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Grey Goo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/290790/Grey_Goo/

Ashes of the Singluarity: https://www.ashesofthesingularity.com/

I haven't played them, but they are in my Steam backlog. I've heard jokingly that Ashes is mostly played by people doing benchmarks.

I have played Planetary Annihilation. It's like Total Annihilation or Supreme Commander (same people, different studio): https://planetaryannihilation.com/

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Planetary Annihilation spherical maps are an interesting concept, but graphically kind of uninteresting to watch (and my necessity very small in actual build area).

It was certainly interesting though with the experience of not having anyway to "put your back against the wall" though.

You are the first person I've seen mentioning Ashes of the Singularity who wasn't doing a hardware review.

Planetary Annihilation was okay but didn’t really speak to me compared to SupCom/TA. I don’t know why, but I do feel like the planets are hard/annoying to navigate and don’t add anything. I really liked the TA/SupCom maps where there’s natural cover (water/walls) to navigate through, but with PA it’s just whatever since you can just launch some stuff from another planet.

GG is a good SC-alike and Annihilation is Annihilation. Both bring a lot to the table. Ashes just never ran properly so I gave up on it.

"Ashes of the Benchmark", if you will.

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