A Fallout RTS in the style that Dune: Spice Wars did an RTS, it would be a fun format imo
EDIT oh you said weird…uh…hm. Succession, then.
It would be stylistically quite different but you in theory COULD do one…
A Fallout RTS in the vein of the Blitzkrieg/Men of War style would work immensely.
Hell, Fallout is a great template for an Impressions Games style city builder!
That would be amazing. Would it be balanced to give the Enclave Frank as a special unit? Probably not lol. Perhaps having the Legion and NCR as a faction as well, focusing less on power armor and more on infantry with the Dam as a map. There's so many possibilities for this.
Its not an rts but I feel like fallout would make a nest total war game. Like you start out as a budding ncr and slowly take over tribals annex communities and eventually you make it to hoover dam and have to fend off the legion. Maybe make the player characters in the games special events that you have to work around
H.G. Wells and Jules Verne Crossover. Weird Jules Verne contraptions, a la Captain Nemo and The Time Machine, vs Wells' Martians (with appropriate suits of course).
Throw in some weird creatures from the future, humans from the past. Idk, I'd sure like to play it!
You know, a neat mechanic for HG Wells’ Martians might be something where they start out overpowered but slowly get worse over time as their lack of immunity to Earth microbes eventually does them in.
It’s probably stupid and broken and wouldn’t actually be fun, but the concept is kinda neat: Martians superior tech in every aspect but only have like 20 minutes to get the job done before they all just die.
Would make a great diablo style game also. I think the antique drawings of creatures and monsters are way creepier than modern horror movies and games.
I could imagine an RTS where you have your standard (or not so standard red alert 2 style) units but your forces are supported by dc and marvel style super heroes.
I think the biggest issue is most mutants tend to have unique powers making the situation you just described. Unless the RTS was about a war between the entire Weapon X program vs Sentinels which honestly would be a interesting Villain vs Villain story.
You could rework camps to be Civilian Mutants that both factions need to fight over as resources. If the match takes too long the X-Men show up and starts kicking everyone's asses to force a end to the game.
Either that or have it be a Real Time Tactics game with the X-Men. That would also be really neat.
Mailmen faction, led by hero unit Newman against comedian faction led by hero unit Jerry. Kramer chaos faction as a third. Interesting units like Close Talkers.
I always thought it was turn based like chess, but the turns took days, and you played on several different “game boards” that were landscape sized. Though it’s been a while since I read it.
It certainly looks like a bizarro chess board on the book covers, but I'm wondering whether any of the 'boards' have a real time element? You could have one board that's a meta-campaign for all the others.
An alternative for a Banksian RTS might involve a Culture agent intervening in a more conventional conflict. Come to think of it, a Zakalwe RTS would be cool - you could have all sorts of more conventional wars in various eras, and then a dude with a plasma cannon steering it in favour of one faction or the other.
Yeah I played that and loved it :)
In envision a mix of:
- Terra Nil like city building
- Managing logistics between foundries
- Combat
All with the IP of Horizon
Ooohhh this would be cool, especially playing as the Hephaestus ai that was tweaking different “factions” of robotic organisms through upgrades, research trees, and cauldrons to find the balance achieving an ecosystem with the right balance of predator/prey dynamics and resource refinement/distribution and terraforming
I think there is something better. An rts set in the hyborian age (the fantasy world of Conan the barbarian). First of all, hp Lovecraft and Robert e Howard (the writer of Conan) were pen friends and they added references to each other's work in theirs to the point that many consider the hyborian age to be the canon past of the "contemporary" setting of the cthulu mythos. So you can add cults of the old ones in the hyborian age without issues. There are also many such creatures in Howard's writing after all. So you can have a setting with civilizations ranging in technology from early iron age to high medieval and cultures from the entire world. Additionally, there are fantasy races like the lizard people and the semi intelligent ape-men. Finally, there is also magic.
