Rediscovering Lost Legends: 22 Forgotten Real-Time Strategy Games

Don't miss part 2 of this clip "22 more Forgotten Real-Time Strategy Games" - https://youtu.be/VIs58LRgrHs

Love battle realms and played the hell out of it when I was a kid. The game has a lot of unique game mechanics that aren't even seen on other rts games. Like training peasant to be fighters, units having stamina meter, units having both melee and ranged attacks, battle gears, catching mounts first before you can ride them, needing to douse water first on a burning structure before you can fix them, etc. The game was certainly ahead of it's time.

Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Simulator. This game totally changed my life. I was a child when it came out and it blew my mind. Its gameplay that made me feel my units truly alive, its humor, its graphic and sounds... everything was perfect for me at that time and I still love and play it today. It's the game that made me love fantasy in all its shades and RTS games aswell.

These games was when gaming was prospered by gamers, back when the Golden Age of Gaming was at it's prime.

In Age of Mythology there aren't 9 civilizations, there are 3, or 4 with the "Titans" expansion (Greeks, Egyptians, Vikings + Atlantis in the expansion). For each faction/player there is a choice of a main deity out of 3 (Zeus, Poseidon, Hades for Greeks - Isis, Ra, Seth for Egyptians - Thor, Odin, Loki for Vikings - Gaia, Uranus, Chronos for Atlateans), that give some different buffs, a couple of unique units, a unique power, but nothing massive. And in terms of specific playstyles and tactics every choice even for minor deities for every age progression matters. But the main differences are on the "culture" choice

I am still playing Rise of Nations from time to time. One of the best. And still exiting.

Warlords Battlecry is the biggest late discovery for me - I love this game and I would pay a lot to see remaster or IV. Awesome blend of RPG and RTS. LOVE IT! (and I played most of games listed here)

OMG the games are so nostalgic. LotR battle for middle earth, Battle Realms, Red Alert, and others. Remembering the old big monitor used to be the most advance in those days.

Metal Fatigue was an enjoyable gem. It's a mecha rts, where you start on land, but may expand underground and to the sky for resources. You are one of three factions with graphically distinct designs, and your mechas are built in parts. When mechas battle, they often drop those parts, which can be picked up by workers and rebuilt into a frankenstein of cross faction robots.

Armies of Exigo was.. pure fucking gem. I remember me and my friends playing the hell out of it on daily basis

Age of mythology is still in my heart. I started to paly it when I was 11, played it on every LAN party, played it solo, I LOVED IT. First, it looked much better in graphics than AoE, second, I love mythology so it gave me so much knowledge. It's a shame that this game was so underrated in its own brothers shadow - the Age of Empires...

Ohh Submarine titans, love it

Thank you for reminding me about Battle Realms - it has unique way of recruiting soldiers as well as upgrading them to higher tiered ones. Even till now No RTS has it and its such a shame.

I recall a few other great rts games: Populous: The Beginning Z game 7 kingdom

Battle realms and Age of Mythology was enough for me back then, I spent countless nights playing with my brother for so many battles.

Warlords battlecry 3 is such an unique game, not only through its unmatched number of playable races (though there is some unit overlap and balance is shaky at times) but also bor being maybe the one true RTS/RPG hybrid out there, with units gaining experience and becoming stronger (and you being able to carry some of those stronger troops between missions provided they dont get killed, allowing you to carry with you a few units from races other than the one you play) and of course the hero also gaining levels from mission to mission with a point allocation system that's really meaningful and classes that really matter. Your hero could end up as a good old warrior, strong and durable, a frail oneshotting machine (based on RNG) that creates gold every time it kills something in a single hit, a mage with very potent spells for both offense, support, or other purposes such as summonning, dispensing random buffs/debuffs or even creating items and trading one ressource for another, or a weak economic powerhouse that is pretty worthless in a fight but bolsters your economy just by existing on the map, and everything in-between including classes that are hybrids of those archetypes. It's really a great game and one of my RTS classics to this day.

FINALLY! Someone has mention a true epic classic - Warrior King's!

YES, PARAWORLD. This is still my favorite RTS of all time, I albolutely loved it and basically played the entire campaign in one go. At the end, they even have a massive "to be continued" cliffhanger so I was very exited to get more of it, but that never happened... Such a great game, I highly encourage everyone to give it a go.

Star wars empire at war was never forgotten tho

hi. I know that a lot of time has passed today but how pleasant it is to remember everything from that time. I remember so much a game that is very similar to Dune, it is or rather to almost all the video games that you have uploaded in these videos. only this one was about aliens fighting soldiers. In order to generate soldiers, bases, machines, one had to go look for energy sources which were prostrate on the ground, the aliens had to do the same. Likewise, one had to get to know the terrain so that it became clearer because it was all dark. As you passed levels, you unlocked machines and tanks. As for the aliens, it was the same, even they had yellow shirts and were white with big eyes. The soldiers were dressed in black special suits. In the soldiers' team, a captain was differentiated, I think a cursor differentiated him. The game had cinematics that were saved in the PC folder, I even remember one of those videos because of how a deceased alien was. I played this game in 2003/2004. It was a very good game, at that time I was a little kid. If you have any idea how to find it or what it's called, I would be totally grateful, you made me remember all those games, very good video. By the way, this text is translated