This game is rated ESRB: Teen for Blood and Fantasy Violence.
WorldShift is a 2008 real-time strategy game developed by Black Sea Studios for PC, set in a cyber-fantasy world built around the mysteries of an artifact known as Shard Zero. Players engage in RTS gameplay within this blended science-fiction and fantasy setting, commanding forces as they uncover the secrets surrounding the enigmatic object. The game combines the tactical depth typical of the genre with a distinctive aesthetic that merges futuristic and fantastical elements. Developed by the Bulgarian studio Black Sea Studios, WorldShift represents an entry in the RTS genre that distinguishes itself through its unusual cyber-fantasy premise rather than the historical or high-fantasy settings common to many contemporaries. The game was released for Microsoft Windows in 2008.
"In the 21st century, shortly after the colonization of our Solar System had begun, a huge dark object appeared beyond the orbit of Pluto. The object, called ‘Shard Zero’ by the scientists, possessed some kind of a deadly aura, spreading mysterious ‘plague’ of cosmic scale around itself, twisting and disrupting the very nature of space and life. There was no time for reaction, and all attempts to study the anomaly remained futile. When we finally realized the object is moving on a collision course with our planet, it was too late. Shard Zero hit Earth and that was the end of our civilization. WorldShift is set thousands of years later, when our civilization is no more than a fading myth. The remains of Shard Zero still are spreading its Plague, twisting and re-shaping Earth and its nature, sometimes in the course of centuries and sometimes in a matter of hours. Humans developed a new culture and now live in 5 mega-cities, struggling every day for the precious resources they need to survive. The rest of Earth is populated by the Tribes, successors of early humans, that were affected by the Plague."