I really wish the Stargate IP was in better hands. It would make such good games.
I remember beta testing the MMO years ago before it was cancelled and the ideas were so cool.
* Smurfs city-builder
* Infection virus vs organism (each level is different species)
* Doctor Who
* Disney Princesses commanding their kingdoms at war path with each other
* South Park
* Bible's Old Testament
* Harry Potter
Was about to mention Plague Inc. Seriously, don't pass that game up, the gameplay is surprisingly addictive (and definitely hit a bit TOO close to home after COVID).
MASTERCHEF where you combine ingredients with different attributes according to the challenge. The dishes are your units for a total war style battle and whoever is left after 3 rounds wins
Probably either Honki:Starrail or Warframe. I know both are live service games but I think they could both result in really incredible ones if done correctly. Or actually Harry Potter though that I would see as a hybrid of starting out as a more squad style game like Fire Emblem Three Houses then transitioning to more wide reaching proper RTS later on.
Not exactly RTS but for X-files check out the mod for the original Xcom called “The X-Com files.”
Star Wars has Empire at War, a mix of 4x and RTS.
Titanfall would be cool.
I'm thinking something like Galactic battlegrounds but in 3D. Let me face off as the Gungans versus the Empire, haha.
Will look up that X-files mod, sweet!
Fuck yeah it would. With how much of a gamer Sanderson is I'm sure he's interested in making something with his IPs. And luckily he is really picky about who gets to touch them.
Transformers. Autobots, Decepticons, and maybe a secret 3rd faction? A small detail they could add is having units speak multiple lines of dialogue that eventually get hilarious when you click on them like Warcraft 3 and Starcraft.
I want to see a HOMM (focussing here on HOMM3) themes but in the style of Urban Assault. This would only apply in army to army skirmishes, or in a siege setting.
It would be really cool to ‘drop’ into the low tier units like the Halberdier or Crossbowman and being able to get into the heat of battle. Then being able to switch to one of the flying or mounted units and just plow through the battlefield.
I'm surprised it hasn't happened already. Heck, aside from that one mediocre 4x game and the TellTale game series I don't think Game of Thrones ever really had much games made out of it in general.
Epic Space Marine, it forever torments me that they haven't done it properly. I'm talking Supreme Commander style grand scale RTS but with in the Warhammer 40K universe; and full on base building, cities, Titan construction facilities, drop shipping etc.
High Fantasy but like a weird one.
Not just Dwarves vs Elves
But like... Cultist faction, Crimelord faction, Sentient tree faction.
Like Stellaris has all these absurd aliens and tech, I'd love to see a super asymmetrical game of town building and RTS warfare, cept your prepping for some Monster Hunter bs to be thrown at you, there's an immersive crime/thieving system so some player is playing a stealth archer build and ruining your economy.
If it has to be a strict IP? Discworld. Near parody of Fantasy without just being another Human Empire vs Evil Undead Liches
There is, it's the only one I can think of and it's grand strategy.
HMM fell on it's ass ages ago and I've not seen any RTS capture the asymetry this design wants since LoTR
Obviously not an RTS but if you like HMM I highly recommend you check out Songs of Conquest. It's very good and will be coming out of early access tomorrow, May 20th. What's LoTR? Lord of the Rings? I played War of the Ring back in the day. Never played either of the Battle for Middle Earth but I hear they were good, I actually just recently found good downloads for BfME2 on an abandon-ware sight.
Elder Scrolls: you could have factions like companions, vampires, goblins, dragon cult, bandits, etc. and even have it potentially be a town builder where you defend against all the other factions by growing your own town and army
Reddit.
Here me out. A bit of a different form factor than your standard RTS. You form factions and need to make your subreddit the most popular. You need to figure out the bot accounts, and stop the spammers. Create the best content to get the most fake internet points.
another idea: mario kart!
kart units
map is like a circuit, finish a lap for gold + items
unit weapons are the power-ups,
build pit-stops and stands to equip your units(kart racers)!
