For me, if I ever hear "card-based" or "soulslike" I have absolutely no desire to play a game, no matter how many people reccomend it.

I'm also not a huge fan of modern "roguelikes" but I've sunk days into nethack and games like that.

        • keepcarrot [she/her]
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          4 months ago

          Most paradox games, dune spice wars, relic games usually do... Honestly, it's almost only the C&C/warcraft/aoe trad rts ones that don't.

        • Weedian [he/him]
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          4 months ago

          FTL Faster Than Light

          Beyond All Reason single player

            • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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              4 months ago

              I conveniently have this on my EGS account full of free shit I've been redeeming for the past few years - nice!

      • Des [she/her, they/them]
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        4 months ago

        the new Wargame RTS (WARNO) lets you pause and command FINALLY i felt left out of the only cold war pure combat RTS

        only problem is EA and single player is still lacking

        also not sure if fully paused but everything is so slow it's effectively paused

        • SSJ2Marx
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          4 months ago

          If you haven't played it yet try Steel Division II, which is the WW2 game that came out before WARNO and has multiple full-size campaigns.

    • dannoffs [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      The only RTS I ever liked was lego rock raiders, and that's probably because I was a child with nothing else to do.

      • AernaLingus [any]
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        4 months ago

        Loose rock!

        A landslide has occured!

        I also dug Lego Rock Raiders as a kid. Come to think of it, I don't think I've played an RTS in about 20 years:

        • Lego Rock Raiders
        • Warcraft III
        • Age of Empires II
        • The Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth (1 & 2)
        • Rise of Nations
        • Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds

        I never got too heavily into the "strategy" part--I just loved being able to have these battles play out with catapults and horsemen and the occasional Dodge Viper with machine guns (howdoiturnthison is forever burned into my memory). I particularly enjoyed how your units could get upgrades and rank up, and they'd carry across missions in BFME so you could make them absurdly powerful. I also remember the graphics being pretty impressive to me--I spent a lot of time just zooming in on units and watching their idle animations and stuff.

    • SSJ2Marx
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      4 months ago

      I'm pretty terrible at RTS multiplayer but I love when they're in single player. Single player also lets the devs give you cool abilities and units that would be horribly broken in multiplayer.

      • Owl [he/him]
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        4 months ago

        yeah but marco beats polo, too

        that's where the strategic depth lies