Ramayana

Ramayana is a real-time strategy game based on the Indian epic. You lead Rama and Lakshmana as they gather a monkey army to defeat the demon army and its king, Raavana, and save Sita. Its 20 story-based campaigns follow the epic, with the first two serving mostly as tutorials.

The story

Dasharatha, king of Ayodhya, has four sons: Rama, Bharata, Lakshman and Shatrughna. When Dasharatha decides to pass the throne to Rama, his second wife Kaikeyi invokes an old oath and persuades him to banish Rama for fourteen years and crown Bharata instead. Rama accepts the exile, and Sita and Lakshman go with him to the forest.

There, Rama and Lakshmana fight rakshasas that disturb sages. After Lakshmana wounds Surpanakha, she tells her brother Ravana, the ten-headed ruler of Lanka, about Sita. Ravana lures Rama and Lakshman away with a magical golden deer, then abducts Sita when she steps outside the protective circle they made around her. The story begins with Rama returning to find their hut empty.

Build and command

In skirmish games, you can play as either of two factions, Vaanara or Rakshasa, with up to eight teams. Worker units gather food, wood, stone and metal, and build structures. Resources are also needed to construct buildings and train units.

Citadels and Farms train workers; Barracks, Archery buildings and Beastiaries train military units. Other building types include Tree Houses, Lumbercamps, Mines and Outposts. Military units come in Light and Heavy varieties, as Melee fighters, Archers or Beasts. Each unit has its own hit points, attack, armor, healrate, accuracy and stealth.

Heroes and maps

Story characters appear as hero units with special abilities and levels. Some heroes gain levels during each campaign, improving their attack, armor and healrate while unlocking new abilities.

A map editor lets you create maps for skirmishes. You can save campaign and skirmish games partway through and load them later.