Spring RTS Engine

The game apparently came out last month but only now showed up on Desura:

Creeper World 3

It's not about a planet of exploding shrubberies, it's an RTS that plays something like a mixture of Perimeter, some energy grid tower defense and what happens when somedwarf flipped the fun lever: The levels are slowly flooding with a blue "creeper" liquid and you have to stem the tide. CW3 is back to the top-down perspective of the first game so it plays more like Perimeter again but this time you get the ability to destroy the creeper spawners (from CW2) and a new terraforming tool called the Terp.

Obviously there's a lot of use for terraforming when you're dealing with liquids and the GUI for it is easy to use (unlike the later KD-Labs games that had water physics but really awful terraforming controls).

It looks ugly but it's really fun. If you're not willing to pay that much for something that looks like a flash game (this time it's using Unity though so performance is much better) you can get the previous two games from Bundle In a Box.

Its a pretty sweet TD like game. I had number 1 (skipped 2). Played the demo of 3, but reluctant to buy 3 unless it gets on Steam.

That looks like a pretty hard core RTS. I will have to try the demo, but I will probably get my arse handed to me as I am significantly rusty on fast pace games like these.

Nah, it's not that hardcore. Since the enemy does not grow exponentially you aren't under as much time pressure as you are in a regular RTS.

Yeah I played the demo and it seemed much more relaxed then the short clips makes it appear. Still I like seeing modern node wars. It makes me want to play with the Fibre concept some more.