Wow! Tough crowd.

I have Loria on Steam. It's relatively cheap (I got it on sale), and I had fun playing it, so on the fun-per-dollars scale, Loria is a win.

Is there a way to set a rally point in the game?

Downloaded the demo and will check it out i'm very curious to see how it runs on my PC
( if Unity was used i give it a slim chance to run well... but we'll see )

EDIT: UNITY as expected

it needs NET 4.0 and 4.0 ruins my setup.... *sighs*

i hope my current old games aren't affected by it


see: 1280 x 768.jpg


only a few texts are readable , rest is tiny and blurry

this is at 1280 x768 so it doesnt look that crisp its blurry , and tires the eyes.

Anyway the game looks okay, but it needs a HD screen to prevent tired eyes.

You are not the only one, but when you find good singleplayer RTS games other than Homeworld, be sure to let me know, because I didn't find any.

Linux support and a demo to try it out, this game definitely has my attention.

"Tropico Reloaded combines real-time strategy and simulation elements ..."

X-COM: Apocalypse [real time strategy with pause]

Neither of which may be quite what you had in mind, and I was kind of surprised to see how many RTS games support multiplayer, when I looked around.

Neither of those are RTS games to me. That doesn't mean they are bad or that they aren't not strategy games. Just not RTS games.

And to be more concrete why I didn't find any good singleplayer RTS game beside Homeworld series (and Sacrifice), it's becuase either AI is retarded, or story is weak. Or both.

Well its a Warcraft clone. But I will get it. Its been a longtime since a good new RTS game came around. Hopefully this will be good.

Was very disappointed by recent RTS releases.

Yeah, and usually it's the other way around, for me at least. So, surprised as hell here as well.

I've noticed something a bit unfortunate - at this point GOG version doesn't have map editor, which is present in Steam version (If I'm correct, in beta version).

Which is a shame, because by default there are only 5 maps in skirmish mode.

What recent RTS releases? To me it seems like an abandoned genre these days.

https://www.gog.com/game/ancestors_legacy_complete_edition
https://www.gog.com/game/marz_tactical_base_defense
https://www.gog.com/game/dungeons_3_famous_last_words
https://www.gog.com/game/sudden_strike_4
https://www.gog.com/game/relegion
https://www.gog.com/game/swine_hd_remaster

In dev:
https://www.gog.com/game/iron_harvest

Oh I don't know one way or the other about that, I don't hang out there. That actually sounds more like a subset of Sony fans I knew but I never drew any grand conclusions from my anecdotal experience. In the case of Loria, it does not seem to really fit that mold of "deep" story anyway (not necessarily a positive or a negative).

For me it's not so much snobbery as it is noticing that singleplayer gaming has been systematically driven out of the market and "online multiplayer" has been adopted to mean "multiplayer." But it gets worse. The same mentalities have been applied to the DRM discussion, where people do things like equivocate "Steam release" as "PC release." Since you are a long time veteran of this site who has participated and contributed a lot, I'm sure you have seen where people defend mandatory Galaxy for multiplayer by saying "the game is still DRM -free though because the single player mode is DRM-free." That is a symptom of what I'm getting at. I like to give shoutouts to games that dare forgo multiplayer and cater to the singleplayer.
I like the recent MarZ game here on GOG (though another user just gave it as an example of a lacking game).

Hey, there's always room for a Beyond the Dark Lortal expansion pack.

Don't see what all the hate about this being a Warcraft clone is about. I would have much preferred an alternate history of solid "clones" of tried and true playstyles rather than the chase for "graffix".