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#1 Eador: Masters of the Broken World

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Eador: Masters of the Broken World is a phenomenal blend of Grand Strategy, RPG (Role Playing Game) and Turn Based MMO elements. This fantasy game is developed and published by Snowbird Game Studios. The game features a world named Eador drifting in the midst of the vast emptiness of nothingness. After the great Cataclysmic event the Eador was created along with countless other worlds like it. In this epic strategy game, the war is over the control of other worlds like Eador. Every world wants to dominate the universe by conquering all the scattered worlds. Storyline of the game describes some fantastical and phenomenal happenings in the continuum to mold the direction of the events and that alone is an amazingly fascinating feature of the game. With the strong urge of taking the control of the universe into his hands, the player builds massive empires and settlements by using all the gathered resources, economical benefits and by winning the wars against the neighboring worlds. Greatly modified and enhanced graphics, open ended gaming environment and super easy controls are some really cool features of the game. The amalgamation of different gaming genres offers an amazing experience. Trying out this game will surely be a wise choice if you like playing games with all the included elements. Eador: Masters of the Broken World is available to play on Microsoft Windows only.

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#2 Pharaoh

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Pharaoh is a Strategy, Tactics, Isometric, City-building and Single-player Simulation developed by Impressions Games and published by Sierra Entertainment. The game mainly focuses on building ancient times, construction and management elements and lets you take on the role of the ruler. It takes place in Ancient Egypt, and your main goal is to build a city, pyramids, gather resources, and take care of your people. It has two different modes such as Free build and Campaign. You must focus on building the cities, settlements, tombs, and grand cities. Grow crops, hunt foods, and feed your people. Create troops to defend your city from rival gangs, and evils. Complete challenging quests and unlock new contents. Control everything in your city and expand it further and further. The game includes new elements such as Goals, Water, Health, Hunting, Farming, Infrastructure, Religion and more. Pharaoh offers core features such as Military, different and Ancient Landscapes, challenging Tasks, different Resources, Build and Lead your City, different Accessories and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

#3 Populous: The Beginning

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Populous: The Beginning a wonderful blend of MM, RTS and City-Building elements and provides with a marvelous gameplay similar to Anno series games. In the beginning, Populous: The Beginning allows you to pick up a tribe as you native identity, make alliances with other powerful tribes and figures and embark on epic missions filled with puzzling challenges. The game is set on different planets in the galaxy and lets you lead mighty expeditions to different origins, conquer them by defeating the native beings, construct buildings, gather up resources and manage them wisely, raise mighty armies and rule the worlds around you. The strategic element of the game allows you to manage your troops, build your defenses and defend your settlements, bases and resources and turn your keeps into huge strongholds. With epic settings, brilliant visuals, engaging gameplay and a lot of other cool things, Populous: The Beginning is a great game to play and enjoy.

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#4 BattleForge

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BattleForge is an Action, Real-time Strategy, and Massively Multiplayer Online Video game developed by EA Phenomic and published by Electronic Arts. The game based on Card and RTS elements and allows you take on the role of the protagonist and dive into the game world. Interact with other players, make your own guild and complete a series of quests. Explore the environment, fight against monsters, and slay them using the sword and other weapons. The game is played from an isometric view. Create your own empire, gather resources, and recruit army to defend it. There are different cards and each card offers its unique abilities and powers. Get experience points by completing missions and use your points to upgrade your card and enhance character abilities. It has both PvP and PvE modes and lets you play against other players and show your power. With the best mechanics, addictive gameplay, brilliant visuals, and superb sounds, BattleForge is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.

#5 Anno 2055

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Anno 2055 takes you to an amazing journey of Space Exploration, Building, and MMO and RTS Approach in order to save the future of Humankind. After conquering the Earth, building massive prosperous and well-established cities, you must now travel to space in order to scavenge for new technologies, lifestyles and riches that will eventually help develop more secure, well defended and technically rich settlements on Earth. After the advancements in Fusion Energy and new ways in which you can revolutionize the Society, space travel is necessary. The required element of Helium-3 is not present on Earth and to harvest more of that, you’ll have to travel to Moon, so dust off your ships and ready your mavericks, start off your journey, build new settlements on the Moon and bring back Helium-3 in order to make your future more bright and unbeatable. With amazing City Building, exploration, new technologies, encounters with the hostiles and a great rulership, Anno 2055 offers amazing Real-time Strategic, Building and Management aesthetics only to entertain you well, so as an alternative to Anno 2070, you must play this game and enjoy a visually similar yet different gaming experience. This Marvel is available to a purchase on Steam.

#6 Anno 1404

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Anno 1404 or also known as Anno 1404: Dawn of Discovery is a Massively Multiplayer Online Real Time Strategy video game developed by Related Deigns and published by Ubisoft for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo DS and Wii gaming platforms. Just like its Predecessors, Anno 1404 revolves around different fictitious events and surrounds the medieval era in which The Crusades and Advancement in Gothic Architecture took place. In the game, the player creates his own city or his kingdom, colonizes it, gathers resources, builds farms, factories, homes for people, trains troops and engages in governmental and economic relationships with other players online or with advanced game AI’s, battles to save his kingdom or sometimes fights to acquire a piece of land to grow his lands etc. As the trading is a vital aspect for any settlement to grow or progress, the player in game gives it special attention and provides with the ways and strategies in which his kingdom gets into trade with other players online or With game AI’s to buy or sell different in game items. The trade incentive is then spent on the people and for the betterment of kingdom. Anno 1404 is a super engaging and a great game to play and enjoy. You should give it a try.