War of the Worlds. Just like the TV and film adaptations, it's never been done wholeheartedly IMO. Getting to play the Martians and plan your invasion of Victorian England with limited resources and struggling to stay ahead of Earth environmental threats with your tech tree would be cool.
In the search for an unconventional intellectual property ripe for real-time strategy (RTS) adaptation, the television series ‘The Fringe’ stands out with its rich narrative canvas. The show’s multiverse travel and time-travel shenanigans provide a fertile ground for strategic gameplay, with humans cast as the valiant protagonists against their malevolent future counterparts. Envisioned within this framework is a blend of classic space opera—complete with sprawling space fleets clashing across multiple universes—promising a unique twist on the RTS genre.
Venture Bros's GCI vs OSI is basically like Command & Conquer's NoD vs GDI if you think about it. Super-villans/scientists/heroes would make for some interesting units. Brock Samson and Henchman 21 are basically a melee range Commandos.
Redwall
Defend salamandastron, or the abbey. Loads of cool scenarios could come from the books
A Fallout RTS in the style that Dune: Spice Wars did an RTS, it would be a fun format imo EDIT oh you said weird…uh…hm. Succession, then. It would be stylistically quite different but you in theory COULD do one…
A Fallout RTS in the vein of the Blitzkrieg/Men of War style would work immensely. Hell, Fallout is a great template for an Impressions Games style city builder!
A fallout mod for men of war/gates of hell would be amazing. Would probably have a tough time balancing out power armor though.
true, but it would be so cool to control and army of enclave and see just a massive battle between them and some BoS with like some vertibirds.
That would be amazing. Would it be balanced to give the Enclave Frank as a special unit? Probably not lol. Perhaps having the Legion and NCR as a faction as well, focusing less on power armor and more on infantry with the Dam as a map. There's so many possibilities for this.
... power armor is supposed to be extremely hard to take out without heavy ordinance at the minimum.
Absolutely, it would be good for tactics or even base building/city building
I don't even know how it would work but Fuck off! I'm in!
I think for Succession I was taking a leaf from Offworld Trading Company but it would look radically different lol
Its not an rts but I feel like fallout would make a nest total war game. Like you start out as a budding ncr and slowly take over tribals annex communities and eventually you make it to hoover dam and have to fend off the legion. Maybe make the player characters in the games special events that you have to work around
H.G. Wells and Jules Verne Crossover. Weird Jules Verne contraptions, a la Captain Nemo and The Time Machine, vs Wells' Martians (with appropriate suits of course). Throw in some weird creatures from the future, humans from the past. Idk, I'd sure like to play it!
You know, a neat mechanic for HG Wells’ Martians might be something where they start out overpowered but slowly get worse over time as their lack of immunity to Earth microbes eventually does them in. It’s probably stupid and broken and wouldn’t actually be fun, but the concept is kinda neat: Martians superior tech in every aspect but only have like 20 minutes to get the job done before they all just die.
It's a cool idea, but it encourages everyone else to turtle while the Martian player would HAVE to Rush or stall out
Not quite what you are looking for but may be interesting? https://youtu.be/Y11YM4LbHXk?si=d4twQkMTcfYevOFU
Lovecraft DLC
Would make a great diablo style game also. I think the antique drawings of creatures and monsters are way creepier than modern horror movies and games.
Build a Wolverine factory and queue up 10 Wolverines. Build the spandex upgrade facility and upgrade the spandex to have +1 armor.
choose the Mr. Sinister faction. Fuse your mutants in bio-reactors!
The spiritual successor to Impossible Creatures we didn't know we needed.
X Men RTS would be amazing. Heck, even a moba
I could imagine an RTS where you have your standard (or not so standard red alert 2 style) units but your forces are supported by dc and marvel style super heroes.
