‘Stormgate’ the ‘Starcraft 2’ Spiritual Successor Hits Almost 2 Million on Kickstarter with Two Weeks Left
Stormgate is a new RTS in development from Starcraft II and Warcraft III developers. And it is crushing it on Kickstarter right now.
Odds are good if you know anything at all about Warhammer 40K, you know a little something about Starcraft. After all, both games feature Space Marines in default blue power armor, myriad all-devouring bugs, and an ancient, tragically dying race of psychically powerful aliens. I mention this because if you’ve been playing Starcraft, well Starcraft II these days, you know the writing is on the wall.
But, to be fair, the game did come out in 2010. And was basically finally done in 2015, once Legacy of the Void hit. Now, however, a new successor is in the works. And from a studio that isn’t mired in the mess that Bobby Kotick left behind.
Developers at Frost Giant Studios are hard at work on Stormgate, a spiritual successor to all things RTS. And with around two weeks left, they’ve almost hit $2 million!
Stormgate on Kickstarter – Swinging for the Fences
Stormgate is a free-to-play PC real-time strategy game set hundreds of years in Earth’s future. Build your base, harvest resources, and command mighty armies to emerge victorious. It is a hyper-responsive real-time strategy (RTS) game that will feature an ongoing campaign, 3P co-op, 1v1, 3v3, a powerful editor, and more.
Stormgate pays tribute to the classic WarCraft and StarCraft real-time strategy games that we loved working on. It should feel familiar, like a true spiritual successor to those games. Stormgate will be the most responsive RTS game yet. With 3X the responsiveness of Starcraft II, clicking units to make them fight has never felt this good.
Stormgate promises to boeh update the technology behind RTS gameplay for the first time in more than a decade, while also making you feel all those good nostalgia feels. Which is an extremely hard thing to do, and I feel like if you believe that with all your heart, you’re going to set yourself up for disappointment.
But it’s okay. Times change. The world moves on. And the thing you love becomes the thing you once loved. You can never go back, not really. Everything changes. Even if it doesn’t, you do, champ. Which is why it’s fine that a video game is doing new things.
Exciting things, from the look of it. Stormgate uses Unreal 5 and has a whole lot of bells and whistles. The co-op mode pits your team against a group of mercenaries known as Havoc, trying to destroy convoys that will power a superweapon. This mode is full of powerful Heroes and looks a bit like a good tower defense game (one of the many genres Starfcraft spawned).
Meanwhile, the campaign features some familiar tropes with a fresh coat of paint. You’ve got your standard three factions: the boring humans that you’re supposed to love by default (The Vanguard), the bad guys with cool powers that everyone decides are actually really cool because the human faction is kinda boring and super played out, like, yeah, we get it, you’ve got space marines and mechs, we’ve seen it, give me the bugs/demons/plague/whatever (The Infernal Host), and a secret third faction that hasn’t been revealed yet, but I’d bet good money they’re really fiddly and are somehow secretly a lot like space elves and/or the protoss.
Check out the Stormgate Kickstarter
Time to go find that supercut of Starcraft cutscenes. You know the one.