#7 Warcraft

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Warcraft or also known as Warcraft: Orcs & Humans is the Very first video game of the series. Released back in 1994, Warcraft was a Record Sale hit video game that won three awards and was nominated for three more. With a massive response from around the world markets, Warcraft became the number one hit of the time and was a great competitor to Westwood Studio’s Command and Conquer video game series. Being a top trending RTS (Real Time Strategy) video game, the game lets the player take control of a character from any of the classes (Humans and Orcs) and engage in an epic single-player campaign to complete a number of different missions. Each and every mission of the game offers different objectives such as building towns, resource collection, and raising and training massive armies, etc. The Multiplayer Campaign of the game allows the players to complete only one primary objective of destroying enemy bases and defeat their forces (Humans, Orcs or Monsters based on the character class choices at the start of the game). The combat in the game is mainly Melee and Ranged type that requires troops having the abilities. With a truly remarkable narrative, Medieval and Fantasy-based game setting, addictive gameplay, loads of fantastic game modes, beautiful visuals and loads of other great things, Warcraft (Warcraft: Orcs & Humans) is one amazing RTS game to play and enjoy.

#8 Tropico

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Tropico is a City Building, Construction, and Management Simulation by Pop Top Software and Feral Interactive. The game allows the players to get into the role of “El Presidente.”, Rule over the Island in the Carribean Sea in the Era of Cold War. As the primary goal of the game is to stay always in Power, the players are required to keep the population of the Island Happy. If the Populace is unhappy with the El President’s actions, they may vote somebody else instead of the player. All the non-governmental powers and Factions can unsettle the Rule of El Presidente, so the player must keep all of these factors controlled. If there are Powers that get unhappy with El President’s rule, they will form an alliance and challenge the players so the players will need to keep them happy as well. As this game is all about Democracy and Foreign relations, diplomacy and Trade, the players must be good at every said aspect or else he/she can lose the title. Customizing the Island’s Map, political and economic relations, enemy intrusions and other governmental affairs are the most critical and challenging tasks to perform. With all the addictive gameplay, constructions, management and socio-economic elements, Tropico offers various game modes such as Scenario, Custome Game, Random Map and Campaign. Furthermore, Tropico offers brilliant character customization options for the character of El Presidente and allows the players to select any of the real life figures such as Che Guevara, Augusto Pinochet, Fidel Castro, Hernando Blanco, Lou Baga and Sancho Baraega, etc. Tropico is an amazingly addictive and quite surprisingly informative simulation to enjoy. Do give it a try for an excellent City Building, Construction, and Management experience.

#9 Rise of Nations

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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to manage a whole kingdom, a city or a territory and wage wars against the enemies to either conquer them or to loot their resources, survive and flourish an amazing and prosperous civilization? Well if you want to experience an amazing King or a General like feeling, Rise of the Nations is the game built just for you. Rise of Nations is a Single and multiplayer MMO-RTS Video game that provides with a great blend of fantasy elements. The game allows you to be part of a hugely mapped and beautifully created game world, Construct Buildings (Barracks, Forts, Defense, Markets etc.), Make Allies, Wage Wars against your enemies, Gather up Resources etc. The game also lets you accommodate more than eighteen different races, train more troops from eight unique classes and use best strategies against your enemies. Rise of Nations basically focuses on the balance between Economy, Offense and Defense and encourages you to fully strategize your every move in the game. Rise of nations offers a marvelously engaging and quite immersive game-play, a number of fantastic Single and Multiplayer Campaigns, great visual details and loads of brilliant things to discover. Do try it out if you haven’t yet and enjoy the ultimate fun.

#10 Rise Of Nations: Gold Edition

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The Rise of Nation game series includes some really great games like Rise of Nation: Thrones and Patriots and Rise of Nations: Gold Edition. This epic real time strategy game is developed by Big Huge Games. This game is based on the historical events of time and travels back to almost 6000 years of ancients. Main features include heavy Warfare, city building, governance, troops, battles, thrones, trade and merchandise etc. This super amazing RTS game never lets you feel like you are wasting your time while playing this game. Graphics and game-play are quite like Age of Empires. Storyline and user interface are a bit different. Rise of Nations expansion pack offers new nations, campaigns for single players, more troop units and some really great new wonders and government types to choose. This amazingly wondrous and engaging game can be played only on PC.

#11 StarTopia

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StarTopia is another great Building and Management and RTS Simulation that allows you to control a space station, one among the critically damaged but habitable space stations after the war of the universe. Your task is to take control of the space station, renovate it by simply managing the resources and constructing the necessary buildings, convert the whole space station into kind of a hotel, manage the rooms for the visitors, earn money and then spend it on the spaceport.

You’ll also have to control the employees, assign them duties according to their alien species and ultimately enjoy being in power. After you have enough skills, you can go start building up other space stations and repeat the whole procedure in order to be the most prominent figure in the universe. StarTopia offers wonderful Sci-Fi visuals, amazing characters, and an addictive game-play. Do try it out, it’ll amaze you with all the wonderful stuff it has to offer.

#12 Battle World: Kronos

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Battle World: kronos is an MMO and Turn-Based Real time Strategy and a war-based video game that lands you into a militaristic setting. The game allows you to engage yourself into campaigns, skirmishes and wars against your enemies from the Yerla Faction. You get to control your own troop units, train them and use the most sophisticated weaponry against your enemies. Battle World: kronos lets you explore the game world, assault your enemies using transporting vehicles, Air Support and via troops, seize their properties and loot their resources etc. You can play the game online with your friends in multiplayer gaming mode and make alliances to defeat your enemy with the greatest force, tactical advantage and might. Battle World: kronos is a great strategy and war based MMO video game to play and enjoy. try it out if you haven’t yet and enjoy the ultimate fun.

