Following last week’s The Game Awards announcement of a Dune RTS, here are two more.

At last week’s event, Funcom announced that Dune is getting a real-time strategy (RTS for short) game. But if that wasn’t enough sci-fi in the game genre, you can rejoice because Slitherine has added two more! First up is Stargate: Timekeepers, a game based on Stargate SG-1, first announced back in May.

A small gameplay trailer was shown during the Home of Wargamers show on Twitch. The game, set in the SG-1 universe, is a small-scale tactical game with a storyline of 14 missions. In it, Commander Eva McCain will fight Anubis’ forces. Later, the Commander’s group will also help the Jaffa Resistance, lead an attack against Moloc, seek cooperation with the Unas, and get stuck in a time loop. Anyone who says that the TV series followed a similar path is not mistaken: the series did indeed follow this story thread…

Commander McCain will have more specialists, and not just humans. Each will have different skills and will approach problems differently. According to Slitherine, our choices will matter: Stargate: Timekeepers will have several possible outcomes, but given the premise, the alien technology will allow us to travel back in time so we can try again what we’ve messed up. (Just where’s the audio from the video?)

Then there is Terminator: Dark Fate – Defiance, which will be a larger-scale RTS. In this unhappy future, we lead humans against Legion, the leader of the machine armada in the Dark Fate timeline. Except, there are other human factions, so it won’t be easy to bring everyone under one banner in the campaign. There will also be PvP multiplayer for up to four players. We don’t know much about the project yet; Slitherine flies us over the city of Oklahoma in the teaser, and it’s probably already at a reasonable level for atmosphere.

Starship Troopers is being developed as Starship Troopers: Terran Command as an RTS and will be released on March 31. Slitherine thus has another license-based sci-fi RTS, announced a while ago (in 2019!). Its composer, Kejero, talked about this, highlighting the music’s role in the game.

Source: PCGamer