Forgotten Command and Conquer game suddenly hits Steam after 12 years

Set in the world of Tiberian Dawn, one Command and Conquer game has faded from memory for 12 years, but the RTS and MMO is suddenly back.

Will a new Command and Conquer game ever happen? The superlative Command and Conquer Remastered Collection, which combines Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert, is the closest we’ve gotten in recent years. EA has also repackaged and re-released the entire series on Steam – for a moment, back in March, it felt like something was happening. But the fog of war has descended once again, and while RTS rivals like Tempest Rising and Age of Empires continue to soar, C&C remains mostly AWOL. But something unusual has just happened. Originally released back in 2012, the likely forgotten MMO-like Command and Conquer Tiberium Alliances, previously available only on browsers, suddenly has a Steam page.

Command and Conquer Tiberium Alliances is something of an oddity. Compared to the mainline RTS game series, it’s based entirely around long-form, live-service online multiplayer. You choose between the GDI and Nod. You pick a map sector. And then you build and maintain your base, collecting resources either through PvE missions or PvP battles.

If your base gets destroyed, you can instantly rebuild it, though you’ll suffer resource and other penalties. Recruit some comrades and you can form an alliance, and delegate various building powers and forces to seconds-in-command. A browser-based MMO that first arrived back in 2012 (following a closed beta the previous year), Tiberium Alliances is now on Steam.

Or at least, it has a Steam listing. The game isn’t available there yet and there’s no release date, but this certainly looks like the real thing and you can even add it to your wishlist. It would be cavalier to suggest this is a sign of something to come, but then again, stranger things have happened.

Personally, if Command and Conquer does make a return, I’d like for it to go back to basics. I’d want the new game to be simply called ‘Command and Conquer,’ and to serve as a reboot for the whole series, returning it to the more grounded, real-world aesthetic and tone of the 1995 original. We’ll just have to see.

In the meantime, try some of the other best strategy games, or maybe the best 4X games on PC.

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