#13 Age of Empires 2: The Age of Kings

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Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings is a great Real Time Strategy and Tactical War based MMO video game. The game is set in the Middle Ages and allows you to choose between thirteen different playable civilizations such as Britons, Byzantines, Celts, Chinese, Goths, Japanese, Franks, Persians, Mongols, Saracens, Teutons, Turks and Vikings. As other RTS games, your basic objectives are to build cities, gather armies and resources, defeat your enemies in massive wars and conquer their territories. Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings consists of five main campaigns, three different single player and multiplayer game modes, clean 3D graphics and strict story based game-play for every campaign. Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings also allows you to go through four Ages Dark Age, Feudal Age, Castle Age and Renaissance during the game-play to experience the medieval era game-play and enjoy the game a bit more. Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings is probably a best game of this specific genre. Try it out and it will definitely provide you with a good amount of entertainment.

#14 Age of Empires 2: The Forgotten

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Age of Empires 2: The Forgotten is wonderful addiction to the series of Age of Empires. This wonderful MMO-RTS game is basically an expansion pack to the famed Age of Empires 2: The Age of Kings and offers 5 new civilization named as Magyars, Indians, Incas, Slavs and Italians, seven new single and multiplayer campaigns, a lot of new troop units, technologies etc. along with a number of new game-play modes, new maps, enhanced graphics and mechanics and perks. The game once more lets you put on show your best skills and strategic approaches, Diplomacy, trade and policy building abilities and assesses your economy building and ruling methods. The conquests and domination over the lands to expand you kingdom is one of the hardest tasks to complete so you must be prepared well in order to complete the objectives of Age of Empires 2: The Forgotten. With super cool visuals, grid based addictive game-play and all the great things, Empires 2: The Forgotten is a wonderful game like Age of mythology to play and enjoy.

#15 Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3

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Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 is an extremely wonderful RTS video game like Supreme Commander. The game is one of the most popular and well-liked addition to the Command and Conquer series and offers a similar game-play and mechanics to its predecessors. Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 takes you to World War 2 era and allows you to part of the massive conflict between the Soviet Union, Empire of the Rising Sun and their Allies, choose one of the powerful sides and begin making strategies that will eventually write the fate of world. Dominate and seize the power by simply building your own bases, collecting resources and by conquering the enemy installations. The unique RTS element of the game lets you gather up enough resources, build your defenses and make strategies, raise immensely powerful armies to defeat your enemies, attack on your enemies from ground, air and sea and dominate where ever you go. Amazingly addictive and long campaigns, combats, beautiful visuals and an immersive game-play are the key parts of this wonderful game. For a great Supreme Commander like experience, you should totally try this one out.

#16 Age of Empires 3

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Age of Empires 3 is a Real-time Strategy, Single and Multiplayer video game created by Ensemble Studios. The game includes eight different civilizations such as Spanish, Ottoman, Dutch, British, Portuguese, and more. Each civilization has its unique advantages and weaknesses. It combines the elements of building, resource management and combat. The main task is to create your Empire using different buildings and gather resources to survive. Recruit military and arm them with weapons and protect your Empire. In the game, you’ll face different challenges such as population, war, diplomacy, and more. Expand your Empire by conquering other Empires and upgrade your units, buildings. Military and weapons using experience points. It has a set of objectives and the game rewards you with points as you fulfill requirements of each level. Unlock other civilizations by progressing through the game. With detailed environment, immersive gameplay, superb mechanics and brilliant controls, Age of Empires 3 is the best game to play and enjoy.

#17 Project Aura

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Project Aura is one of the best Simulations that offers MMO-RTS Economic, City Building, and Management elements in order to provide with one of the best experiences ever. Your task in the game is to simply lead a colony of people who recently faced the worst ever climate disaster that left the world in ruins. You must help them getting out of the trauma by simply constructing new cities seas, businesses to thrive and an economy to help them grow by trade. Find ways to live in a hostile environment, use all the resources you can find on the betterment of the remaining populace learn the ways in which you can live longer during even the worst food shortage, build some shadow shelters to support them with hibernation, train your citizens for different tasks, specialize in trade inside the colony, explore the new areas, craft unique items with the help of old ones and enjoy being control of almost everything around you. With a marvelous storyline, addictive gameplay and beautiful 3D visuals, Project Aura is a fun game to play and enjoy.

#18 Cities: Skylines

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Cities: Skylines is a wonderful City Building, Management and massively Multiplayer online Real-Time Strategy Simulation packed with new and improved gameplay mechanics and elements and it tends to entertain you with all the provided thrill and hardships of creating and managing a whole city. The game basically assesses your abilities of being a good Manager, Builder, Crafter, etc. all at once and throws various hardcore challenges at yourself to improve your abilities and ultimately be a great Building and Management Mogul, rule the businesses and, build and create new technologies and take it to a whole new level of entertainment. With awesome visual details, great game-play options, addictive nature, a lot to build and manage and Strategically grow your Economics, Relations and defenses, Cities: Skyline is a great City-building, Management, MMO, RTS simulation to enjoy. Try it out if you really want to enjoy an amazing experience of all the beautiful combination of various elements, you’ll love it for sure.

#19 Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile

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Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile is an Open Ended MMO, RTS City Building, Construction and Management Simulation set in Ancient Egypt. The game allows you to be a ruler over the distances that Egypt covers and build cities by selecting different construction sites for various groups of people who are further parted into two more groups, Private Workers, and Government Workers. You must select the workers from both groups and assign them their tasks to build different buildings and structures. When a city is completed you can move to the next one to build it and you can move all the workers with you too. The game provides with only bread as to use it to bargain or trade or use it as the currency. Just like all other games of this genre, Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile lets you complete a task of building a city and then moves you towards the next. Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile features good 3D graphics, engaging game objectives and a lot more to explore and enjoy. Do try it out for a great City-Building and RTS experience.

