
- 51/100
- Players13 ratings
- 74/100
- Metacritic4 critic reviews
More scores
- Metacritic usersuser score
- 81/100
- GameFAQsEasy-Just Right
- 2.13/5
- Player reviews
- 92% positive21,347 reviews
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Runs on
- Windows
- Price
- US$14.99
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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.
Players say
Media
The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
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
Editions and related releases
- Downloadable content
- Forts: High Seas
- Built on it
- Forts: High Seas
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