Stormgate has been anticipated for a while. Announced in 2022 and bolstered with a $2.3 million dollar Kickstarter in 2023, Stormgate has spent the last couple years pitching itself in a simple way: a new real-time strategy game made by some of the people who worked on Warcraft 3 and StarCraft II. As those franchises continue to languish, there's a big gap in the marketplace, and RTS circles have been buzzing about Stormgate regularly since the announcement.
Following its release into Early Access on July 30, I've had the opportunity to complete what exists of the single player campaign while also managing to put some time into the game's online multiplayer. The short is that the game feels a little messy and a little too complicated, and it is attempting to please a lot of different demographics of players without making the game truly appealing to any of them. It's the details of these appeals that matter, though.