#20 Company of Heroes 2

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Company of Heroes 2 is a popular RTS game that offers an amazingly addictive and quite immersive game-play similar to the popular Supreme Commander video game. This sequel to the original Company of Heroes lacks the allies feature and instead it takes you to the eastern frontiers in order to battle against the enemies and experience an extremely action-packed game-play ever. As usual the game sets you up into the character of a commander/lieutenant and allows you to focus on building your own base, gather up resources, and build immense man power by building and training troop units, and finally embarking on amazing journeys that will eventually lead you to huge battles against the enemies. Your task is to simply conquer the enemy bases, outposts etc. in order to eliminate the threat and to expand your reign. Every outpost and base capture awards you with points that you can use to buy more upgrades and stuff. Building, defending and occupying enemy territories are the main parts of the core game-play, so the more you are tactically strong, the more chances of success you get. The unique combat system allows you to use your amazing militaristic approach to cater with the armies, use heavy machinery, artillery, military grade vehicles and stuff to defeat your enemies and enjoy an amazing gaming experience.

#21 Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth

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Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth by Firaxis Games is another cool video that offers a gameplay slightly similar to the popular StartCraft series games. The game provides with an amazing Turn-based Strategy and 4X game-play in which you with all the human populace are destined to travel through space and find a suitable new habitat. The event of The Great Mistake left no choice but to leave Earth and that resulted in a years long exploration, wars between countless alien races and a lot of amazing stuff. Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth lets you experience and amazing Strategy and combat filled game-play with a unique and wonderfully written story, great visuals and lots and lots of other cool things.

#22 Empire Earth 2

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Empire Earth 2 is one of the best RTS games like Supreme Commander and offers an amazingly original and quite addictive experience ever. The game offers you three main campaigns with the focus on France, Korea and Germany and allows you to be part of the huge skirmishes against your enemies (Other Players and AIs). Your tasks are to simply select any campaign, advance through more than 15 ages, unravel new and futuristic technologies, start from scratch and build whole new bases, produce resources like Iron, food, gold and stone etc. make new strategies and take down the enemy bases, outposts and strongholds in order to conquer them and to seize control and power, build diplomatic relations and alliances with neighboring settlements and double up your power against the equally equipped and technically advanced enemies and rule the world. With multiple game-play and mechanics enhancements, new strategies to make, new weapons and tactics to use, lot of new enemies and allies, amazing new visuals and an immersive game-play, Empire Earth 2 is one of the best titles to play and enjoy as an alternative to Supreme Commander.

#23 Age of Empires

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Age of Empires is a marvelous MMO-RTS video game developed by Ensemble Studios and distributed by Microsoft studios back in 1997. The Original game came with 7 sequels and 3 spin-offs. From its first release till date, the game titles are all historical real time strategies and the game-play offers single and multiplayer player gaming modes along with a number of fantastic Campaigns, missions and stuff. Age of Empires is set in a historical eras like Stone Age, The Rise of Roman Empire, Europe and Asia in Middle Ages, Spanish Conquest of Mexico, Asian Dynasties, Rise of Asia etc. The latest inclusion to this amazing real time strategy game series is “Age of Empires Online” which is the 7th sequel to the game. This sequel of the game also revolves around historical events. Age of Empires ruled the world and sold almost 20 Million copies and handed back a really sizable profit to Ensemble Studios. The game allows you to control the whole Empires, train massive armies, build your defenses, wage epic wars against your enemies and defeat them to prove your supremacy. With a very thrill filled game-play that offers a number of amazing campaigns, beautifully created 3D visuals and loads of fantatsic things to discover, Age of Empires in one of the best MMO-RTS games and typically a trend setter for this specific genre.

#24 Age of Wonders

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Age of Wonders is a Single and Multiplayer Turn-based Strategy video game. The game offers a detailed description of all the mythical Creatures of World of Wonders and allows the players to enjoy Online gameplay on a LAN (local Area Network) and Internet Online. The co-op mode allows the players to be part of teams of up to twelve players and enjoy defending the world. Age of Wonders offers Isometric perspective and a tile-based map based on three layers such as Surface, Caves, and Depths. The players are directed to lead a certain Race including Elves, Humans, Goblins, Dark Elves, Lizardmen, Dwarves, Orcs, Undead, and Halflings, etc. Players can also lead some of the rarest and special races such as Highmen, Azracs, and Frostlings as well as various types of troop units including Dragons, and Giants, etc. Age of Wonders also tasks the players to collect resources such as Gold and Mana and use them to build Troop units, Buildings and to buy more Heroes. The unique skills that the players can use during the combat are based on magical spells. Furthermore, Age of Wonders offers a unique Combat System that allows the players to use their special tactical and strategy skills against the enemies and enjoy reigning hell over. With a very addictive gameplay, beautiful graphics and great mechanics, Age of Wonders is a fun MMORTS video game to play and enjoy.

#25 Praetorians

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Praetorians is an Action, Real-time Strategy, Single and Multiplayer video game created by Pyro Studios and published by Eidos Interactive. The game is set in historical Rome Empire and allows you get into the game world by selecting your side. Create your troops and equip them with traditional weapons and dive into battle, fight against thousands of other troops and defend your Empire. Defeat enemies and loot their resources. It has two different modes such as the Campaign and the Skirmish. The game campaign mode has four different levels in which you can take part as Julius Caesar and your main task is to lead your force against different hostile tribes and Egyptian. Explore the map, complete quests and earn rewards to unlock other content. There are twenty missions in Campaign mode divided into four section and each section is started by a short film. Expand your Empire by building and upgrading your units to progress in the game. With exciting features, different modes, stunning visuals, and brilliant mechanics, Praetorians is the best game to play and enjoy.

