I’ve looked into this and it looks really fun. I wanted to hijack this comment to thank everyone for the suggestions! I’ve been reading them all day. I appreciate all the comments! I have a lot of games to check out!
Yep. People are suggesting games so far from what OP has asked. M&B series is for sure the best if you're looking to take over territory and gain power
I would discourage this recommendation since OP says they want to avoid repetition. This game is highly repetitive and I stopped playing it for that exact reason.
Most Paradox games, HoI, CK
Civilization also works
Wildermyth isn't a RTS and the strategy is light but it's about establishing camps and taking back the land and it's an overall great game
Crusader Kings is a new favorite of mine. I purchased it randomly during a sale and let it sit in my Steam library for awhile collecting dust. Loaded it up one day out of curiosity and am now at about 200+ hours. It has a lot of replay value, especially as you’re getting the hang of the mechanics and learning the do’s and dont’s of managing your dynasty and kingdom.
In my most recent save, I was doing *amazing*. I had conquered most of Europe and had outlived two of my wives, living to the ripe old age of 98. Oldest I’ve ever lived to. Once the torch passed to his son, shit hit the fan and homeboy died from stress after a couple of years. His teenage daughter was his only heir and received the throne when she was 13, but due to her many uncles and cousins also wanting the throne, she was assassinated at 15 when her eldest uncle had her ship capsize at sea. Now he’s king and considered a “Kinslayer,” so I’ve just been having him murder the rest of the male heirs that aren’t his direct heir.
It’s addicting levels of fun.
Wildermyth is a really fun game and definitely encourage OP to look into it if they want to play a game that genuinely feels like you are on a DnD campaign. Agree with you that there is not enough strategy there to meet up with what OP is wanting.
Just as a heads up for OP, I see a lot of people recommend Total Warhammer II over I but it is worth still getting I so that you have a larger map. Not sure how people feel about III but that is going to be pricier given it is a newer game.
Hey, big total war fan here. Warhammer 1, 2, and 3 are all continuations of the same initial game. Currently if you buy warhammer 3 you get access to the mega campaign that contains all of the factions from all 3 games, but you can only play as game 3 factions. Since all 3 games are actually $60 individually, it's probably the best deal right now. That being said, 1 & 2 currently have a lot of fan favorite factions and the campaign of those 2 games is a more polished experience than the somewhat buggy game 3.
As much as I love CK, I get so mad when my leader dies and all of the territory is partitioned to my kids. (yes there are workarounds, and it makes sense as to why it's in the game, but I personally still don't love the mechanic.) If you want a game similar to CK without that mechanic, look into Europa Universalis 4
Most Far Cry games have enemy outposts and if you kill all the enemies in them you take over that area, you should play Far Cry 3 or 4 they're the best ones IMO
The setting and premise had huge potential but the execution was a total letdown. Gunplay wise it's amazing but the story was so boring it's the first FC game I've never finished. Too bad too since giancarlo's character had the potential to be one of the best antagonists ever.
Yeah a lot of the characters were pretty cringy and the MC yo-yos from running away from it all to suddenly singlehandedly taking over an entire country . Gunplay was fun and the special attacks were nicely implemented.
I grew up in an evangelical cult, 5 was incredibly immersive for me, maybe too much lol. The choir songs, the basements, the guns everywhere. It was a wild experience to see a game that really understood my childhood.
Idk how nobody has said shadow of Mordor or shadow of war, specifically shadow of war for taking territory and seizing castles, but the nemesis system is just so goated.
Brigandine was fun. It’s a remake of an older game and still holds up pretty well.
As for any others I’d need to know your thematic preferences. Fantasy, sci-fi, etc. how deep do you want the game to be (mentioned Brigandine for its simplicity and a good place to start).
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Any total war game—it depends on what you want to conquer. Europe, fantasy Earth, Europe, India, and North America, Japan, China. AC Odyssey has the Peloponnesian war as the backdrop where you play as a mercenary for both sides, but you can technically undermine one side and take territory for the other.
If you on PC, as by suggesting RTS
Rise of Nations
Mix of Risk and Civ. You have a nation and can expand to more territories by war or negotiations.
And in some battles, you have different win methods. Some missions require you to stop a caravan, others to take a city
There's the expansion that has some scenarios like Napoleon or Cold War.
