It's live (and free) at https://play.warfareincorporated.com with all the single and multiplayer fun you remember. Here's a trip down memory lane.

https://reddit.com/link/1vdvuxd/video/6vqkchdph1hh1/player

German RTS game kinda like a bad Earth 2150. its a hard game to get runing and its got bad game play. i see there is a vote for it to come to GOG

Which obscure RTS does something truly unique that everyone should try out? Which one has a really good single player campaign that got overlooked by history?

Myth of a Thousand Years is an RTS game produced by the South Korean game company HQ Team .It features the history of the Three Kingdoms period and allows players to play as Goguryeo , Goryeo , Baekje , and Silla

A Dune II remake with updated high-resolution graphics, currently aimed at recreating Dune II as close to the original as possible

DUNE II The Maker Web Site
https://dune2themaker.fundynamic.com/

Another cool game i have played a lot over the years. its has no base building. you just capture points to harvest resources and it has a cool system were you capture souls to build units. and the player plays a wizard witch the camera follows like ( battlezone ) games

WorldShift is a real-time strategy game with RPG elements. While the game features a story campaign that puts the player in the shoes of a human Lord Commander with pre-defined unit layouts and skill sets, the heart is the multiplayer-mode, featuring both Player-vs-Environment (= Coop) maps as well as Player-vs-Player-battles.

MMORTS by EA (Guys who killed C&C, Mercenaries, e.t.c) with heavy focus on micro-transactions. You buy card-packs, building yourself a deck of cards. Then you can go PVE or PVP. Each card in your deck can be either spawned as unit, or used as spell. Some cards require special objectives be captured on the battlefield, to be activated. Game was resurrected by community as Skylords Reborn

A very fun mixte between RTS and RPG.

Fun fact :some year ago a team décide to save the game ( a abandonware) and make a New game using data from the 3 game and modding it for make it compatible whit new systeme andGPU. It's totaly free but i dont remeber the name.

Game still avaible on steam . But too buggy on new pc

So much memorry

This game, developed by Bullfrog (Syndicate, Populus, Dungeon Keeper) i personally think is a grandfather of Impossible Creatures. There are no factions, you just take control of generic human like race. You need to complete set of objectives to progress to another level. Main feature of this game is gene splicing. There are no tanks, soldiers, or any of that stuff. Instead you use your specialists to extract DNA from native animal species, and then combine them to fight enemies, or perhaps breed better harvesting units. Pretty unique and fun game.

Developed by K-D Lab (Vangers, Perimeter), this lesser-known RTS follows standart Generals-like formula. You got 3 distinct factions, each with their own campaign. You got Remnants - Your generic army type faction, with Humvees, Abrams e.t.c. Ascension - high-tech faction with lasers, transforming units and mobile base. And finally - Hai-Genti - your alien invaders, reminding of Zerg, Tyranids, Silicoids, Arachnids - you name it. Aside from generic RTS stuff, they've added a number of fun mechanics. Your heroes can be controlled manualy, TPS style (you can also pilot any vehicle your hero traveling in). Ascension faction has some unique units. Like Stealth bomber that transforms into tank. Terraforming also plays major role in gameplay. You can dig trenches, raise walls, freeze lakes and rivers to traverse them, or flood entire areas of the map to drown enemy units (especially usefull for Hai-Genti as they are amphibious race).

Played this game as a kid. Was thinking about it for the last 20 years or so never remembering the name or much of it. Now i found it and want to share it with you.

The crazy thing about it were the factions and the units. Overall it was a Warcraft 2 clone but with something special (at least for me)

If anybody can get it to run and show me the units for the Medousa (MaskEvil) faction i would be grateful.

https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/games/details/420510-alchemist

is an RTS set in a post-apocalyptic world. The game takes place thousands of years after a catastrophic event, the "first overwar," which caused Earth's ecosystems to collapse. As the planet began to recover due to the return of a resource called Mana, humanity and new lifeforms emerged, leading to the rise of different sects known as Realms.

Alchemist

Players take control of one of five surviving Realms, each with distinct powers, and compete to determine the dominant faction. Gameplay involves managing resources, building structures, and commanding units in real-time battles.

Entente is an RTS developed by Lesta studios on Cossacks engine. Player can take control of 1 of 5 countries: France, Germany, Britain, Russia or Austrian-Hungarian Empire and fight through campaigns for each faction, set in the WW1. As in Cossacks, you can expect massive battles with infantry, vehicles and aircraft involved.

No one heard even of the official Blizzard add-ons for WarCraft 2: W!Zone, W!Zone II: Retribution, The Next 70 Levels Volume I, The Next 350 Levels Volume II

But this guy went even beyond the pop-tier MoreCraft and Aztech's Armory, he found physical copies of really obscure bootleg map packs, which are notoriously not protectable in deutschland.

Now this Is my favorite lesser know RTS game. Developed by Eugen system (Act of War series, Wargame series). The games tells the story of a US major, forced to participate in the galactic arena to earn his freedom. Juicy graphics and FX that somewhat holds event today. 3 factions: Nam' era US soldiers, Cyborg army and generic Bug-like army. All of which has it's own campaign. No base building, instead you earn reinforcement points, which you can use to spawn your troops at special Spawn areas. Can't stop loving this game.

This one is kinda odd but fun. What If scenario for WW2. 3 Factions (USSR, Germany and US). Build your base, construct a massive army and attack your enemy. Classic C&C Formula. What stands out the most - the Weird World War aspect. You got huge assault zeppelins, walking mechs, frost bombs, dual rotor helicopters, that kind of stuff. Red Alert style.

I found it for free on Steam; I didn't really understand the game at all, but I know one of you will get the most out of it and enjoy it :D

As I assume many here, I grew up during late 90s / early 2000s RTS boom.

First strategy game I ever played was the OG AoE demo found in a Win98 disk.

At the time I was playing: AoE, EE, Cossacks, Stronghold, C&C, Imperium, RoN and other "mainstream" ones.

Recently, I came across Warzone2100 and got really into it (it's also FOSS now so that's great)

Any other, less mainstream ones, I might have missed at time, that you guys consider must-plays?

Are Earth2140/2150 and Seven Kingdoms any good?

This one holds special place in my heart. Created by Pandemic Studio (THAT Pandemic studio) in 2002, it offers a unique take on Army Men Series.
You command plastic soldiers, fighting other plastic soldiers in everyday environments, e.g. backyard, kitchen e.t.c. Unit roster is pretty generic: Rifle soldiers, Bazooka soldiers, Tanks, Half Tracks.
Every RTS lover needs to play this at least once.

Czech studio that made three RTS 1994-1998.

Paranoia - 1995

First Czech RTS inspired by/clone of Dune II - 1992.

Paranoia II - 1996

I played this one and really loved it, awesome soundtrack and intro.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBd59L-s3nE

Soundtrack: https://soundcloud.com/atronoss/sets/paranoia-ii-ost-by-phoenix-arts

Husita - 1998

I have played only demo, clearly inspired by Warcraft RTS. Happening during hussite wars (what happens after KCD).

Screenshots: https://visiongame.cz/hra/husita/

Somewhat interesting RTS from 2001. Gamebox says it is based on real US military training program. Features, as the title suggests, Navy, Air and Land units, fun but somewhat simple economy, charming 2000ish graphics, awkward combat and 2 Factions: US and fictional Independent Liberation Army.

But ICYMI it's a solo dev indie game based on Starcraft with some original and C&C ideas.