#26 Empire Online

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Empire Online is a Free to Play, Massively Multiplayer Online, Role-playing, Fantasy-based and Strategy video game developed and published by Lakkoo. The game is available to play on Mobile platform only such as iOS and Android. At the beginning of the game, the player can choose or create his character and get into the game world in which the main task of the player builds his castle, collect resources, and start a battle against the powerful enemy creatures. The game also allows the player to create his own military force and lead them into the fight in order to expand his castle. It is an excellent game that offers superb fast-paced and action-packed gameplay that immerses himself deep into the brilliant game world. The game includes core features such as build various buildings, gather resources, Upgrades, replayability, more than twenty different nations and lots of other things, etc. With exciting gameplay, well-written storyline, simple controls, and beautiful graphics details. Empire Online is one of the best game to play and enjoy.

#27 Knights and Merchants

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Knights and Merchants is a Medieval-themed, City-building, Real-time Strategy, Single-player and Multiplayer video game with an emphasis on Resource Management elements developed by Topware Interactive. The game takes place in the era of the Middle-Ages and offers the former Kingdom, divided into several small principalities and earldoms. There are two campaigns available such as The Peasants Rebellion and The Shattered Kingdom, with a collection of twenty-four challenging missions. It has over twenty-five types of buildings, and the game comes with more than dozens of characters. In the start of the game, the player needs to select his playable character, struggle to establish the kingdom, recruit the army and jump into the game to compete against other players while gathering resources from defeated territories. During the battle, the player commands multiple units of the army to eliminate the opposing forces from the ground to win. Knights and Merchants include core features such as Middle Age Simulation, Skirmish Mode, 10 Multiplayer Maps, 25 types of Buildings, Dozens of Characters, and more. Check it out, and have fun.

#28 Tropico 4: Steam Special Edition

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Tropico 4: Steam Special Edition is a brilliant New City Building, MMO, Real-Time Strategy and Management video game by Haemimont Games and Feral interactive. Just like the previous games of the series, Tropico 4: Steam Special Edition allows you to be the president of Isla Nublar, choose the best outfit and customize your character, get into the awesome game-play and face some new challenges, govern over your Naysayers and make the decisions that will write the fate of your nation and grow your off-shore bank accounts. As compared to Tropico 3, Tropico 4: Steam Special Edition offers enhanced more political aspects and more powerful nations to negotiate with, a whole new democracy system in which you can elect more new ministers and get your cunning and controversial policies passed to finally implement the changes you want. With all of the political Drama, you will also have to focus on your enemies, cater with the natural disasters, and lure the populace towards yourself by simply engaging into epic developments and enjoy leading a lavish life. With a new feature of social interaction, integration of social portals like Facebook and twitter, amazing missions to complete, countless rewards, great visuals, great storyline and an amazingly engaging game-play, Tropico 4: Steam Special Edition is a marvelous new addition to the Tropico Series.

#29 Creatures: Exodus

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Creatures Exodus is an amazing inclusion to the series of Creatures and provides with a wonderful City Building and management experience. By following the characteristics of its predecessors, Creatures Exodus lets you manage the hatching and evolution of Norns. You are required to manage their breeding and teaching process of the Norns. You must teach the Norns with utmost cars because in future you’ll have to assign different duties to the Norns and let them do what you did in the very beginning of this game. As this game is set on a Ship, it allows you to teach the Norns how to fly ships and that will eventually help you send the Norns to explore other planets and collect the resources for your own settlement. This epic game lets you fight off the Grendals who are the sole enemy of Norns and they love killing Norns, so you must build an army of Norns too that will save the rest of the population. Creatures Exodus with all the strange things and a unique storyline is a wonderful game to play and enjoy.

#30 Crusader Kings 2

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Crusader Kings 2 a direct sequel to the original Crusader Kings, is a Grand Strategy and MMO video game. Developed by Paradox Development Studio the game is set in the Middle Ages and features a lot of historical and popular names such as Charlemagne, Constantine Doukas, Ragner Lodork, Alexios and Harun Al Rashid etc. In the game, player holds a Medieval Bloodline and strategically controls the Wars, Marriages, Assassinations, along with his mighty Empire, its People, Resources, Economics, Lands etc. With enhanced graphics, open ended gaming environment and a superbly well-written storyline this game offers you an ultimate experience of being a true king who wants to make the name of his family by serving the people and winning their hearts. Multiplayer gaming mode makes this game even more awesome as countless of players around the world can make alliances and they can attack an enemy state to conquer. This game is no doubt an amazing game to play because of its unique Middle Age Strategy experience, complete and unrestricted control over Military, Assassinations, and a lot of important things. This super cool blend of Grand Strategy, MMO and Middle Ages will keep you Spellbound for quite some time. If you really are into RTS and MMO games, you must play this game and enjoy the ultimate fun.

#31 Act of War: Direct Action

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Act of War: Direct Action is a Real-Time Strategy and a War based MMO video game by Eugene Systems. The game provides with a lot of challenging skirmishes, campaigns, an engaging gameplay and core mechanics that greatly resemble Europa Universalis IV. You can take part in a lot of tactically advanced game missions and fight off your enemies by using heavy artillery, fighter jets, snipers, and a lot of other types of weapons. As the game is a war based strategy, it allows you to engage into battles and combats with your enemies and complete the missions with a very little damage to yourself. Your tasks would be to infiltrate enemy territories, rescue Hostages, eliminate Terrorists, and medically aid the Wounded Soldiers etc. Act of War: Direct Action provides with a 14 mission gameplay, super realistic graphics, RPG and shooting elements, single and multiplayer gaming mode options etc. With all the drama and war based environment plus the brilliant militaristic approach, Act of War: Direct Action is one of the best games of this specific genre. Do try it out and enjoy entertaining yourself for hours.