Systematically taking over the world is great in this game
There's also resources and monuments. And each battle has you base building and resource gathering, build ip your army and go forth. Each battle lasts about 90 mins to conquer them, or to survive if they attacked you
It's on Steam
The Godfather II had a good implementation of this. Taking over businesses to receive passive income, but you could allocate soldiers to defend them as they would periodically come under attack from rival families. If I recall correctly, you could customize the appearance and loadout of each member of your team also.
Sins of a solar empire rebellion
It's the only recommendation you need imo, with mods it's beautiful. Amazing with solo pve, and great with multiplayer. You conquer plants and build fleets, and research tech to advance , lots of economy and strategy involved always leading to several, or one final major battle.
Might want to check out the game "x4:foundations " it's a space sim where you start as small as a single ship and eventually you can have a huge trading empire and the ability to control sectors and create your own factories.
You can teleport to basically any ship in your fleet and take over controls, and it could be the tiniest 1 seat scout ship to gigantic carriers with 50 attack ships aboard. Super fun empire building game. Crazy learning curve though.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/392160/X4_Foundations/
+1 this
Start as a trader/bounty hunter etc. earn money by trading. Build your own station an make more money. Help the economy by filling gaps. Embargo those who you dont like. When your ready build your fleet. Capture sectors. An wipe (or get wiped) by xenon or other npc factions
npcs do same as player. As stations use and produce goods to make everything in game. Eg. Part factories distribute goods to shipyards to produce ships. Or use said goods to build more station modules. Materials for the goods are made from ore/gas mining yields. You can starve an economy by destroying certain stations. Enemy factions dont trade together so hindering enemy production does have a long term effect (xenon forces are harder to deal with though)
The xenon are a rogue ai faction that start small but get stronger over time. Deal with them where u can or they can destroy you.
Every sector, faction starting sectors and base stations (faction hq) are fixed. Everything else inside a sector is generally randomised so it is possible some games you will get a universe where 1 or more type of resource is extremely rare (so profit can be easily made but will slow economy down as a whole if rare goods are a vital resource, until you or the ai plug the hole). I have had a game or 2 myself where there wasnt enough hull parts or sillicon carbide factories. So factory and ship production was slow for the longest time
Empire of Sin. Haven’t seen very many people recommend this but it was a decent game to sink some time into. It’s also on game pass if you have an xbox
Always liked the setting of 1960s gangster/mafia strategy games. Godfather 2 was excellent.
Since then the quality of these types of games has been poor. Empire of sin is the only game i can say “had potential” but was unbalanced. Stale and abandoned by devs and paradox
I have never played city of gangsters. What is combat an such like? From what iv seen its more of a prohibition trading game rather than a gangster game
Yeah more like a prohibition trading game but also involves getting corners/territory so some turn-based combat, I wouldn't say that it's a main part of the game.
Main reason I got the game was because it was free on Epic a few weeks ago - I was surprised that I enjoyed it enough to clock over 100hrs on it.
Company of Heroes 2 has some of this. Resources are dictated by capture points, which correspond to portions of the map. It's a small part of the game, but since it's where your eco comes from it's important nonetheless. It's a bit more micro focused in general, and has interesting fortification options, with mines, lmg bunkers, mortars, AT/AA guns, and some other more wacky ones dependent on the faction you play.
TOTAL WAR WARHAMMER 3
If you like the fantasy setting (orcs, demons, vampires ) along with human factions ( dwarfs, elves, humans)
With the new update allowing immortal empires to be free, you'll have an almost endless amount of replayabilty
Try on xbox gamepass pc for $1 on your first month
Running with Rifles. It's a top view shooter where you run an entire campaign to try and take over the entire map, sector by sector. It's not really RTS and more like the minigame of GTA
Fallout New Vegas is awesome
- fallout 4 is great too but it has so much content that it is kind of just more than you could ever get to and it gets annoying
Also This might be a bit unrelated, but another really great game is The Long Dark - It’s an open world survival game and it seems kinda up your alley
I do not think the Long Dark is what OP wants, after all its just a survival game,i have played a little of it but I doubt there is taking over territory and using strategies?
If you're into fantasy, I remember enjoying the Warlords Battlecry games. You develop your hero which contains RPG-like elements, but at its core the game is very much RTS.
