4 – Dungeons 3
Hear me out on this one, because the premise alone makes Dungeons 3 one of the top choices for players looking for the 10 best real-time strategy (RTS) games for turtling. What’s better than being the Hero in a fantasy story? Well, being the villain, of course! In Dungeons 3, players take control of the forces of evil, as their Overlord, and part of the game involves being constantly under attack from wannabe knights in shining armor, while you build up your dungeon. To prevent them from ruining your evil plans, you must design an impregnable, serpentine dungeon, with dozens of traps like spikes, crushers, rotating fire totems, and plenty of other wicked instruments. With some traps, players even get the satisfaction of manually activating them, adding yet another layer of enjoyable wrongdoing.
3 – Stronghold: Definitive Edition
Like several other games on this list, Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition is the kind of game that was made for turtling. The basis of Stronghold, just in case you haven’t heard me talk about it for the last 500 times, is to build your own medieval town and castle, and players go about doing it so by modularly setting up defenses, meaning that if you want and have space for it, you can have a walls that’s 10 meters deep, ingrained with several towers, each sporting archers, crossbowmen and even engineers with hot oil ready to be dropped on any want-to-be-heroes. The castle building system is so versatile that you can pretty much build any real-life castle you can imagine by using it, as I did in this article!
2 – Age of Empires 2
Age of Empires 2 is the game where I first started to play around with the idea of turtling by making the most use of the limited tools available: walls, towers, and gates. Typically, I would boot up a skirmish match against the AI and set the map to exclusively islands, and then proceed to wall the entire island and populate it with towers with overlapping fields of fire to ward off any enemies that might decide to get frisky. I would also find the closest thing resembling a bay and set my docks there to launch raids from there. Of course, those docks would be heavily defended as well, with several gates, with guards on each gate, and a couple of ships to make sure the easiest point for the enemy to stage any kind of landing would make it a very costly venture. Good old times.
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