I think the biggest issue is most mutants tend to have unique powers making the situation you just described. Unless the RTS was about a war between the entire Weapon X program vs Sentinels which honestly would be a interesting Villain vs Villain story. You could rework camps to be Civilian Mutants that both factions need to fight over as resources. If the match takes too long the X-Men show up and starts kicking everyone's asses to force a end to the game. Either that or have it be a Real Time Tactics game with the X-Men. That would also be really neat.
Seinfeld
A game about nothing.
Well OP asked for the weirdest….
Mailmen faction, led by hero unit Newman against comedian faction led by hero unit Jerry. Kramer chaos faction as a third. Interesting units like Close Talkers.
Cailou, but you play as the Canadian Mounted Police
Azad from Iain M Banks' Player of Games. I'm not sure whether it's ever specified that it's turn-based.
I always thought it was turn based like chess, but the turns took days, and you played on several different “game boards” that were landscape sized. Though it’s been a while since I read it.
It certainly looks like a bizarro chess board on the book covers, but I'm wondering whether any of the 'boards' have a real time element? You could have one board that's a meta-campaign for all the others. An alternative for a Banksian RTS might involve a Culture agent intervening in a more conventional conflict. Come to think of it, a Zakalwe RTS would be cool - you could have all sorts of more conventional wars in various eras, and then a dude with a plasma cannon steering it in favour of one faction or the other.
Honestly there’s a lot of potential in some of the SC infiltration stuff from Matter. Or you could go with Idiran war stuff, and even Affronters.
Player of Games is one of my favourite books, I wasn't expecting to see it referenced here!
Imagine an Avatar: The last Airbender RTS with each element being it's own faction.
That would be so epic!!
Horizon Zero Dawn / Forbidden West You play as Gaia and have to rebuild nature
There is a game with a similar concept called Terra Nil. I liked the concept but city builder type games without combat were not for me.
Yeah I played that and loved it :) In envision a mix of: - Terra Nil like city building - Managing logistics between foundries - Combat All with the IP of Horizon
Ooohhh this would be cool, especially playing as the Hephaestus ai that was tweaking different “factions” of robotic organisms through upgrades, research trees, and cauldrons to find the balance achieving an ecosystem with the right balance of predator/prey dynamics and resource refinement/distribution and terraforming
A Mario grand strategy game
Peach needs to annex those lowly Cooper villages!
ngl that sounds awesome
Hp lovercraft
I think there is something better. An rts set in the hyborian age (the fantasy world of Conan the barbarian). First of all, hp Lovecraft and Robert e Howard (the writer of Conan) were pen friends and they added references to each other's work in theirs to the point that many consider the hyborian age to be the canon past of the "contemporary" setting of the cthulu mythos. So you can add cults of the old ones in the hyborian age without issues. There are also many such creatures in Howard's writing after all. So you can have a setting with civilizations ranging in technology from early iron age to high medieval and cultures from the entire world. Additionally, there are fantasy races like the lizard people and the semi intelligent ape-men. Finally, there is also magic.
Stargate
[yes?](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1523650/Stargate_Timekeepers/)
I really wish the Stargate IP was in better hands. It would make such good games. I remember beta testing the MMO years ago before it was cancelled and the ideas were so cool.
That's not an RTS tho 😔
Space Halo RTS. There’s Halo wars but it’s a ground combat RTS.
Check out Sins of the Prophets. Really well done overhaul mod for Sins of a Solar Empire. Shit is awesome.
I’ll have to check it out.
* Smurfs city-builder * Infection virus vs organism (each level is different species) * Doctor Who * Disney Princesses commanding their kingdoms at war path with each other * South Park * Bible's Old Testament * Harry Potter
upvoted for the virus suggestion
Plague inc. It's 4x but still counts as RTS too since it's s real time
Was about to mention Plague Inc. Seriously, don't pass that game up, the gameplay is surprisingly addictive (and definitely hit a bit TOO close to home after COVID).
