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Price
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2017 · EarthWork Games · Action · Real-time strategy

Forts

Forts is a physics-based RTS where foes design and build custom bases, arm them to the teeth and blast their opponent's creations to rubble.

Released
19 April 2017
Platforms
Windows
Genres
ActionReal-time strategyStrategy
Developers
EarthWork Games
Publishers
EarthWork Games
Modes
MultiplayerSingle-player
Perspective
Side view
Themes
Action
Country
Australia
Languages
Chinese (Simplified), English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian and 2 more
Copies sold
1 million as of 2022-03-09
Time to beat
8.5hmain story41hcompletionist

About

Forts is a 2D real-time strategy video game developed and published by Australian studio EarthWork Games. It was released on April 19, 2017. Forts started development in March, 2003, as a game originally based on early bridge building games. Forts had sold over a million copies as of March 9, 2022. In Forts, the player builds a base, defends it, and acquires weapons through tech trees in an attempt to destroy the opponent's reactor.

The game has been reviewed by CG Magazine and Kotaku, the former of which described Forts's gameplay as being similar to the Worms series.

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Gameplay

The core gameplay of Forts is similar to many real-time strategy games: build up resources, acquire new technologies, and build something to attack the opponent while defending yourself from their attacks. There are 4 different gamemodes that players can select: Campaign, Skirmish, Multiplayer, and Sandbox. The Campaign includes the tutorial, and 28 training missions which follows three super-powers as they battle it out over the last of the planet's resources, a secondary story-line if the player has bought the Moonshot DLC, and a tertiary story-line if the player has bought the High Seas DLC. Skirmishes allow players to combat AIs at 3 different levels of difficulty.

The goal of the game is to destroy the opponent's core, which can be done through direct damage, like hitting it with a laser or cannon, indirect damage, like setting fire to it or hitting it with splash damage, or through making it fall to the ground by destroying the supporting structures around it. This may sometimes require an objective to be completed, such as capturing points. There are various weapons like missiles, lasers, cannons, miniguns, and mortars to attack with, with defenses like metal reinforcement, sand bags, machine guns, and flak to shoot down projectiles and defend yourself.

Reception

Forts received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Windows19 April 2017Worldwide · North America 19 April 2017

Editions and related releases

Downloadable content
Forts: High Seas
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Forts: High Seas

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