#32 Command and Conquer: Tiberium Alliances

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Command and Conquer: Tiberium Alliances developed by EA Phenomic is a Freemium MMO-RTS (Massively Multiplayer Online – Real Time Strategy) video game based on a militaristic theme. The game sets you up into the character of a general and allows you to build a Base anywhere on the game map. Protect it from the enemy attacks by strengthening up your defenses. You must also build Barracks to accommodate the troops, construct more buildings like Mines, Refineries, and Weapon Factories, Research labs, gather resources (Power, Credits, Crystals and Tiberium) and combat against your enemies to save your settlement. Command and Conquer: Tiberium Alliances lets you make alliances with other friendly settlements and fight against the enemy with doubled up force and tactical advantage. With a super engaging game-play and cool graphic details, Command and Conquer: Tiberium Alliances offers a great storyline and plot and allows you to enjoy a truly remarkable gameplay experience. Command and Conquer: Tiberium Alliances is one of the best game of the MMO-RTS genre.

#33 Machines at War 3

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Machines at War 3 by Isotope 244 is a great MMO-RTS and War based video game. The game lets you be a commander, command over a great number of military units, Military grade vehicles (Tanks, Humvees, Cruisers, Planes, choppers etc.) and make best strategies to either defend yourself against the enemies or to attack and conquer them. Machines at War 3 is played from a top down perspective and allows you to focus on every detail from above and manage it well. The game encourages you to attack and destroy most prominent enemy installations to disrupt their transport and operations. You can use heavy artillery, air strikes, battle ships and other available resources to conquer your enemies. The multiplayer gaming mode lets you be allies with your online friends and attack the enemy from multiple directions and with more power and force. Your Strategic, Diplomatic and Friendly relations with other settlements are the key elements in winning or losing the wars and expansion of your own lands, so you better be good at them in order to prove your supremacy and to dominate over the surrounding world. Machines at War 3 offers fantastic visuals, game-play and other characteristics.

#34 Anno 1701

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Anno 1701 is a brilliant MMO, Real-time Strategy (RTS), City building and Management Simulation by Sunflower Interactive Entertainment Software. The story of the game revolves around 18th century colonization systems in the New World. Basically this super cool game is mainly about the economics of the settlement. If a player is enough skilled at preserving an equally maintained and balanced economy he’ll be more successful in achieving the goals. Divided into 5 social stages (Pioneer, Settler, Citizen, Merchant and Aristocrat), this game provides an amazing set of culturally and economically well-mannered society. The player just have to manage it and if he is able to manage it well, he’ll enjoy the game even more. Typically the game-play is similar to Age of Empires and a lot of other games like that. For example. Players can build their own cities, develop the whole civilizations, send troops to invade neighboring kingdoms to battle and defeat the enemies and to conquer and capture their lands to weave into yours. Some great new features in the game include, trade quests, honored guests from other countries, improvement in tax system and natural disasters are a real treat to the game players. This great storyline game is really a piece of art as compared to a lot of titles of the same genre. You must try it out if you really are into MMO and RTS games.

#35 American Conquest

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American Conquest is another brilliant Title in the line of RTS genre that takes you to the history and leaves you in the middle of 15th and 18th centuries where you‘ll have to fight for the Colonization. With a similar game-play and mechanics to Cossacks: European Wars, American Conquest allows you to build your own armies, bases and develop technologies to defeat your enemies and to conquer their settlements. To achieve the goals, you’ll have to produce, collect and manage your resources, build massive alliances, diplomatic and trade relations to the friendly nations and double up your power against the enemies. Building up whole new units of troops, defensive structures, weapons and means of transport are the most fun part of the game. American Conquest offers a number of campaigns all divided upon their conditions, storylines and environments. You can either be a Spanish, American or native conquistador and engage yourself in an amazingly addictive and one of its kind game-plays ever. The inclusion of Multiplayer mode, amazing skirmishes, battles with other online players and AIs are the key features of this game. Try it on and enjoy a marvelous combination of great game-play, state of the art visuals and an amazing story-line.

#36 Galactic Civilizations 3

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Galactic Civilizations 3 is another great Strategy and Turn-based video game. The game offers wonderful Sandbox aesthetics and allows you to engage yourself into an amazing game-play spread across the galaxy. Your task is to conquer the world by Diplomacy, trade, Cultural values, and by the might of your massive military. With both Single and Multiplayer modes, Galactic Civilizations 3 lets you enjoy 4X Strategy, amazing new story-based campaigns, brilliantly engaging turn-based combats with enemies and all the great stuff. The Sandbox feature of the game allows you to enjoy amazing new maps, unique game worlds and a lot of new challenges and experience a totally different side of Strategy gaming. Galactic Civilizations 3 is one of the best games to play and enjoy.

#37 Stronghold

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Stronghold is a Real-time Strategy video game with Single and Multiplayer modes. Firefly Studios develop the game and published by Take 2 Interactive. Stronghold focuses on expansion and conquest through military units and offers a space for economic development and strategy. The game takes place in Medieval Britain and set in the historical time 1066 AD. In the game, you can assume the role of the Lord and your main aim is to create a strong Empire, recruit armies to defend it and expand your Empire. Gather resources, conquer other castles, make them the slaves, loot their resources, and complete the objectives. The game comprises different modes with economic and combat missions. The primary mode is Military Campaign, focuses on a massive map of England. Stronghold includes core features such as Famous Historical Castles, Dive into Battle, Detailed Environment, Entire Map on Single Screen, and more. Stronghold is the best RTS game to play and enjoy.