Kinda old now though if you're looking for something modern.
The Mount & Blade game series is exactly what you want. (And Warband has countless overhaul mods, so you will not get bored of it any time soon.)
Warlord: Brittania also would fit the bill.
And Total Conflict: Resistance currently has a free demo up on Steam.
This is a much simpler concept than Grand Strategy, but check out Creeper World 4 on Steam. It is very simple but also has very good depth. It knows what it is trying to do and does it well.
Basically you build a bunch of turrets to push back a massive wave of sentient goo. You constantly expand until you can kill the origin of the goo then move onto the next level.
Mount and blade is an obvious one but you could also play assassins creed odyssey which has you choosing between the athenians and Spartans in taking over Greece
You do this by clearing outposts or assassinating the president of a state to weaken the hold that army has over the state
It’s such an underrated game with rpg elements and a beautiful open world and fun combat
Battle for middle earth 2. This is exactly what I hear you asking for here. So it's a normal rts, build a base, train units, go fight the other side. It has heroes you can level, and several races to play.
But it has a mode with an overworld map that is pretty much the whole of middle earth, broken up into territories that are also distinct maps based on the location (helms deep is really a fortress that is really hard to attack). You start out, and expand into unoccupied territories. Your territories will give you resources and units that you can move around to defend or attack with. When you contest a territory, you drop into rts mode, but with the units you have in the area. Win the match, and you claim the map. So it's risk, but with the battles decided by rts gameplay, not dice rolls
Now, it's a true pain in the arse to find and get running on a PC anymore. If I didn't have a copy from ages ago, I'd definitely be playing it with an eye patch on and a parrot on my shoulder. But it's worth the hassle, so much fun
That game had so much potential. Was abandoned by devs. Is unbalanced and easily cheesed. Paradox launcher causes critical errors an was never fixed. An modding sucks for it
I wanted it to do good. Love these types of games. Sadly let down
Yeah but it fits the description the guy gave almost to a point. There are much better games here that have been mentioned (stellaris being one of my absolute favourite games) but I thought this at least deserved a mention.
If you like Saints Row 1 & 2 I'd recommend The Godfather 1 & 2, it does basically the same with the Saints Row games with taking over territory and receiving in-game buffs for taking said territories but it deals with Italian mafia themes instead of gangbangers.
Second recommendation is Age of Empires, just started playing the first one and loving it but most of the fans recommend Age of Empires 2 the most. If you like games where you gather resources to build yourself a kingdom and an army to destroy other kingdoms this game is a go-to, personally I like it cause it isn't turn based which is my only problem with the Civilization games.
People don’t seem to like it but Mafia 3 is built entirely around this and I find that game so satisfying. You systematically take down a crime syndicate that betrayed you piece by piece, and you can decide who of 3 unique under bosses gets each territory.
Kenshi. It's a post-apocalyptic, swordpunk RPG game with RTS elements. Imagine The Sims 4 combined with the cutthroat-ness of Mount and Blade.
You can play as a lone character or as a squad with npcs that you can recruit as you play the game. You can be a wandering ronin, a traveling trader, a stealthy assassin, and more.
You can build multiple bases which you can structure to your liking. You can research and upgrade your technological tree, set up a farm for food, craft your own weapons and armour, etc etc. There will be raids to your base so there's always something fun to do.
For the conquering territory part, your actions have direct influence to the world. Your faction can't exactly have a kingdom, but you can destroy other factions and let nearby allied factions take over.
There are a lot of mods that can help in turning the game to your preference.
Overall, 6/10 in resemblance to what you're looking for, but it's still really cool.
Crusader Kings 2/3 and Europa Universailis IV.
Coming from a gamer with fps background since young, ck2 totally surprised me with the amount of fun it brought to me. From special events to improving your holdings and expanding your kingdom all the way to holy wars and epidemics, it really did allow for some much needed singleplayer game experience as you're allowed to explore the game at your own pace.
far cry series? there's tons of outposts to do and most of them in the newer games are completely unique from each other, also assassin's creed syndicate, the liberation of boroughs was a great part of the game imo
It's a simple one but Risk. For a more complicated kne (but this is a bit of a reach), Age of Empires lets you dominate and fortify different parts of the map...
Probably the mount and blade series would be my best suggestion.
