Blizzard's first new RTS in ages stealth launched, but don't get too excited

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Blizzard is a legendary RTS developer, which is easy to forget in 2023. Along with Westwood, it effectively built the genre, establishing its foundations and designing mechanics and features that modern RTS games still stick with today. With that in mind, it's pretty tragic to see how little attention Blizzard is giving the genre these days. back in 2020, it seems to have had no interest in making the kind of games that put the studio on the map.

It is, at least, pretty flavourful, with minis boasting special abilities and roles drawn from other Warcraft games. So you can deploy kobolds to mine gold for you, while the gnomish S.A.F.E. Pilot crashlands on the battlefield in a fiery explosion and can be dropped into places outside of the deployment zones.

And as mobile games go, it's not a bad one. I've certainly seen a lot worse when I scroll through the Play Store, and I suspect it will find a lot of fans amid players of the Clash series, but I honestly couldn't stomach it for more than 30 minutes. When you've played the best, this is just going to make you sad.

 

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