Age of Darkness: Final Stand is a new dark fantasy RTS that is somewhat reminiscent of They Are Billions, where you'll need to build and expand during the day and then defend against hordes of Nightmares at night. Hitting Steam Early Access next week on October 7, it's a bit of locally grown RTS action from Melbourne-based PlaySide. And it also looks very cool in motion.

Check it out.

Key Features

• 'SwarmTech' allowing for over 70,000 swarming AI units on screen at any time
  
• Build defenses against thousands of enemies during Death Nights
  
• Day & Night transitions, expand by day, hunt by night
  
• Unique Heroes to level up and micro-manage to gain an edge against the dark
  
• Living Death Fog system that grows and recoils from the light
  
• Randomized Malices & Blessings to make every survival unique
  
• Multi-faceted Skill Tree system to progress through for your Units
  
• Wandering Elite Nightmares that may ambush your party and drop precious Dark Essence
  
• Horror and Embolden based status effects which may curse or aid your troops
  
• Special Nightmare units, Spitters, Crushers, and Wraiths that test your combat skills

It all sounds great, and the procedurally generated map will no doubt add some dynamic elements when trying again. The RTS genre is not something we see a lot of anymore, and Age of Darkness: Final Stand is sounding a lot like its own thing thanks to the dark fantasy setting and focus on survival.