When the original Supreme Commander came out back in 2007, I didn’t really realize at that time that I was playing one of the last grand-scale RTS titles which focused on strategy and preparation, at least for a long time to come. Apparently, this general movement was taken to assuage those gamers with increasingly shorter attention spans-that is to say: Less preparation, less brain usage, and more building units quickly in order to toss them at your foes. It featured fewer factions (even with its expansions) a lower unit count and unit variety, and no way to adjust its hyped-up game speed.

Then you had Dawn of War II, which like many other RTS titles during the late 90s, seemed to be transitioning to a more action-heavy bent which largely eschewed base building.

All of that diversity offered nearly unlimited replay value, and me and my gaming friends are still playing it. Games such as these didn’t scrimp on content, they laid it on thick and let us gamers lap up all of that gaming goodness. With phenomenal mods such as the Ultimate Apocalypse Mod, Dawn of War added three additional factions, for a total of twelve, titans, and tons of additional units and enhancements. The original Dawn of War (2004) featured up to nine, highly diverse (with all of the expansions) factions, tons of units, and full-scale base building. Now, all that remains is that we wait for the official reveal of Project Indus, which should be coming in the near future.A lot of what has transpired within the RTS video game genre can be boiled down to games such as the Dawn of War franchise. Microsoft's plan has always been to offer a huge variety of games on Xbox Game Pass and it's safe to say that they are certainly fulfilling their promise with games from all genres - RPGs, shooters, strategies and more.

So yeah, this one seems to be an exclusive for Xbox Game Pass supported platforms.Ĭorden adds that he would not be surprised if Oxide used Microsoft's cloud platform with smaller screens in mind.Īs always with rumours, take this with a dose of scepticism, since the details have not been officially revealed. The game would be releasing on PC (Microsoft Store and Steam) and Xbox consoles. , who states in his recent article that Project Indus is a 4X strategy, similar to Civilization, with turn-based gameplay, city-building and other strategic elements.

The codename was discovered in a recent leak when a ton of unannounced games were revealed via Nvidia GeForce Now website.Īdditional details about the project were revealed thanks to Windows Central's Jez Corden Project Indus is reportedly a codename for a brand new strategy game from the developer of real-time strategy Ashes of the Singularity.

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