#38 Age of Wonders II: The Wizard’s Throne

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Age of Wonders II: The Wizard’s Throne is an Action, Turn-based Strategy, Role-playing, Single and Multiplayer video game created by Triumph Studios. It is the direct sequel to Age of Wonders game. The game takes place in the fantasy-themed world and lets the player take on the role of the spell casting wizard. He can explore the mysterious world, encounter mythical creatures, recruit the troops and fight for his land. The main objective is to protect the unit from mythical creatures, use different weapons to defeat them and complete each level at any cost. There are twelve different distinct each with different races such as Draconians, Elves, Halflings, Humans, and more. To get into the game world, the player must select his side and start the battle against enemies. The player can use cannons, mammoth riders to conquer his enemies. Age of Wonders II: The Wizard’s Throne offers core features such as 130 Unique Units, 7 Sphere of Magic, 30 Loyal Champion Heroes, Fierce Combat, and more. Try it out and you’ll enjoy it.

#39 Army Men: RTS

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Army Men: RTS is an Action, Real-time Strategy, Single and Multiplayer video game by Pandemic Studios and published by The 3DO Company. It is the best entry in the series of Army Men and focuses on combat element. The game lets you create and lead your best world army in the battle field against a former green commander who now controls the hordes of foes named the Tan Forces. There are several missions, and you have to control your army, tank, and airship to take down your foes. Defend your base to prevent death and further progress through the game to unlock other missions and features. The game is played from an isometric view, and you must collect resources to build structures, soldiers, and vehicle. It offers the similar gameplay like Army Men II. It revolves around three main elements such as Build, Manage, and Battle. Army Men: RTS offers key features such as Special Modes, Multiple Ways to Earn Rewards, Operation, and more. With engaging gameplay, superb mechanics, and brilliant visuals, Army Men: RTS is the best game to play and enjoy.

#40 Age of Empires II

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Age of Empires II is an Action, Real-time Strategy, 2D, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by Ensemble Studios. The game takes place in the medieval-themed world and includes different factions to play. It is the second entry in the series of Age of Empires and revolves around gathering resources, fighting and base-building. Select your faction and dive into the game world where you have to create your Kingdom, build your base, recruit army, and defend your castle. Conquer another faction by defeating and loot their resources to expand your kingdom. Explore the environment, discover new technologies, and upgrade your units, weapons and buildings. There are a set of quests that you must complete and take part in battle to show off your army strength. Dominate the world, interact with other players, and create a guild to become powerful. Maintain your resources and survive as long as possible. With exciting features, superb mechanics, and addictive gameplay, Age of Empires II is the best game to play and enjoy.

#41 Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic

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Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic is a Turn-based Strategy, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by Triumph Studios and published by Gathering of Developers. The game takes place in the fantasy-themed world, and it is the third entry in the series of Age of Wonders. It offers the world contains three different levels such as the Shadow world, the Underground and the Surface. Simultaneous is the major mode in the game, which allows the players to move their units at the same time during their turn. It has different modes such as Overworld mode, Traditional Turn-based mode, and Simultaneous mode. It combines the elements of Empire Building, Tactical Combat, and Role-playing. There are different character classes, and the player can select one of them to start his game. Lead your allies throughout a variety of levels and compete against Ai characters other players to victory. The otherworldly Syrons, the sinister Shadow Demons and the steppe roaming Nomads are three new races features in the game. With enhanced mechanics, detailed gameplay, superb visuals, and attractive soundtrack, Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic is the best game to play and enjoy.

#42 Tzar: The Burden of the Crown

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Tzar: The Burden of the Crown developed by Haemimont Games and published by Take-Two Interactive is a Real-time Strategy, Single, and Multiplayer video game. The game takes place in the medieval setting and offers the similar gameplay to Age of Empire. The primary goal of the player is to conquer the neighborhood Kingdoms and demolish their units, races, and their castle. Players can take on the role of the commander, and they have to establish their territories from an isometric perspective, using different buildings and explore the world to gather resources. They must lead their people and attempts to keep them happy. There are four different resources that the player can collect such as gold, stone, food, and wood. He can grow crops to feed their people and recruit troops to protect his Kingdom from enemy attack. It has different nations available, and the player has to select one of them to start the game. With prominent features, addictive gameplay, and brilliant mechanics, Tzar: The Burden of the Crown is the best game to play and enjoy.

#43 Command and Conquer: Generals

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Command and Conquer: Generals is a Military-based, Real-time Strategy, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by EA Pacific and published by EA Games. There are three different faction available such as China, the United States and the Global Liberation Army and the player can select one of them to get into the world. The game takes place near the future, where world is threatened by terrorists. It offers the similar gameplay to Real-time Strategy games, in which the player must build his base, recruit army, equip and train them with weapons and jump into battle to take over the battlefield. There are different defenses available and the player has to use them strategically to fend off enemy attack. As the game proceed, other features, upgrades and level will be unlocked to play and enjoy. The player needs to gain enough experience points to upgrade his units, towers, army, and the character. To defeat the enemy or opposing faction, the player has to destroy their bases tow in the battle. Command and Conquer: Generals offers core features such as a variety of Levels, different Units, three Factions, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

#44 Westward III: Gold Rush

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Westward III: Gold Rush is a Real-time Strategy, and Single-player Business Simulation developed and published by Sandlot Games. The game takes place in the fantastic land of Northern California and offers the story follows the kind-hearted but struggling family, who welcomes three travelers into their home and provides a space for rest. The travelers make a promise to repay for the generosity and kindness of the family when they are settled. A greedy land specular known as Silas McAllister appears and take over the valuable land, and become the governor of California. The game has a similar gameplay to its previous titles and features three different pioneers each has a special bonus. Wood and gold are primary resources in the game, which can be used to grow food to feed the people and build houses to offers the shelters to the people. The game takes place in two different cities, and the player needs experience points to unlock further buildings to expand his city. There are three different modes, which can be played in Sandbox modes such as Bandit Showdown, Disaster Challenge, and Open Range. With prominent features, exciting gameplay, and wonderful graphics, Westward III: Gold Rush is the best game to play.

