Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation

Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation

Stardock Entertainment · 2016 · RTS, Base Building, Real Time Tactics, PvP, Moddable

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About Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation

✦ AI summary

Command massive armies across entire worlds in this large-scale RTS where you'll manage economies, research technologies, and wage strategic warfare as either the Post-Human Coalition or the alien Substrate. Battle across unprecedented map sizes powered by a native 64-bit engine, with options for campaign, skirmish, AI challenges, or competitive online multiplayer.

The human race has expanded into the galaxy thanks to the wonders of the technological singularity. You have become so powerful that you can manage vast armies across an entire world that provide you with an ever greater galactic empire.

Now, humanity is under assault by a new enemy. Calling themselves the Substrate, they seek to annihilate the human race from existence. You, as an up and coming member of the Post-Human Coalition, must deal with both this new menace as well as renegade humans trying to lay claim to their own worlds.

Play as the Post Human Coalition or their eternal foes the Substrate and battle for control of the galaxy. Experience maps of unprecedented size and detail with the unparalleled power of the world’s first native 64-bit RTS engine, Nitrous.

Enjoy the game online with friends in ranked or unranked multiplayer mode or play it by yourself against a powerful non-cheating AI in skirmish or campaign mode. No matter what mode you play, strategy is the key: deciding what technologies to research, where to send your armies, how to manage your economy, and what units to construct are crucial to victory.

Experience a massive-scale real time strategy game where you wage war across worlds with thousands of units. The conflict has escalated, and it’s time to choose a side.

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What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Jul 12, 2026
Wow, this game is bad in every aspect: the UI, balance, unit behaviour, design choices, scope, performance and looks. Even at a heavy discount, I regret buying it. If you're looking for a game in which units are resistant to your commands, you've found it. Also good luck on clicking on the desired enemy building to attack it, the command will just register to something else in the neighbourhood most of the time. This level is so hilariously lame, you don't see such every day. Units are also impossible to focus due to the ever annoying army system. (bonus: engineers are combined into armies when a command is given to multiple ones even if you disable that option in the settings, however aircraft cannot be combined into an army even manually and as a result aircraft are so awkward to control). If the software worked with the settings and setup specified in the recommended requirements then I would say it would be a subjectively fun sandbox. But both its performance and looks are just horrible on any setting. Imagine a sim in which you can turn down texture details, terrain update frequency, lights, resolution, shadows, antialiasing, BUT no particle count. Yep, this game renders un…
Not recommended Jul 12, 2026
This game is junk for reasons i dont get it has suddenly decided that all my separate armys on the map are 1 and all have to be in the same place it is a game breaking error and incredibly frustrating !
Recommended Jul 11, 2026
had this at a steam sale, and it ticks every box for an RTS. havent stopped playing it
Recommended Jul 11, 2026
Great game
Recommended Jul 9, 2026
The game is like a smaller scale planetary annihilation. I am not a big fan of the infinite unit production aspect of rts, as it just turns into perma production of infinite army. IMO it feels less strategic. There are upgrades, but from what I can tell the upgrades are not all that crazy indepth. Increase unit health, unit damage, unit cap basically.
Recommended Jul 5, 2026
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