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City Builder/RTS Hybrid?
February 24, 2017 at 5:05 pm
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I've been playing some various city building games lately, SimCity 4, SimCity 2013, and Cities Skyline. I've played around with Starcraft somewhat recently as well. I was wondering if there exists any hybrid games of these two genres. Like, you build a city and do all the economics and city planning and all that good stuff, but also have to put up like turrets and military structures and gather resources for your military, so that you can either defend or attack and stuff. The closest thing I've seen to this is Spore's civilization stage, but that focuses more on the RTS gaming and just has you plop buildings down in a preset area. That's quite boring, really. Is there a decent game that functions this way?
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RE: City Builder/RTS Hybrid?
February 24, 2017 at 5:07 pm
Yeah, I was going to mention Spore as well. The problem with Spore is that while it did a lot of things, it never did many of them well.
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RE: City Builder/RTS Hybrid?
February 24, 2017 at 5:08 pm
You may enjoy Rise of Nations.
It's by the creator of Civilization, Sid Meir, but it's an RTS.
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RE: City Builder/RTS Hybrid?
February 27, 2017 at 1:40 pm
My only offer would be Pharaoh, but that game is... Well... Ancient
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RE: City Builder/RTS Hybrid?
February 27, 2017 at 2:22 pm
Rome total war should be real cheap this days with the add ons.
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RE: City Builder/RTS Hybrid?
February 27, 2017 at 4:25 pm
Lords of the Realm 2.
Not very fancy, but quite enjoyable. Most of it is preset, though, but the fights can be done either "calculation" or RTS style.
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RE: City Builder/RTS Hybrid?
February 27, 2017 at 5:38 pm
(February 27, 2017 at 3:11 pm)Aroura Wrote: (February 27, 2017 at 1:40 pm)Jello Wrote: My only offer would be Pharaoh, but that game is... Well... Ancient
That is my favorite city builder of all time!!!
Mine too, but it doesn't work on windows 10
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