#45 Stronghold: Crusader Extreme

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Stronghold: Crusader Extreme is a Strategy, Construction, Single-player and Multiplayer Business Simulation takes place in the Medieval-based world, developed by FireFly Studios Ltd and published by Gamecock Media Group. The game takes place in the historical environment and comes with completely new content. A new mode named as the Extreme mode is available for skilled players, in which the number of units has been increased to 10,000 as well as new powers appear to the right side of the screen. The player takes on the protagonist’s role with an ultimate task to establish his empire, recruit troops and train them to become the master. The player uses the point-and-click interface to move across the map and interact with the object and non-player characters. The game rewards the player with XP points which can be used to unlock further content like units, bases, buildings, and more. It has twenty missions, and the new thirty maps are introduced to explore. As the game proceeds, it becomes difficult to play. Check it out, if you like playing RTS games.

#46 Anno 1404 – Dawn of Discovery

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Anno 1404 or also known as Dawn of Discovery is a brilliant video game that blends in City-Building, Real-time Strategy, MMO and Economic elements beautifully. The game features both medieval and renaissance era settings and allows you to build your own settlements, explore islands, construct buildings, get into diplomatic ties with neighboring settlements or wage wars against the enemies in order to conquer their lands or to defend your own. The city building element of the game allows you to build massive structures like monuments, research labs, and other facilities and rule over them, maintain them etc. The economic element allows you to set up trade routes and economically grow your settlement, acquire necessary resources and manage them wisely. Just like other games in the Anno Series, Anno 1404 or Dawn of Discovery offers a similar Sandbox style gameplay, wonderful visual details and other great things to make you love this game. Try it out and it’ll amaze you with all of what it has to offer.

#47 Offworld Trading Company

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Offworld Trading Company is another great City-Building, Management, MMO-RTS, Economic and Exploration video game. This wonderful game allows you to leave the Earth out of Curiosity and start exploring planet Mars, build mining facilities on the surface and gather resources as an Offworld Trading Company, process the resources in your other facilities and finally sell them onto Earth and other Planets in the Galaxy. As this game is all about Trading and Economics, Offworld Trading Company allows you to manipulate the market by your varying products, manufacture new technologies with the help of Martian resources, Sell them in the markets, generate revenue and spend it on enhancing your company and resources like machinery, operators, and other necessary things. Offworld Trading Company offers single-player campaign and allows you to be in full control of your actions and receive the possible outcome based on the decisions you make. With a marvelous game setting, Sci-fi aesthetics, great visuals and an immersive game-play, Offworld Trading Company is a fun game to play.

#48 Spacebase DF-9

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Spacebase DF-9 is a great City-Building, management and MMO-RTS Simulation that takes you to an amazing space journey. This wonderful Construction, Development, Real-Time Strategy and management game allows you to maintain your own space station with all the resources you have. With a beautiful space theme, Spacebase DF-9 lets you hire workers for different jobs, build new structures, generate and manage your resources, accommodate your people and eventually grow your space station to other parts of the galaxy. The main task is to find specific points in the galaxy, send explorers, scientists, and workers, settle a small group of people on the discovered area, help them grow by completing different tasks and conquer the worlds. Construction is one of the main objectives of Spacebase DF-9, so you must build structures, defend them against the enemies (Aliens) and keep your people alive by using all the available tactics, strategies and ways possible. This interesting amalgamation of Construction, management MMO and Strategy elements will definitely allow you to have hours of plain entertainment and fun.

#49 Cossacks: European Wars

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Cossacks: European Wars, developed by GSC Game World is a Real Time Strategy and Tactical War based MMO video game. The game takes place in 17th and 18th centuries in Europe and provides with an isometric view. Cossacks: European Wars allows you to manage a whole settlement of people, gather massive armies, construct different buildings and gather resources such as Coal, Gold, Stone, Iron, Wood, Food etc. and engage in different missions and campaigns such as Thirty years War, and War of Austrian Succession etc. The game provides with a similar game-play as Europa Universalis series games and allows you to take part in battles against your enemies, conquer their settlements and gather resources for your kingdom. Cossacks: European Wars lets you use the best strategies against your enemies and develop best skills for further campaigns of the game. Cossacks: European Wars features randomly generated maps, 5 Campaigns, 20 European nations to choose between, a huge collection of skills and strategies, super fine graphic details and an addictive game-play to enjoy. Being massively popular and one of the best games of this specific genre, Cossack: European Wars is a brilliant MMO and RTS game to play and enjoy.

#50 Endless Legend

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Endless Legend by Amplitude Studios is a Turn Based 4x Fantasy MMO-RTS video game set in the land of Auriga and allows the players to dominate over the land by Exploration, Technology, Conquest, Wars, Diplomacy and Research. You can select your character from one of the eight main races/factions, multiple skill trees and unique characteristics. Endless Legend tasks you with expanding the kingdom of Auriga by using the above mentioned methods and once an area is seized, you can gather up resources and build new cities. The quests in the game can be unlocked by completing different tasks and every finished quests awards you with Dust, the game currency. Dust can be used to buy more upgrades and stuff that makes the game more interesting. Endless Legend with a wonderful Grid-based mechanics, turn based combats, amazing quests and characters, cool visuals and a brilliant game-play is a marvelous game to play and enjoy.