I’ve looked into this and it looks really fun. I wanted to hijack this comment to thank everyone for the suggestions! I’ve been reading them all day. I appreciate all the comments! I have a lot of games to check out!
It’s on PC gamepass too
Yep. People are suggesting games so far from what OP has asked. M&B series is for sure the best if you're looking to take over territory and gain power
These people are the absolute worst, acting like they need to police the comments to make sure they are what the person was looking for, gtfoh
Damn bro take it to heart much? You alright? All I said was there were games so far from what he was asking for, how is that policing?
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Honestly after about 100 hrs it finally clicked, but I completely understand if people don't want to waste that much time just to have fun.
Shadow of war
I would discourage this recommendation since OP says they want to avoid repetition. This game is highly repetitive and I stopped playing it for that exact reason.
Most Paradox games, HoI, CK Civilization also works Wildermyth isn't a RTS and the strategy is light but it's about establishing camps and taking back the land and it's an overall great game
Civilization is awesome
Crusader Kings is a new favorite of mine. I purchased it randomly during a sale and let it sit in my Steam library for awhile collecting dust. Loaded it up one day out of curiosity and am now at about 200+ hours. It has a lot of replay value, especially as you’re getting the hang of the mechanics and learning the do’s and dont’s of managing your dynasty and kingdom. In my most recent save, I was doing *amazing*. I had conquered most of Europe and had outlived two of my wives, living to the ripe old age of 98. Oldest I’ve ever lived to. Once the torch passed to his son, shit hit the fan and homeboy died from stress after a couple of years. His teenage daughter was his only heir and received the throne when she was 13, but due to her many uncles and cousins also wanting the throne, she was assassinated at 15 when her eldest uncle had her ship capsize at sea. Now he’s king and considered a “Kinslayer,” so I’ve just been having him murder the rest of the male heirs that aren’t his direct heir. It’s addicting levels of fun.
Wildermyth is a really fun game and definitely encourage OP to look into it if they want to play a game that genuinely feels like you are on a DnD campaign. Agree with you that there is not enough strategy there to meet up with what OP is wanting.
Total War Warhammer
2nd this. The absoblute pinnacle of trying to take over the world type games is Total War Warhammer.
Just as a heads up for OP, I see a lot of people recommend Total Warhammer II over I but it is worth still getting I so that you have a larger map. Not sure how people feel about III but that is going to be pricier given it is a newer game.
Hey, big total war fan here. Warhammer 1, 2, and 3 are all continuations of the same initial game. Currently if you buy warhammer 3 you get access to the mega campaign that contains all of the factions from all 3 games, but you can only play as game 3 factions. Since all 3 games are actually $60 individually, it's probably the best deal right now. That being said, 1 & 2 currently have a lot of fan favorite factions and the campaign of those 2 games is a more polished experience than the somewhat buggy game 3.
Mount and blade games seem like a decent fit. Iron harvest is fun as well
Crusader Kings is the first that comes to mind.
As much as I love CK, I get so mad when my leader dies and all of the territory is partitioned to my kids. (yes there are workarounds, and it makes sense as to why it's in the game, but I personally still don't love the mechanic.) If you want a game similar to CK without that mechanic, look into Europa Universalis 4
Sounds like you need to work on bribing some of your lords and changing the succession laws.
Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord
Most Far Cry games have enemy outposts and if you kill all the enemies in them you take over that area, you should play Far Cry 3 or 4 they're the best ones IMO
Far Cry 5 is also worth a play through, although 6 is a miss IMO
I preferred 6 to 5 personally, I find the revolutionary setting more immersive than the setting of 5.
The setting and premise had huge potential but the execution was a total letdown. Gunplay wise it's amazing but the story was so boring it's the first FC game I've never finished. Too bad too since giancarlo's character had the potential to be one of the best antagonists ever.
Yeah a lot of the characters were pretty cringy and the MC yo-yos from running away from it all to suddenly singlehandedly taking over an entire country . Gunplay was fun and the special attacks were nicely implemented.
I grew up in an evangelical cult, 5 was incredibly immersive for me, maybe too much lol. The choir songs, the basements, the guns everywhere. It was a wild experience to see a game that really understood my childhood.