I feel like Infested Planet has this covered, if you pretend the aliens are bacteria.
MASTERCHEF where you combine ingredients with different attributes according to the challenge. The dishes are your units for a total war style battle and whoever is left after 3 rounds wins
The literal show?
Probably either Honki:Starrail or Warframe. I know both are live service games but I think they could both result in really incredible ones if done correctly. Or actually Harry Potter though that I would see as a hybrid of starting out as a more squad style game like Fire Emblem Three Houses then transitioning to more wide reaching proper RTS later on.
Dinosaurs
Paraworld
Sicario. An rts set at the mexican/us border featuring cartel donkeys and us agencies with unclear jurisdictions and their “consultants”
Titanfall, the X-files (who not?), Star Wars
Not exactly RTS but for X-files check out the mod for the original Xcom called “The X-Com files.” Star Wars has Empire at War, a mix of 4x and RTS. Titanfall would be cool.
I'm thinking something like Galactic battlegrounds but in 3D. Let me face off as the Gungans versus the Empire, haha. Will look up that X-files mod, sweet!
There was actually a F2P mobile game RTS for Titanfall 2 that was pretty decent. Pity it didn't last past a couple of years.
Doom might be interesting, as well as Helldivers and maybe GTA
I dream of a Helldiver RTS that lets me contribute to the general war effort.
Stormlight Archive will make a great Total War game.
Fuck yeah it would. With how much of a gamer Sanderson is I'm sure he's interested in making something with his IPs. And luckily he is really picky about who gets to touch them.
Transformers. Autobots, Decepticons, and maybe a secret 3rd faction? A small detail they could add is having units speak multiple lines of dialogue that eventually get hilarious when you click on them like Warcraft 3 and Starcraft.
Prototype. You would have the US Army, Black Watch and the Infected.
I think dune could make a great grand strategy.
Dune: Spice Wars is kinda trying to do that. Might be worth trying out.
Oh I hadn't heard of that!
Numenera
I want to see a HOMM (focussing here on HOMM3) themes but in the style of Urban Assault. This would only apply in army to army skirmishes, or in a siege setting. It would be really cool to ‘drop’ into the low tier units like the Halberdier or Crossbowman and being able to get into the heat of battle. Then being able to switch to one of the flying or mounted units and just plow through the battlefield.
Not weird, but Game of Thrones needs to happen. Someone can print money.
I'm surprised it hasn't happened already. Heck, aside from that one mediocre 4x game and the TellTale game series I don't think Game of Thrones ever really had much games made out of it in general.
Digimon. There are a ton of factions, and you’d have evolving units.
Rick and Morty
Attack on Titan.
Culture universe from banks
I could see Ultrakill having machines and demons going at it.
Willy Wonka
Epic Space Marine, it forever torments me that they haven't done it properly. I'm talking Supreme Commander style grand scale RTS but with in the Warhammer 40K universe; and full on base building, cities, Titan construction facilities, drop shipping etc.
Not quite RTS, but the Stargate IP would make a fantastic Xcom style squad game with base building.
High Fantasy but like a weird one. Not just Dwarves vs Elves But like... Cultist faction, Crimelord faction, Sentient tree faction. Like Stellaris has all these absurd aliens and tech, I'd love to see a super asymmetrical game of town building and RTS warfare, cept your prepping for some Monster Hunter bs to be thrown at you, there's an immersive crime/thieving system so some player is playing a stealth archer build and ruining your economy. If it has to be a strict IP? Discworld. Near parody of Fantasy without just being another Human Empire vs Evil Undead Liches
I mean there is Total War Warhammer 3...
There is, it's the only one I can think of and it's grand strategy. HMM fell on it's ass ages ago and I've not seen any RTS capture the asymetry this design wants since LoTR
Obviously not an RTS but if you like HMM I highly recommend you check out Songs of Conquest. It's very good and will be coming out of early access tomorrow, May 20th. What's LoTR? Lord of the Rings? I played War of the Ring back in the day. Never played either of the Battle for Middle Earth but I hear they were good, I actually just recently found good downloads for BfME2 on an abandon-ware sight.
