Stormgate brings back that StarCraft feeling with a new RTS universe | hands-on preview

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I was finally able to play a round of Stormgate, the new real-time strategy “science fantasy” game from Frost Giant Studios, which revealed early gameplay today at the PC Gaming Show.

When I started building construction robots — called B.O.B. units — at my command post in the game, I felt like I was dispatching workers in a StarCraft game. It made me feel sad that we haven’t seen a StarCraft title for more than a decade. But you can think of it as a spiritual successor to both Warcraft and StarCraft.

Stormgate is a real-time strategy game that blends both science fiction and fantasy genres in one “science fantasy” storyline. It’s a free-to-play game for the PC coming to Steam in 2024. It blends that feeling of a sci-fi race of humans fighting a fantasy alien race. But it’s not a Blizzard title at all.

Irvine, California-based Frost Giant Studios was founded in 2020 by former Blizzard devs Tim Morten and Tim Campbell, who helped create some of the most acclaimed and best-selling PC games of all time–as well as some of the most-watched esports–including Blizzard Entertainment’s WarCraft III and StarCraft II.

In the pre-alpha gameplay reveal, I played the race of humans, one of multiple races in the title, where future space-faring humans discover an ancient race from a fantasy universe and the result is a clash of civilizations. We haven’t yet seen the fantasy race, which is called the Infernal Host – demonic alien race that attacks Earth through a Stormgate.

The company also revealed the gameplay on the PC Gaming Show today in a demo match between lead co-op designer Kevin “monk” Dong and SC2 legend Dario