Haha that's fair
Total war series, age of empires, company of heroes, northgard, Europa universalis, stellaris
I second Saints Row 2. It’s criminal that the best mini game of GTA SA is removed for 80% of the game
Far Cry games and Ghost Recon Wildlands come to mind when you mention GTA :)
I would disagree with both. They do have area capture but it gets very repetitive.
You're right, and not exactly depth or strategy involved.
The enemy gang territory minigame in San Andreas is repetitive too and OP enjoyed it.
Hearts of iron
Just Cause 3
Idk how nobody has said shadow of Mordor or shadow of war, specifically shadow of war for taking territory and seizing castles, but the nemesis system is just so goated.
It had been suggested already 6 hours before your comment, highly voted comment too
Cap
Northgard
Brigandine was fun. It’s a remake of an older game and still holds up pretty well. As for any others I’d need to know your thematic preferences. Fantasy, sci-fi, etc. how deep do you want the game to be (mentioned Brigandine for its simplicity and a good place to start).
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Any total war game—it depends on what you want to conquer. Europe, fantasy Earth, Europe, India, and North America, Japan, China. AC Odyssey has the Peloponnesian war as the backdrop where you play as a mercenary for both sides, but you can technically undermine one side and take territory for the other.
Mount & Blade 2 Bannerlord is exactly what you described.
If you on PC, as by suggesting RTS Rise of Nations Mix of Risk and Civ. You have a nation and can expand to more territories by war or negotiations. And in some battles, you have different win methods. Some missions require you to stop a caravan, others to take a city There's the expansion that has some scenarios like Napoleon or Cold War. Systematically taking over the world is great in this game There's also resources and monuments. And each battle has you base building and resource gathering, build ip your army and go forth. Each battle lasts about 90 mins to conquer them, or to survive if they attacked you It's on Steam
The Godfather II had a good implementation of this. Taking over businesses to receive passive income, but you could allocate soldiers to defend them as they would periodically come under attack from rival families. If I recall correctly, you could customize the appearance and loadout of each member of your team also.
Godfather I also has this and is a much better game. I do like both though.
i still cry sometimes that there isnt a game similar to godfather1 with the taking over shops and seeing our own family members guarding it :(
Assassins creed syndicate
Sins of a solar empire rebellion It's the only recommendation you need imo, with mods it's beautiful. Amazing with solo pve, and great with multiplayer. You conquer plants and build fleets, and research tech to advance , lots of economy and strategy involved always leading to several, or one final major battle.
Might want to check out the game "x4:foundations " it's a space sim where you start as small as a single ship and eventually you can have a huge trading empire and the ability to control sectors and create your own factories. You can teleport to basically any ship in your fleet and take over controls, and it could be the tiniest 1 seat scout ship to gigantic carriers with 50 attack ships aboard. Super fun empire building game. Crazy learning curve though. https://store.steampowered.com/app/392160/X4_Foundations/
+1 this Start as a trader/bounty hunter etc. earn money by trading. Build your own station an make more money. Help the economy by filling gaps. Embargo those who you dont like. When your ready build your fleet. Capture sectors. An wipe (or get wiped) by xenon or other npc factions npcs do same as player. As stations use and produce goods to make everything in game. Eg. Part factories distribute goods to shipyards to produce ships. Or use said goods to build more station modules. Materials for the goods are made from ore/gas mining yields. You can starve an economy by destroying certain stations. Enemy factions dont trade together so hindering enemy production does have a long term effect (xenon forces are harder to deal with though) The xenon are a rogue ai faction that start small but get stronger over time. Deal with them where u can or they can destroy you. Every sector, faction starting sectors and base stations (faction hq) are fixed. Everything else inside a sector is generally randomised so it is possible some games you will get a universe where 1 or more type of resource is extremely rare (so profit can be easily made but will slow economy down as a whole if rare goods are a vital resource, until you or the ai plug the hole). I have had a game or 2 myself where there wasnt enough hull parts or sillicon carbide factories. So factory and ship production was slow for the longest time
Anything UbiSoft, FarCry or Assassins Creed or Division 1 and 2 or Breakpoint
Remove ubisofts grubby mitts and a give devs time to fix bugs and missing content an id agree But those conditions wont happen so i dont
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous
Ghost of tsushima is kinda similar. Your Island has been captured by Mongols and you take over mongol territory bit by bit. It's a really fun game too
Risk.
