RaidTitans

RaidTitans is a simple (bordering on casual) RTS that makes up for its lack of depth with charming art and storytelling. The premise is that you are an outcast knight who arrives in a small village on the outskirts of the kingdom, and gets hired as the town guard. The town has basic RTS amenities like a tavern where you can hire mercenaries, and a workshop where you can craft materials dropped from defeated enemies to make better weapons and armor. The game is very grindy, by design. The basic gameplay loop is this: fight rats and slimes for an hour or so, collect enough gold and crafting materials to upgrade your mercenaries, then repeat the process with the next level of monsters. There are around twenty monster types to fight your way through, and the standard assortment of troops (tanks, archers, wizards, healers) to comprise your little warband. Most battles are completed in three minutes or less. The UI (especially for crafting) is a little shaky, but I love the pre-battle deployment screen. It gives you an overview of the entire battlefield, including the location of all enemies, and lets you easily arrange your troops in formation and place them on the field in whatever starting location you want. This screen alone saved the game for me; it works really well and it cuts down on the tedious troop micromanagement that is often part of games like this. If your troops are set up correctly, then most battles are a simple matter of pressing a couple of keys to start the attack. The game makes an effort to tell a story as you progress, The story is fairly standard fantasy stuff, but it's told with humor and charm. The artwork for NPCs, creatures, and locations is quite detailed and still interesting to look at even after many hours. In summary, if you think you would enjoy and simple, grindy, but fun RTS that will keep you entertained for 10-15 hours, and if you like what you see in the screenshots, then give this one a try.

Whoa, a real undiscovered gem here. Especially if you like grinding in fun, party-based RTWP combat (sort of, leaning more towards Real-Time.) Just very fun and addictive to get going, craft some cool gear to outfit your troops along the way and that plays an important role in how you progress your combat prowess. Random elements in your recruits means that you can invest in the recruits you like and potentially dismiss or use the lesser recruits less. It's very fun to see how everyone is different in the long run, and over time that starts to develop more. Fun combat, fun treasure hunting on the maps, a bunch of repeatable quests to gather more materials (which is necessary to get strong enough to progress, along with leveling up.) Surprisingly detailed and cool dialogue with the story aspect, it actually does have a story and quite a bit of character development narratively as well. The game has a wide range of beasties to fight that also present challenge and having to be careful using your Synergy abilities and keeping a close type of eye on combat (you can run low on Fatigue for example, which could be disastrous.) There's no permadeath so it's just a matter of paying gold to heal back at home base. Overall it's a deceptively simple game in that it's more complex than it seems, and it's really just a joy to play. I hope the devs keep updating this one because it's a *GEM*! We want more! :) Thank you RainbowStudios for the awesome RPG! :)

I bought the game for the charming graphics. I liked the story and gameplay. The story feels a lot bigger than the game. Gameplay is a bit scuffy and grindy but enjoyable in that old flash game kind of way where you can still have fun. My gripe is with the ending. A little bit anticlimactic. You finish the last battle and are immediately forced into the end scene that ends the game for you, with the whole sequence leading to the main menu. When I continue the game, I feel like it restarts me back to before the last battle, so I don't even get the rewards from it because it skips to the end scene. Overall, still a fun game and worth the sale price imo. The story definitely lends itself to a sequel. Spoilers?: End scene is anticlimactic despite the interesting story because you think there'd be some final battle leading up to the end. However, you finish the last battle (beating the second part of all 3 titans) and then transport to the end scene where the "battle" is you arming some seals and then doing a cutscene battle. No last hurrah with the mercenaries you farmed up levels and materials for. Not sure if this is because I chose to save the dragon earlier. Perhaps a boss fight would happen if I trapped the dragon instead. Like Jeras cared a lot about his previous knights/mercenaries but apparently can give two *** about his new ones, and then goes ahead and basically defeats the boss on his own and a dragon's help. It's annoying because I was expecting to be able to craft+arm my mercs with the titan parts after I beat the last titan's second round, but it just ends the game instead. Also, the story makes you think you're going to fight the Dark Lord as he gets resurrected but then NOPE.