


Sandbox allows the player to experiment in any map without AIs or other players. Multiplayer allows the player to join other player's lobbies, compete in ranked matches, and practice in community-made training missions. Skirmishes allow players to combat AIs at 3 different levels of difficulty. The Campaign includes the tutorial, and 28 training missions which follows three super-powers as they battle it out over the last of the planet's resources, a secondary story-line if the player has bought the Moonshine DLC, and a tertiary story-line if the player has bought the High Seas DLC. There are 4 different gamemodes that players can select: Campaign, Skirmish, Multiplayer, and Sandbox. The core gameplay of Forts is similar to many real-time strategy games: build up resources, acquire new technologies, and build something to attack the opponent while defending yourself from their attacks. The game has been reviewed by CG Magazine and Kotaku, the former of which described Forts 's gameplay as being similar to the Worms series. In Forts, the player builds a base, defends it, and acquires weapons through tech trees in an attempt to destroy the opponent's reactor. Forts had sold over a million copies as of March 9, 2022. Forts started development in March, 2003, as a game originally based on early bridge building games. Forts is a 2D real-time strategy video game developed and published by Australian studio EarthWork Games.