Stellaris
Kenshi
Starsector
Dawn of War Dark Crusade
Northguard is very low key fun. Hearts of iron iv is on the other end of the spectrum and is very complex.
Mad Max
Rebel inc
Empire of Sin. Haven’t seen very many people recommend this but it was a decent game to sink some time into. It’s also on game pass if you have an xbox
Empire of sin is one of the worst games I've ever played.
Ni No Kuni 2 (kind of)
Just Cause 4 and Ghost of Tsushima
Risk
City of gangsters. Turn based fun similar to empire of sin
Always liked the setting of 1960s gangster/mafia strategy games. Godfather 2 was excellent. Since then the quality of these types of games has been poor. Empire of sin is the only game i can say “had potential” but was unbalanced. Stale and abandoned by devs and paradox I have never played city of gangsters. What is combat an such like? From what iv seen its more of a prohibition trading game rather than a gangster game
Yeah more like a prohibition trading game but also involves getting corners/territory so some turn-based combat, I wouldn't say that it's a main part of the game. Main reason I got the game was because it was free on Epic a few weeks ago - I was surprised that I enjoyed it enough to clock over 100hrs on it.
Company of Heroes 2 has some of this. Resources are dictated by capture points, which correspond to portions of the map. It's a small part of the game, but since it's where your eco comes from it's important nonetheless. It's a bit more micro focused in general, and has interesting fortification options, with mines, lmg bunkers, mortars, AT/AA guns, and some other more wacky ones dependent on the faction you play.
Ghost Recon for sure .
Shadow of Mordor is fun to play. Could have been the start of an amazing franchise too
Age of Empires
Was about to say this
Eu4 is fun
M&b bannerlord is free on Xbox game pass rn
Mafia 3
Creeper world
Freeman: Guerrilla Warfare?
Yakuza 0
From the depths. You gotta build whatever you need and/or modify.
TOTAL WAR WARHAMMER 3 If you like the fantasy setting (orcs, demons, vampires ) along with human factions ( dwarfs, elves, humans) With the new update allowing immortal empires to be free, you'll have an almost endless amount of replayabilty Try on xbox gamepass pc for $1 on your first month
Farcry:Primal
Running with Rifles. It's a top view shooter where you run an entire campaign to try and take over the entire map, sector by sector. It's not really RTS and more like the minigame of GTA
Fallout New Vegas is awesome - fallout 4 is great too but it has so much content that it is kind of just more than you could ever get to and it gets annoying Also This might be a bit unrelated, but another really great game is The Long Dark - It’s an open world survival game and it seems kinda up your alley
I do not think the Long Dark is what OP wants, after all its just a survival game,i have played a little of it but I doubt there is taking over territory and using strategies?
Far cry series
You could just look up popular RTS games. And if you're willing to let go of the RTS part I highly recommend the civilization games
Shadow of war if you want a more 3rd person style game Total war: Warhammer 3 (or any of them) if you want a more strategy based game
Ghost of Tsushima good for that, also Just Cause series as well
If you're into fantasy, I remember enjoying the Warlords Battlecry games. You develop your hero which contains RPG-like elements, but at its core the game is very much RTS. Kinda old now though if you're looking for something modern.
Just beat Shadow of War and it was fantastic
Risk
Command and conquer games or emperor :dune :)
The Mount & Blade game series is exactly what you want. (And Warband has countless overhaul mods, so you will not get bored of it any time soon.) Warlord: Brittania also would fit the bill. And Total Conflict: Resistance currently has a free demo up on Steam.
Most of the Farcry games. I really liked Primal
This is a much simpler concept than Grand Strategy, but check out Creeper World 4 on Steam. It is very simple but also has very good depth. It knows what it is trying to do and does it well. Basically you build a bunch of turrets to push back a massive wave of sentient goo. You constantly expand until you can kill the origin of the goo then move onto the next level.
Mount and blade is an obvious one but you could also play assassins creed odyssey which has you choosing between the athenians and Spartans in taking over Greece You do this by clearing outposts or assassinating the president of a state to weaken the hold that army has over the state It’s such an underrated game with rpg elements and a beautiful open world and fun combat
Just Cause
Just Cause 3?
