Planetary Annihilation: Titans is still being updated after five years, under new management

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Planetary Annihilation: Titans is still being updated after five years, under new managementAnd it’s currently on sale

And it’s currently on sale

One of Valve’s yearly, player-voted Steam Awards is called the “Labor Of Love” award. It’s designed to reward a developer that has been continually updating a game for years. Naturally, the award goes to games with big, satisfied communities with lots of players to vote, and in 2020 the award went to Valve’s ownCounter-Strike: Global Offensive. The other nominees wereAmong Us,Terraria, The Witcher 3 andNo Man’s Sky.

Worthy games, but I’m going to make a belated pitch for a left field contender:Planetary Annihilation: Titans, a real-time strategy game that hoped to follow in Supreme Commander’s big robot footsteps, and which has been quietly humming away under new developers for the past couple of years.

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This wasn’t the end of PA, though, because back in 2018 a small group of developers on the original game gained permission to break away from Uber and take Planetary Annihilation with them. Theyformed Planetary Annihilation Inc, and since then have released balance, performance, and quality-of-life updates for the game while also running tournaments for its small community. It’s nothing to make you change your mind if you didn’t like the game before, but it’s lovely for those players who have continued to play it.

There arelegitimate criticisms to be made of Titans as a game, and of its developers for what was promised on the original Kickstarter versus what was released. But heck, all these years later, I find the commitment of those who have stuck with it admirable. A true labour of love.

Planetary Annihilation: Titansis £6/$7.50/€6.25 for the next 48 hours, £23.79 normally, and free if you backed the original Kickstarter.