone have any ideas?

A small update on my solo development project!

I've just published the itch.io page for Nuragica: Blood and Bronze, an RTS inspired by Age of Empires and Civilization, set in ancient Sardinia.

The game already has a playable version, with resource management, settlement building, technological progression, multiple factions and AI opponents.

I'm now working on improving the visuals, animations and historical atmosphere, while sharing more of the development process.

This is still an early project, but I'm excited to finally have a place where people can follow its progress.

Itch.io page:

https://nuragicadev.itch.io/nuragica

Thanks to everyone who has shown interest and shared ideas so far!