NCSoft RTS game Project G looks like Supreme Commander and Direct Strike combined

South Korean developer unveils new real-time strategy game

NCSoft has revealed Project G, a real-time strategy game for PC and mobile devices, which is currently in development. The South Korean company has not announced a release date, but showed gameplay from the current developer build in the announcement trailer, which has the tags #RTS and #MMO on YouTube, strongly pointing towards a multiplayer component.

The gameplay shows a highly customizable main base reminiscent of typical mobile strategy titles like Clash of Clans. Players are starting with a single main building inside a concentric area, which may represent a consistent hub that players build up in time to reach higher tech levels and unlock additional units and abilities. Battles seem to happen on separate maps.

Players seem to place production buildings, which automatically spawn units in regular intervals. Armies don’t seem to be manually controlled for the most part. Instead, players set rally points, which the units then follow, attacking everything in their patch. This concept is prominent in RTS custom games like Direct Strike in StarCraft 2, but has been around for many years before.

Aside from human enemies, maps seem to contain NPC camps that can be attacked and looted for resources, akin to WarCraft 3. Scale-wise, Project G kind of looks like Supreme Commander – dozens of units with many entities clash around strategic locations, that may be victory points. There seem to be hero units, like a powerful dragon rider, which might be controllable manually from the look of things.

South Korea has a rich history in real-time strategy games thanks to the country’s love for titles like StarCraft, though that hasn’t really translated into successful homegrown titles of the genre. Time will tell if Project G can become a breakout game in this regard.

Kakao Games, another big South Korean publisher, has invested into Frost Giant, a studio made up of former Blizzard Entertainment employees working on their own RTS game, Stormgate, so there seems to be a renewed interest in strategy games in the country.