If you?ve ever played Starcraft?s or Warcraft?s traditional multiplayer modes, you?ll probably be drawn to Red Reign initially. Your goal in the game is to destroy your opponent?s castle and this is done by gathering up resources, creating and upgrading troop-buildings, and sending your soldiers on their merry way either up, right, or diagonally. Each of these options have their own benefits other than just trying to flank enemy troops. Idle mines, towers, lumber mills, and more lay on some paths which will help you earn resources faster or defend your castle more easily.
While there are those similarities, you can definitely see some differences in the gameplay. There are no hero troops nor any mobs to kill on the battlefield, but even so, it?s a game that works and offers up a good variety of strategy and troop-types. You also don?t have to upgrade any buildings other than the bastion or stronghold to unlock the bigger and better buildings, like the ones to allow you to build siege weapons. This means that you could save all your resources up at the start and begin by throwing out mounted units and wizards while avoiding footmen or archers entirely.
There are only two races in the game which means there?s not a whole lot of options there. Orcs are your traditional ?big, dumb, angry, green people?. Rather than archers, they?ve got slingers and their wizards are more of the dark-arts variety. The humans are the other race and are the more industrialized and technical folk,...