Not to mention that the highest profile remake WarCraft III Reforged was probably the biggest disappointment of 2020. Notice a trend in there? Only a single title was actually “new” and not a remaster or remake of an earlier game.
During the entirety of 2020 only a handful of noteworthy titles released: WarCraft III Reforged, Command & Conquer Remastered Collection, Iron Harvest and Age of Empires III Definitive Edition. Real-Time Strategy suffers from a severe drought.
When was the last time you played a recent RTS title and enjoyed it? If your answer is Age of Empires II Definitive Edition then let me rephrase the question: When was the last time you played a new original franchise in the RTS genre and liked it? Age Of Empires II Definitive Edition is great but also not exactly new. Part 1 – Where have all the good strategy games gone to? How did RTS rise, when did it fall and is there hope left for the genre? Those are just some of the questions our new series will answer. Once a genre that everyone played, it now is relegated to a small little niche that only few want to interact with anymore.
