At the time of writing, Planetary Annihilation: Titans has 531 concurrent players, a small number that's been bolstered by discounted sales over Christmas. It's nothing to make you change your mind if you didn't like the game before, but it's lovely for those players who have continued to play it.
They formed Planetary Annihilation Inc, and since then have released balance, performance, and quality-of-life updates for the game while also running tournaments for its small community. This wasn't the end of PA, though, because back in 2018 a small group of developers on the original game gained permission to break away from Uber and take Planetary Annihilation with them. A sad end for the studio that also made Monday Night Combat.) (Uber, by the way, would later team up with Take Two to produce Kerbal Space Program 2, rename the studio Star Theory, refuse a buy-out, and shut down in early 2020 after much of their staff was poached. Planetary Annihilation was Kickstarted 8 years ago, released to middling reviews and audience anger about missing features, re-released as Planetary Annihilation: Titans in 2015, and then mostly set aside by its developers Uber Entertainment because it wasn't profitable to continue work on. It's easy to toil away on something enormously popular, which - with the exception of Among Us - all of the other games mentioned above always have been. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Worthy games, but I'm going to make a belated pitch for a left field contender: Planetary Annihilation: Titans, a real-time strategy game that hoped to follow in Supreme Commander's big robot footsteps, and which has been quietly humming away under new developers for the past couple of years. The other nominees were Among Us, Terraria, The Witcher 3 and No Man's Sky. Naturally, the award goes to games with big, satisfied communities with lots of players to vote, and in 2020 the award went to Valve's own Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. It's designed to reward a developer that has been continually updating a game for years. See when a battle turned by rewinding the game to any point, and use Play From Here to turn it back in your favor.One of Valve's yearly, player-voted Steam Awards is called the "Labor Of Love" award.
Epic Scale - Command armies with numbers in the thousands across multiple planets on land, sea, air, and even in orbit.
Including everything you loved about Planetary Annihilation: Get up to speed faster with a new, streamlined tutorial experience, then take your game to the next level with the new Bounty Mode option for AI skirmish and multiplayer, TITANS is the huge stand-alone expansion to the already massive-scale RTS Planetary Annihilation, which includes the base game and adds tons of new features:ĭevastate your enemies with 5 massive Titan-class super units like the earth-shaking Atlas bot and lightning-wielding Zeus airship!Įxpand your strategic arsenal with 16 new units such as versatile Hover Tanks, indomitable Orbital Battleships, and voracious Nanobot Swarms!Įlevate your game with new planets that feature multi-level terrain available in both single and multiplayer.