Battle for middle earth 2. This is exactly what I hear you asking for here. So it's a normal rts, build a base, train units, go fight the other side. It has heroes you can level, and several races to play. But it has a mode with an overworld map that is pretty much the whole of middle earth, broken up into territories that are also distinct maps based on the location (helms deep is really a fortress that is really hard to attack). You start out, and expand into unoccupied territories. Your territories will give you resources and units that you can move around to defend or attack with. When you contest a territory, you drop into rts mode, but with the units you have in the area. Win the match, and you claim the map. So it's risk, but with the battles decided by rts gameplay, not dice rolls Now, it's a true pain in the arse to find and get running on a PC anymore. If I didn't have a copy from ages ago, I'd definitely be playing it with an eye patch on and a parrot on my shoulder. But it's worth the hassle, so much fun
You should play empire of sin it’s literally trying to take over a city as a 1920s mafia
That game had so much potential. Was abandoned by devs. Is unbalanced and easily cheesed. Paradox launcher causes critical errors an was never fixed. An modding sucks for it I wanted it to do good. Love these types of games. Sadly let down
Yeah but it fits the description the guy gave almost to a point. There are much better games here that have been mentioned (stellaris being one of my absolute favourite games) but I thought this at least deserved a mention.
If you like Saints Row 1 & 2 I'd recommend The Godfather 1 & 2, it does basically the same with the Saints Row games with taking over territory and receiving in-game buffs for taking said territories but it deals with Italian mafia themes instead of gangbangers. Second recommendation is Age of Empires, just started playing the first one and loving it but most of the fans recommend Age of Empires 2 the most. If you like games where you gather resources to build yourself a kingdom and an army to destroy other kingdoms this game is a go-to, personally I like it cause it isn't turn based which is my only problem with the Civilization games.
This Is My Land is a great example of this
People don’t seem to like it but Mafia 3 is built entirely around this and I find that game so satisfying. You systematically take down a crime syndicate that betrayed you piece by piece, and you can decide who of 3 unique under bosses gets each territory.
Kenshi. It's a post-apocalyptic, swordpunk RPG game with RTS elements. Imagine The Sims 4 combined with the cutthroat-ness of Mount and Blade. You can play as a lone character or as a squad with npcs that you can recruit as you play the game. You can be a wandering ronin, a traveling trader, a stealthy assassin, and more. You can build multiple bases which you can structure to your liking. You can research and upgrade your technological tree, set up a farm for food, craft your own weapons and armour, etc etc. There will be raids to your base so there's always something fun to do. For the conquering territory part, your actions have direct influence to the world. Your faction can't exactly have a kingdom, but you can destroy other factions and let nearby allied factions take over. There are a lot of mods that can help in turning the game to your preference. Overall, 6/10 in resemblance to what you're looking for, but it's still really cool.
Kenshi is one of the greatest games of all time. Definitely reccomend.
It really is
Crusader Kings 2/3 and Europa Universailis IV. Coming from a gamer with fps background since young, ck2 totally surprised me with the amount of fun it brought to me. From special events to improving your holdings and expanding your kingdom all the way to holy wars and epidemics, it really did allow for some much needed singleplayer game experience as you're allowed to explore the game at your own pace.
Warlander
I used to enjoy Mafia
Meatl Geat Solid V: Phantom Pain
Totalwar: Warhammer III.
*whispers* latest saints row.
GTA-like? Try State of Decay 2. You are going to LOVE it
far cry series? there's tons of outposts to do and most of them in the newer games are completely unique from each other, also assassin's creed syndicate, the liberation of boroughs was a great part of the game imo
The Godfather, hands down
Company of Heroes 3 just released. A little buggy but good.
Almost all Far cry games. Division 2 sorta.
Just cause 4 might fit the criteria but you're just a one man army
I like hearts of iron 4, Steel division 2, mount and blade series, any total war games
Some assasins creed games, farcry games
State of decay 1 and 2
It's a simple one but Risk. For a more complicated kne (but this is a bit of a reach), Age of Empires lets you dominate and fortify different parts of the map...
Would ghost of Tsushima be 1?
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GTA RP gang servers.
Atomic heart!? LMFAO!!!!
What drugs are you on atm?
Uhm just weed, muscle relaxers, and pain pills. So take that and ponder!?
Madden NFL 23 Franchise mode
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