Perimeter

Perimeter is a little-known gem of the real-time strategy genre. It mixes a rate-based game flow resembling that of Total Annihilation, intensive terraforming, a psychedelic posthumanist story, and graphics advanced for its time.

Perimeter is a Great strategy game! It has its own crowd. It's NOT a game for many... Why really? I explain... Perimeter is like playing an RTS chess game. You play both for capturing and keeping the ground and assault all the time. But now you'll ask.. That's what we do in strategy games,isn't it? The answer is NOT exactly. Before you begin playing the game... Read the manual. I explain some things but I can't cover everything. Here you can find another's guy review for the expansion and he explains many things, too. The games campaign is designed in a bad way I would say. While it tries to exhibit the game and show you some strategies it fails to the point that ♥♥♥♥♥♥ you to deep waters without leaving you take a breath. Nothing is explained. It gives you the new units and it's up to you to test and see what they do or WHAT they CAN do. So, if you ever TEST this game have those in m

More of a puzzle game than an RTS. I used to play this game way before it came to steam and I enjoyed it now, after many years. The concept is cool and unique and the campaign is pretty fun indeed. There are several problems with the game though: - Repetitive soundtrack and voiceacting. There is 3 factions in the game and like... 2 tracks per faction in total. So, I would recommend listening to your own music. - Game has no widescreen options and doesn't support multiple monitors properly, so your mouse is going to fly out of the screen if you happen to have multiple monitors. - No online multiplayer. You can still play LAN though and the campaign is good. - There are definitely some balance issues with the game - After playing this game for a while I found that Harkback's Scrourge Shark units are pretty darn OP :D Although it is not a real issue if you are going to play the campaing.

9/10 + good presentation (especially as i remember it when it was released), fantastic atmosphere + incredible soundrack, great sound in general that contributes to the atmosphere + very original theme, sci-fi setting, dark at times (trying to leave earth and reach the promised land may seem common, but the plot unfolds very nicely and in a unique way) + gameplay wise it's an RTS game, very fresh in ideas and full of innovation, using terraforming and morphing units at its core, making the land itself the primary resource for expanding your base. upgrading units (again in a unique way) and building tech-labs and many other building as in other rts. using the shield to protect your base from the scourge... + excellent level/mission design - enemy and unit ai is not the best - the storyline switches between different factions all the time, that may be confusing

If you like and have time for td games this is a great oldie it is different than the others, i like it a lot, going back for more now... give it some time if u get stuck replay and learn it gets easyer then hard again but still refreshing from the norm so try it its cheap fun

Finally after 20 years you can grab the new and most definitive version which is Perimiter: Legate Edition ▶ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2530170