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Forts

DOS • 2017

Should you play it?

Unleash your creativity and strategic prowess in Forts, the exhilarating physics-based RTS! Design, construct, and customize imposing fortresses, bristling with devastating firepower, and blast your opponent’s buildings to rubble!

What works

  • Creative fort building and modding
  • Engaging multiplayer and tournaments
  • Active developer support
  • Unique physics-based rts gameplay
  • Good value for price

Things to keep in mind

  • Steep learning curve for new players
  • Limited weapon variety
  • Some ui and matchmaking issues
  • Small player base
  • Campaign is light and mostly tutorial

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Worms Armageddon

  • King Arthur's Gold

  • The Ultimatest Battle

  • Soldat 2

  • Executive Assault

  • Total Annihilation

Less dominating

Games that feels like Forts but with less domination over others

  • Bounty of One

  • GUNTOUCHABLES

  • Fire & Maneuver

  • Fortress 2 BLUE（疯狂坦克）

  • 20XX

  • Across the Obelisk

Less intimate

Games that feels like Forts but with less focus on close relationships

  • Airships: Conquer the Skies

  • Rising Lords

  • CastleStorm

  • Demise of Nations

  • Bloons TD Battles

  • Hearts of Iron IV

Less competitive

Games that feels like Forts but with less competition against others

  • Guardians of the Sanctree

  • Cluckmech Oasis

  • Citywars Tower Defense

  • Ship of Fools

  • No Heroes Here

  • Portal Dungeon

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Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
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  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Forts. These titles are not in What to play next.

Forts: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Creativity, Expression, Violence.

Last update: 21/08/2026