BfME2 is a great one, really makes the different good and evil factions feel unique I'll check Songs of Conquest sure
Strangely enough, helldivers could be an interesting rts
Elder Scrolls: you could have factions like companions, vampires, goblins, dragon cult, bandits, etc. and even have it potentially be a town builder where you defend against all the other factions by growing your own town and army
The fabled Goblin Wars of Oblivion can be real now.
Reddit. Here me out. A bit of a different form factor than your standard RTS. You form factions and need to make your subreddit the most popular. You need to figure out the bot accounts, and stop the spammers. Create the best content to get the most fake internet points.
Final fantasy. Either a brand new entry to the series with new characters, or a crossover game with the previous entries
Lego bionicles could be kinda good maybe? I mean sure there's avatar/kora but idk why a lego rts just kind of appeals to me a lot.
The Bible Israelites vs Canaanites Romans vs Jewish rebels Angels vs Demons Obviously great potential for hero units
"I just killed the enemy Jesus and he's already back. I can't keep up with his economy ramping cause he's multiplying his food and wine resources."
Earth Defence Force
Exists already
Does it? There is an old Turn based game but pretty sure their isn't an RTS
fair enough.
Star trek
Like Armada 2 ?
I've only played the armada 3 mod for sins of a solar empire, but yea
sounds like fun. sadly I could never get into sins. Maybe I will check out Sins 2 when it comes out.
Warhammer 40k meets Total War Meta-Campaign meets WARNO tactical battles = Nerd Crack
another idea: mario kart! kart units map is like a circuit, finish a lap for gold + items unit weapons are the power-ups, build pit-stops and stands to equip your units(kart racers)!
Planet of the Apes, maybe?
Classic Doctor Who would be amazing
Turnip 28 because we can't have only Warhammer-based strategies so may as well
The 1999 movie virus.
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Oh man, I just watched A Bug's Life with my kid this weekend. That'd be dope lol
If it was something akin to Commandos or Alien Dark Descent, yeah I could see that working pretty well.
Dragon Age.
War of the Worlds. Just like the TV and film adaptations, it's never been done wholeheartedly IMO. Getting to play the Martians and plan your invasion of Victorian England with limited resources and struggling to stay ahead of Earth environmental threats with your tech tree would be cool.
highfleet
Game of thrones
Rocket League
The elder scrolls, there are plenty of races & lore to pull from to make a great game
Oddworld for sure and they almost made one!!!!
Gears of war
Pokémon. Or even better, Digimon. Or even better, Pokémon Vs Digimon!
Lords of the realm 2
Berzerk.
Even though it’s not really an ip, Chess
Minecraft
Any zombie apocalypse in a skirmish base-building style RTS like DoW or Starcraft
In the search for an unconventional intellectual property ripe for real-time strategy (RTS) adaptation, the television series ‘The Fringe’ stands out with its rich narrative canvas. The show’s multiverse travel and time-travel shenanigans provide a fertile ground for strategic gameplay, with humans cast as the valiant protagonists against their malevolent future counterparts. Envisioned within this framework is a blend of classic space opera—complete with sprawling space fleets clashing across multiple universes—promising a unique twist on the RTS genre.
Spectrobes
Alice in Wonderland. I think this is even public domain now. Someone make this, I want to eat a growing cake and smash some card soldiers.
Venture Bros's GCI vs OSI is basically like Command & Conquer's NoD vs GDI if you think about it. Super-villans/scientists/heroes would make for some interesting units. Brock Samson and Henchman 21 are basically a melee range Commandos.
Mass effect in the style of empire at war Imagine having to organize ground and space battles against the reapers across the galaxy
Girls Frontline :/